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He is thin and gaunt, with great dark eyes and hollow sunken cheeks.

6 seconds sound clip from the The Adventures of Superman - The Mystery of The Walking Dead classic radio series.

You can hear this line at 00:01:31 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- His secret is carefully guarded. No one is aware that Kent is Superman - no one but you.

- Join with us now on ABC as we embark on one of Superman's transcribed adventures...

- As the Man of Steel finds himself pitted against an unseen enemy in The Mystery of the Walking Dead.

- A feeble yellow light burns endlessly outside one of the death house cells of State Prison.

- Beyond the black steel door with its tiny barred opening, hemmed in by blank walls of ash-gray concrete, a man is seated on an iron cot.

- He is thin and gaunt, with great dark eyes and hollow sunken cheeks.

- He is an East Indian and his name is Krishna.

- Soon they will come to shave his head and slit the leg of his prison trousers.

- And soon after that, they will lead him from his cell and he will walk the last mile into everlasting darkness. But now he sits quietly.

- The yellow light passing through the barred opening in the cell door lays an eerie pattern across his lean swarthy face.

- Suddenly, his jaw tightens. He rises from the cot and moves to the steel door, his long sensitive fingers curling about the bars like snakes.

[...]

The Adventures of Superman Sound Clip

The Adventures of SupermanQuotes with audio samples from the old-time radio series "The Adventures of Superman" that originally aired from 1940 to 1951

Actors: Bud Collyer (Clark Kent / Superman), Joan Alexander (Lois Lane)

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