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Make every effort to contact the civil authorities...

7 seconds sound clip from the The War of the Worlds (1953) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:54:11 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Thirty-one east. Anchored on Cairo.

- Checking. Dover blanked out.

- Brazil, checking.

- Urgent. Major Bentley Dawson, report to General Mann.

- Eighty west by 38 north.

- Make every effort to contact the civil authorities...

- Now, this much is certain.

- It's vital to prevent the Martian machines from linking up. Once they do, they adopt an extraordinary military tactic.

- They form a crescent. They anchor it at one end and sweep on, until they've cleared a quadrant. Then they anchor the opposite end and reverse direction.

- They slash across country like scythes, wiping out everything that's trying to get away from them.

- That explains why communication is cut the moment their machines begin moving.

[...]

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Actors: Gene Barry (Dr. Clayton Forrester), Ann Robinson (Sylvia van Buren), Les Tremayne (General Mann)

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