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Life was motion. Fins changed into wings. Wings into ears. Crawling reptiles grew legs.

12 seconds sound clip from the Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:08:38.636 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- My home is in the African jungle, where I lived with my father and my mother, and my brothers and sisters. But I was captured by a band of hairless white apes, and carried away to a strange land.

(Gorilla moaning)

- I'm in the prime of my strength. And I am lonely.

- Here is the story of man.

- In the slime of chaos there was the seed that rose and grew into the tree of life.

- Life was motion. Fins changed into wings. Wings into ears. Crawling reptiles grew legs.

- Eons of ages passed. There came a time when a four-legged thing walked upright. Behold, the first man.

- Heresy!

- Heresy? Do they still burn men for heresy? Then burn me, monsieur. Light the fire. Do you think your little candle will outshine the flame of truth?

- Do you think these boards and curtains are my whole life? They are only a trap to catch the pennies of fools.

- My life is consecrated to a great experiment. I tell you, I will prove your kinship with the ape.

(audience chattering)

[...]

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Think of what all those walls are hiding. Broken hopes and bodies and hearts. Absent dreams. Starvation, madness. Crimes of the streets. And tragedies of the river.
Her blood is perfect.
(woman screaming loud)
Heresy! -Heresy? Do they still burn men for heresy? Then burn me, monsieur. Light the fire. Do you think your little candle will outshine the flame of truth?
Those women, don't you understand? They died because a gorilla's blood was injected into their veins.
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) Sound Clip

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) posterListen to the best quotes from the Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story.

Actors: Bela Lugosi (Dr. Mirakle), Sidney Fox(Camille), Leon Ames (Pierre Dupin)

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