Fright (1956)
Approved | 1h 8min | Film-Noir, Horror | September 1956 (USA)
A woman believes herself to be the reincarnated spirit of an ancient prince's lover. Meanwhile, a murderer turns out to be the reincarnated spirit of the prince himself.
Director: W. Lee Wilder
Writers: Myles Wilder (screenplay), Myles Wilder (story)
Stars: Eric Fleming, Nancy Malone, Frank Marth
Approved | 1h 8min | Film-Noir, Horror | September 1956 (USA)
A woman believes herself to be the reincarnated spirit of an ancient prince's lover. Meanwhile, a murderer turns out to be the reincarnated spirit of the prince himself.
Director: W. Lee Wilder
Writers: Myles Wilder (screenplay), Myles Wilder (story)
Stars: Eric Fleming, Nancy Malone, Frank Marth
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00:10:18I hope you haven't made the haywire conclusion that because you're suggestible you have a criminal mentality.
00:10:23I don't know.
00:10:24It's ridiculous. Forget it.
00:10:25Well, there are moments when I feel I...
00:10:27And then I keep running away.
00:10:29You're a very lovely girl.
00:10:31And I'd much rather take you to dinner than take you as a client.
00:10:34I don't take friends as patients or make my patients personal friends.
00:10:38What I'm trying to say, Miss Summers, is I won't take you as a patient.
00:10:42It would only waste your money and my time.
00:10:46Hey, Doc!
00:10:48Excuse me.
00:10:51Hey, boy!
00:10:54Doc Hamilton!
00:10:55Doc Hamilton!
00:11:13You'll excuse me if I don't leap over the net and shake your hand.
00:11:16Nice game, Charlie.
00:11:17Yeah, I think I should have to hang up my racket and resign myself to the minor pleasantries of old age.
00:11:24What'll you have to drink?
00:11:25Got any old scotch?
00:11:26Waiting for you.
00:11:28Here we are.
00:11:29Help yourself, will you? I'm not having any.
00:11:32You on the wagon?
00:11:34I've got a history department meeting tonight.
00:11:38I've often debated whether I should get drunk before or after these things.
00:11:43Tell me, what's new in 18th century Europe?
00:11:46Well, Frederick II has just marched into Silesia.
00:11:51Sit down.
00:11:53That was quite a carnival act you got yourself into last night.
00:11:57If I knew a good psychiatrist, I'd have my head examined.
00:12:00Oh, what you need is a wife.
00:12:03I had one once. I don't make the same mistake twice.
00:12:07Well, that's not good for a doctor's reputation, living the way you do, Jim.
00:12:12What does that mean?
00:12:14Hanging around bars, picking up women.
00:12:16Of course, they're the best bars and the best women, but still.
00:12:19After last night, I won't be able to trade my reputation for a dry martini.
00:12:23So let's forget it.
00:12:24An historian never forgets.
00:12:27Let's hope the public does.
00:12:34Good morning.
00:12:35Telephone, doctor.
00:12:37Who is it?
00:12:38Police department, Inspector Blackburn.
00:12:39Okay.
00:12:42Dr. Hamilton speaking.
00:12:44Yes, Inspector, fine. How are you?
00:12:46Oh, about that Morley.
00:12:49I see.
00:12:50Very possibly a traumatic effect.
00:12:54Well, yes, I've been wanting to study Morley for my own research as well.
00:12:58I'll be glad to.
00:13:00By all means, I'll drive up later this afternoon.
00:13:04Fine, fine.
00:13:06Is that new perfume you're wearing, doctor?
00:13:08No, same one I've always used.
00:13:13Yes?
00:13:15Yes.
00:13:16Yes, this is Dr. Hamilton's office.
00:13:19An appointment?
00:13:21No, I'm sorry.
00:13:24Well, all right, I'll write it down.
00:13:26Miss Anne Somers.
00:13:32Well, I don't know.
00:13:33Oh, just a moment, please.
00:13:36Hello, Miss Somers.
00:13:37This is Dr. Hamilton.
