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- Close your eyes. Listen. Can you hear it?
- That's my heart beating.
- Does it go like a subway train?
- Oh, much faster.

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

You can hear this line at 00:37:23 in the original recording.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, you're beautiful. That's easy to say, isn't it? But what I'm telling you is different, see? For me, you're more than that.

- For two years I've been lost... like walking in my sleep. Suddenly I wake up... that's you.

- I don't know what I've been doing all that time, waiting for you without knowing it.

- Do you know what you are to me? You're all the world outside. You're all those lights and music we were speaking of. With you, I escape! See? Heh!

- Do you know what you remind me of? The subway.

- Close your eyes. Listen. Can you hear it?

- That's my heart beating.

- Does it go like a subway train?

- Oh, much faster.

- You're all silk. And you jingle when you walk. And with all that, you make me think of the subway, isn't that funny?

- Tell me. What did you do before?

- Before what?

- Well, before the jewels.

- I wanted them.

- Pepe, it's late. I'll have to go.

- Suppose you don't come tomorrow.

- Suppose I don't.

- Pepe? Can't you ever get away from this Casbah?

[...]

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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