True Grit (2010)

Joe Stevens: Cross-examining Lawyer

Photos 

Quotes 

• Cross-examining Lawyer : Mister Cogburn, in your four years as US Marshal, how many men have you shot?

  Rooster Cogburn : Shot? Or killed?

  Cross-examining Lawyer : Let us restrict it to killed so we may have a manageable figure!

• First Lawyer : Mr. Cogburn, did you find a bottle with a hundred and twenty-five dollars in it?

  Cross-examining Lawyer : Objection your Honor, Leading

  Judge Parker : Sustained. Rephrase the question.

  First Lawyer : What happened then?

  Rooster Cogburn : [slightly annoyed]  I found a bottle with a hundred and twenty-five dollars in it.

• Cross-examining Lawyer : You sprang from cover with revolver in hand?

  Rooster Cogburn : I did.

  Cross-examining Lawyer : Loaded and cocked?

  Rooster Cogburn : Well, if it ain't loaded and cocked, it don't shoot!

• Cross-examining Lawyer : So, you say that when Amos Wharton raised his axe, you backed away from him.

  Rooster Cogburn : That's right.

  Cross-examining Lawyer : In what direction were you going?

  Rooster Cogburn : I always go backwards when I'm backing up.

• Rooster Cogburn : Well, Me and Marshal Potter went out to the smokehouse. And that rock had been moved, the jar with the money in it was gone.

  Cross-examining Lawyer : Objection, speculative.

  Judge Parker : Sustained.

  First Lawyer : You found a flat grey rock, in the corner of the smoke house. With a hollowed out space there.

  Cross-examining Lawyer : If the prosecutor is going to give evidence, I suggest he be sworn.

  First Lawyer : What did you find, if anything, in the corner of that smokehouse?

  Rooster Cogburn : We found a flat grey rock with a hollowed out space under it. Nothing there.