We allowed him to buy our patents.
2 seconds sound clip from the Gilda (1946) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:25:16.150 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- You were interestingly quiet this afternoon.
- What I have to say I have to say to you and not the others.
- Would you like to know how Mundson came to be the head of the cartel?
- No.
- You've seen that the patents are German, haven't you?
- Exactly.
- They belong to my principals.
- We allowed him to buy our patents.
- Good idea. The casino here makes a nice front.
- We even advanced him the money with which to buy them from us.
- Well, you couldn't have picked a nicer man.
- We had an agreement with Mundson that, at the end of the war, he would turn our property back to us.
- I didn't find any agreement.
- It was a gentleman's agreement.
- I see. And Mr. Mundson wasn't a gentleman.
- He was a madman. He thought he could rule the world alone.
- I know. We had quite a discussion about it.
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