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You never had a woman in any of your other pictures. Why do you want one in this?

4 seconds sound clip from the King Kong (1933) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:09:35.605 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Ha ha. Good lord, you talk as if I never brought anybody back alive.

- The skipper and Driscoll have stuck to me on two trips. They look well enough.

- Sure, we're healthy. Ha.

- But it's a different thing taking a girl into danger.

- Then I suppose there's no danger in New York. Listen, there are dozens of girls in this town tonight that are in more danger than they'll ever see with me.

- Yeah, but they know that kind of danger.

- You never had a woman in any of your other pictures. Why do you want one in this?

- Holy mackerel! Do you think I want to haul a woman around?

- Then why?

- Because the public, bless 'em, must have a pretty face to look at.

- Sure. Everybody likes romance.

- Well, isn't there any romance or adventure in the world without having a flapper in it?

- Well, Mr. Denham, why not take a picture in a monastery?

- Yeah. It makes me sore. I go out and sweat blood to make a swell picture, and then the critics and the exhibitors all say, 'if this picture had love interest, it would gross twice as much.'

[...]

King Kong (1933) Sound Clip

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Actors: Fay Wray (Ann Darrow), Robert Armstrong (Carl Denham), Bruce Cabot (John "Jack" Driscoll)

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