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You know, you ought to take a look at the statistics on suicide sometime. You might learn a little something about the insurance business.

8 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:07:05 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

(Door slamming)

- Nice going, you sure carried that ball. Only you fumbled on the goal line. Then you heaved an illegal forward pass and got thrown for a 40-yard loss. Now you can't pick yourself up because you haven't got a leg to stand on.

- I haven't, eh? She can go to court and we can prove it was suicide.

- Oh, can we?

- The first thing that struck me was that suicide angle. Only I dumped it into the wastepaper basket just three seconds later.

- You know, you ought to take a look at the statistics on suicide sometime. You might learn a little something about the insurance business.

- I was raised in the insurance business.

- Yeah, in the front office.

- Come now, you've never read an actuarial table in your life, have you? Why, they've got 10 volumes on suicide alone.

- Suicide by race, by color, by occupation by sex, by seasons of the year, by time of day.

- Suicide, how committed? By poisons, by firearms, by drowning, by leaps.

- Suicide by poison, subdivided by types of poison such as corrosive, irritant, systemic, gaseous, narcotic alkaloid, protein, and so forth.

[...]

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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