This, Alexander, is the legend of the Gordian knot.

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

You can hear this line at 01:26:14 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- How will you celebrate this victory, Alexander?

- At Chaeronea your father celebrated his by dancing over the dead bodies of Greeks who fought for freedom.

- Freedom? You fight for pay! Earn it!

- Then let it be to the death.

- Of all the Greeks who fought at Granicus, no one escaped alive.

- This, Alexander, is the legend of the Gordian knot.

- In many years past, when we were sorely pressed, it was said that a king would arrive in a village cart who would help us and become our ruler.

- This came about. And the king was Gordius, who left his cart here, as it stands, with this message: That anyone who could unravel this knot would become ruler of Asia.

- Many have tried. All have failed.

- Ephesus, Sardis, Helicarnassus. He is cutting off the Persian fleet from every port along the coast of Asia Minor.

- Alexander's turning the Aegean Sea into a Greek lake!

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Alexander the Great (1956) Sound Clip

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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