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She's in a nice cozy cell. When she comes to trial, your statement will probably send her up for five or ten years to another nice cozy cell.

11 seconds sound clip from the Love's Lovely Counterfeit classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:21:30 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, hello, big shot. You've been in the land of nod, haven't ya?

- Where am I?

- City Hospital.

- Yeah? What are you doin' here?

- Readin' the funny papers, can't you tell?

- Why can't you read 'em at home?

- Because there's been a little thing that we policemen call murder, big shot. And you're what we call a material witness.

- Where's June? June Lyons?

- She's in a nice cozy cell. When she comes to trial, your statement will probably send her up for five or ten years to another nice cozy cell.

- What statement?

- Aw, you'll talk.

- Yeah?

- You know what you got, big shot?

- Sure. I got ventilated with a lead slug.

- Yeah, but that's not all. You've got peritonitis.

- Oh. I have? So what?

- So I've seen guys with peritonitis before. You know what happens? First they start gettin' a fever. Then they get kinda lightheaded. Then they get thirsty, terribly thirsty.

- And after a while you get so you can make 'em talk without they hardly know that they're talking.

[...]

Love's Lovely Counterfeit Sound Clip

Love's Lovely CounterfeitQuotes with audio samples from the old-time radio play "Love's Lovely Counterfeit" by James M. Cain, first aired on Friday August 03, 1945 on CBS.

Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Ben), Lurene Tuttle (June)

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