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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.

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

You can hear this line at 01:21:54.015 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- 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.

[...]

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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