00:13:39Yes, I can take you.
00:13:41Where are you now?
00:13:43Fine, you can come right over.
00:13:45Oh, I meant to tell you that you forgot to...
00:13:47Hello?
00:13:50She hung up?
00:14:02Both your parents were English.
00:14:04Yes.
00:14:05And you've never studied German?
00:14:07No.
00:14:09Then why should you be reading a novel in German?
00:14:12German? Why do you ask?
00:14:15These are your gloves, aren't they?
00:14:18Yes.
00:14:20Well, they were inside this book.
00:14:24Are you sure?
00:14:27My book? I don't remember.
00:14:29You said something about finding mysterious messages.
00:14:32What about them?
00:14:34Well, they too are in German.
00:14:37I began finding them about three or four months ago.
00:14:39Sometimes in my pocketbook and sometimes beside my bed.
00:14:42Did you recognize the handwriting?
00:14:45No, I'd never seen it before.
00:14:47What characteristics did it have?
00:14:49Can you describe it?
00:14:51Plain? Fancy?
00:14:53Sort of like the handwriting on wedding invitations.
00:14:58Fancy scroll type.
00:15:01How old are you?
00:15:0325.
00:15:06What are you doing in New York?
00:15:07Business or pleasure?
00:15:09Pleasure, I guess you might say.
00:15:16I travel a lot and I never stay in one place too long.
00:15:20Support yourself?
00:15:22My father left me a substantial income.
00:15:24That takes care of my expenses.
00:15:26My mother died when I was around four.
00:15:30About this constant traveling,
00:15:32you say you keep running away.
00:15:33Yes.
00:15:35I feel driven to,
00:15:37as though I was searching for something or some place.
00:15:41Do you often forget things,
00:15:43like leaving your things in my car?
00:15:46Sometimes.
00:15:48Often, I guess.
00:15:50I see.
00:15:52Ever been married?
00:15:54No.
00:15:56Ever been in love?
00:15:58Is that important?
00:16:00It's my business to know.
00:16:02It's my business to know everything about you.
00:16:07No, I guess I've never been in love.
00:16:09How about your moods?
00:16:11Are you generally happy, depressed?
00:16:14A little of both, I guess.
00:16:16Like everyone else.
00:16:18Pardon me, doctor,
00:16:20but you do have the police station in 40 minutes.
00:16:22That's right, I almost forgot.
00:16:24I promised the state psychiatrist to report.
00:16:26Would you call in Miss Ames,
00:16:28tell him I'm on my way?
00:16:29Well, I think that about does it for today.
00:16:31Why don't you go back to your hotel
00:16:33and get some rest?
00:16:35Miss Ames will arrange for your next appointment.
00:16:37I don't suppose I could interest you
00:16:39for dinner tonight.
00:16:41No, I'm sorry, not tonight.
00:16:43Besides, you're contradicting yourself.
00:16:45Oh?
00:16:47Yes, you told me you never make your friends patients
00:16:49or your patients personal friends.
00:17:00Oh, he hasn't said a word since the bridge.
00:17:03He just won't talk.
00:17:05I'd like to see him alone.
00:17:07Oh, oh, not a chance.
00:17:09Hey, you're visiting a murderer.
00:17:11Don't you forget it.
00:17:13He might decide to swat a fly
00:17:15or he might decide to strangle you.
00:17:17I can handle it.
00:17:19Okay, Joe, open up.
00:17:23We've got a visitor, Morley.
00:17:25This is Dr. Hamilton.
00:17:26Hello, Morley.
00:17:30Would you like a cigarette?
00:17:37Do you know who I am?
00:17:39You can call me Jim.
00:17:41Your first name's George, isn't it?
00:17:44It's okay if I call you George?
00:17:49Can you see this flashlight, George?
00:17:52I want you to keep it.
00:17:53Keep your eyes on it.
00:17:57You'll feel very restful.
00:18:00It will help calm you inside
00:18:03and help you to forget.
00:18:07Watch the light.
00:18:10Keep your eyes on it.
