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Don't you think I'm entitled to an explanation?

3 seconds sound clip from the The Strange Love of Martha Ivers movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:31:50.350 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- If there's to be a discussion, I'll need another drink. Otherwise, I shall neither hear, nor be coherent when, and if, I reply to whatever it is you're about to say.

- Did you forget that you were supposed to speak tonight?

- I didn't forget, I...

- It's nice. Your room, I mean. It's been a long time since I've been here.

- Where were you?

- Getting drunk.

- Where?

- I'm still the people's choice, honey. I did not make a public display of myself anywhere.

- You realize, of course, that you will one day, inevitably.

- Inevitably.

- It's your career, not mine.

- What's mine is yours.

- Don't you think I'm entitled to an explanation?

- What do you want me to say?

- I don't want to put words in your mouth.

- I'd prefer that you would.

- All right.

- When did you get drunk? Where did you get drunk? Why did you get drunk?

- Don't stand over me like that. I'm a sentimental man, Martha.

- I started to get dressed and then I realized it was the forth anniversary of my father's death.

- I thought it would be nice if I went to the cemetery and laid a wreath of flowers on his grave. However, I never got there. Sentiment overwhelmed me. I stopped off to have a drink to his sainted memory.

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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) Sound Clip

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Actors: Barbara Stanwyck (Martha Ivers), Van Heflin (Sam Masterson), Lizabeth Scott (Antonia "Toni" Marachek), Kirk Douglas (Walter O'Neil)

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