What attracted my grandfather to the island, apart from the profuse source of wiry labour that it promised, was the unique combination of volcanic soil and the warm Gulf Stream that surrounded it.

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

You can hear this line at 00:44:04 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- In the last century, the islanders were starving. Like our neighbours today, they were scratching a bare subsistence from sheep and sea.

- 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.

- What attracted my grandfather to the island, apart from the profuse source of wiry labour that it promised, was the unique combination of volcanic soil and the warm Gulf Stream that surrounded it.

- You see, his experiments had led him to believe that it was possible to induce here the successful growth of certain new strains of fruit that he had developed.

- So, with typical mid-Victorian zeal, he set to work.

- 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.

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The Wicker Man (1973) Sound Clip

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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