Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Reform of Joby Jonson (1992)

Leo McKern: Horace Rumpole

Quotes 

• Tom Mottram MP : Tom Mottram, Under-Secretary Home Affairs, with special responsibility for prisons. I'm the fellow who tries to keep them in.

  Horace Rumpole : Horace Rumpole, Counsel for the Defence. I'm the fellow who tries to keep them out.

• Horace Rumpole : I may be a brilliant brief, Joby, but I'm unable to walk on water or turn base metals into gold.

• Horace Rumpole : [coming through the door, causing a burglar alarm to sound loudly]  Hilda, Hilda, what's wrong? Is it an air raid?

  Hilda Rumpole : [pushing buttons on the controls of the alarm]  Don't be so silly, Rumpole! It's perfectly simple.

  [pressing the digits] 

  Hilda Rumpole : 3 - 4 - 8 - 9 - 6. You just press on this yellow button and you'll see it quiet immediately.

  Horace Rumpole : [the alarm is silent]  What else have you installed? Death rays? Man traps? Are you going to sit in the kitchen all night with a double barreled shotgun? Come on, old darling, you've got to give the criminal classes a chance to earn their living.

• Horace Rumpole : 'Gravitas?' Sounds like a breakfast food!