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You ask me why. I ask you why.

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

You can hear this line at 00:33:04 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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!

- Charlie... Oh, Charlie...

- The wife of a man in your position should have the regard and should have the respect to help him advance his career. Don't you think?

- Charlie, you can have anything I own.

- The pain of this moment... the memories.

[...]

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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