A stream of flight rose swiftly to a torrent.

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

You can hear this line at 00:52:39 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

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- The government of India, driven from New Delhi, met in a railroad coach...

- While massive Hindu populations streamed for the imagined safety of the faraway Himalayas.

- The redoubtable Finnish and Turkish armies, Chinese battalions and Bolivians worked and fought furiously.

- Every effort against the tremendous power of their other-world antagonists ended in the same frantic rout.

- As the Martians burnt fields and forests and great cities fell before them, huge populations were driven from their homes.

- A stream of flight rose swiftly to a torrent.

- It became a giant stampede without order and without goal.

- It was the beginning of the rout of civilization, of the massacre of humanity.

- A great silence fell over half of Europe as all communication was disrupted.

- When the last wire photo out of Paris reached the French cabinet, exiled in Strasbourg, they hit upon the idea of using super-speed jets as couriers.

[...]