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The clothes for instance. They were carefully preserved, and the body was just as carefully destroyed.

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

You can hear this line at 00:44:02 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Bless my soul, woman! I give you three murders and you're not satisfied!

- I want you to stay and find Wynant!

- I did find him.

- What do you mean?

- He was down in the shop. It was his body that was buried there.

- Wynant's body? Yup. But they all said it was Rosewater's.

- That's what they think.

- What makes you so sure it's Wynant's body?

- Several things.

- The clothes for instance. They were carefully preserved, and the body was just as carefully destroyed.

- The person who killed him counted on one thing: that all skeletons look alike.

- Well, don't they?

- Sure.

- I remembered that Wynant had some shrapnel in his shin. They found it under the fluoroscope.

- How long has he been dead?

- Couple of months anyway.

- Then he couldn't have committed those other murders.

- Smart gal.

- Wynant dead? Does Dorothy know?

- No. Nobody but you. I didn't even tell Guild.

- Why not?

- I want to lie low till I get the whole dope. I don't want to go off half-cocked.

[...]

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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