00:18:14It makes you sleepy,
00:18:18relaxed,
00:18:19sleepy.
00:18:21You want to sleep,
00:18:24to forget.
00:18:27Relax.
00:18:30And as I count to 10,
00:18:33your eyelids will close
00:18:36and you will be asleep.
00:18:39One,
00:18:41two,
00:18:43three,
00:18:45four,
00:18:47five,
00:18:49six,
00:18:51seven,
00:18:53eight,
00:18:55nine,
00:18:5710.
00:18:59You are asleep.
00:19:01How old are you?
00:19:05Oxen.
00:19:07What?
00:19:09Oxen.
00:19:11You will speak in English.
00:19:13How old are you?
00:19:16Six.
00:19:17How old are you?
00:19:2018.
00:19:22But you told me before you were 25.
00:19:26I am 18.
00:19:28Who taught you to speak German?
00:19:30That is a stupid question.
00:19:33Did you speak German as a child?
00:19:37Of course.
00:19:39Are you a German citizen?
00:19:43No.
00:19:45I was born in Vienna.
00:19:47Where did you live as a child?
00:19:50Many places.
00:19:52Where?
00:19:56We had a summer house in...
00:19:59in...
00:20:01A summer house?
00:20:06I said to answer in English.
00:20:09Do you remember other houses?
00:20:17Wild chestnut trees.
00:20:19Was it in the country?
00:20:22Yes.
00:20:24In the country.
00:20:28Dogs barking.
00:20:30Your dogs?
00:20:33No.
00:20:35But a lot of dogs?
00:20:37Yes.
00:20:39Dogs,
00:20:41horses.
00:20:43Fox hunting?
00:20:45No.
00:20:48We did not live there.
00:20:50Only...
00:20:52Only what?
00:20:56Was it a hunting lodge?
00:21:00Yes.
00:21:02Hunting.
00:21:04Did something happen at the hunting lodge
00:21:06that you were trying to forget?
00:21:09Try to answer.
00:21:13He...
00:21:15He...
00:21:17Did you...
00:21:19Nine...
00:21:21Nine, he's got his name!
00:21:23Speak in English.
00:21:25No.
00:21:27No, I cannot kill you!
00:21:29I cannot kill you!
00:21:33No. No, Rudy, darling!
00:21:36Let me go first!
00:21:39I am such a coward and I love you so.
00:21:41You take the revolver first!
00:21:44Drop your hands!
00:21:45Drop your hands. Do as I say.
00:21:49We cannot live without each other.
00:21:52We must both die.
00:21:54You will think of other things.
00:21:57Something happy.
00:22:04What is making you smile?
00:22:07It's kissing my ear.
00:22:09Who is kissing your ear?
00:22:11Rudy.
00:22:13Are you in love with Rudy?
00:22:15Everyone is in love with you.
00:22:18You were 18 when you were in love with Rudy?
00:22:22Yes.
00:22:24Is he in love with you?
00:22:27Quite likely.
00:22:30But you must not tell anyone.
00:22:33Are you planning on getting married?
00:22:36That is impossible.
00:22:38Why?
00:22:41It is impossible.
00:22:42His father...
00:22:44Doesn't his father approve of you?
00:22:48Of course not.
00:22:50Why not?
00:22:54You ask stupid questions.
00:22:57You must know.
00:22:59Know what?
00:23:03That Rudy is already married.
00:23:06Did all this happen in England?
00:23:10No.
00:23:12Where?
00:23:15Hunting Lodge.
00:23:17Vienna?
00:23:20Yes.
00:23:22Near Vienna.
00:23:25Everything is so beautiful.
00:23:30The smell of spring.
00:23:33White lilacs.
00:23:36Why were you going to England?
00:23:38England?
00:23:40Is Rudy there?
00:23:44I don't know.
00:23:47When was the last time you saw Rudy?
00:23:52That night.
00:23:54That night at the Hunting Lodge?
00:23:56Yes.
00:23:58All right.
00:24:04You will slowly open your eyes.
00:24:06You will slowly open your eyes.
