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He's a policeman who fights not with machine guns, but with microscopes.

6 seconds sound clip from the Bullets or Ballots (1939) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:37:54 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- You'll love the delicate cleaning fragrance it leaves on your skin. You'll be sure of daintiness.

- Now, our producer.

- The battle that Johnny Blake is fighting in our play against racketeering and terrorism is being fought throughout the country by men like tonight's guest, Mr. Frank B Gompert.

- He matched the brawling and daring of gangsters with the relentless weapons of science.

- He is the criminologist in charge of the research laboratory of the sheriff's office of Los Angeles County.

- He's a policeman who fights not with machine guns, but with microscopes.

- He has a degree in law, is a master of sciences and a doctor of philosophy.

- He's been technical director of several movies dealing with crime and has worked on some eight thousand cases, hundreds of them, murders.

- As a 20th century Sherlock Holmes, tell us just how do you do it?

- Well, we have to deal in chemistry, ballistics, physics, toxicology, and handwriting.

- No one man can be outstanding in all fields.

[...]

Bullets or Ballots (1939) Sound Clip

Bullets or Ballots (1939)Quotes with sound clips from Bullets or Ballots - Lux Radio Theatre play originally aired on April 17, 1939.

Actors: Edward G. Robinson (Detective Johnny Blake), Mary Astor (Lee Morgan), Humphrey Bogart (Bugs Brenner), Otto Kruger (Al Kruger)

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