Smiley was good enough to enter my employ the year before.

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

You can hear this line at 00:32:04 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- But nevertheless, I was there for you and yours, and the vexing problems that are so manifold in the heat and toil of the day.

- Then, on a certain night, in this very room, the law spelled scandal. I was there for you then, too.

- I want to tell you a little story. I'd like to tell you a little story! It may concern you!

- For a number of years, the woman that was my wife... Certain facts came home to me. That was the year of the merger. These facts came up, as I said.

- My wife... drinking... certain scenes... a certain hotel room in New York City... attempted suicides. I was out of my mind. But we brought her back that time.

- Smiley was good enough to enter my employ the year before.

- It all added up to one fact! Psychoanalysis! Psychoanalysis! $30000 or $40000 down the drain in one year, but not begrudged.

- I thought to amuse her. I bought her a pleasure boat, the Alberta. Named after her, too.

- Nothing helped. Nothing.

- Then one day in my office, Frank Lubner was there, a pioneer in the industry, Smiley Coy...

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