- I see you have quite a family. A wife and four children.
- Yes, there'd have been more if I hadn't been away three years.

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6 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:36:26.582 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- I see you were in the Navy.

- I mean, yes, I was in the Seabees.

- Where'd you operate?

- All over the Pacific. One little after island after another.

- What'd you do, mostly?

- We went in before the landings and cleared the mines and underwater obstructions. And when they'd taken enough ground for an airstrip, we'd build it.

- Fairly interesting work, eh?

- No, it got monotonous.

- Those islands all look alike. Until Iwo Jima. That was different.

- So I've heard.

- I see you have quite a family. A wife and four children.

- Yes, there'd have been more if I hadn't been away three years.

- And now you wanna buy a farm.

- Yes, sir. Got my eye on a fine piece of property. Forty acres, out near Anton Corners.

- What about collateral?

- Collateral? What's that?

- Security for your loan. What can you put up in the way of property? Have you any stocks and bonds, real estate, valuables of any kind?

- Well, no, Mr. Stephenson, you see, the point is, I haven't got any property. That's why I want the loan, so I can get the property.

- I see. No collateral. That makes things difficult.

- I'm a good farmer. Why, even during the war I kept my hand in. I used to spend my spare time down on those little islands working truck gardens, so my outfit could have fresh tomatoes and green corn and all that.

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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Sound Clip

Memorable quotes from the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives, with sound clips in WAV and MP3 formats.

Actors: Myrna Loy (Milly Stephenson), Fredric March (Al Stephenson), Dana Andrews (Fred Derry), Teresa Wright (Peggy Stephenson), Virginia Mayo (Marie Derry), Cathy O'Donnell (Wilma Cameron), Harold Russell (Homer Parrish)

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