Design for Scandal (1941)

Lee Bowman: Walter Caldwell

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• Walter Caldwell : But it doesn't take much judgment to see that he's not the sort to trust.

  Judge Cornelia Porter : Oh, I'm tired of having much judgment. I spend ten months a year passing judgment on people.

  Walter Caldwell : You certainly didn't pick the right time to stop.

• Walter Caldwell : I don't understand you at all lately. You're not yourself.

  Judge Cornelia Porter : Oh, maybe I am and wasn't before.

• Walter Caldwell : Forcible entry without permission is a crime. Between the hours of sunset and sunset it's a felony. You don't want to commit a new crime just to right an old one, do you?

  Judge Cornelia Porter : Yes, I do. I feel like breaking law as rule.

• Jeff Sherman : [Questioning Cornelia Porter who's in the witness box]  Cornelia, will you marry me?

  Walter Caldwell : I object.

  Jeff Sherman : I object to you.

  Walter Caldwell : Well, that's too bad. Your honor, I object to that question.

  Judge Graham : On what grounds?

  Walter Caldwell : It's incompetent, immaterial and irrelevant. And there's been no groundwork laid for the question.

  Jeff Sherman : It's not irrelevant, and there's been a lot of groundwork laid for it.

  Walter Caldwell : Your honor, objected to on the further grounds of calling for a conclusion by the witness and not testimony as to a fact.

  Jeff Sherman : Oh, how do you know? After all, it could be a fact.

  Walter Caldwell : It could not.

  Judge Graham : I'll decide that. Now, sit down. Sit down!

• Walter Caldwell : I object. I object on the grounds that it's...

  Judge Graham : [Interrupting]  Immaterial, incompetent and irrelevant.

  Walter Caldwell : Right.

  Judge Graham : I'm gonna have the record show, counsel, that you object to every question from here on. It can be considered as if you did make the objections.

  [He nods to Jeff] 

  Judge Graham : Go ahead.

  [And looks at Caldwell] 

  Judge Graham : We'll have no more interruptions. Sit down!