Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Brooks West: Dist. Atty. Mitch Lodwick

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• [Judge Weaver has stopped the testimony by Detective Sergeant James Durgo, State Police, and called the lawyers to his bench] 

  Judge Weaver : Mr. Biegler, you finally got your rape into the case, and I think all the details should now be made clear to the jury. What exactly was the undergarment just referred to?

  Paul Biegler : Panties, Your Honor.

  Judge Weaver : Do you expect this subject to come up again?

  Paul Biegler : Yes, Sir.

  Judge Weaver : There's a certain light connotation attached to the word "panties." Can we find another name for them?

  Mitch Lodwick : I never heard my wife call 'em anything else.

  Judge Weaver : Mr. Biegler?

  Paul Biegler : I'm a bachelor, Your Honor.

  Judge Weaver : That's a great help. Mr. Dancer?

  Claude Dancer : When I was overseas during the war, Your Honor, I learned a French word. I'm afraid that might be slightly suggestive.

  Judge Weaver : Most French words are.

• Mitch Lodwick : Objection. No evidence has been introduced to make Mrs. Manion's appearance relevant to this case.

  Paul Biegler : Well, no evidence has been introduced to make Barney Quill's appearance relevant, you didn't object to the question then. Is that because you know Barney Quill bathed, changed and cooled off after he raped and beat hell out of this poor woman!

  Mitch Lodwick : Your Honor, everyone in this courtroom is being tried except Frederick Manion! I must protest...

  Paul Biegler : Now listen! This is a cross examination in a murder case, it's not a high school debate! What are you and Dancer trying to do, railroad this soldier into the clink?

• Deputy Sheriff Sulo : I didn't hear them myself. There were tourists from Ohio in the park and they heard them and told me about it the next day.

  Mitch Lodwick : Your honour! This testimony is incompetent, hearsay, irrelevant, immaterial, inconclusive

  Paul Biegler : Well, that's too much for me. The witness is yours, Mr. Lodwick.