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Suppose we had... just silence. Nobody to listen. Nobody to answer.

11 seconds sound clip from the The Asphalt Jungle (1950) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:48:22 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- All units, strong-arm slugging, 3216 River Drive...

- We send police assistance to every one of those calls, because they're not just codes on a radio beam, they're cries for help.

- People are being cheated, robbed, murdered, raped. And that goes on 24 hours a day, every day in the year.

- And that's not exceptional, that's usual. It's the same in every city of the modern world.

- But suppose we had no police force, good or bad.

- Suppose we had... just silence. Nobody to listen. Nobody to answer.

- The battle's finished. The jungle wins. The predatory beasts take over.

- Think about it.

- Well, gentlemen, three men are in jail, three men dead, one by his own hand.

- One man's a fugitive, and we have reason to believe seriously wounded.

- That's six out of seven. Not bad. And we'll get the last one too.

[...]

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Sound Clip

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Quotes from the movie The Asphalt Jungle (1950), featuring short sound clips with voice.

Actors: Sterling Hayden (Dix Handley), Jean Hagen ("Doll" Conovan), James Whitmore (Gus Minissi), Marilyn Monroe (Angela Phinlay), Marc Lawrence (Cobby)

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