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- I can see it's getting harder and harder to commit murder.
- Not to commit it, but to get away with it.

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

You can hear this line at 00:39:49 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- You'll do fine as long as you have a single hair left on your head.

- From that single hair we can usually learn a man's approximate age, his environment, the places he visited recently, his type of employment, his personal habits and frequently, his race.

- We can also learn a dozen things from a a cigarette. Anybody who smokes a cigarette reveals secrets through the saliva that remain on the end. Even though many months have elapsed since it was smoked.

- Saliva tells us to what blood group the man who smoked the cigarette belongs.

- There are 20 blood groups with which we deal and often we can eliminate 19 out of 20 suspects by a blood grouping test.

- I can see it's getting harder and harder to commit murder.

- Not to commit it, but to get away with it.

- But while we solve crimes, the public can do far more than we can do in preventing them.

- Don't be intimidated by the threats and boasts of racketeers.

- Every time you surrender, you betray not only yourself, but your neighbors and your community.

- At the first sign of a threat, get in touch with your local authorities.

- And now, ladies and gentlemen, just to prove what an ordinary piece of evidence may reveal, I gave Mr. Gompert a coat which I wore sometime yesterday.

[...]

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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