
	Where results make sense

Topic: Horace Rumpole

In the News (Sat 22 Nov 08)

Norm Coleman

Benji Madden

Freddie Mac

Puerto Rico

Vladimir Putin

Treasury Department

Mitt Romney

Giovanni Trapattoni

Steve Ballmer

James Bond

	Rumpole of the Bailey
		Rumpole of the Bailey, a mix of British courtroom comedy and drama, aired on Thames Television in 1978.
		Rumpole revels in lampooning his fellow colleagues whom he believes to be a group of twits.
		Among Rumpole's colleagues he favors the savvy and stylish Phillida Neetrant Erskine-Brown (Patricia Hodge)--one feminist voice of the series who is married to Claude--and the endearing Uncle Tom (Richard Murdoch), an octogenarian waiting to have the good sense to retire--who, in the meantime, practices his putting in chambers.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/rumpoleofth/rumpoleofth.htm (619 words)

	Law Spot - Rumpole's Last Stand
		Horace, of course, had a solid grasp of Shakespeare, but for those few who can't remember the plot of that play, Portia was the character who cross-dressed and made the famous speech: "…the quality of mercy is not strained…".
		Rumpole was also the beneficiary of the generations-old feud between the Timsons and the Molloys (the English version of the Hatfields and McCoys).
		Rumpole was retained by three generations of Timsons, who typified his view of the criminal world - the Timsons were "good" criminals, not taken to violence but inveterate (though honourable) thieves.
	www.law4u.com.au /lil/ls_rumpole.html (1101 words)

	A toast to old Rumpole - theage.com.au
		Horace Rumpole's eagle-eyed creator, author and barrister John Mortimer, shone a delightfully wry light on the world of silks, clerks, briefs, blood stains and "good criminals".
		McKern, as Rumpole, was loved for his dry wit, his belief in the integrity of the justice system ("the golden thread of the common law") and his defence of rogues like the Timson family.
		Rumpole's reference to his socially ambitious and domineering wife Hilda as "She who must be obeyed" has entered the lexicon.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/07/24/1027497355178.html (635 words)

	Rumpole
		Horace Rumpole - Rumpole of the Bailey - remains the unsurpassed fictitious epitome of the English Barrister.
		Nevertheless, opportunities for swaying the jury abound, and Horace Rumpole employs them to the full (by noisily blowing his nose to distract the jury during the opposition's closing statement, speeches about the horrors of prison, the wooing of the jury and such).
		Throughout the TV series, Rumpole was played by the superb actor Leo McKern, to whom one of the novelisations was later dedicated (The Trials of Rumpole).
	www.usfca.edu /pj/rumpole.htm (1031 words)

	TV Rumpole of the Bailey
		Rumpole has been retained by three generations of Timsons, who typify Rumpole’s skewed view of the criminal world - like the "villains" in "The Bill", the Timsons are "good" criminals, not taken to violence but inveterate (though honourable) thieves.
		Rumpole loves to quote poetry, particularly Wordsworth, and sometimes Keats, who once said: "With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration" - the same might be said of this wonderful show and its central creation, who makes other television lawyers look lame by comparison.
		Rumpole is devious in a way that demands at least some concentration from the audience, who soon echo his cry: "Never plead guilty".
	www.law4u.com.au /lil/tv_rumpole.html (2228 words)

	Rumpole of the Bailey [TV Series] - Synopsis - Moviefone
		An unreconstructed liberal and tireless champion of the underdog, Rumpole specialized in hot-potato cases that most other lawyers wouldn't touch, numbering among his clients several two-bit criminals, political radicals, pornographers and other such controversial characters.
		The weekly, hour-long Rumpole of the Bailey was launched over the BBC on December 3, 1975 as a one-shot presentation on the "Play for Today" drama anthology.
		In America, Rumpole of the Bailey was added to the PBS anthology Mystery beginning February 12, 1980.
	movies.aol.com /movie/rumpole-of-the-bailey-tv-series/1132150/synopsis (191 words)

