- I want a quart of rye. Quick.
- Care if I take off my coat first?
- No. No cracks, no questions. Just a quart of rye.

— Don Birnam (Ray Milland)

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

You can hear this line at 01:23:19.804 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I don't care for any breakfast, thank you. Nor do I care for that kind of talk, even supposing you're right.

- Which I am.

- I could have kicked him out fifty times. The last, when two taxi drivers dumped him into the entrance hall out cold on the floor. With all my tenants going in and out and children leaving for school.

- Please, please!

- Well, I didn't put him out. Not as long as his brother could pay the rent.

- You couldn't help liking him anyway. He's was so good looking. He had such nice manners. He always had a little joke.

- Stop talking about him as if he were dead.

- Best thing for you if he was.

- I want a quart of rye. Quick.

- Care if I take off my coat first?

- No. No cracks, no questions. Just a quart of rye.

- Be two fifteen.

- Come on. I need that liquor, I want it, I'm going to get it, understand. I'm going to walk out of here with that quart of rye, one way or another.

- Miss St. James? He's back. He's upstairs, this is Mrs. Deveridge. Yes, he's back. Up in the apartment. I heard him yelling.

- Don, open the door. Open it, please. Don, won't you let me in? I know you're there. Please, open the door.

[...]

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