What is the earliest use of "You just/still don't get it do you?"

There is a funny montage of movie and TV clips on YouTube in which variations of the phrase "you don't get it, do you" are used. Sometime after I watched that video I saw a 1959 episode of Bat Masterson entitled "Wanted: Dead." In it actor John Dehner said to Gene Barry, "You just don't get it, do you Masterson? They all killed that boy." I laughed out loud and then wondered just how long this phrase has been in use.

What is the earliest use of the phrase "You [still/just] don't get it, do you?" in movies and television?

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Best Answer

Using the script search site Subzin, I found no instances of the phrase in use prior to 1959. A naive search produced several candidates; I've listed them below. All of these turned out to be either foreign films with English subtitles added later, or English language films incorrectly titled or incorrectly dated or both.

Noored Kotkad: 1927 Estonian film.
The Devil's Parade: 1930 musical, purported script actually was The Devil Wears Prada.
Love Is On The Air: 1937 film, purported script referred to "the internet."
When The Lights Go On Again: 1944 film, purported script contains post-1959 references.
Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam: 1957 German film.

So barring new developments, the answer is still 1959, Bat Masterson.

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