Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

John Williams: Brogan-Moore

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Quotes 

• Brogan-Moore : Touching isn't it? The way he counts on his wife.

  Sir Wilfrid : Yes, like a drowning man clutching at a razor blade.

• Christine Vole : He is not my husband. Leonard and I went through a form of marriage in Hamburg, but, I had a husband living at the time somewhere in East Germany in the Russian zone.

  Sir Wilfrid : Did you tell Leonard?

  Christine Vole : I did not! It would have been stupid to tell him. He would not have married me and I would have been left behind to starve in the rubble.

  Brogan-Moore : But, he did marry you and brought you safely to this country. Don't you think you should be very grateful to him?

  Christine Vole : One can get very tired of gratitude.

• Christine Vole : You think Mrs. French looked upon Leonard as a son? Or a nephew?

  Brogan-Moore : I do. An entirely natural and understandable relationship.

  Christine Vole : What hypocrites you are in this country.

• [the jury is back] 

  Brogan-Moore : You're not worried about the verdict?

  Sir Wilfrid : It's not their judgment that worries me, it's mine.

• Brogan-Moore : Chipper, isn't he? An hour ago, he had one foot on the gallows and the other on a banana peel. You ought to be very proud, Wilfrid. Aren't you?

  Sir Wilfrid : Not yet. We've disposed of the gallows, but there's still that banana peel somewhere, under somebody's foot.

• Brogan-Moore : Congratulations, here are your cigars.

  Sir Wilfrid : Not yet.

  Brogan-Moore : Come on, it's all over, wrapped up neat and tidy. What's wrong?

  Sir Wilfrid : It's a little too neat, too tidy, and altogether too symmetrical, that's what's wrong with it.