In the last century, the islanders were starving. Like our neighbours today, they were scratching a bare subsistence from sheep and sea.
11 seconds sound clip from the The Wicker Man (1973) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:43:30 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- He's dead. He can't complain. He had his chance, and in the modern parlance, he blew it.
- It's very simple. Let me show you.
- Then in 1868, my grandfather bought this barren island and began to change things.
- A distinguished Victorian scientist, agronomist, free thinker.
- How formidably benevolent he seems. Essentially the face of a man incredulous of all human good.
- You're very cynical, my lord.
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