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This is no junk. We're using this material for building prefabricated houses.

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

You can hear this line at 02:39:48.595 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Hey, bud, what are you doing up there? Hey, you! What are you doing in that airplane?

- I used to work in one of those.

- Reviving old memories, huh?

- Yeah, or maybe getting some of them out of my system.

- Well, you can take your last look at these crates. We're breaking them up.

- Yeah, I know. You're the junkman. You get everything sooner or later.

- This is no junk. We're using this material for building prefabricated houses.

- You don't need any help, do you?

- Out of a job?

- That's it.

- I see. One of the fallen angels of the Air Force. Well, pardon me if I show no sympathy. While you glamour boys were up in the wild blue yonder, I was down in a tank.

- Listen, chum. Sometime I'll be glad to hear the story of your war experiences.

- What I asked you for was a job. Have you got one?

- Do you know anything about building?

- No. But there's one thing I do know, I know how to learn. Same as I learned that job up there.

[...]

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Sound Clip

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Poster

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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