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What makes it doubly important that I shouldn't let you go is that I am just about to transfer some very vital information out of the country.

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

You can hear this line at 00:23:10 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Good Lord. Then you're...? You're the one she...?

- The one she was trying to warn you against. The chief.

- You misunderstood her. She meant for you to kill me, not to bring me information.

- Yes. Well, what are we going to do about it?

- Ah, that's just the point. What are we going to do?

- You see, I live here as a respectable citizen. I should hate to have it known that I am not what I seem to be.

- You understand my position?

- Oh, yes. Quite.

- What makes it doubly important that I shouldn't let you go is that I am just about to transfer some very vital information out of the country.

- What?

- Oh, yes. I've got it already.

- I'm afraid poor Annabella would have been too late in any case.

- Well. That's that, I suppose.

- Yes.

- Well? What about it?

- What about what?

- Yourself.

- It seems to me there's only one way out.

- And what's that?

- I've a small revolver here. Pretty little thing, isn't it? Supposing I left you alone with this?

[...]

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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