It was for her I began to work my way up.
1 seconds sound clip from the The Big Combo (1955) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:00:27.215 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- 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.
- I don't want to talk about it!
- I do.
- Can't you let me hold onto some pride?
- 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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