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- Specifically, what is your angle?
- Specifically?
- Half.
- Half of what?
- You tell me.

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

You can hear this line at 01:22:09.432 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I'll never forget the way she looked that night standing in the doorway, leaning on her cane.

- I don't want to talk about her.

- Okay. Okay.

- You look different than you did this morning. Clean and fresh.

- Yeah. Well, it's the perfume I use that makes me smell so nice. I bet I smell as nice as you and Walter put together.

- What do you want?

- I think I've got what I want. I think I've got a gimmick.

- A gimmick is an angle that works for you to keep you from working too hard for yourself. Simple.

- Specifically, what is your angle?

- Specifically?

- Half.

- Half of what?

- You tell me.

- All right, Sam. Come here.

- My father used to work here as a mill hand.

- So did my father, when he was sober.

- Now I own it.

- Now you're even.

- Now I'm even.

- I was 21 when I took it over. It had 3000 workers then. It's got 30000 now. Ran as far as that gate. Now it goes down to the edge of the river.

- And I did it all by myself. Without Walter, without his father. All by myself.

[...]

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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