BBC Play of the Month (TV Series)

The Millionairess (1972)

Peter Barkworth: Julius Sagamore

Quotes 

• Julius Sagamore : [to Adrian Blenderbland]  Mr. Blenderbland, it's a mistake for anyone to go in to court in the character of a man who's been called "a skunk". It's also very difficult for a plaintiff to get sympathy in the character of man who's been thrashed by a woman. Now if Mrs. Fitz-Fassenden had stabbed you or shot you or poisoned you, that would have been quite in order; your dignity would not have been compromised.

• Epifania : [Julius Sagamore has just given her a prescription for poison so that she can commit suicide]  You seem tro take my death rather cooly, Mr. Sagamore.

  Julius Sagamore : I'm used to it.

  Epifania : You mean to say you have so many clients driven to despair that you keep a precription for them?

  Julius Sagamore : I do. It's infallible.

  Epifania : And you're sure they've all died painlessly and instantaneously?

  Julius Sagamore : No, they're all alive.

  Epifania : Alive! The prescription's a harmless fraud!

  Julius Sagamore : No, it's a deadly poison but they don't take it.

  Epifania : Why?

  Julius Sagamore : I don't know, but they never do.

• Julius Sagamore : Please, please keep your temper.

  Adrian Blenderbland : Keep your own temper! Has she lamed YOU for life? Has she raised a bump on YOUR head? Has she called YOU a skunk?

  Julius Sagamore : No, but she may at any moment.