I wanted to tell the police that it wasn't murder, that I did it, but I was afraid of what they'd do to me, because I hadn't said so before.

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7 seconds sound clip from the Dead Reckoning (1947) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:15:51.138 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- I'm tired. I can't go on anymore. For three years now, nearly four, always being threatened by the police.

- For months now, ever since I came into Stuart's money, hounded every day for more and more money.

- I could stand Martinelli, but when you turn against me...

- How did he cut himself in on this?

- I had to talk to somebody when Johnny ran away.

- I wanted to tell the police that it wasn't murder, that I did it, but I was afraid of what they'd do to me, because I hadn't said so before.

- So you picked the worst hoodlum in town.

- He's always been nice to me. He gave me a job when nobody else would, and he knows about courts, things like that.

- He said they'd convict me, and offered to get rid of the gun, because the mark on the bullet would prove it was the one that killed Stuart.

- Strike one. Stay with it.

- I felt safe when I'd given him the gun. I never thought about the fingerprints, that mine were still on it.

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Dead Reckoning (1947) Sound Clip

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Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock), Lizabeth Scott (Coral Chandler)

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