Listen, I can pick an alky with one eye shut. You're an alky... You'll come back. They all do. Him, for instance, shows up every month, just like the gas bill.

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9 seconds sound clip from the The Lost Weekend (1945) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:15:24.735 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Is this a jail?

- Well, this department...side of a halfway hospital, halfway jail.

- Listen, Bim, in my clothes there's five dollars. That's all for you if only you won't send that post card.

- Nothing doing.

- I don't want anybody to know.

- Your folks might as well get used to our little post cards.

- What are you talking about?

- There'll be more of 'em. You'll be back.

- Listen, I can pick an alky with one eye shut. You're an alky... You'll come back. They all do. Him, for instance, shows up every month, just like the gas bill.

- And the one there with the glasses, another repeater. This is his forty-fifth trip.

- Big executive in the advertising business. Lovely fellow. Been coming here ever since nineteen twenty-seven.

- Good old prohibition days. Say you should have seen the joint then. This is nothing. Back then we really had a turnover. Standing room only.

- Prohibition! That's what started most of these guys off. Whoopee!

- Now be a good boy and drink this.

- I don't want it.

- Better take it.

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Two bottles of rye. -What brand? -You know what brand, Mr. Brophy. The cheapest. None of that twelve year old, aged-in-the-wood chichi. Not for me. Liquor is all one, anyway.

Or it maybe Sunday. That's the worst. No liquor stores at all. And you guys wouldn't open a bar, not until one o'clock. Why? Why, Nat? -Because we gotta go to church once in a while. That's why. -Yeah, when a guy needs it most.

See that guy over there? With him it's beetles. Come the night, he sees beetles crawling all over him. Has to be dark, though.

Come on. I need that liquor, I want it, I'm going to get it, understand. I'm going to walk out of here with that quart of rye, one way or another.

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Actors: Ray Milland (Don Birnam), Jane Wyman (Helen St. James), Doris Dowling (Gloria), Howard da Silva (Nat)

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