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What college? Yale, of course. Okay, so it's a university. How would I know? I just run a fleet of taxicabs.

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

You can hear this line at 00:09:26.908 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- And I got it, all right, why Johnny had taken a powder. He'd faked a birth certificate to enlist. 'John Joseph Preston', eh? The Yale pin said so.

- All I needed was a telephone.

- Oh, sorry, gorgeous. I didn't see what you looked like.

- I'd let you have it, only it's long distance.

- Yale University.

- Oh, hello, Yale? Give me your top man there, whatever you call him.

- What college? Yale, of course. Okay, so it's a university. How would I know? I just run a fleet of taxicabs.

- Yeah, one of my men found some kind of a pin with the name of a Yale man on it, class of 1940. I want his address so I can return it to him.

- Thanks, lovely.

- With all due respect, General, if you won't authorize me to go after him, I'm afraid I'll have to go anyway.

- Er... Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I have a... a pretty good idea where he is, but we don't want Intelligence messing around in this.

- Er... I regret to say, sir, yes. That's right, sir. I refuse.

[...]

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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