Three Skeleton Key (Escape) Quotes with Sound Clips

Three Skeleton Key (Escape)Memorable quotes with voice samples from Three Skeleton Key - Escape Radio Show episode aired on March 17, 1950, based on a story by George G. Toudouze.

Actors: Vincent Price (Jean), Jeff Corey (Louis), Harry Bartell (Auguste)

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1 I took up this profession because I don't like people. They want to talk too much. It's quiet work, light-tending. Let's keep it that way.
2 Ship's rats don't drown. No, sir. You cannot drown one of them. They're all climbing up the tower.
3 A wind that smelled like death. A wind that had smelled the slow and frightful death that came one night to this bare black rock.

— Jean (Vincent Price)

4 And then the rats... quite suddenly... were silent.

— Jean (Vincent Price)

5 Somewhere on the seas, there's a little banana boat without a crew. That is, without a HUMAN crew.

— Jean (Vincent Price)

6 Black beard, little hard black eyes and a pair of arms that - I tell you, those arms were as big around as my legs.

— Jean (Vincent Price)

7 He went for us, starved and ravenous, and we fought him, fought that one rat all over the room. It was... oh, believe me, I do not exaggerate, it was like fighting a panther.

— Jean (Vincent Price)

8 From time to time, I'd strike a match to see the clock... And when I did, it lit up the million red eyes about us. All about. Watching. Waiting.

— Jean (Vincent Price)

9 On the dark side of the room, you could not see them. Only their eyes. Thousands of points of blank red light, blinking and twinkling like the stars of hell.

— Jean (Vincent Price)

10 Then I became conscious of another new sound.

— Jean (Vincent Price)

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