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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.

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

You can hear this line at 00:53:30 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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?

- Well, we have two important pilgrimages a year, The High Jinks, which is serious, and the Low Jinks, which speaks for itself.

- It's quite a sight, actors making fun of themselves.

- Oh, no, impossible. Actors never make fun of themselves.

- Well, I've seen it with my own eyes. I'll take you all up sometime and show you.

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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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