The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)

Patrick Wymark: The Judge

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Quotes 

• The Judge : I give you His Catholic Majesty King James III, may God bless him and keep him in exile

• The Doctor : My lord, when I heard of Ralph Gower's discovery, I was reminded of this old volume. Mock, sir, if you will. These sages had access to much wisdom.

  The Judge : Doctor, witchcraft is dead and discredited. Are you bent on reviving forgotten horrors?

• The Judge : You must have patience, even while people die. Only thus can the whole evil be destroyed. You must let it grow.

• The Judge : I am ready to return, but understand, I shall use undreamed-of measures, to conquer the evil.

• The Judge : Leave me to judge who is innocent.

• The Doctor : How do we know, sir, what is dead? You come from the city. You cannot know the ways of the country. See... this picture. Did Ralph not describe such a countenance?

  The Judge : Perhaps some such thing.

• The Judge : Ralph here claims he discovered a deformed anatomy in those furrows. Knew you any such?

  Reverend Fallowfield : Not since Meg Parsons died. But strange folk have been seen to pass this way from time to time.

• The Judge : Judge yourself fortunate... she would never have made a good wife for you

• Ralph Gower : There be the master with a lady.

  The Judge : Uh-huh.

  Ralph Gower : I would have Cathy for my lady one day.

  Cathy Vespers : [Cathy, to Peter]  Be that true? You've run away? Did you climb down a ladder in the moonlight?

  Peter Edmonton : Ha, ha! Just so, Cathy. And her father chased after us with a stick.

  Cathy Vespers : I do wish Ralph would run away with me sometime.

• The Judge : Doctor, I am leaving soon. As a favor, might I request the loan of this book? It might merit further study.