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- How do you like my first line of defense, Commissioner?
- It's... reassuring, like a moat around a castle.

9 seconds sound clip from the Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:08:40 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Surrounding three sides of the plantation like a huge horseshoe was a ditch, twelve feet wide.

- The ends of this horseshoe-shaped ditch ran into the river which formed the fourth side of the plantation.

- And at the up-river entrance to the ditch, Leiningen had constructed a dam by which river water could be diverted into the ditch.

- A large hand-wheel controlled the floodgate of the dam and apparently Leiningen had ordered it opened immediately after my arrival.

- For, as we now approached the ditch and rode along it, I could see that it was nearly full.

- How do you like my first line of defense, Commissioner?

- It's... reassuring, like a moat around a castle.

- Unless the ants know how to build rafts, they won't reach the plantation.

- This is only the outer moat. There's a better one than this.

- Here, come along. We'll go up on the high ground where the buildings are. We can get a view from there.

- I didn't see any women or children around the plantation, or any animals.

- Yes, that's right. Moved them across the river.

- Then even you think there is danger?

[...]

Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948) Sound Clip

Leiningen Versus the Ants (Escape)Quotes with voice clips from Leiningen Versus the Ants - Escape Radio Show episode aired on January 14th, 1948, based on a story by Carl Stephenson.

Actors: William Conrad (Leiningen), Lou Merrill (The Commissioner)

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