I always figured he was an ornery old gent who hated the world 'cause was always slamming his garage door and played his radio so loud it kept half the neighbors up.
12 seconds sound clip from the Meet John Doe (1941) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:00:22 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- I said: That's fine, but how's a guy gonna go around lovin' the kind of neighbors we got?
- Old Sourpuss, for instance. Sourpuss Smithers is a guy, lives alone next door to us.
- He's a cranky old man who runs the second hand furniture store.
- We haven't spoken to him for years.
- My wife yells to me out the window: Go on, speak to him, Bert.
- I figured I can't lose anything, so I yelled over to him:
- He went right on pounding his fender.
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