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Is it throwing insults at the men in the stokehold you are, you old ape?

5 seconds sound clip from the Anna Christie (1930) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:06:50 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Why, you young fool, you. In old days, when I was on windjammer I went through hundred storms worse than that.

- Ships were ships then, and men what sailing them real men.

- What you got on steamers now?

- You got fellas on deck don't know a ship from a mud scow... and below deck, you got fellas just know how to shovel coal.

- You might as well work on coal wagon ashore, you.

- Is it throwing insults at the men in the stokehold you are, you old ape?

- One of them is worth any 10 squareheads ever shipped on a windbag.

- You Irish swine.

- So you don't like the Irish, you old baboon?

- Sure, it's that you're needing in your family. An Irishman. A man of the stokehold to put guts in it... so you'll not be rearing up grandchildren to be jackasses like yourself.

- Sure, old men getting childish shouldn't play with knives.

[...]

Anna Christie (1930) Sound Clip

Anna Christie (1930) Poster

Memorable quotes with sound from the movie Anna Christie (1930), based on the 1921 play of the same name by Eugene O'Neill.

Actors: Greta Garbo (Anna Christie), Marie Dressler (Marthy Owens)

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