It wasn't the German gin.

— Major Calloway (Trevor Howard)

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

You can hear this line at 01:07:58.816 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Where were you when you saw him first?

- Fifty yards right down there.

- Which side of the road?

- I was on that side. His shadow was on that side. And there are no turnings on either side.

- What about the doorways?

- I tell you, I heard him running ahead of me!

- Yes, yes, yes.

- And then he vanished out there, I suppose, with a puff of smoke and like a clap of...

- It wasn't the German gin.

(Sewer water flowing)

- Well, what's this? Where are we?

- It's the main sewer. Runs right into the blue Danube. Smells sweet, doesn't it?

- We should have dug deeper than a grave.

- You knew him, Major?

- Hmm. Yes.

[...]

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