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5 seconds sound clip from the Dead Reckoning (1947) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:12:43.104 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- And, suddenly, Johnny's service record came to me like a photograph on my eyelids. He'd enlisted October eleventh, 1943.

- Whatever jam he'd got himself into must have been just before that, and it might have made the local newspapers.

- There it was, Father, all over page one.

- September third, '43, only five weeks before Johnny enlisted under the name of Drake.

- The rest was what you'd expect, Father. Nationwide search for a fugitive. A grand jury murder indictment.

- Search for Johnny goes limp, the story dribbling off until it fell right out of the paper.

- The newspaper files had given me a lot of answers, but there were still three things I had to find out.

- How could Johnny possibly be a murderer?

- Why had he come back here, where he was even hotter than the weather?

- And why... Why not another word from him since that first call?

- Listen, honey child. Haven't you all got any local radio news programmes in this fair city of yours? All I get's commercials, and a lot of that apple pan dowdy. Oh, not till twelve o'clock? Well, thank you kindly, ma'am.

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Dead Reckoning (1947) Sound Clip

Listen to memorable quotes from the classic 1947 film noir Dead Reckoning, accompanied by short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock), Lizabeth Scott (Coral Chandler)

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