I threatened to kill him, but we were never, what you might say, properly introduced.

— Idgie Threadgoode (Mary Stuart Masterson)

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5 seconds sound clip from the Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:31:48.126 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- They didn't have to wait too long.

- Did you know Frank Bennett?

- No, sir.

- You mean to tell me you never met the man, whose wife, Ruth, is your business partner?

- That's right.

- You never threatened to kill Frank Bennett at his home in front of his hired man in June of 1932? The same Frank Bennett you did not know.

- Oh, that was me, all right.

- I thought you wanted to know if we'd ever met, and the answer is no.

- I threatened to kill him, but we were never, what you might say, properly introduced.

- Is it not true that in September of 1932 you came to Valdosta and took Frank Bennett's wife and child back to Alabama with you?

- Just the wife. The child came later.

- How much later?

- The usual. Nine months.

- Well, I suggest that you bribed this poor, weak woman with promises of liquor and money, and she lost control of her senses momentarily.

- And when her husband came back to get her and take her home, you and your colored man murdered him in cold blood.

- No, sir.

[...]

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