There wasn't a hope of saving it, not a hope.
2 seconds sound clip from the The Mummy (1959) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:58:34.489 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Oh, well, sir, he was horrible, sir. He was about 10 foot high, and...
- Well... 7 foot 6? Yeah, he'd be about that, sir. About 7 foot 6, 7 foot 7.
- I had a father once. He was tall. About seven foot, something like that...
- Well, and then there was all this yelling coming from the nuthouse.
- There wasn't a hope of saving it, not a hope.
- Ah, it was nasty business all round. Very scarifying, it was.
- Thank you. Give him another, will you?
- I thought the crate was gone for good.
- Well, parts of the bog are next to bottomless, you understand, sir.
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