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He doesn't just sit behind a desk. He's right down there with those drilling crews. It's got me worried sick.

7 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:18:45 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Tell me, on this insurance, how much commission do you make?

- Twenty percent. Why?

- I thought perhaps I could throw a little more business your way.

- I can always use it.

- I was thinking about my husband. I worry a lot about him down in those oil fields. It's very dangerous.

- Not for an executive, is it?

- He doesn't just sit behind a desk. He's right down there with those drilling crews. It's got me worried sick.

- You mean, some dark night a crown block might fall on him?

- Please don't talk like that.

- But that's the idea.

- The other day a casing line snapped and caught the foreman. He's in the hospital with a broken back.

- That's bad.

- It's got me jittery just thinking about it. Suppose something like that happened to my husband.

- It could.

[...]

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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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