Well, I thought they'd let you keep on running your end.
8 seconds sound clip from the Bullets or Ballots (1939) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:33:45 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- Thanks, but I may not be staying long.
- Are you taking over the numbers game, Johnny? Well, are you?
- Yes.
- Why?
- Well, I thought they'd let you keep on running your end.
- I guess that wasn't poetry about friends finding an easy place to break the back.
- So long, Johnny. Good luck to you.
- Twenty, thirty... forty thousand and one makes forty one thousand. That's your cut, Johnny.
- Oh, thanks. Hey, that's not so bad!
- Yeah, you earned it. That was a great idea, taking over the numbers.
[...]
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Actors: Edward G. Robinson (Detective Johnny Blake), Mary Astor (Lee Morgan), Humphrey Bogart (Bugs Brenner), Otto Kruger (Al Kruger)
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