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So you lost. Next time youll win. Ill show you how. Take a look at Joe — The Big Combo

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"So you lost. Next time youll win. Ill show you how. Take a look at Joe McClure here. He used to be my boss, now Im his. Whats the difference between me and him? We breathe the same air, sleep in the same hotel. He used to own it! [yelling into McClures sound magnifier in his ear] Now it belongs to me. We eat the same steaks, drink the same bourbon. Look, same manicure. [lifting and pointing at McClures hand] Same cufflinks. But theres only one difference. We dont get the same girls. Why? Because women know the difference. They got instinct. First is first, and second is nobody."
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The Big Combo is a 1955 American film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis, written by Philip Yordan and photographed by cinematographer John Alton, with music by David Raksin. The film stars Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte and Brian Donlevy, as well as Jean Wallace, who was Wilde's wife at the time. The supporting cast features Lee Van Cleef, Earl Holliman and the final screen appearance of actress Helen

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"I know his name. The name of a man who will pick up a phone and call Chicago and New Orleans and say "Hey Bill, Joe is coming down for the weekend. Advance him fifty thousand," and he hangs up the phone and the moneys advanced, protection money. A new all night bar opens, with gambling outside city limits. A bunch of high school kids come in for a good time. They get loaded, they get irresponsible, they lose their shirts. Then they get a gun, cause theyre worried, they want to make up their losses. And a filling station attendant is dead with a bullet in his liver. I have to see four kids on trial for first degree murder. Look at it. First degree murder, because a certain Mr. Brown picked up a phone."
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