	Rumpole of the Bailey - Set 3, Series 5-7 \| PopMatters Television Review
		Rumpole cannot let this occasion pass without ruffling a few feathers by proposing a lengthy toast to the Timson clan, an industrious family of South London villains who had provided Rumpole with a regular source of income over the years.
		Rumpole's point was that the legal professions live off the proceeds of crime and they should stop being so very precious about it.
		Rumpole's final hurrah was hardly the newest or most revolutionary of ideas, but it was nicely done and therefore wholly representative of both the series and this box set.
	www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/r/rumpole-of-the-bailey-set3-5-7.shtml (1158 words)

	John Mortimer - MSN Encarta
		Rumpole was featured in a popular series of television programs, Rumpole of the Bailey.
		Cigar-smoking, wine-loving defense counsel Horace Rumpole made his first appearance in a 1975 television play Mortimer wrote for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
		Rumpole of the Bailey, played by Australian actor Leo McKern, went on to become a regular series on Britain’s independent television channel (ITV) from 1978 to 1992.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701702237/Mortimer_John.html (437 words)

	Literate and principled, lawyer Rumpole is back - The Washington Times: Fiction Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the new collection, Rumpole defends an honest nurse accused of a downright questionable murder; a cop who believes defense attorneys are all scoundrels; a noisy religious fanatic accused of murdering a beautiful Jamaican immigrant; and a couple of members of the Timson clan accused of the garden-variety crime that constitutes the family business.
		These defendants remain free thanks to Rumpole's skill as an advocate and to the fact that the "victims" in the crimes of which Rumpole's clients stand accused are often pretty dodgy themselves.
		Horace Rumpole's humor, his courage in defending his principles, his heroic obstinacy in the face of his wife's and his colleagues' attempts to "improve" him, and his deep humanity — all skillfully rendered in these new stories — make us pray that John Mortimer lives forever, and gives us a new Rumpole every year.
	www.washtimes.com /books/20040327-095836-8506r.htm (883 words)

	The Best Reviews: John Mortimer, Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders Review
		Rumpole quickly learns that the jurisprudence system is a haven for corrupt barristers trying to squeeze pounds out of helpless and at times innocent criminals.
		This is a terrific Rumpole legal thriller that fans of the series will fully treasure due to the documenting of his first case referenced in many of the short stories.
		It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and began to shape him into the eccentric and cantankerous defender of justice and reciter of poetry readers know and love.
	thebestreviews.com /review24758 (429 words)

	Rumpole of the Bailey
		Of all the characters that have appeared on Mystery Theatre, Horace Rumpole seems to be the most beloved.
		The scene between the father and son is quite tense and forms the core of this drama.
		In the regular mini-series, the two actresses who were to play Hilda Rumpole played her quite differently and the son's attitude was to be more tolerant.
	www.mediascreen.com /r/rumpoleofthebailey.htm (323 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Rumpole of the Bailey: The Complete First and Second Seasons (1978/1979)
		Rumpole discovers his lunch partner and dear friend, George Frobisher, is his challenger in court, and the two conspire to draw out the case for the refreshers.
		Rumpole's client is a vicar caught stealing shirts at the local sale, but when Rumpole discovers who the judge will be for his case, he is praying for a miracle.
		Horace is defending the eldest of a crime family on a possession of stolen property charge.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=6833 (2527 words)

	[No title]
		Rumpole covertly refers to his wife, Hilda, as "She Who Must Be Obeyed," "She," or "S.W.M.B.O." The phrase is from H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel, "She." The title character, Ayesha, Queen of Kor, is known to her subjects as SWMBO.
		Rumpole ended that plot by having the secretary with whom Featherstone was having a affair "take a note" in a case where Featherstone was prosecuting some cannabis dealers -- she walked out and was never seen again, and things returned to normal in Chambers, quashing all talk of Featherstone's replacement.
		Nicholas Rumpole was conceived in a night of passion (unusual for Horace and Hilda) that Rumpole blamed on the oysters.
	www.wmbriggs.com /mortimer/rfaq.txt (5156 words)

