All right, I'll tell you. I was in love with her. Me, a prison guard.

5 seconds sound clip from the The Big Combo (1955) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:00:21.436 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I want to meet her. I want to meet your wife, Mr. Brown.

- You can't.

- Why, because she's dead?

- No, she's alive. She's living in Sicily, in Grazzi's house.

- This was taken a month ago, came with one of her letters.

- Why did she send it to you?

- She wants to come back.

- Why did you leave her?

- I don't want to talk about it!

- I do.

- Can't you let me hold onto some pride?

- I lost all mine with you.

- All right, I'll tell you. I was in love with her. Me, a prison guard.

- It was for her I began to work my way up.

- All I had was guts. I traded them for money and influence.

- I got respect from everybody but her. She did anything she could to humiliate me.

- She was always drunk, flirting with other men. I tried to straighten her out.

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