Movie-Sounds.org > Old-Time Radio Quotes > X Minus One

The finest thing about the Cretaceous is the climate. It's balmy, like the South Sea Islands, and not so muggy as the Jurassic.

11 seconds sound clip from the X Minus 1 - A Gun for Dinosaur by L. Sprague de Camp classic radio drama series.

You can hear this line at 00:10:29 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Why? Why should we have to wait for you?

- Because I'm responsible for everything you do. Especially if something goes wrong.

- I say, Raja, open the door, will ya?

- In this period, the time chamber materializes on top of a rocky rise.

- At the west, you see the arm of the Kansas Sea that reaches across Missouri and the big swamp where the sauropods live.

- To the east, the land slopes up to a plateau... it's good for ceratopsians.

- The finest thing about the Cretaceous is the climate. It's balmy, like the South Sea Islands, and not so muggy as the Jurassic.

- Oh, we sent the time chamber back off and looked about.

- It was spring, with the dwarf magnolias in bloom all over.

- Down towards the Kansas Sea, cycads and willows grew, while the uplands were covered with screw pine and ginkgoes.

- Yeah, well, I'm no ruddy poet, but I can appreciate a beautiful scene.

- While I was looking through the haze and sniffing the air...

[...]

X Minus One Sound Clip

X Minus OneQuotes with audio samples from the old-time science fiction radio drama series "X Minus One" that was broadcast from 1955 to 1958 on NBC.

Actors: Fred Collins (Announcer), Wendell Holmes, Bill Zuckert, Peter Capell

[Amazon link] #ad

Latest Movie Sound Bites

Poll

You are using film sounds: