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And the ministers fled the island, never to return.

4 seconds sound clip from the The Wicker Man (1973) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:44:57 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- The best way of accomplishing this, so it seemed to him, was to rouse the people from their apathy by giving them back their joyous old gods...

- And as a result of this worship, the barren island would burgeon and bring forth fruit in great abundance.

- What he did, of course, was to develop new cultivars of hardy fruits suited to local conditions.

- But, of course, to begin with, they worked for him because he fed them and clothed them...

- But later, when the trees starting fruiting, it became a very different matter.

- And the ministers fled the island, never to return.

- What my grandfather had started out of expediency, my father continued out of...love.

- He brought me up the same way, to reverence the music and the drama and the rituals of the old gods.

- To love nature and to fear it, and to rely on it and to appease it where necessary.

- He brought me up...

- He brought you up to be a pagan!

- A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one.

[...]

The Wicker Man (1973) Sound Clip

The Wicker Man (1973) poster

Quotes with sound bites from The Wicker Man (1973 film).

Actors: Edward Woodward (Sgt. Neil Howie), Christopher Lee (Lord Summerisle), Diane Cilento (Miss Rose), Ingrid Pitt (Librarian)

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