00:24:09You will watch the light.
00:24:12Open your eyes.
00:24:15Open them.
00:24:17Watch the light.
00:24:20As the light fades,
00:24:23you will awaken.
00:24:25You will feel refreshed
00:24:27and relaxed.
00:24:34How do you feel?
00:24:36I'm fine.
00:24:37Headache?
00:24:38No.
00:24:39Good.
00:24:40Then we'll have dinner tonight.
00:24:42And I won't take no for an answer.
00:24:44Club Susi?
00:24:46Club Susi.
00:24:49You like the outdoors, don't you?
00:24:51Trees, flowers.
00:24:53Yes, I guess so.
00:24:55And you like places.
00:24:56You like to travel.
00:24:57How about Vienna?
00:24:58Vienna?
00:24:59Yes. When were you there last?
00:25:01I've never been to Vienna.
00:25:03Are you telling me the truth?
00:25:04Of course.
00:25:06I see.
00:25:13Would you like to order, doctor?
00:25:15I'll give her another 15 minutes.
00:25:17Oh, perhaps the madam was there.
00:25:19Oh, let me have a telephone, please.
00:25:21Oh, oui, oui.
00:25:22At once, doctor.
00:25:23Le garçon.
00:25:24He looks so familiar.
00:25:26Who is he?
00:25:31Oh, of course.
00:25:33Oh, of course.
00:25:34That bridge thing.
00:25:36He's that hypnotist.
00:25:37Doctor, my dear.
00:25:39Quack.
00:25:41What a charming quack he must be.
00:25:44I've been thinking of changing my analyst.
00:25:47Hotel Royal Plaza?
00:25:49Would you ring Miss Summers' room, please?
00:25:52Yes, Ann Summers.
00:25:56Pardon, doctor.
00:25:57A messenger just brought this note for you.
00:26:00What do you mean she isn't registered there?
00:26:03Ann Summers.
00:26:05She told me...
00:26:08Oh, all right.
00:26:10Thanks.
00:26:30Hello, Charlie.
00:26:31Jim.
00:26:33Fine.
00:26:34You got a second?
00:26:36I want you to translate some German for me.
00:26:39Yeah, go ahead, Jim.
00:26:41Es tut mir leid.
00:26:45Oh, what was that last word?
00:26:47Yeah.
00:26:49Well, it says...
00:26:51I am terribly sorry.
00:26:53I cannot keep our date.
00:26:56Positive.
00:26:58Positive.
00:26:59And I might add, it's not very perfect German.
00:27:02Badly written, huh?
00:27:04Well, thanks, Charlie.
00:27:06And I hope I didn't disturb Frederick II.
00:27:09See you soon.
00:27:15Captain.
00:27:18Oui, monsieur.
00:27:19I'll have my dinner at the bar.
00:27:22As you wish, doctor.
00:27:23Something in a glass.
00:27:24Water.
00:27:25And put it in a champagne glass.
00:27:27Pardon?
00:27:28I can't afford your liquor.
00:27:30Only your glasses.
00:27:31And I'm very thirsty.
00:27:33Too sweet.
00:27:34Bring me some water.
00:27:35Pierre.
00:27:37My name is not Pierre.
00:27:39I thought we'd have something in common.
00:27:41Neither is mine.
00:27:43Double scotch, Jim.
00:27:45Yes.
00:27:46Two of the loveliest words in the English language.
00:27:50Hello, Dr. Hamilton.
00:27:51Hello, Dr. Hamilton.
00:27:53I'm Cullen.
00:27:55General assignment reporter, affiliated press.
00:27:58No comment.
00:28:00Two of the ugliest words in the English language.
00:28:04Ah, just a little experiment in psychology, doctor.
00:28:08I sit here with a champagne glass,
00:28:11and I'm taken for a sociably acceptable lush.
00:28:15When the truth of the matter is,
00:28:17I'm socially unacceptable.
00:28:19Despite the popular euphemism,
00:28:20a gentleman of the press.
00:28:23I am not a lush because of a peptic ulcer.
