David Rintoul credited as playing...
John Cavendish
- [Hastings has accepted an invitation to spend his medical leave at his friend John Cavendish's ancestral home]
- John Cavendish: I'm afraid you'll find it very quiet down here, Hastings.
- Lieutenant Hastings: My dear fellow, after the joys of France, that's just what I want.
- Mrs. Emily Inglethorp: I've told you before.
- John Cavendish: It's none of your business.
- Mrs. Emily Inglethorp: It is my business. Not content with carrying on this sordid affair with this woman, I now find you squandering large sums of money on her.
- John Cavendish: It's not a large sum of money. It's a loan, anyway.
- Mrs. Emily Inglethorp: No! No! My mind is made up and you need not think that any fear of scandal between husband and wife will deter me.
- Lieutenant Hastings: [referring to John Cavendish's mother and her marriage to an outsider twenty years her junior] It must be a difficult situation for you all.
- John Cavendish: Difficult? It's damnable.
- Judge: John Cavendish, you are charged with the murder of your mother, Mrs. Emily Rose Inglethorp on Tuesday nineteenth day of June, 1917. How do you plead?
- John Cavendish: Not guilty.