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Next year, in my opinion, we'll see widespread depression and unemployment.

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

You can hear this line at 00:31:47.014 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- He can't just walk in and immediately pick up the old life as if...

- I got a wonderful idea. Let's go out on the town, the three of us.

- Tonight?

- Yes, tonight. Right now. We'll celebrate the old man's homecoming.

- Not me. I'm going to bed.

- No. You too. The three of us.

- I wanna do something, see something. And I've been in jungles and around savages so long I gotta find out I'm back in civilization again.

- Hey, Rupert, how about another one here?

- Well, I'll tell you, as I see it, we're headed for bad times in this country. Of course, we're in the backwash of the war boom now, but the tide is running out fast.

- Next year, in my opinion, we'll see widespread depression and unemployment.

- Oh, have a cigar?

- No, thanks. I've got my pipe.

- Homer? Didn't you contract the tobacco habit in the Navy?

- Just cigarettes, Mr. Cameron. Thanks.

- Wilma tells us you were in the Philippines, Homer.

- Well, I was around there, Mrs. Cameron, but I never saw anything.

- Did you meet General MacArthur?

- Heh, no, I didn't get to meet him.

- I've got a light, Mr. Cameron.

- No, that's all right, got it.

[...]

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Sound Clip

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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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