Web of Evidence (1959)

Emlyn Williams: Enoch Oswald

Quotes 

• Enoch Oswald : Paul, are you familiar with the words used in British law for a sentence of death?

  Paul Mathry : No, sir.

  Enoch Oswald : Well, like all good prose, they have a great simplicity and in this case fearful simplicity. As I remember, it's 'it is the verdict' - no, no it's better than that - 'it is the judgement of this court that you be taken from this place to another place and then to a place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul.' Well your father escaped all that...