A nightmare stands on the ramp leading out of the spaceship.

— Narrator (Paul Frees)

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7 seconds sound clip from the The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:07:22 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Your wound doesn't look too bad. I'm sorry, but you shouldn't have gone for that ray gun.

- It was not a weapon.

- He understands us.

- It was a gift for your President. With it, you might have studied life on other planets.

- What's bothering the crowd, Lieutenant? Tell 'em to... Oh, no! Oh, no.

- A nightmare stands on the ramp leading out of the spaceship.

- A mechanical giant, monstrous, all metal and menace, with a visor in his helmet lifting slowly, revealing a dreadful light, boiling within that metal head.

- And suddenly out of that incandescence, a narrow ray.

(RAY BEAM IS REPEATEDLY FIRED)

- Rifles, tanks, artillery glow with that terrible incandescence and become vapor and a mush of huddled steel.

[...]

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