The Criminal Code (1930)

Walter Huston: Mark Brady

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• Mark Brady : [to Graham]  Tough luck, Bob, but that's the way they break sometimes. You got to take them the way they fall.

• Mary Brady : What good is it to save a man if you destroy him while you're doing it?

  Mark Brady : Yeah, I thought of that myself.

  Mary Brady : Prison is full of men like that with broken minds and souls. What good is it to save a man for that when he'd be better off dead?

  Mark Brady : Yes, I've thought of that too.

• Mark Brady : [as a pretty witness puts up her skirt to show her leg]  Never mind that. Pull down the shade.

• Mark Brady : The criminal code is my bible.

• 'Mac' McManus : [Noticing that the trustee barber shaving Brady is a former cutthroat]  Say, you know who that barber is.

  Mark Brady : Yeah, sure I do.

  'Mac' McManus : You better lay off and grow a beard!

• State's Attorney : Now, there was a killing out here over a week ago. So far there's been no inquest. Th-the coroner's done his duty. He's been out here three times. We've sworn in a jury, packed them out here in a bus, and had to pack them back again. Each time you've asked for a postponement. You wouldn't let us see this fellow Graham, and you refused to testify yourself. All we know about the case is what comes out in the newspapers.

  Mark Brady : Yeah, and that's not much.

  State's Attorney : Not much? A man's dead and somebody's got to pay!

  Mark Brady : An eye for an eye!

  State's Attorney : That's the basis and foundation of our criminal code, Mr. Brady. That's the law.

• Mark Brady : [Referring to the State's Attorney after he's left the room]  Fathead!

  [He takes a cigar and after a pause] 

  Mark Brady : Fathead!

• Mark Brady : Seven witnesses, and they all check on material points.

  Lew : Open and shut, eh?

  Mark Brady : Like a knife!

• Mark Brady : An eye for an eye. That's the basis and foundation of the criminal code. Somebody's got to pay!