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Anyone who would sell a New York advertising agency for a broken-down mine in Canada...

6 seconds sound clip from the The High and the Mighty (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:43:56 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- No, thanks.

- Let me know, will you, when we pass the point of no return?

- Naturally.

- If you're through pouting, maybe we could try talking things over in a reasonable manner.

- We have nothing to talk over.

- Anyone who would sell a New York advertising agency for a broken-down mine in Canada...

- It isn't broken.

- Just to make yourself feel important, the big operator. Operating on my money.

- I just want to get up in the morning with the feeling that anything I accomplish that day is due to my own efforts. Not because my wife happened to inherit a business.

- In three years I should be able to pay you back. Every penny.

- Three years in the wilderness and I'd be a genuine country bumpkin with my skirts around my ankles when they ought to be around my knees, or the other way around.

[...]

The High and the Mighty (1954) Sound Clip

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Actors: John Wayne (Dan Roman), Claire Trevor (May Holst), Robert Stack (John Sullivan), Jan Sterling (Sally McKee), Robert Newton (Gustave Pardee), Paul Fix (Frank Briscoe)

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