Duck Soup (1933)
Charles Middleton: Prosecutor
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Quotes
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Prosecutor : Something must be done! War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes.
Chicolini : Hey, I got an uncle lives in Taxes.
Prosecutor : No, I'm talking about taxes - money, dollars!
Chicolini : Dollars! There's-a where my uncle lives! Dollars, Taxes!
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Chicolini : Now I aska you one. What has a trunk, but no key, weighs 2,000 pounds and lives in a circus?
Prosecutor : That's irrelevant.
Chicolini : Irrelephant? Hey, that'sa that answer. There's a whole lot of irrelephants in the circus.
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Prosecutor : Chicolini, when were you born?
Chicolini : I don't-a remember. I was just a little baby.
Prosecutor : Isn't it true you tried to sell Freedonia's secret war code and plans?
Chicolini : Sure, I sold a code and two pair of plans.
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Prosecutor : Chicolini, you're charged with high treason, and if found guilty, you'll be shot.
Chicolini : I object.
Prosecutor : You object? On what grounds?
Chicolini : I couldn't think of anything else to say.
Rufus T. Firefly : Objection sustained.
Prosecutor : Your Excellency, you sustain the objection?
Rufus T. Firefly : Sure, I couldn't think of anything else to say either. Why don't you object?