He might have escaped from the circus or a zoo.
3 seconds sound clip from the The Wolf Man (1941) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:47:13.340 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Morning, Larry. You're up early.
- Yes. I heard people in the corridor. Is there anything wrong?
- Richardson was killed last night. The gravedigger.
- The tracks lead up to this house.
- A wolf? Where do you suppose a wolf came from?
- He might have escaped from the circus or a zoo.
- What is this story about a man turning into a wolf?
- Well, it's an old legend. You'll find something like it in the folklore of nearly every nation.
- The scientific name for it is lycanthropia. It's a variety of schizophrenia.
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