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Shall I tell you, too, who placed the noose around her pretty, white young neck?

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

You can hear this line at 01:10:48 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- A suicide must be buried in the night.

- Suicide?

- So it will read. She took her own life.

- And the babe?

- Plucked from her arms, and thrown into the sacrificial flames in front of her eyes.

- For your mother too is a religious woman and seeks to appease the gods.

- Is the tale too horrible for your ears, king?

- Shall I tell you, too, who placed the noose around her pretty, white young neck?

- But I am a religious man, and accept the will of the gods.

- What's man's fate is man's fate, both yours and mine.

- O Father... O Father Zeus, I will lay victories upon your altar the like of which no man or god has ever seen.

- You god, that gave him to me, and for whom I have kept him all these years, do not break your vow.

- If his life be short, as is the prophecy, give him in that short span of life that which is the prophecy also: Eternal glory to the end of time.

[...]

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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