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

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

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

Quote context

[...]

- We can throw up a wall of flame. Care to bet they won't like that?

- I hope you're right... Look! Over at the edge of the jungle. All those animals.

- Yes. Running like the wind. Everything from jaguars to monkeys.

- Good heavens!

- Remember, they don't have any ditches.

- But can they escape?

- They'll be all right as long as they don't get caught between the river and the ants.

- 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.

[...]

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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