4 seconds sound clip from the Monsieur Verdoux movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:57:22 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Observe him, gentlemen. This man, who has brains if he had decent instincts, could have made an honest living. And yet he preferred to rob and murder unsuspecting women. In fact, he made a business of it.
- I do not ask for vengeance, but for the protection of society.
- For this mass killer I demand the extreme penalty: that he be put to death on the guillotine.
- The state rests its case.
- You have been found guilty. Have you anything to say before sentence is passed upon you?
- Oui, monsieur. I have.
- However remiss the prosecutor has been in complimenting me, he at least admits that I have brains. Thank you, monsieur. I have.
- And for 35 years, I used them honestly. After that, nobody wanted them, so I was forced to go into business for myself.
- As for being a mass killer, does not the world encourage it? Is it not building weapons of destruction for the sole purpose of mass killing?
- Has it not blown unsuspecting women and little children to pieces and done it very scientifically?
- As a mass killer, I'm an amateur by comparison.
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