- Look at it this way, Helen. This business is just a formality. Don Birnam is dead already. He died over this weekend.
- Did he?

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

You can hear this line at 01:36:26.748 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Give it to me.

- All right. Now go! No fuss, please. No calling the neighbors. It won't do any good, I promise you.

- I won't. You've made up your mind. But could you tell me why? Why?

- Because it's best all around, for everybody. For you, for Wick, for me.

- But that's not true. We love you, Wick and I.

- All right. Then for me.

- Selfish again.

- That's a sad final word, Don.

- Look at it this way, Helen. This business is just a formality. Don Birnam is dead already. He died over this weekend.

- Did he?

- What did he die of?

- Of a lot of things. Of alcohol, of moral anemia, of fear, of shame, D.T.'s.

- Oh, that Don Birnam. And now you want to kill the other one.

- What other?

- There were two Dons. You told me so yourself. Don the drunk and Don the writer.

- Let's not go back to a fancy figure of speech. There's only one Don, he's through.

- Don...

- I'm all right, I still have enough strength left...

- I know you have. I can see it. Don't waste it on pulling a trigger, Don.

- No, let me get it over with or do you want me to give you another one of my promises that I never keep?

[...]

The Lost Weekend (1945) Sound Clip

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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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