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This was peculiar. But this was adventure.

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

You can hear this line at 00:30:18 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Gee, I wonder if the batteries are any good.

- Bobby went to the door and opened it. What he saw down the hallway puzzled him.

- Mr. Carpenter's door was ajar and light was pouring out of his room.

- 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.

[...]

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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