“Did you give the lieutenant the Well-Known Lecture?” – Parnell Emmett McCarthy, Anatomy of a Murder ... Movie Quotes Database

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Parnell Emmett McCarthy

Did you give the lieutenant the Well-Known Lecture?

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If you mean, did I coach him into a phony story, no.

Parnell Emmett McCarthy

Maybe you're too pure, Paul. Too pure for the natural impurities of the law.

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