Direct cable communication is being maintained with Washington, but there's no radio at all.
7 seconds sound clip from the The War of the Worlds (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:00:53 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Whether we live or die may depend on what happens here.
- Attention, please. Four minutes to bomb time.
- Waiting to find out whether they can go home again.
- Everywhere, all around the world, people have been driven from their homes.
- Direct cable communication is being maintained with Washington, but there's no radio at all.
- Not even with the bombing plane that's coming over.
- Which means that these tape recordings I'm making are for the sake of future history... if any.
[...]