Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Last Resort (1983)

Michael Melia: Frank Armstrong

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Quotes 

• Horace Rumpole : That's why I asked you to give Miss Allways a little brief. She has a remarkable head for figures.

  Frank Armstrong : [lewdly]  And quite a figure for heads, I would imagine.

  [laughs] 

• Frank Armstrong : Looking round your office today, Mr Rumpole, I doubt whether it's fully automated. You have great delays in sending out your bills, am I right?

  Horace Rumpole : [chuckles]  I sometimes think my bills are sent out by carrier pigeon - with a broken wing and no sense of direction.

• [Judge Bullingham is examining photographs of Frank Armstrong's holiday park, and pointing out features to the jury] 

  Ward-Webster : I'd like to ask you now about your Cornish site for Free As Air Holidays Ltd. Your Lordship and the jury have the photographs in Exhibit 3.

  Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham : Hardly looks like the Garden of Eden, does it, members of the jury.

  [jury laughs] 

  Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham : It appears to be next door to an industrial tip.

  [jury laughs] 

  Frank Armstrong : Looking in the other direction, there *is* an uninterrupted view of the sea.

  Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham : Oh, yes. Between the crane and the second lorry.

  [jury laughs] 

  Frank Armstrong : A great deal of our patrons' time is spent on the beach, my Lord.

  Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham : Perhaps they want a quiet night.

  [jury laughs]