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.
18 seconds sound clip from the Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:07:36.882 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- It's all right. Don't be afraid. It's only a baboon.
- I have re-learned his language. Listen.
(Dr. Mirakle speaking gibberish)
- I will translate what he says.
- I'm in the prime of my strength. And I am lonely.
- 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.
[...]