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...
- 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.
- 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.
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