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- You know what you got, big shot?
- Sure. I got ventilated with a lead slug.

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

You can hear this line at 00:21:44 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- Yeah, you'll talk, all right.

- You think so?

- I know so.

- Where's Lefty Gauss?

[...]

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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