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Listen. Listen to the jackrollers and the thieves. Absorb their poisonous philosophy of life.

9 seconds sound clip from the Knock on Any Door movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:34:55.129 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Keep the boy and civilize the boyhood.

- This boy could've been exulted instead of degraded, student instead of savage.

- But come with Nick on his own way to that reform school, see your best friend die of subhuman punishment.

- Come with Nick along skid row, where the fences buy anything and no questions asked.

- Come with Nick into the alleys and on the streets, past the drunks and panhandlers and prostitutes into the pool rooms and the bars.

- Listen. Listen to the jackrollers and the thieves. Absorb their poisonous philosophy of life.

- Come with Nick to the penitentiary. Be numbered and counted and hated, and leave there determined to be worthy of that hatred.

- Yes, Nick Romano is guilty. But so are we! And so is that precious thing called society.

- Society is you and you and you and all of us. We, society, are hard and selfish and stupid!

- We're scandalized by environment, and we call it crime. We denounce crime, and yet we disclaim any responsibility for it. And we lack the will to do anything about it.

- Until we do away with the type of neighborhood that produced this boy, 10 will spring up to take his place... 100, 1000, until we wipe out the slums and rebuild them!

[...]

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Knock on Any Door (1949) Sound Clip

Knock on Any Door posterListen to memorable quotes from the classic 1949 film noir Knock on Any Door, accompanied by short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Andrew Morton), John Derek (Nick Romano)

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