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Calling all cars! Cover all roads leaving the city, pick up tall thin man with white hair, last seen wearing dark black suit! Calling all cars!

14 seconds sound clip from the The Thin Man (1936) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:33:52 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- That's all right, Inspector.

- All right? It's perfect!

- Clyde Wynant is guilty of both of those murders.

- Maybe.

- What?

- Fifty'll still get you a hundred.

- I say Wynant's innocent.

- You can say what you want, but I'm spreading a dragnet for that guy over every town in these United States! And I'll get him, too!!

- Calling all cars! Cover all roads leaving the city, pick up tall thin man with white hair, last seen wearing dark black suit! Calling all cars!

- You think they'll find him? He must be in New York!

- Probably is.

- Oh, it's getting me down.

- I saw Dorothy today. She's broken off her engagement.

- What for?

- Don't ask me, she was a little hysterical.

- Something about not wanting to ruin her fiancées life, daughter of a murderer and all that.

- Hmm, poor kid.

- Well, see you later darling!

[...]

The Thin Man (1936) Sound Clip

The Thin ManFunny quotes with sound clips from The Thin Man - radio drama based on Dashiell Hammett's book, first broadcast on Thursday August 06, 1936 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: William Powell (Nick), Myrna Loy (Nora), Porter Hall (Macauley), Minna Gombel (Mimi), Dorothy (Barbara Luddy), William Henry (Gilbert)

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