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We have built the finest plantation in this district. We all share in it.

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

You can hear this line at 00:04:35 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- That night, I called my Indian workers together in front of the plantation house.

- I saw their faces go ashen with terror as I told them the ants were coming, watched them as they milled around, muttering.

- I said nothing more to them.

- Finally, one of the men stepped forward... Blath, the foreman.

- But, patron, we have worked hard here for these three years. All of us.

- We have built the finest plantation in this district. We all share in it.

- It has been a home for all of us and our families. Now, the ants come.

- So?

- Those ditches we dug last year, the pipe we put in the ground... that was for the ants?

- Yes. That was for the ants.

- If we moved our families across the river, the ants could not reach them?

- Yes, that's right.

- And you?

- The ants are mighty. We know what they can do.

[...]

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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