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I'd been all over the country. I connected with a trucking outfit in Chicago.

5 seconds sound clip from the Criss Cross (1949) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:13:53.375 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- It's a 40-minute run to San Rafelo. Yeah, that's right.

- After it's done, after it's all over and we're safe, it'll be just you and me, you and me, the way it should've been all along from the start.

- From the start. The beginning. It all happened so fast. It was only eight months ago that I came back.

- I came home. The Los Angeles sun was shining, the way it's always supposed to.

- The old trolley line looked the same, the old street, the old houses. I was glad to be back.

- I'd been all over the country. I connected with a trucking outfit in Chicago.

- Did construction work down south. Drifted around the Oklahoma oil fields. Jobs like that, one after the other, until finally I got her out of my system.

- I didn't come back on account of her. That had nothing to do with it.

- I wasn't gonna go looking for her. I didn't expect to run into her.

- I didn't particularly want to see her. I was sure of that, if I was sure of anything.

- But then from the start, it all went one way.

[...]

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Actors: Burt Lancaster (Steve Thompson), Yvonne De Carlo (Anna), Dan Duryea (Slim Dundee)

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