00:28:28And my doctor's orders
00:28:29that I can drink only milk or water.
00:28:32So, here I sit,
00:28:34drinking water from a champagne glass,
00:28:36just because I can't stay out of bars.
00:28:39What do you think of my case, doctor?
00:28:42If I told you, you'd worry.
00:28:44I like to worry.
00:28:46You've got a peptic.
00:28:47You've got a peptic.
00:28:48What do you want to shoot for, duodenum?
00:28:51In my case, it really doesn't matter.
00:28:54Ah, here I am, sitting next to a big story.
00:28:58And he won't even talk.
00:29:01Office hours end at five.
00:29:03Yours do, not mine.
00:29:05How about it, doc?
00:29:07Any repercussions on this Molly thing?
00:29:11Okay, live by that sundial of yours.
00:29:15But one of these days,
00:29:16I'm going to come into your office before five.
00:29:20Pour vous, Pierre.
00:29:22Live a little.
00:29:33Come in.
00:29:36Dr. Hamilton, Miss Summers.
00:29:37Come in, Miss Summers.
00:29:40I don't like my patients to lie to me.
00:29:43Do I lie to you? I'm terribly sorry.
00:29:46You told me you were staying at the Royal Plaza Hotel.
00:29:48That wasn't necessary.
00:29:51No, it wasn't necessary.
00:29:54Are you afraid of me, Ann?
00:29:56I was, a little.
00:29:58But I don't think I am anymore.
00:30:00Still, you wouldn't have dinner with me.
00:30:02But you don't understand.
00:30:04At least you could have written it in English.
00:30:07I sent you a note.
00:30:16Would you believe me if I told you
00:30:17I don't remember sending you this note?
00:30:20All I remember is getting dressed to meet you.
00:30:23And that's all.
00:30:25And you don't remember anything else about last night at all?
00:30:28No, just the dress.
00:30:29I remember putting it on and...
00:30:31And blank?
00:30:33Just blank.
00:30:35Until this morning.
00:30:36I couldn't find any money for a cab.
00:30:38Someone had hidden my purse.
00:30:40That's why I was late.
00:30:42Did you find your purse?
00:30:43Yes.
00:30:44Someone had put it behind the curtain.
00:30:46Pinned it up high.
00:30:49Pinned behind the curtains?
00:30:51Do you have any idea who did it?
00:30:53No.
00:30:56Tell me, Ann.
00:30:57Has this sort of thing happened before?
00:31:00Yes.
00:31:01How about memory blackouts?
00:31:03Yes.
00:31:05For whole days?
00:31:06No, this is the first time.
00:31:08Last night, you mean?
00:31:09Yes.
00:31:12Tell me, Ann.
00:31:13Where do you live?
00:31:1687 Southern Place.
00:31:19Alone?
00:31:20No.
00:31:21With a friend of the family.
00:31:22I stay there whenever I'm in New York.
00:31:28All right.
00:31:31Now, just relax.
00:31:33And we'll have another look at your subconscious.
00:31:39The river was always muddy.
00:31:41The Danube?
00:31:44The Danube Canal.
00:31:46What else do you remember about Vienna?
00:31:50Hartigan.
00:31:52What is Hartigan?
00:31:55Fresh wine.
00:31:58We would go to Grinzing
00:32:00and sit in the garden cafe.
00:32:03Always in the corner and drink Hartigan.
00:32:06With Rudy?
00:32:08Yes.
00:32:11He would always meet me in some disguise
00:32:14so he would not be recognized.
00:32:17My black hair.
00:32:20That's what he loved most.
00:32:23My black hair.
00:32:25But your hair is blonde.
00:32:29Don't be absurd.
00:32:31I am famous for my hair.
00:32:34Then you had it dyed blonde.
00:32:36Patience.
00:32:40Anne, why do you insist
00:32:42that you have never been to Vienna
00:32:44when you know it so well?
00:32:47My name is not Anne.
00:32:51What is your name?
00:32:54Maria.
00:32:56I am Baroness Maria.
