It sounds crazy, but it's true, so help me. I couldn't hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.

— Walter Neff (Fred Macmurray)

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13 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:59:54 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- Well, that's all right, Charlie. Just going up to the drugstore to get something to eat.

- Been working upstairs all night. My stomach's getting a little sore at me.

- Yes, sir, Mr. Neff.

- That was all there was to it. Nothing had slipped, nothing had been overlooked. There was nothing to give us away.

- And yet, as I was walking down the street to the drugstore, suddenly it came over me that everything would go wrong.

- It sounds crazy, but it's true, so help me. I couldn't hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.

- That was the longest night I ever lived through, and the next day was worse, when the story had broke in the papers and they started talking about it at the office and the day after that, when you started digging into it.

- I kept my hands in my pockets because I thought they were shaking.

- I put on dark glasses so people couldn't see my eyes. And then I took them off again so they wouldn't get to wondering why I wore them.

- I tried to hold myself together, but I could feel my nerves pulling me to pieces.

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