Rehearsal for Murder (1982 TV Movie)

Patrick Macnee: David Mathews

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Quotes 

• David : [Referring to the format of a mystery]  All those characters are cardboard. I like... I like roles with flesh and blood!

  Alex : I don't know about the flesh, David. But I can guarantee you the blood.

• Walter : Alex, we've known each other for a long time, so I'm entitled to be blunt. Why are we here?

  Alex : You know why, Walter. To read my new play.

  Walter : It's not a play. It's just a bunch of unrelated scenes, all of them uncomfortably close to the truth.

  David : The hell they are!

• Alex : Might as well get to the point. Well, it's really very simple. When we finish here, we'll know something we didn't know before.

  David : And what's that?

  Alex : Which one of you killed Monica Welles.

• David : Wonderful! Broadway's favorite actor gets pneumonia! Oh, well, after those notices, I suppose I could use a cold shower.

  [runs out with jacket over his head] 

  David : Don't be depressed then, Alex! You've got worse things coming! Like marriage!

• Lloyd : He certainly raked you over the coals.

  Walter : Well, that makes two of us.

  David : Three.

  Leo : Great. Marvelous. Wonderful.

  [to Karen] 

  Leo : We're next!

• Walter : Well, now what?

  Alex : Alibis, Walter.

  Walter : I was wondering when you would get around to that.

  Alex : I've established that you all had motives...

  David : Like hell we had.

  Alex : But motives are nullified by a legitimate alibi.