Trial (1955)

Glenn Ford: David

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• David Blake : I learned a long time ago that when someone says 'decide right now' that that's the time to take your time.

• David Blake : [Blake and Castle are discussing the fund-raising for Angel Chavez's defense fund]  Look, it's not only the way you are raising the money, it's the people that are raising it.The All Peoples Party. Barney, half of them are a bunch of Communists, you know that!

  Bernard 'Barney' Castle : I'd say sixty percent, and some of the others are cheating the Party out if its dues.

• David Blake : You agree with Barney, don't you? I'll win because I have such an honest, confused face the jury's gonna feel sorry for me.

  Abbe Nyle : No.

  David Blake : Yes.

  Abbe Nyle : Because you believe in Angel, and in this...

  [looks down at his cigarette lighter, which has an inscription in Latin] 

  Abbe Nyle : "UBI INJURIA, IBI REMEDIUM" - Where there's a wrong, there's a remedy. You really do believe in that, don't you?

  David Blake : Sure I believe in it. I couldn't teach...

  [corrects himself] 

  David Blake : I couldn't practice law if I didn't.

  Abbe Nyle : Lawyers hang it on their office walls as if it were a sampler. Gets chipped in marble over the courthouse door. Let me shake the hand of the first man I've ever met who carries it around in his pocket. You will win, David. You can't lose.