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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!

9 seconds sound clip from the The Big Knife (1955) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:31:20 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Charlie has always had great respect for your judgment. Adulation, even.

- I'm skipping the years of coolness between us.

- You came to my office no more. The reason why, I never will understand.

- But nevertheless, I was there for you and yours, and the vexing problems that are so manifold in the heat and toil of the day.

- Then, on a certain night, in this very room, the law spelled scandal. I was there for you then, too.

- 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.

[...]

The Big Knife (1955) Sound Clip

The Big Knife (1955) Poster

Quotes from the movie The Big Knife (1955), based on the 1949 play by Clifford Odets, featuring short sound clips with voice.

Actors: Jack Palance (Charlie Castle), Ida Lupino (Marion Castle), Jean Hagen (Connie Bliss), Rod Steiger (Stanley Shriner Hoff), Shelley Winters (Dixie Evans), Ilka Chase (Patty Benedict)

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