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We would get right up against the glass and make faces at them. It drove them crazy. They would scratch away, trying to get at our eyes.

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

You can hear this line at 00:17:26 in the radio play.

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- I grabbed him by the arms, slapped his face... He looked at me like a child. And then his face screwed up. He looked as though he were about to cry.

- Go below. Go on.

- Very well, then. Later, my dear audience, later. Matinee today.

- Sure, he was crazy. But I guess we all were.

- A few hours later, he came back up and caught Louis and me teasing the rats. Yes.

- Sounds horrible? It was fun.

- We would get right up against the glass and make faces at them. It drove them crazy. They would scratch away, trying to get at our eyes.

- Louis was even cuter about it. He'd pull a piece of bread out of his pocket and press it against the glass.

- The rats would scramble into a solid ball, biting each other, clustering like grapes.

- From time to time, a whole knot of them would slip and fall the hundred ten feet to the surf below.

- Ha ha! Look at the sharks.

- They're eating them.

- Yeah, the sharks are our friends.

- Here, here. I'll get another bunch together. Ha ha ha!

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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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