Design for Scandal (1941)
Guy Kibbee: Judge Graham
Quotes
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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!
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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!
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Judge Graham : I'll decide who's intimidating who here.