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In Vienna, there hasn't been enough penicillin to go around. So a nice trade started here. Stealing penicillin from the military hospitals, diluting it to make it go further and selling it to patients.

13 seconds sound clip from the The Third Man (1949) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:56:00.467 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Get me the Harry Lime file, and get Mr Martins a large whisky.

- I don't need your drinks, Calloway.

- You will.

- I don't want another murder in this case and you were born to be murdered.

- You're going to hear the facts.

- You haven't told me a single one yet.

- Have you ever heard of penicillin?

- In Vienna, there hasn't been enough penicillin to go around. So a nice trade started here. Stealing penicillin from the military hospitals, diluting it to make it go further and selling it to patients.

- Do you see what that means?

- Are you too busy chasing a few tubes of penicillin to investigate a murder?

- These were murders. Men with gangrened legs, women in childbirth, and there were children, too.

- They used some of this diluted penicillin against meningitis.

- The lucky children died. The unlucky ones went off their heads. You can see them now in the mental ward.

[...]

The Third Man (1949) Sound Clip

The Third Man (1949) Poster

Revisit the memorable dialogues from the 1949 film noir classic, The Third Man, featuring famous quotes and audio snippets of the best lines.

Actors: Joseph Cotten (Holly Martins), Orson Welles (Harry Lime), Alida Valli (Anna Schmidt), Trevor Howard (Major Calloway)

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