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Convicts are dirt cheap and if we just give Gallegher a free hand...

5 seconds sound clip from the Gone with the Wind (1939) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:26:52 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Good night, Ashley.

- My, my! She can get mad quicker than any woman I ever saw.

- I don't like to interfere, but I do wish you'd let me hire free darkies instead of using convicts.

- I believe we could do better.

- Darkies? But their pay would break us...

- Convicts are dirt cheap and if we just give Gallegher a free hand...

- A free hand? You know what that means. He'll starve them and whip them.

- Didn't you see them? Some of them are sick. Underfed.

- Oh Ashley, how you do run on.

- If I let you alone, you'd be giving them chicken three times a day and tucking them to sleep with eiderdown quilts.

- I will not make money out of the enforced labour and misery of others.

[...]

Gone with the Wind (1939) Sound Clip

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Sound clips of the most famous quotes and memorable lines from the movie Gone with the Wind (1939), as selected by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors.

Actors: Clark Gable (Rhett Butler), Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O'Hara), Hattie McDaniel (Mammy), Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes), Thomas Mitchell (Gerald O'Hara)

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