"Bless us and save us"

[canadanne]

Probably a long shot

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[full_metal_ox]

It’s a male character in an old movie, but Jack Albertson as John Cleary speaks the line in The Subject Was Roses (1968.)

[canadanne]

I haven't seen that, so it can't be what I'm thinking of, but thanks for the suggestion!

[full_metal_ox]

It’s also possible that you saw an adaptation of Oliver Twist (there’ve been plenty of those in a variety of media) that included the line:

http://www.literaturepage.com/read/olivertwist-107.html

[canadanne]

Alas not, I haven't seen any adaptations of Oliver Twist. And it's got to be something that either featured the line regularly (as in multiple episodes of a TV show) or something I watched over and over again, enough for it to stick in my memory.