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Quite a retrenchment. A DeMille mob scene ought to have about four thousand, shouldn't it?

6 seconds sound clip from the You Can't Take It with You (1939) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:53:13 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- We've all got our health and as far as anything else is concerned, we leave it up to You. Thank You.

- Has anybody got the pickles?

- And four other interesting people are coming back to our microphone now.

- That's quite a mob you've got here tonight.

- Gangsters! Where?

- Not gangsters. Just a mob. You know, two's company, four's a mob.

- Quite a retrenchment. A DeMille mob scene ought to have about four thousand, shouldn't it?

- Sometimes four good actors can outshine four thousand.

- Yeah, but they can't make as much noise.

- That depends on their ammunition. You four made plenty tonight.

- Well, we're all a little shell-shocked after rehearsing under firecrackers all week.

- Well, I do think it was carrying realism too far when the man put a firecracker off under my chair. That was rather a low trick.

- But wasn't that in the spirit of the Low Jinks Festival at the Bohemian Club?

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You Can't Take It with You (1939) Sound Clip

You Can't Take It with You (1939)Quotes from You Can't Take It with You (1939), Lux Radio Theatre play broadcast in 1939, based on the Pulitzer Prize Play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

Actors: Fay Wray (Alice), Robert Cummings (Tony), Walter Connolly (Grandpa Vanderhof), Edward Arnold (Mr. Kirby), Lou Merrill (Kolenkhov), Sally Payne (Essie),

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