You could try, but he's pretty tough-going.
5 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:19:37 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- Say $125 a week cash benefit. And he'd rate around $50,000 capital sum.
- Maybe I shouldn't have said that.
- I suppose you have to think of everything in your business.
- You could try, but he's pretty tough-going.
- Sometimes we sit here all evening and never say a word to each other.
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