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Thank you, Mr. DeMille.

4 seconds sound clip from the The 39 Steps (1937) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:54:28 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- Can you imagine what it would be like? Fight for breakfast, fight for lunch, fight for dinner. One long, drawn out battle for the next thirty or forty years.

- Ooh. Thirty or forty years. Do you think we could keep it up that long? I mean, really.

- Well, we could try.

(Audience applause)

- Robert Mongtomery and Ida Lupino have completed 'The 39 Steps,' but they'll take a fortieth when they return later to the microphone.

- First, a word from Melville Ruick.

- Thank you, Mr. DeMille.

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The 39 Steps (1937) Sound Clip

The 39 StepsQuotes with sound clips from the old-time radio play "The 39 Steps" (1937), based on John Buchan's novel, first aired on December 13, 1937 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: Robert Montgomery (Richard Hannay), Ida Lupino (Pamela Stuart), Isabel Jewel (Annabella Smith), Gene Lockhart (Mr. Memory), Leonard Mudie (Professor Bartlett),

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