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In return for a release from all future claims, we're willing to compensate your client with a lump sum. Say $2,000. Fair enough?

10 seconds sound clip from the The Fortune Cookie (1966) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:50:51 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- We know you're a busy man, Gingrich. We're pretty busy, too.

- So, why bother with something as trifling as this Hinkle case? It may drag through the courts for months.

- What I mean is, we wouldn't be adverse to discussing a settlement.

- I'd like to have a matching tie and handkerchief. Nothing flashy. Maybe something like this.

- Sorry. You were saying?

- In return for a release from all future claims, we're willing to compensate your client with a lump sum. Say $2,000. Fair enough?

- It may be fair, but it's not enough. I had a slightly different figure in mind. Say, $500,000?

- $500,000? You're being grotesque.

- Let me tell you something, as one member of the Bar to another, if indeed you are a member of the Bar...

- Look, I don't want to be unreasonable. You say $2,000. I say $500,000. Tell you what. Let's split it down the middle.

- All right. If he wants a knockdown fight, we'll give it to him. And no compromise!

[...]

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Actors: Jack Lemmon (Harry Hinkle), Walter Matthau (Whiplash Willie Gingrich), Ron Rich (Boom Boom Jackson), Judi West (Sandy Hinkle)

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