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And then I saw the sky and the stars. The rats were gone.

8 seconds sound clip from the Three Skeleton Key (Escape) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:24:53 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Nothing I could do. The wicks were stored three levels below. Nothing I could do. Nothing.

- 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.

- Below, it had grown quiet. They'd cleaned us out and now they too were waiting. All waiting.

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

- And then, I heard it...

- And then I saw the sky and the stars. The rats were gone.

- I went to the glass. Out there in the water, a small freighter... a banana boat... showing a few lights, came softly and innocently at us.

- The light was out. They didn't know.

- I wanted to open the windows to call out to them, to warn them somehow, but... I was afraid.

- What if the rats were hiding from me? Tricking me? So I waited.

- She grounded very softly on a reef not two hundred yards from the key.

[...]

Three Skeleton Key (Escape) Sound Clip

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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