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I wish I'd broken my neck when I fell out of that tree.

5 seconds sound clip from the Remember the Night (1940) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:27:28 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I'd forgotten how much that woman hates me. And how much I hate her.

- That's a terrible thing to say it, isn't it?

- No.

- But ever since I was little, she was always so right and I was always so wrong.

- Thanks for getting me out. I'll stay anywhere. Any old place'll do, if I'm far enough away from her!

- Hey, take it easy.

- I wish I'd broken my neck when I fell out of that tree.

- It's a little too late to think about that now, isn't it?

- You won't make me stay in Eltonville? You'll find me a room somewhere else?

- Sure I will.

- Any old dump will do.

- That's just what you're going to get.

- It's only got one window, and the mattress is stuffed with rocks, and it's got a painting of the cross-eyedest old man you ever saw in your life.

- How do you know?

- How do I know what?

- Oh. That my grandfather was cross-eyed?

[...]

Remember the Night (1940) Sound Clip

The African Queen (1952)Voice quotes from Remember the Night (1940) - Lux Radio Theatre play originally broadcast on March 25, 1940.

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck (Lee Leander), Fred MacMurray (John Sargent), Beulah Bondi (Mrs. Sargent), Elizabeth Patterson (Aunt Emma), Sterling Holloway (Willy)

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