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Dark, she is, and beautiful in her youth, he said. And full of soft woman's laughter.

7 seconds sound clip from the Ulysses (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:21:36.821 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- But he says he was a companion of Ulysses in the war.

- If you really knew my husband, tell me about him.

- Why don't you speak? Who are you?

- I'm a friend of Ulysses. We were comrades before the walls of Troy.

- Many a night as we waited between battles our thoughts full of sadness he spoke of you.

- And what did he say?

- Dark, she is, and beautiful in her youth, he said. And full of soft woman's laughter.

- And such a way she has of brushing her hair absently when she works at her spinning wheel, or watches her sleeping child.

- Sometimes he spoke of this infant son Telemachus who sucked his thumb and smiled and slept on the day the swift ships sailed to Troy.

- Sometimes he spoke of the day of his farewell, how he held you in his arms on the beach by the waiting ships. And you whispered, I shall be here when you return.

- Will you return?

- Very often, with falling stars above our heads, and the doomed walls of Troy across the plain, and all we loved far away across the sea...

- He spoke of this house, and of this very room where you'd be waiting for him.

[...]

Ulysses (1954) Sound Clip

Ulysses (1954) Poster

Voice quotes from the 1954 movie Ulysses, based on Homer's epic poem Odyssey, in WAV and MP3 formats.

Actors: Kirk Douglas (Ulysses), Silvana Mangano (Penelope / Circe), Anthony Quinn (Antinous)

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