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By morning, the air in the little room was horrible. Until now, we'd been getting air from the tower below. Now that was sealed off. So was all our food and water.

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

You can hear this line at 00:21:42 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- The gallery. The trap door in the gallery is metal.

- Good. Come on.

- We made it.

- We lay across the trap door, exhausted, while below us, the rats took over the entire tower.

- I could hear them howling and fighting over our food supply, our water, our leather.

- And all about us, the others screamed and glared in at us, swayed in a tangled mass, hypnotized by the ever-turning light.

- By morning, the air in the little room was horrible. Until now, we'd been getting air from the tower below. Now that was sealed off. So was all our food and water.

- We lay exhausted, panting, waiting, waiting. The hours crawled on.

- I was almost dozing from fatigue when I saw a sight that brought me to, fast.

- Ha-ha-ha! Would you like to come in, my beauties? Would you? I hold the powers of life and death. And I can let you in, you know.

- Auguste was standing by the glass and in one hand he held a wrench.

- He was tapping the glass gently. Not quite hard enough to break it.

[...]

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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