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Tonight, you're about to possibly destroy your life and certainly mine.

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

You can hear this line at 01:14:40 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- You swat the fly on my nose with a hammer! Throw it away.

- Yet every time we talk, it's about Charlie Castle! Never once about his long-suffering, sickly wife, Marion.

- Do you know where your fatal error lies? You ought to know, so I'm going to tell you.

- You're afflicted with a fine, fat case of merchant psychology.

- You bargain and trifle with your own nature. That's your error.

- Tonight, you're about to possibly destroy your life and certainly mine.

- Didn't we pick each other out of millions?

- Can this be bargained away by saying, like a merchant: Marion will be herself and love Charlie only if he meets a certain price and conditions?

- Where's the rich, full-hearted woman I know you to be?

- I say no more bargains, no more conditions, no more of this either-or, neither-nor whim that strangles us both.

- I say no, and I say down with not being what we are!

[...]

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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