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- What on earth are you doing down here in the cellar?
- Why, just doing a little digging.

6 seconds sound clip from the Back for Christmas (Suspense) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:01:45 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Tonight in Hollywood Roma bring as star Mr. Peter Lorre...

- The Suspense play which stars Mr. Lorre, which is produced and directed by William Spear, is called 'Back for Christmas'.

- In these series, Roma brings you tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation nation and then withhold a solution until the last possible moment.

- And so, with 'Back for Christmas' and with the performance of Peter Lorre, we again hope to keep you in... Suspense!

- Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way... Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open shay!

- What on earth are you doing down here in the cellar?

- Why, just doing a little digging.

- And why, may I ask, have you chosen this day, of all days, to dig up the cellar floor?

- Well, I thought, because the weather has been so damp, this would be a good time to plant that little 'devils' garden' I told you about.

- Devil's garden? Whatever nonsense is that?

- Don't you remember? That was my little joke about it.

- You see, I've managed to get hold of the spores of several unclassified wild orchids.

[...]

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Back for Christmas (Suspense) Sound Clip

Back for Christmas (Suspense)Quotes from Back for Christmas- Suspense Radio Show based on a short story written by John Collier, first aired on December 23, 1943.

Actors: Peter Lorre (Hubert Schumacher)

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