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Nothing helped. Nothing.

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

You can hear this line at 00:32:32 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- But from that day on, I realized one essential fact of life! The woman must stay out of the husband's work when he earns her bread and butter!

[...]

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The Big Knife (1955) Sound Clip

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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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