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Make fire by friction. Eat out of cans.

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

You can hear this line at 00:45:02 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- What am I supposed to do while you clump around in your boots and lumberjack shirt?

- Have cocktails with the chipmunks? Hmm?

- Play bridge with the Eskimos?

- Go on off to your primeval forest. Play Daniel Boone, get up with the pigeons or whatever kind of birds they have up there.

- Get calluses on your hands. Be a great dirt-under-the-fingernails boy.

- Make fire by friction. Eat out of cans.

- Take a bath Saturday nights and go to an Eskimo hoedown.

- Teach them to samba, for all I care.

- Do just as you please if it will make you feel like a man. Only don't ask me to share your juvenile adventures.

- It's bad enough having to pay for them.

- Is that your last word?

[...]

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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