The crisis will come if they move toward the metropolitan area.
5 seconds sound clip from the The War of the Worlds (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:39:41 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- We've mobilized emergency cars and buses in the yards.
- The Red Cross is standing by.
- Now, for your information, the enemy is 25 or 30 miles outside Los Angeles.
- Not down in full force yet, but developing.
- The crisis will come if they move toward the metropolitan area.
- Washington is on the line, sir.
- I'd say our effective losses were nearly 60 percent men, 90 percent materiel.
- Well, the jets went in, but not one of them came out.
- I launched high-level bombers, dropped everything they can carry.
[...]