We've tried everything, haven't we? We've reasoned with him, we've babied him. We've watched him like a hawk. We've tried trusting him.

6 seconds sound clip from the The Lost Weekend (1945) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:18:44.931 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- He doesn't know what he's doing. A cigarette might fall from his mouth and he'll burn in his bed...

- Oh, Helen. If it happens, it happens. And I hope it does.

- I've had six years of this. I've had my bellyful.

- Wick, you can't mean that.

- Yes I do. It's terrible, I know, but I mean it.

- For heaven's sakes...

- Who are we fooling?

- We've tried everything, haven't we? We've reasoned with him, we've babied him. We've watched him like a hawk. We've tried trusting him.

- How often have you cried? How often have I beaten him up?

- We scrape him out of the gutter and... pump some kind of self-respect into him, and back he falls, back in, every time.

- He's a sick person. It's as though there were something wrong with his heart or his lungs. You wouldn't walk out on him because he had an attack. He needs our help.

- He won't accept our help. Not Don. He hates us.

[...]

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Actors: Ray Milland (Don Birnam), Jane Wyman (Helen St. James), Doris Dowling (Gloria), Howard da Silva (Nat)

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