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Serious Charge (1959)

Anthony Quayle: Rev. Howard Phillips

Serious Charge

Anthony Quayle credited as playing...

Rev. Howard Phillips

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  • Police Sergeant Harrison: Commandos, they say, was it?
  • Rev. Howard Phillips: Well, paratroopers, actually. I was only a padre, remember.
  • Police Sergeant Harrison: Well, they make 'em jump just like all the others, don't they? Don't fancy it myself.
  • Mrs. Phillips: Tell me, did you win?
  • Rev. Howard Phillips: What does it matter who won?
  • Mrs. Phillips: Did you?
  • Rev. Howard Phillips: Oh, I knocked him cold but I wouldn't call that winning.
  • Mrs. Phillips: What else would you call it?
  • Rev. Howard Phillips: Don't laugh at me, mother. Don't laugh. But what I'd call winning, is something of a devil sight harder. Something they tell you in all the Sunday school books. Just turning the other cheek. That's what a clergyman preaches, that's what a clergyman is supposed to do. Only... I'm not very good at turning the other cheek. Which means that I'm not a very good clergyman.
  • Mrs. Phillips: Has it ever occurred to you that Hester might imagine she'd make an ideal vicar's wife?
  • Rev. Howard Phillips: Yes, I'm sure she would, as long as it wasn't mine.
  • Mrs. Phillips: Howard, if it ever comes to telling her that, be careful. Oh, be so careful how you do it. Hester, the woman scorned. Hell hath no fury... though Hell sounds more like your territory. Forgive me trespassing.
  • Rev. Howard Phillips: Oh, go on with you.

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