Well, as I said, it's a rather improbable story, but I can't think the author can have been pulling my leg out of respect for my cloth.

13 seconds sound clip from the The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:28:52 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- Oh dear, I wish I'd never started all this. Well, I'll see what I can do.

- Well, let me be back before ever the miracles began.

- Let everything be just as it was before the lamp turned upside down, back in the Long Dragon last Tuesday night.

- Very well then, here comes someone, as it might be me, and stands as it might be here, and says to the lamp, as I might do, collecting all my willpower, lamp, turn upside down in mid-air without breaking and go on burning steady.

- And precisely nothing happened.

- Well, as I said, it's a rather improbable story, but I can't think the author can have been pulling my leg out of respect for my cloth.

- After all, he was one of my parishioners.

- This is Ralph Richardson again.

- This week in our play, taken from H.G. Wells' story, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, Alec Guinness.

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