You're like the guy behind the roulette wheel watching the customers to make sure they don't crook the house. And then one night, you get to thinking how you could crook the house yourself. And do it smart.
11 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:29:23 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- Maybe she had stopped thinking about it, but I hadn't. I couldn't.
- Because it all tied up with something I'd been thinking about for years.
- Since long before I ever ran into Phyllis Dietrichson.
- Because you've got that wheel right under your hands. You know every notch in it by heart.
- And you figure all you need is a plant out front. A shill to put down the bet.
- And suddenly the doorbell rings and the whole setup is right there in the room with you.
- Look, I'm not trying to whitewash myself. I fought it, only I guess I didn't fight it hard enough.
- The stakes were $50,000, but they were the life of a man, too.
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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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