The fact remains, he hit and ran.
4 seconds sound clip from the The Big Knife (1955) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:06:50 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Some of you forget that this town has got to keep its skirts clean.
- At the studio Christmas party, this idiot steals your car...
- He drives along half-drunk...
- He wasn't drunk, sweetie. That was cleared in court.
- The fact remains, he hit and ran.
- All he did... All he did, your dear friend, was to almost ruin a career right out of the storybooks.
- I thought we could be human enough to forgive that.
- Didn't he step up in time and take the blame?
- Well, I still think it was very poor public relations giving him his job back that way.
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