Rumpole defends an eccentric artist in a forgery case before the newly appointed Judge Featherstone.Rumpole defends an eccentric artist in a forgery case before the newly appointed Judge Featherstone.Rumpole defends an eccentric artist in a forgery case before the newly appointed Judge Featherstone.
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- TriviaWhen the regular actors in this series turned up for the first read-through of this episode, they were astonished when guest star Emlyn Williams handed each of them a new version of the script written by himself, keeping to the broad outlines of the story, but rewriting the dialogue and giving himself rather more lines. No-one had asked him to do this, and he was carefully informed in no uncertain terms that John Mortimer's original script would be used with no alteration. He complied.
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[Harold Brittling, an artist, is looking at a painting on the Rumpoles' living room wall]
Harold Brittling: What's this objet d'art?
Hilda Rumpole: [proudly] Oh that's a watercolour of Lamorna Cove, done by my old school friend Dodo MacIntosh. She lives in the West Country and she has sent in to the Royal Academy on more than one occasion. Do you like it, Mr...
Harold Brittling: Harold. The point is, Hilda, do *you* like it?
Hilda Rumpole: Oh I think it's rather fine. Beautiful, in fact. The way that Dodo has caught the shadow on those rocks.
Harold Brittling: If you think it's fine and beautiful, Hilda, then that's what it is to you.
Harold Brittling: [turning to Horace] To her it's worth a fortune. The fact that, to me, it looks rather like a blob of budgerigar's vomit is neither here nor there. You pay for what *you* think is beautiful.
Guthrie Featherstone has given up on politics. He joined the SDP!
He has also become a judge. His first case is Rumpole defending an eccentric artist accused of forging what was thought to be a long lost nude painting by a famous British artist.
It was sold at an auction but the buyer was later informed that the painting might not be genuine.
Rumpole has his hands full in this case. Actually he is told to keep his hands out of his pocket by Featherstone.
The accused does not make the best defence witness and seems to be going out of his way to antagonise the jury.
Wily Rumpole gets directed to an elderly lady who might have posed for the painting and the pieces soon fall together.
Brenda Blethyn plays the younger girlfriend of the accused artist. There are some nice moments such as Featherstone getting embarrassed by not knowing as much about art as he makes out.
- Prismark10
- Oct 1, 2019