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- My hands. You forgot my hands. I could scratch his eyes out before he could kill me.
- Ah, but you didn't. Your first instinct was to grab his arm, try to loosen his grip. That's where you lost the battle, just as Mildred did.

13 seconds sound clip from the In a Lonely Place movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:34:16.664 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Go ahead. Go ahead, Brub. Squeeze harder.

- You love her, and she's deceived you. You hate her patronizing attitude. She looks down on you. She's impressed with celebrities. She wants to get rid of you.

- You squeeze harder. Harder. Squeeze harder. It's wonderful to feel her throat crush under your arm.

- Brub, stop it!

- I didn't hurt you, did I?

- No.

- Well, are you convinced?

- I think so.

- Well, I'm not.

- My hands. You forgot my hands. I could scratch his eyes out before he could kill me.

- Ah, but you didn't. Your first instinct was to grab his arm, try to loosen his grip. That's where you lost the battle, just as Mildred did.

- You've given this a lot of thought, haven't you?

- Well, I've had a lot of experience in matters of this kind. I've killed dozens of people, in pictures.

- No, I didn't do it. I assure you I could never throw a lovely body from a moving car. My artistic temperament wouldn't permit it.

- No, naturally.

- You see, we so-called creative artists have a great respect for cadavers. We treat them with the utmost reverence.

- Put them in soft beds, lay them out on fur rugs, leave them lying at the foot of a long staircase, but we definitely could never throw them from a moving car as though they were cigarette butts.

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In a Lonely Place Sound Clip

In a Lonely Place (1950) posterListen to memorable quotes and funny lines from the classic 1950 film noir "In a Lonely Place".

Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Dix Steele), Gloria Grahame (Laurel Gray)

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