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Now look, you can't be sure of killing a man by throwing him off a train that's going 15 miles an hour. The only way you can be sure is to kill him first and then throw his body on the tracks.

12 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:19:08 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Walter, I'm a very great man.

- This Dietrichson business, it's murder and murders don't come any neater.

- As fancy a piece of homicide as anybody ever ran into smart, tricky, almost perfect, but... I think Papa has it all figured out. Figured out and wrapped up in tissue paper with pink ribbons on it.

- Go ahead. I'm listening. (2)

- You know what? That guy Dietrichson was never on the train.

- He wasn't?

- No, he wasn't.

- Now look, you can't be sure of killing a man by throwing him off a train that's going 15 miles an hour. The only way you can be sure is to kill him first and then throw his body on the tracks.

- Now that would mean either killing him on the train or, and this is where it really gets fancy, you kill him somewhere else and put him on the tracks.

- Two possibilities, and I personally buy the second.

- You're way ahead of me, Keyes.

- Well, look, it was like this. They killed the guy, the wife and a somebody else...

- And the somebody else took the crutches and went on the train as Dietrichson...

[...]

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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