It was bad judgment to bother a cop's widow about the love life of her husband.
4 seconds sound clip from the The Big Heat (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:18:46.635 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- What's that name again, Sergeant?
- The lieutenant's been buzzing you every 10 minutes. He didn't say what for.
- Sit down, Dave. I had a call from upstairs.
- What have you been bothering Mrs. Duncan about?
- Well, the first time was, not the second visit.
- It was bad judgment to bother a cop's widow about the love life of her husband.
- Good or bad, it was my judgment.
- You don't keep an office like this very long stepping on a lot of corns.
- You want me to go upstairs and explain?
- Not you. You're a corn-stepper by instinct.
- No, all I'm asking you to do, and I'm not even ordering it, Dave... stop bothering Mrs. Duncan.
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