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Grounded so gently that the man playing the cornet... was he a passenger or a crewman or watch? didn't even stop playing.

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

You can hear this line at 00:25:38 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- Grounded so gently that the man playing the cornet... was he a passenger or a crewman or watch? didn't even stop playing.

- They tried washing her back off.

- I could have told them to save their fuel. The tide was rising, would've floated her free.

- And I waited.

- That's all. That's the story.

- The sun came up and there wasn't a rat on the whole 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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