The Winslow Boy (1948)

Margaret Leighton: Catherine Winslow

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• Catherine Winslow : You still haven't answered my question, Sir Robert.

  Sir Robert Morton : Very well then, if you must have it. I wept today because right had been done.

  Catherine Winslow : Not justice?

  Sir Robert Morton : No, not justice - right. It's easy to do justice. Very hard to do right. But right has been done.

• Sir Robert Morton : I wept today because right had been done.

  Catherine Winslow : Not justice?

  Sir Robert Morton : No, not justice, right. It's easy to do justice, very hard to do right.

• Catherine Winslow : I was in court yesterday during your cross-examination of Lynn Rogers.

  Sir Robert Morton : Oh, yes?

  Catherine Winslow : It was masterly.

  Sir Robert Morton : Thank you.

  Catherine Winslow : The verdict must have pleased you enormously.

  Sir Robert Morton : Three years hard labor.

  Catherine Winslow : Yes. Many believe him to be innocent, you know.

  Sir Robert Morton : So I believe. As it happens, however, he was guilty.

• Dickie Winslow : Trouble between you and John?

  Catherine Winslow : Oh, not really.

  Dickie Winslow : I say, You're not going to be left on the altar rail or something, are you?

  Catherine Winslow : I'll get him across the altar rail if I have to drag him there.

  Dickie Winslow : Well, do you think you might have to?

  Catherine Winslow : Quite frankly, yes.

  Dickie Winslow : Oh, it's the case, I suppose?

  Catherine Winslow : In a way.

• Sir Robert Morton : That's a most charming hat, Miss Winslow.

  Catherine Winslow : I'm glad you like it.

  Sir Robert Morton : It seems decidedly wrong to me that a lady of your political persuasion should be allowed to adorn herself with such a truly feminine allurement. It's awful like trying to have the best of both worlds.

  Catherine Winslow : Yes, but then I'm not a militant. I don't go about throwing bricks in shop windows and making speeches from soap boxes.

  Sir Robert Morton : I'm very glad to hear it. Both of those activities would be highly unsuitable in that hat.

  Catherine Winslow : Well, I hope that what my father has just said won't prevent you from making your speech, Sir Robert. After all, the principle is still involved.

  Sir Robert Morton : What principle?

  Catherine Winslow : The principle of right and wrong.

  Sir Robert Morton : Oh. Quite. Quite.

• John Watherstone : I must say, with a European war blowing up, a coal strike on, and a fair chance of civil war in Ireland, it does seem a bit odd that the House of Commons should have to take a whole day to discuss your young brother and his... postal order.

  Catherine Winslow : Well, all I can say, John, is if the day ever comes that the Hose of Commons has so much on its mind that it can't find time to discuss a Ronnie Winslow and his... postal order, well, this country will be in a far poorer place than it is today.

• John Watherstone : Well, I know it's awfully important for you to establish Ronnie's innocence...

  Catherine Winslow : Oh, that's not important to me, John.

  John Watherstone : What?

  Catherine Winslow : That's what's important to my father, it's not to me. All I care about is that people should know that a government department has ignored a fundamental human right, and they should be forced to acknowledge it. That's all that's important to me. But it is... terribly important.

• Arthur Winslow : Brute stubbornness and a selfish refusal to admit defeat - that's what you mother says our natures are.

  Catherine Winslow : Well, perhaps she's right. Perhaps that's all we've been. But brute stubbornness may not be such a bad quality in the face of injustice.

• Catherine Winslow : I still say, we both knew what we were doing, and we were right to do it.

• Arthur Winslow : I'm afraid, Cate, this must be the end.

  Catherine Winslow : No, father, we've got to go on.

  Arthur Winslow : It's not just this letter, Cate. I can't go on sacrificing other people's happiness.

• Arthur Winslow : Sir Robert, whatever the result of the debate may be, I must ask you to drop the case.

  Sir Robert Morton : What has happened?

  Arthur Winslow : I made many sacrifices for it. Some of them I had no right to make, but nevertheless, I made them. There's a limit, and I've reached it.

  Sir Robert Morton : What has happened?

  Arthur Winslow : I'm sorry, Sir Robert. More sorry than you, perhaps, but the Winslow case is closed.

  Sir Robert Morton : Balderdash!

  Catherine Winslow : My father doesn't mean what he's been saying, Sir Robert. I think I should tell you that he had a letter...

  Arthur Winslow : No, Catherine.

  Catherine Winslow : ...from the father of the man that I'm engaged to, saying that if we go on with the case, he will use every influence he has to prevent this son from marrying me.

  Sir Robert Morton : I see. An ultimatum.

  Catherine Winslow : Yes, but a pointless one.

  Sir Robert Morton : He has no influence over his son?

  Catherine Winslow : Well of course, but John's of age and his own master.

• Catherine Winslow : I've been a fool, father.

  Arthur Winslow : Have you, my dear?

  Catherine Winslow : An utter fool.

  Arthur Winslow : In the absence of further information, I can only repeat, 'Have you my dear?"

  Catherine Winslow : Well, there can be no further information. I'm under a pledge of secrecy.

• Catherine Winslow : Desmond's asked me to marry him.

  Arthur Winslow : I trust the folly you were referring to wasn't your acceptance of him.

• Catherine Winslow : Sir Robert, I have a confession and an apology to make to you.

  Sir Robert Morton : Dear lady, I'm sure that one is rash and the other is superfluous. I'd far rather hear neither.

  Catherine Winslow : I'm afraid you must. You see, it's a better penance for me to say it then to write it. I have entirely misjudged your attitude in this case.

• Sir Robert Morton : Still pursuing your feministic activities, miss Winslow?

  Catherine Winslow : Oh yes.

  Sir Robert Morton : Pity. It's a lost cause.

  Catherine Winslow : How little you know women, Sir Robert.

• Catherine Winslow : Goodbye. I doubt if we should meet again.

  Sir Robert Morton : Oh, do you really think so? How little you know men, Miss Winslow.

• Dickie Winslow : My gosh, I could just about murder that silly little brother of mine. What's he want to go about pinching postal orders for? And why the dickens does he have to get himself nabbed doing it?

  Catherine Winslow : Goodnight Dickie.

  Dickie Winslow : Silly little blighter.