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Did any of you ever bother to look at the lagoon out there? It's beautiful and blue, and the people around it are brown and kind, and they did know how to laugh and sing.

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

You can hear this line at 00:29:17 in the DVD version of the movie.

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[...]

- We deeply regret that a man of your caliber no longer sees fit to cooperate with us.

- Cooperate?

- I had a seat on a nice little campus, even if I wasn't making much money, or my students didn't know what I was talking about.

- And I played pretty good golf, and I slept nights.

- I was happy because I figured it was still God's business to monkey around with the universe. He can fix a star so it'll burn for a billion years. Keep going and you'll find out how to burn one up in a minute.

- Did any of you ever bother to look at the lagoon out there? It's beautiful and blue, and the people around it are brown and kind, and they did know how to laugh and sing.

- Only now all the fishes in the lagoon are dead.

- And the people are scared forever.

- They don't sing anymore.

- You found a way to blow out a window 65 miles away from the impact point. Only, suppose there's a mother standing in that window with a baby in her arms.

- Professor, I suggest you go to your tent and rest for a while.

[...]

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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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