Now look. A guy takes out an accident policy that's worth $100,000 if he's killed on a train. Then two weeks later, he is killed on a train. And not in a train accident, mind you, but falling off some silly observation car.

— Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson)

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14 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:10:56 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Got any bicarbonate of soda?

- No, I haven't.

- I've been living with this little man for 26 years. And he's never failed me yet. There's got to be something wrong.

- Well, maybe Norton was right. Maybe it was suicide.

- No. Not suicide. But not an accident, either.

- What else?

- Now look. A guy takes out an accident policy that's worth $100,000 if he's killed on a train. Then two weeks later, he is killed on a train. And not in a train accident, mind you, but falling off some silly observation car.

- Do you know what the mathematical probability of that is? One out of I don't know how many billions.

- And add to that the broken leg.

- No, it just can't be the way it looks. Something has been worked on us.

- Such as what?

[...]

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