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As you look at it here, it is just a few lines on the map. But the reality is something stranger than anything you could have dreamed.

9 seconds sound clip from the Algiers (1941, Lux Radio Theatre) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:04:24 in the original recording.

Quote context

[...]

- And Pepe is well guarded.

- Let me show you this map, Commissioner.

- Ah, this is fantastic!

- As a civilized man, you do not like fantasy?

- As a police officer, I don't believe in it!

- Yet here it exists.

- Now, this is the native quarter known as the Casbah.

- As you look at it here, it is just a few lines on the map. But the reality is something stranger than anything you could have dreamed.

- It is only a step from the modern city to the Casbah, but when you take that step, you enter another world...

- A melting pot for all the sins of Earth, a jungle of houses, a labyrinth of narrow passages and winding alleys, rotten with vermin and decay and the filth of centuries.

- No one knows what mysteries are hidden behind those walls.

- No one knows what crimes and hopes are buried in those secret courtyards.

- Forty thousand inhabitants from all over the world live there...

[...]

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Algiers Sound Clip

Algiers PosterAudio quotes from the old-time radio play "Algiers", based on by Henri La Barthe's novel, first aired on July 7, 1941 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: Charles Boyer (Pepe le Moko), Hedy Lamarr (Gaby), Alan Napier (Inspector Slimane), Bea Benaderet (Ines)

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