Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)
Rumpole's Last Case (1987)
Leo McKern: Horace Rumpole
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Quotes
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Horace Rumpole : [Looking at a wine label and addressing Hearthstoke with disdain] Oh, dear! "Méthode Champenoise!" You disappoint me, Hearthrug!
Phyllida 'Portia' Erskine-Brown : Actually, Charles, it's quite delicious.
Horace Rumpole : What? Grape juice and gas?
[With sarcasm]
Horace Rumpole : Wait for the headache!
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[talking about Den and Cyril Timson's attempt to break into a bank]
Horace Rumpole : Their crime was ridiculously ambitious. They're not bank robbers. They should have stuck to thieving frozen fish from the cash-and-carry. It's like the two ends of a pantomime horse getting together to play Hamlet.
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[while Rumpole is cross-examining a witness, Judge Bullingham keeps interrupting, anticipating and elaborating on the points that the witness is making]
Horace Rumpole : [sarcastically] We are so much obliged to the learned judge for his most helpful interjections, aren't we, Inspector? Otherwise you might have to think of the answers for yourself.