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Stalled again, like a Jeep on synthetic gas.

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

You can hear this line at 00:11:26.867 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 'Will call later,' Johnny's phone message said. That was ten hours ago. How long is 'later'?

- What to do in a hot wind, smelling of night-blooming jasmine except wait, and sweat, and prime the body to sweat some more?

- In the meantime, a phone directory might help.

- I'd never heard of Johnny speak of any relatives, but I was ready to try anything, even a third cousin.

- Prendergast, Prescott, Prestwood.

- Stalled again, like a Jeep on synthetic gas.

- 48 hours since he'd called, and still no word.

- I'd pitched the Cardinals into the Pennant with my old high school curve, and was setting' the Red Sox down four to three in the World Series,

- 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.

[...]

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Dead Reckoning (1947) Sound Clip

Dead Reckoning posterListen 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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