00:32:59Why have you taken the name Anne Summers?
00:33:03That is her name, not mine.
00:33:08Split personality.
00:33:10Then you are the Baroness Maria
00:33:12and she is Anne Summers.
00:33:15Of course.
00:33:18And you are 18.
00:33:21I told you that.
00:33:24And you have black hair.
00:33:27I am very beautiful.
00:33:30Even Loeschek will tell you.
00:33:32Loeschek?
00:33:34Rudy's valet.
00:33:37Don't you know him?
00:33:38I remember the icy roads to Vienna.
00:33:42The coach wheels.
00:33:44You mean the car wheels.
00:33:47Coach wheels.
00:33:49We stopped in Baden to change horses.
00:33:55We...
00:33:57We...
00:33:59Go on.
00:34:01To change the horses.
00:34:04Why do you ask me these questions?
00:34:05I'm trying to help you.
00:34:07You're trying to kill me.
00:34:10You don't really believe that, do you, Anne?
00:34:13Not Anne, Maria.
00:34:15Maria?
00:34:17Did you hide Anne's purse behind the drapes?
00:34:20Yes.
00:34:22I pinned it there.
00:34:25But you must not tell her.
00:34:27Why?
00:34:30I don't like her coming here.
00:34:31Are you afraid?
00:34:33You don't like me.
00:34:36You want to kill me.
00:34:39Perhaps I will kill you first.
00:34:42Tell me more about the lodge.
00:34:49Little angel.
00:34:52All colors painted on the wall.
00:34:56You are my angel.
00:34:58All colors painted on the wall.
00:35:02And looking down into the bedroom.
00:35:06The music box.
00:35:09It's playing on the wall.
00:35:14Crystal chandelier.
00:35:16With a hundred candles dancing.
00:35:20Go on.
00:35:23It's January.
00:35:25Outside the dogs are barking in the snow.
00:35:29But we are so warm inside.
00:35:32You said January.
00:35:34What year?
00:35:371889.
00:35:411889.
00:35:45January.
00:35:471889.
00:35:50Sophrenia, dual or split personality.
00:35:52Call it what you like.
00:35:54But I'm not sure all those names and places make sense.
00:35:57Rudi.
00:35:59Grincy.
00:36:00Loschet.
00:36:01The hunting lodge.
00:36:02Heurigen wine.
00:36:04Wild chestnut trees.
00:36:06She knows what she's talking about.
00:36:08I only wish I did.
00:36:10The Heurigen section of Vienna
00:36:12was once pretty badly hit by the plane.
00:36:15No, no.
00:36:16That was in the 17th century.
00:36:18January, 1889.
00:36:20She said it twice.
00:36:22What was that name she called herself?
00:36:24Baroness Maria.
00:36:27I'm afraid I'm not going to get much sleep tonight.
00:36:34Yes?
00:36:36Oh, hello, Charlie.
00:36:38No, no, I'm not asleep.
00:36:40I'm sorry to bother you, Jim,
00:36:42but I think you better come over here for breakfast.
00:36:45About 9 o'clock?
00:36:47Hey, what time is it anyway?
00:36:49Oh, it's 3 a.m.
00:36:51I think I found you, Maria.
00:36:54In a history book.
00:36:56Put on the coffee.
00:36:57I'll be right over.
00:37:02This is a photograph of the woman
00:37:04your client thinks she is.
00:37:06Baroness Maria Wächter.
00:37:08The lover of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria.
00:37:12Crown Prince Rudolf?
00:37:14Checks with the nickname Rudi, doesn't it?
00:37:17Go on.
00:37:19The history books tell us that Rudolf's father,
00:37:21Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria,
00:37:24knew about this love affair.
00:37:26Naturally, he objected
00:37:28because Rudolf was already married.
00:37:32Now, here we have our missing hunting lodge
00:37:35near Vienna.
00:37:37Mildly.
00:37:39Surrounded by wild chestnut trees.
00:37:41The sound of barking dogs.
00:37:43What could be more natural
00:37:45than dogs at a hunting lodge?
