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- 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?

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

You can hear this line at 01:22:07.700 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- For too many years I have waited.

- At first there was only news of the war, and the war went on for months. Slowly the months became years.

- And I spent the years asking myself, Where is he now? Is he with his soldiers?

[...]

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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