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There's a burned sedan in the ravine. Body in it, charred beyond identification. Been there two days. Send morgue wagon.

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

You can hear this line at 00:13:53.842 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- I thought I'd turned the juice off, Father. Ya know, the way you do sometimes, but I'd only flipped the button, and put it on the police call band.

- Car 42 reporting' in. Car 42 reporting' in.

- Broken safety rattling on Tarpon Springs Turnpike was due to auto smash.

- There's a burned sedan in the ravine. Body in it, charred beyond identification. Been there two days. Send morgue wagon.

- Car 42 reporting'. Got it?

- Okay, 42. Got it.

- Two days ago. That'd be the night Johnny was to call me. Maybe he...

- I was getting desperate, down to wild chances, but it might be a lead, and there was one place in town where I could find out for sure.

- Evening. I was wondering if I could take a look in your icebox.

- Looking' for somebody special?

- Missing Persons thought I Oughta take a squint at your stock.

[...]

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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