	Rumpole of the Bailey Video Ordering Page
		Witness the birth of British barrister Horace Rumpole, who emerges in all his claret-quaffing, cheroot-smoking glory in "Rumpole and the Confession of Guilt," this original BBC television play created three years before the launch of the long-running "Rumpole of the Bailey" series.
		Horace Rumpole, the comic, courageous, and corpulent "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity," re-enters the fray, sending up the British Legal system as deftly as ever.
		Horace Rumpole - cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made...
	www.tvheaven.ca /rumpolestore.htm (676 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders: Books: J. Mortimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It is the early 1950s and Rumpole is young, eager, and ready to begin his career as a barrister He has found himself working for C.J. Wystan, the head of his chambers and the father of an assertive young daughter named Hilda.
		If there was one subject guaranteed to cause Horace Rumpole to drop his customary flippancy and cynicism, it was the death penalty; and as this story is set in the 1950s, when capital punishment was still the mandatory sentence for murder, the horror of the potential outcome feeds Rumpole's every thought.
		Other elements of the Rumpole universe given a little more background include the origin of his long-standing relationship with the thieving Timsons of South London, and the precise circumstances of his marriage to the legendary She Who Must Be Obeyed, Hilda Wystan.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Rumpole-Penge-Bungalow-Murders-Mortimer/dp/0141017767 (1817 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on John Clifford Mortimer - Rumpole Rests His Case at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Horace Rumpole is the star of the series.
		Rumpole derives a civil-libertarian pleasure from defending criminal suspects from the power of the government which is seeking to lock them up.
		But Rumpole defends the innocent and the guilty alike, so long as the client is willing to make a formal protestation of innocence (English ethical rules don’t allow lawyers to defend clients who are stupid enough to blurt out their guilt in the course of a legal conference).
	www.epinions.com /content_82775871108 (1161 words)

	Amazon.fr : Rumpole of the Bailey: Livres en anglais: John Clifford Mortimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Here he's Horace Rumpole, the claret-drinking, cigar-smoking barrister who finds "in British justice a lifelong subject of harmless fun." Horace doesn't become head of chambers, nor does he always win his case, but he's prized and justly prized by the criminal class.
		Rumpole is linked in these stories with the Younger Generation, the Alternative Society, the Honourable Member, the Married Lady, the Learned Friends, and the Heavy Brigade.
		Irreverent barrister Rumpole is one of the most enduring and endearing characters to spring forth from English crime literature.
	www.amazon.fr /Rumpole-Bailey-John-Clifford-Mortimer/dp/0792715314 (375 words)

	Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders : A Novel (Mystery Masters Series) : MyBookSelf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		With trademark wit, Rumpole recalls memoir-style the case that established his reputation, and at the same time clears up mysteries about his early days — most significantly, how his wife Hilda ("She Who Must Be Obeyed") first came to darken his door.
		The young Rumpole is fun, whether he's trying to make time with a young lady friend (and failing) or clumsily talking to the boss's daughter (and inadvertently proposing to her, successfully), whether he's sparring with the prosecutor's junior assistant, or arguing with the judge.
		Rumpole at one time fibbed to Hilda, that the lord chancellor had decided to award "daddy" that honor, but he'd had died before they could do so.
	www.mybookself.com /book_details.php?Bk_Id=266 (936 words)

	Alibris: Horace
		In six new stories, Horace Rumpole deftly parries everything from the admonitions of his wife, Hilda, to the vagaries of his legal colleagues and their new director of marketing.
		The message in Horace's Complaint is even more relevant today, as it presents a revealing and often troubling picture of the current school environment, as seen from both the teachers' and the students' points of view.
		Horace, a leopard, is the adopted son of tiger parents.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Horace (1226 words)

	Rumpole of the Bailey TV Show - Rumpole of the Bailey Television Show - TV.com
		Horace Rumpole (played by the late Leo McKern) is an untidy, ageing London barrister with one glass eye who defends in criminal cases.
		Rumpole has had a few triumphs, and the Penge Bungalow murders are often on his mind...
		Rumpole shares Chambers at Number 3, Equity Court, with a mixed group of barrister colleagues, including Guthrie Featherstone (Peter Bowles) and Phyllida Trant (Patricia Hodge).
	www.tv.com /rumpole-of-the-bailey/show/2123/summary.html (460 words)

