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Staring out at the blackness, the phosphorescent combers and the big yellow stars...

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

You can hear this line at 00:05:28 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- It seems he'd been an actor in Paris.

- Yes, indeed! Played in over two hundred different productions, dear boy. At the Grand Guignol.

- Oh, but it was monstrous, horrible, the way we used to scare the audiences. I was hated.

- Yes, yes. They used to throw things and hiss and bare their teeth at me.

- Finally, it got too bad. I couldn't stand it any longer. I gave up the theater. My nerves, you understand. Yes, gave it up completely, I really did. Couldn't stand it any longer...

- It all started one morning at two-thirty. I was on watch, lying on the cool stone deck, pulling on my pipe...

- Staring out at the blackness, the phosphorescent combers and the big yellow stars...

- Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed something show up for a second. Something the light had touched, far off.

- I waited for her to come around again and when she did, there it was.

- A three master. A big one. About a half mile off and coming down out of the north-northwest, coming straight for us.

- You must understand. Our light was where it was for a very good reason.

- Dangerous submerged reefs surrounded us and ships kept clear. But this one, this sailing vessel was coming straight on.

[...]

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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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