And you want to tell me you're not interested? You don't want to work with your brains? All you want to work is with your finger on the doorbell for a few bucks more a week.

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barton keyes edward g. robinson

8 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:44:25 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Well, that's not the way I look at it. To me, a claims man is a surgeon, that desk is an operating table and those pencils are scalpels and bone chisels.

- And those papers are not just forms and statistics and claims for compensation. They're alive. They're packed with drama with twisted hopes and crooked dreams.

- A claims man is a doctor and a bloodhound and a...

- Who? Okay, hold on a minute.

- A claims man is a doctor and a bloodhound and a cop and a judge and a jury and a father confessor, all in one.

- And you want to tell me you're not interested? You don't want to work with your brains? All you want to work is with your finger on the doorbell for a few bucks more a week.

- There's a dame on your phone.

- Walter Neff speaking.

- I had to call you, Walter. It's very urgent. Are you with somebody?

- Yes, I am. Can't I call you back, Margie?

- No, you can't. I've only got a minute. It can't wait.

[...]

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Double Indemnity Sound Clip

Memorable quotes with sound from the movie Double Indemnity (1944), based on James M. Cain's 1943 novella of the same name.

Actors: Fred MacMurray (Walter Neff), Barbara Stanwyck (Phyllis Dietrichson), Edward G. Robinson (Barton Keyes)

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