10 seconds sound clip from the The Big Knife (1955) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:32:22 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- I want to tell you a little story. I'd like to tell you a little story! It may concern you!
- For a number of years, the woman that was my wife... Certain facts came home to me. That was the year of the merger. These facts came up, as I said.
- My wife... drinking... certain scenes... a certain hotel room in New York City... attempted suicides. I was out of my mind. But we brought her back that time.
- Smiley was good enough to enter my employ the year before.
- It all added up to one fact! Psychoanalysis! Psychoanalysis! $30000 or $40000 down the drain in one year, but not begrudged.
- I thought to amuse her. I bought her a pleasure boat, the Alberta. Named after her, too.
- Nothing helped. Nothing.
- Then one day in my office, Frank Lubner was there, a pioneer in the industry, Smiley Coy...
- I drank a light scotch and soda, and I began to cry. And I haven't cried like that since I was a boy.
- Because I saw, through a revelation of pain, that my wife was determined in her innermost mind to destroy me and my career out of willful, malicious jealousy.
- You ask me why. I ask you why.
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