	Movie Info for Rumpole of the Bailey: Season 02 on MSN Movies
		The second episode, "Rumpole and the Case of Identity" finds the title character in court during the Christmas season, defending a man whose alibi on a murder charge depends upon a most untrustworthy witness.
		And in "Rumpole and the Age for Retirement", Rumpole's son Nick urges his father to hang up his wig and move to Maryland (of all places!) after wrapping up his defense of an accused art thief.
		As a coda of sorts to Season Two, a special two-hour episode, "Rumpole's Return", in which our hero emerges from retirement to tackle a particularly lurid murder case involving a sinister cult, was telecast on December 30, 1980, and has since been added to the standard Rumpole of the Bailey rerun package.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=2068775 (256 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Rumpole of the Bailey: The Complete Seasons Review
		The first two sets of Rumpole of the Bailey have been out for months, but its final incarnation as a series is just hitting stores this week, and this is both a reason to celebrate and to mourn the series' passing.
		Rumpole isn't afraid to let viewers dislike ìOld Bailey hackî immensely in one scene and then choose to look the other way and want to give him a giant platonic kiss on the lips in the next.
		Horace can spar with the best of them, and in that regard he's an animal, but this is also a man who would take a bullet for just about anyone he felt an earnest interaction with.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_11/rumpole_1_2_3.html (783 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Rumpole is given to frequent oratorical outbursts from the Oxford Book of English Verse and manages to aim the elegant passages at upper-class hypocritical judges and other barristers.
		Even though Hilda--whose father was head of chambers--aspires for a more prestigious position for her husband and a bit more luxurious life-style for herself, she continues to support her husband's brand of justice rather than that sought by egotistical or social climbing royal counsels.
		Among Rumpole's colleagues he favors the savvy and stylish Phillida Neetrant Erskine-Brown (Hodge)--the one feminist voice of the series and wife of Claude--and the endearing Uncle Tom (Murdoch), an octogenarian waiting to have the good sense to retire--who, in the meantime, practices his putting in chambers.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/docs/759.html (829 words)

	Amazon.fr : Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders: Livres en anglais: John Mortimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mortimer's beloved barrister, Horace Rumpole, at last tells the tale, hitherto mentioned only in passing, of the Penge Bungalow murders, the case that made his reputation as a defense lawyer decades ago.
		Leave it to young Rumpole, an inexperienced "white wig," to see a chink or two in the prosecution's case and step up to Simon's defense, even at the risk of ruffling his supercilious superior's feathers.
		Bill Wallis is brilliant as Horace Rumpole, the cantankerous hero of 12 volumes of Mortimer's Wodehousian accounts of life at the Old Bailey.
	www.amazon.fr /Rumpole-Penge-Bungalow-Murders-Mortimer/dp/067091522X (575 words)

	Amazon.com: The First Rumpole Omnibus (Rumpole): Books: John Mortimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Rumpole is the lovable defender of the average man and foe to all stick-in-the-muds.
		All the while Rumpole practices law, he is dodging the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in the form of the "Mad Bull" Mister Justice Bullingham, his arch enemy, and his own wife Hilda (better known in the Rumpole lexicon as She Who Must Be Obeyed).
		Rumpole is a completely likable old coot, perpetually claret-soaked and clad as he is in the same courtroom wig which he's worn since before the Queen took the throne.
	www.amazon.com /First-Rumpole-Omnibus/dp/014006768X (1765 words)

	John Mortimer's Works
		These are: Rumpole and the confession of guilt; Rumpole and the gentle art of flmail; Rumpole and the dear departed; Rumpole and the rotten apple; Rumpole and the expert witness; Rumpole and the spirit of Christmas; Rumpole and the boat people.
		Titles: Rumpole and the children of the devil; Rumpole and the eternal triangle; Rumpole and the miscarriage of justice; Rumpole and the family pride; Rumpole and the soothsayer; Rumpole and the reform of Joby Jonson; Rumpole on trial.
		Titles: Rumpole and the age for retirement; Rumpole and the case of identity; Rumpole and the course of true love; Rumpole and the fascist beast; Rumpole and the man of God; Rumpole and the showfolk.
	pbpl.physics.ucla.edu /~yoder/mystery/mort-work.html (555 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)