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It seemed we had waited for hours, when all at once, through the blazing ring around us, an apparition hurtled and fell full length on the ground.

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

You can hear this line at 00:26:17 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I stumbled and fell. I felt myself being swarmed over... devoured!

- Tried to rise... A great weight... Then suddenly the vision of the half-devoured stag in my brain.

- Six minutes, then nothing but bones. I couldn't let it happen to me! I couldn't die like that!

- To my feet. To my feet. Dragged myself forward, toward the flame.

- The ditch! The ring of flames! Closer, now! Only a little further!

- It seemed we had waited for hours, when all at once, through the blazing ring around us, an apparition hurtled and fell full length on the ground.

- It was Leiningen... alive with ants, unconscious, with blazing eyes and lacerated face.

- We rushed to him, stripped off his clothes, and tore at the ants that covered him.

- His body seemed almost one open wound. In one place, I could see a white bone.

- Later, as the curtain of flame lowered, I looked out to where that blanket of ants had been and saw only a vast expanse of water, covering the entire plantation and working its way to within a few feet of the concrete ditch.

- The ants were gone... drowned... and Leiningen had won.

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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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