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Dream or not, it was filled with darkness, stung by staccato flashes from a genuine Boy Scout flashlight...

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

You can hear this line at 00:30:32 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Funny... he said his light went out.

- Then Mr. Carpenter came out carrying the flashlight and stealing down the steps like a thief.

- This was peculiar. But this was adventure.

- Bobby followed Mr. Carpenter...

- And what he saw couldn't have been a dream... it was too real. But it couldn't have been true, either... it was too deliciously frightful.

- Dream or not, it was filled with darkness, stung by staccato flashes from a genuine Boy Scout flashlight...

- Flashes that activated a giant robot into knocking out his guards, so that Mr. Carpenter from the boardinghouse could get into the shed the Army had built around the spaceship.

- And dream or not, Bobby saw this Mr. Carpenter go into the spaceship.

- And then a wave of sheer terror swept over Bobby at last and he turned and ran wildly away...

- The way little boys always run in nightmares, trying so hard and moving so slowly, and all the time falling down.

- It was awful. It was swell.

[...]

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A nightmare stands on the ramp leading out of the spaceship.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954) Sound Clip

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954)Relive the nostalgia of old-time radio with sound bites from Lux Radio Theater's "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Classic sci-fi, vintage sound & dialogue.

Actors: Michael Rennie (Klaatu), Jean Peters (Helen Benson), Paul Frees (Narrator), Lamont Johnson (Tom), Herb Butterfield (Professor Barnhardt), Tudor Owen (Mr. Harley), Billy Gray (Bobby), Edith Evanson (Mrs. Crockett)

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