4 seconds sound clip from the Desk Set (1957) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:33:02 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Isn't that nice?
- Cromwell will not come till sunset, and her lips grew strangely white... as she breathed the husky whisper, curfew must not a-ring tonight.
- What can I do?
- Nothing. You know you can't interrupt EMMARAC in the middle of a sequence.
- Quiet! Just listen.
- She had listened while the judges read, without a tear or sigh, at the ringing of the curfew, Basil Underwood must die.
- Uh, how long does this go on?
- That old poem has about 80 stanzas to it.
- Where are we now?
- She has reached the topmost ladder.
- O'er her hangs the great dark bell, awful is the gloom beneath her like the pathway down to hell.
- Lo, the ponderous tongue is swinging. 'Tis the hour of curfew now, and the sight has chilled her bosom, stopped her breath and paled her brow.
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