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Suppose one of your motors ceases to function?

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

You can hear this line at 00:31:25 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I understand perfectly.

- For some reason, you were afraid you wouldn't reach your biblical span of life.

- Which is precisely what's bothering me at the moment.

- I'm convinced I couldn't swim from here to the nearest shore.

- You won't have to swim, Mr. Pardee.

- Suppose one of your motors ceases to function?

- We'd just go back to Honolulu.

- These ships fly beautifully on three engines.

- If it should happen beyond our point of no return, we'd simply continue on to San Francisco.

- Well, suppose two of your motors became uninterested in further toil?

- Each engine is entirely independent of the other. The chances of two quitting during the same flight are one in several million.

[...]

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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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