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It's 500 feet, those tracks below. Hard steel rails.

7 seconds sound clip from the The Doctor Prescribed Death (Suspense) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:03:56 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- As he stands against the railing in the fog, a figure appears a few feet beyond stomps, prepares to leap.

- Don't do it! Wait a minute! Listen... that's very silly.

- Let go of me!

- Oh, no. I couldn't do that. I need you.

- I don't need you.

- Don't you know this is against the law?

- You're not an officer. You can't stop me.

- It's 500 feet, those tracks below. Hard steel rails.

- And don't believe what they all tell you, about not being conscious or what happens.

- You'd know... people don't die instantly, they lie in agony for minutes and sometimes for an hour.

- It's a horrible death, I know.

- How do you?

- I'm a doctor.

- Yes. I can tell you much simpler ways, much less painful ways and quicker.

- You're a nice young girl, an intelligent girl... you wouldn't want it to happen this way.

[...]

The Doctor Prescribed Death (Suspense) Sound Clip

The Doctor Prescribed Death (1943)Quotes with audio samples from The Doctor Prescribed Death - Suspense Radio Show episode aired on February 2, 1943.

Actors: Bela Lugosi (Dr. Antonio Bacile), Geraldine Fitzgerald (Myra Bacile), Lurene Tuttle (Gladys Tanner), Joseph Kearns (The Man In Black), Lou Merrill (Lieutenant Davis)

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