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My father's murder was carefully planned.

4 seconds sound clip from the Alexander the Great (1956) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:06:56 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Father, neither on my hands nor in my heart. I swear it.

(Knife dagger falling)

- I hear you wait to declare who is to be your king.

- According to ancient privilege, it is the supreme right of the army, both by law and force of arms, to decide who shall be their king.

- The hand that plunged the assassin's dagger into my father's body was the hand of my friend. And I slew my friend.

- My father's murder was carefully planned.

- My friend was a tool used by others for larger ends, by men whose purses bulge with Persian gold, and who, for this gold, would betray their country and their holy cause.

- From Demosthenes, the rabble-rouser in Athens, to men here in Pella.

- And there is not world enough nor time enough for these men to escape my vengeance.

- Soldiers, you were assembled here on the plains of Axios by my father, Philip, to be led to the greatest glory and riches that any army since the world began has ever yet achieved.

- The conquest and destruction of the Persian Empire.

[...]

Alexander the Great (1956) Sound Clip

Alexander the Great Poster

Voice quotes from the movie Alexander the Great (1956), in wav/mp3 format.

Actors: Richard Burton (Alexander the Great), Fredric March (Philip II of Macedon), Peter Cushing (Memnon of Rhodes)

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