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When we climbed out at LaGuardia Field, we find a welcoming committee with a lieutenant colonel from Public Relations, instead of from the Medical Corps.

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

You can hear this line at 00:03:45.317 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, what is his name?

- Er... Johnny. He's a pal of mine. He was a paratrooper, too.

- You see, it's like this, sir. A few days ago, they flew Johnny and me home from France in a stripped-down bomber.

- Neither one of us had any idea why the Army had suddenly ripped us out of a Paris hospital.

- We'd been under fancy treatment, me for my shoulder, and Johnny for his punctured lung.

- See, only high-priority cargo rides a bomb-rack all by itself, Father, but why we rated it, nobody could, or maybe would, tell us.

- When we climbed out at LaGuardia Field, we find a welcoming committee with a lieutenant colonel from Public Relations, instead of from the Medical Corps.

- He was in a large sweat, because we were two hours late due to headwinds over the Atlantic, and Boiling Field, Washington DC, was fogged in.

- But he hoped maybe they'd hold the Limited more than ten minutes.

- All the way to the Penn Station, I tried to feel out the good desk colonel, but he'd only grin.

- They'd actually held the Limited for us.

- Somebody sure enough wanted us in Washington, but now.

[...]

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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