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You had that compressed vertebra, remember?

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

You can hear this line at 00:18:58 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Dr. Krugman is making his rounds. He'll be here shortly with your X-rays.

- Thank you, Nurse, and bring him some breakfast, too.

- Hear what she said? X-rays? There goes your whole cockamamie case.

- Oh, yeah? What about your little mishap when you were with the paratroopers?

- What paratroopers?

- You and Charlotte on the garage roof in Toledo?

- You had that compressed vertebra, remember?

- That was like 30 years ago.

- That's the beauty of it.

- The doctor who treated you is long gone.

- With a vertebra you can't tell an old injury from a new one. So who'll ever know?

- I will!

- Look, I'm not saying I'm any better than the next guy. Maybe I add a few bucks to my expense account, but an out-and-out fake like this...

- Fake? We got 83,000 eyewitnesses. Another 30 million watched it on television.

[...]

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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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