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I didn't want to go back to the office so I dropped by a bowling alley at Third and Western and rolled a few lines to get my mind thinking about something else for a while.

10 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:22:29 in the DVD version of the movie.

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[...]

- Get out of here.

- You bet I'll get out of here, baby. I'll get out of here, but quick.

- So I let her have it straight between the eyes. She didn't fool me for a minute, not this time.

- I knew I had hold of a red-hot poker and the time to drop it was before it burned my hand off.

- I stopped at a drive-in for a bottle of beer, the one I had wanted all along, only I wanted it worse now, to get rid of the sour taste of her iced tea and everything that went with it.

- I didn't want to go back to the office so I dropped by a bowling alley at Third and Western and rolled a few lines to get my mind thinking about something else for a while.

- I didn't feel like eating dinner when I left, and I didn't feel like a show. So, I drove home, put the car away and went up to my apartment.

- It had begun to rain outside and I watched it get dark and didn't even turn on the light. That didn't help me either.

- I was all twisted up inside and I was still holding on to that red-hot poker.

- And right then it came over me that I hadn't walked out on anything at all. That the hook was too strong, that this wasn't the end between her and me. It was only the beginning.

- So at 8:00 the bell would ring and I'd know who it was without even having to think. As if it was the most natural thing in the world.

[...]

Double Indemnity Sound Clip

Double Indemnity Poster

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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