Good or bad, it was my judgment.

2 seconds sound clip from the The Big Heat (1953) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:18:50.372 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- The lieutenant's been buzzing you every 10 minutes. He didn't say what for.

- Sit down, Dave. I had a call from upstairs.

- What have you been bothering Mrs. Duncan about?

- Just routine.

- Well, the first time was, not the second visit.

- Did she complain?

- Somebody did.

- It was bad judgment to bother a cop's widow about the love life of her husband.

- Good or bad, it was my judgment.

- You're missing the point. I'm the one that gets the pressure calls from upstairs. I'm the one that has to explain.

- You don't keep an office like this very long stepping on a lot of corns.

- You want me to go upstairs and explain?

- Not you. You're a corn-stepper by instinct.

- No, all I'm asking you to do, and I'm not even ordering it, Dave... stop bothering Mrs. Duncan.

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