Promise them cash on delivery. Then... when the time comes, I simply wouldn't have the cash. You understand? I'd tell them it'd take a few days more to raise it.
13 seconds sound clip from the The Asphalt Jungle (1950) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:35:45 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- The rocks alone would be worth, conservatively speaking, half a million.
- How much would you get out of it?
- Brother. You're knocking me out.
- What if I were to tell you that I've got a plan worked out to get it all?
- I could tell them that I'd fence the stuff myself, you see?
- I'm certain I could get them to leave the stuff with me while we're waiting.
- Go on.
- Well, then I'd disappear. I'd take a plane to another country, to another life.
- The gold and platinum I could melt up and sell as bullion, you see.
- And the rocks, sell them one at a time. There'd be no hurry. They'd last a lifetime.
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