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- What about the suicide?
- Oh, that's a phony. The men didn't even have to go down.
- I thought it might be.

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

You can hear this line at 00:30:53 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Come on, Dr. Watson, we're going places. I want to talk to Inspector Guild.

- Man to man, Mr. Charles, are you working on this case?

- Man to man, I'm not.

- But he's interested!

- I don't mind telling you I'd rather have you in on the right side.

- You mean not on the lining side.

- I'd rather have you working with us than against us.

- So would I.

- It's a bargain then.

- Do you know about the case?

- I read the papers.

- What about the suicide?

- Oh, that's a phony. The men didn't even have to go down.

- I thought it might be.

- From now on, they're going to think that every thin man over six feet with white hair is Wynant.

- Do you think that Wynant did it?

- Looks like he planned something.

- He shut up his apartment and his shop. But there's nothing yet to clinch it.

- Fifty will get you a hundred if he didn't do it.

- Who's your candidate?

- I haven't got that far yet.

[...]

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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