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- Everybody says you were a grand detective.
- They were kidding you.

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

You can hear this line at 00:23:50 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Now what darling?

- I don't know. Some crank, I guess. He hung up.

- Now you better get back to bed, get some sleep.

- Nick? Nick! Are you asleep?

- Yes.

- Good. I want to talk to you.

- That's jolly.

- Don't you think you'd like to go back to detecting once in a while, just for the fun of it?

- Can't you get to sleep?

- No.

- Everybody says you were a grand detective.

- They were kidding you.

- I'd like to see you work.

- Tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories.

- That poor girl is in an awful spot.

- There's nothing I can do to help her.

- She thinks you can. It wouldn't hurt you to find out if you could, would it?

- Darling, my guess is that Wynant killed Julia and Dorothy knows it. And the police'll catch him without my help.

[...]

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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