Movie-Sounds.org > Old-Time Radio Quotes > Three Skeleton Key (Escape)

She was a beauty. Big steel and bronze baby with the sun gleaming through the glass walls all about, bouncing blinding little beams off the big shiny reflectors, glittering and refracting through her lenses.

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

You can hear this line at 00:02:41 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- Set in the base of the light was a watertight bronze door... and in you went. And up.

- Yes, up and up and 'round and 'round, past the tanks of oil and the coils of rope, casks of wicks and racks of lanterns, sacks of spuds, and cartons and cans and up and up and up, 'round and 'round.

- Over the light storeroom was the food storeroom. And over the food storeroom was the bunk room where the three of us slept.

- And over the bunk room was the living and cooking room. And over the living and cooking room was the light.

- She was a beauty. Big steel and bronze baby with the sun gleaming through the glass walls all about, bouncing blinding little beams off the big shiny reflectors, glittering and refracting through her lenses.

- The whole gigantic bulk of her balanced like a ballerina on the glistening steel axle of her rotary mechanism.

- She was a sweetheart of a light.

- And at night, you'd lie there on the stone deck of the gallery with her revolving smoothly and quietly over over your head, easing her bright white eye 360 degrees around the horizon.

- You'd lie there watching to see that the feeders kept working, that everything ran right.

- And it wouldn't be bad. The other two fellows snoring in their sacks two levels down.

[...]

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)

[Amazon link] #ad

Latest Movie Sound Bites

Poll

You are using film sounds: