I took an orchid, and upon it I performed a miracle. I stripped a hundred thousand years of slow evolution from it and I had no longer an orchid, but what orchids will be a hundred thousand years from now. That's one there.
19 seconds sound clip from the Island of Lost Souls (1932) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:30:19 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- I'm now unarmed, and you're fully protected.
- It's quite evident, isn't it, that I mean you no harm?
- Would you be good enough to come to the house?
- I started with plant life in London 20 years ago.
- By a slight change in the single unit of a germ plasm. It was as simple as that.
- That's unfortunately what happened to some asparagus.
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Actors: Charles Laughton (Dr. Moreau), Richard Arlen (Edward Parker), Leila Hyams (Ruth Thomas), Béla Lugosi (Sayer of the Law)
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