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

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

You can hear this line at 00:44:49 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- 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.

- 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.

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