Look, everyone knows I have a bad heart. Who would doubt it if you wired the bank directors that my heart had failed, that I had fallen from a great height here in the woods, and that I was badly smashed up?

15 seconds sound clip from the The Bat (1959) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:09:09.750 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- He has a lovely little wife.

- Charming girl, I was the best man.

- Where's the million?

- In my family's tomb in Zenith, in the crypt with my father's casket.

- I don't buy that, John.

- No?

- No.

- You forget that I had you in charge when you were a very sick man, when you raved in delirium. And I heard you talk about a hidden room.

- Now, where else could you put a hidden room except in that mansion you built, that white elephant you call the Oaks?

- Look, everyone knows I have a bad heart. Who would doubt it if you wired the bank directors that my heart had failed, that I had fallen from a great height here in the woods, and that I was badly smashed up?

- You could ship the body back for burial, and instruct them not to open the casket due to the condition of its contents.

- Well, you realize, of course, that we'd have to have a body to put in that casket, which means that we'd have to deal with an undertaker at this end.

- Of course.

- But where do we get a body?

- Couldn't we provide one of our own? How about Sam?

- Sam? Our guide?

[...]

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