At that moment, when it was too late, Nicky realized that life might have been very different if he had decided to live it differently.
9 seconds sound clip from the The Naked Street (1955) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:08:23.115 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- If you see him, you tell him I don't hold no grudge.
- I guess this is it. We just couldn't wait to grow up.
- But some place something went wrong. Maybe I had it coming to me.
- Just another victim of the slum, the gang and himself.
- The night that Nicky died, I was oppressed by a vague feeling of guilt.
- Deep inside I knew I was in love with Nicky's widow.
- But that wasn't it. It was something I should have done and hadn't thought of doing.
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