Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter, Walter. You're just a little taller.
— Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson)
6 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:46:59 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I get the general idea. She was a tramp from a long line of tramps.
- Yeah. All right, all right. Now what do I say to Norton? What about this job I want you for?
- I don't think I want it, Keyes. Thanks just the same.
- Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter, Walter. You're just a little taller.
- Yes, those Fates I was talking about had only been stalling me off.
- Now they had thrown the switch. The gears had meshed. The time for thinking had all run out.
- I wanted my movements accounted for up to the last possible moment.
- So when I left the office I put my rate book on the desk as if I had forgotten it.
[...]
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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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