QB VII

Abe Cady:
This is one Jew you're not gonna castrate, Kelno.

Samantha Cady:
I don't know what the word for 'male slut' is - but that's what you are.

Narrator:
[Opening Credits] This is the story of the lives of two men who fought each other in one of the most fascinating trials in modern history. The trial took place in QB VII: Queen's Bench Courtroom Number Seven of the Royal Courts of Justice in London. There, Sir Adam Kelno, a refugee European doctor and concentration camp survivor brought suit for libel against Abraham Cady, World War II ace and world-famous American novelist. For nearly 30 years, they lived their lives unaware of each other until they came into explosive contact in our time in these medieval court buildings. In the lives of these two men, in their conflict in this tragedy, is the heart of a story of a generation that in the unforgettable phrase of those times, "at a rendezvous with destiny."

Adam Kelno:
[as the sheik's men are firing] I didn't know you hunted.

Sheik Hassan:
Oh, yes, but not only for food but also for the quality of understanding between men and death.

Adam Kelno:
Then it's sophisticatted...

Sheik Hassan:
[L aughs]... for a primitive people.

Adam Kelno:
Oh, no, I didn't mean that way.

Sheik Hassan:
Yes, but you think that.

Sheik Hassan:
You know, you puzzle me. Uh, what do you really want from us?

Adam Kelno:
What, there's enough suffering in the world which cannot be avoided, and the doctor wants to treat that which can be.

Sheik Hassan:
Hmmm...

Adam Kelno:
My wife... she's a nurse. Please would you let me bring her here to stand by me as I treat your women.

Sheik Hassan:
Uh, I do not see how this can profit you.

Adam Kelno:
It is my profession.

Sheik Hassan:
My profession is to be a trader, and I-I do not give things away. Now, if you will excuse me, Doctor, I sense that somewhere you must have fallen from God's grace to want to give of yourself thiis-this desperately to strangers.

Lady Margaret:
[after viewing a graphic film about the horrors of the Holocaust] My God, it makes you ashamed to be a member of the human race.

Zaminski:
Comrade Sobotnik, you're a survivor.

Sobotnik:
Comrade Zaminski, I am a Jew.

Dr. Parmentier:
[to Cady] I'm sorry. A psychiatrist has no right to cry in front of a patient.

Abe Cady:
[In a confrontation outside the courthouse] This is one Jew you're not going to castrate, Kelno.

Adam Kelno:
You have no dignity, Mr. Cady.

Mr. Graham:
[Referring to his bad knee condition which he has not followed up on as directed] Thought it might go away.

Adam Kelno:
[With sarcasm] Oh, yes... very sensible. You know, things go away or eventually they kill you. You thought you'd wait and see, eh? Yeah.

Ben Cady:
[Referring to the reviews his book received in Israel] Do yu think the foreign reviews will be as good?

Abe Cady:
Acch, the Jewish critics like a book by a Jew about Jews are not going to wonder what the London Times says. They were probably hard on "Genesis" here when it first hit the bookstores.

Stephen Kelno:
[Pleading with his father not to sue] I understand that you want revenge, but I know that revenge can sometimes be just as damaging to the victor as it is to the loser.

Justice Gilroy:
[Ruling on admitting new evidence during closing aruments] Sir Robert, if there is no precedent, I shall set one.