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Leaving only the vast moving shadow, extending, deepening... and always moving nearer.

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

You can hear this line at 00:10:56 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- They can outrun the crawlers. But if they get trapped, it's either the ants or the crocodiles.

- Look! Look! Look over there on the horizon. There are your ants! Look at 'em!

- It was a sight I will never forget.

- Over the range of hills, as far as I could see, crept a darkening hem... ever longer and broader, until the shadow spread across the entire slope, then downward, downward, uncannily swift.

- And all the green herbage on the entire slope was being mowed as by a giant sickle...

- Leaving only the vast moving shadow, extending, deepening... and always moving nearer.

- Heh! They're a hideous lot.

- We can't last against that. Look at them!

- Why, they'll fill your ditches with their corpses and still have enough to destroy every one of us. We've got to run!

- Well, I... No! They haven't gotten to us yet... and they never will.

- The hostile army was approaching in perfect formation.

- No human battalions, however well-drilled, could ever hope to rival the precision of that advance.

[...]

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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