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They don't give out the Congressional Medal to dead guys wanted for murder, but he was gonna get it, even if he got it on his grave, and I was going' after whoever tried to gyp him out of it.

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

You can hear this line at 00:17:48.201 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Once the electric fan in Kincaid's head started churning, he'd check with Missing Persons and find out I'd never been there, but I wasn't worrying about that.

- I was thinking, 'Now I won't have to say goodbye to Johnny.'

- I remembered him in Berlin. The crazy song he always sang. I used to say, 'You drive me nuts with it.'

- Yeah. Why, I used to say to him... Well, let's just say I remembered Johnny, laughing, tough, and lonesome. Let's just say that.

- But I knew all at once I had a job.

- They don't give out the Congressional Medal to dead guys wanted for murder, but he was gonna get it, even if he got it on his grave, and I was going' after whoever tried to gyp him out of it.

- Why should anybody kill Johnny? Because he knew too much? Because he hadn't shot Chandler and maybe knew who did?

- There was a photograph in the Gulf City Statesman. Louis Ord, a waiter at the Sanctuary Club. He was a witness at the Chandler inquest. A reluctant one, the paper said.

- Maybe he wouldn't help any, but you gotta start somewhere, and he'd be fine.

- Mr Louis Ord would be fine, just dandy.

- I felt like a fight, Father. I felt like a fight.

[...]

Dead Reckoning (1947) Sound Clip

Dead Reckoning posterListen to memorable quotes from the classic 1947 film noir Dead Reckoning, accompanied by short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

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

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