00:37:47Mildling affair, the mildling affair.
00:37:49That things in history, isn't it?
00:37:51Oh, it's hardly ancient.
00:37:53And it's one of the most famous scandals in all history.
00:37:56Look here.
00:37:58In the very year that you mentioned,
00:38:001889,
00:38:02January 28th to be exact,
00:38:04the valet, Loschek,
00:38:06discovered a scene that later rocked
00:38:08the entire continent of Europe.
00:38:12That night, at Mildling,
00:38:14he knocked on Rudolf's door.
00:38:17Suddenly, there was a shot from within.
00:38:19He broke the door in
00:38:21and found Rudolf lying dead
00:38:23with a gun still in his hand.
00:38:25Beside him,
00:38:27shot dead hours before,
00:38:29was Maria Vetra.
00:38:31A dual suicide.
00:38:33Two lovers dying
00:38:35because they couldn't have each other in life.
00:38:38Because they couldn't have each other in life.
00:38:45I'm not arguing with you, Maria.
00:38:48Of course you are the Baroness Maria Vetra.
00:38:51She died at Mildling
00:38:53with the Crown Prince Rudolf
00:38:55in 1889.
00:38:59It was snowing.
00:39:02It was Wednesday.
00:39:06They found us on Wednesday morning.
00:39:11They hid me in the shed
00:39:13behind the lodge.
00:39:17They couldn't leave me the way I was,
00:39:18so they put a fur coat around me.
00:39:23It was hideous to be treated that way.
00:39:27All they talked about was the scandal.
00:39:31That I must not be found there, even dead.
00:39:35Relax, Maria.
00:39:37You are hurting yourself.
00:39:39Open your hands.
00:39:41Open your hands.
00:39:45Open them.
00:39:49You will take your handkerchief
00:39:51in your hand.
00:39:59Instead,
00:40:01they took me and the coach back to Vienna.
00:40:06I'm just...
00:40:08No more.
00:40:10You win. I'm so tired.
00:40:12Enjoying yourself?
00:40:14Oh, very much.
00:40:16Say, do all your patients get this treatment?
00:40:18When they need it?
00:40:19Admit it.
00:40:20Aren't you glad I twisted your arm
00:40:21into coming out today?
00:40:23Ask myself.
00:40:25Not on my afternoon off.
00:40:34Hi, honey.
00:40:36What can I do for you, dear?
00:40:38I'm a very sick man.
00:40:40Where's the doctor?
00:40:42I'm afraid Dr. Hamilton isn't in right now,
00:40:44but I expect him to call.
00:40:45Hmm.
00:40:47Maybe I'll wait here.
00:40:49I don't think he's the kind of doctor that you want.
00:40:51Oh, he's a vet, isn't he?
00:40:53My cat's expecting another litter,
00:40:55and I'm a very sick man.
00:40:57Have you ever tried to give away cats
00:40:59in the city of New York?
00:41:02Don't let me get on your nerves.
00:41:05Ulcer pills.
00:41:10I've got to speak with the doctor.
00:41:12Just a minute. You can't go in there.
00:41:13Now look at that beautiful couch.
00:41:16You know, honey, I didn't get much sleep last night.
00:41:19If the doc calls in, tell him I'm here.
00:41:22My name's Cullen.
00:41:24And please, honey,
00:41:26wake me up in about 20 minutes, hmm?
00:41:38I'm not arguing with you, Maria.
00:41:40Of course you are the Baroness Maria Vetschler,
00:41:43and you died at Meierling with the Crown Prince Rudolf
00:41:46in the year 1889.
00:41:59City desk.
00:42:01Oh, yes, Cullen, shoot.
00:42:03Doc Hamilton's on a reincarnation kick.
00:42:06All I want you to do for me
00:42:07is to put a rewrite man on one extension
00:42:10and a shorthand gal on the other.
00:42:12And, brother, you've got the biggest headline
00:42:14since flying saucers.
00:42:15And then they took me and the coach back to Vienna.
00:42:20Anne, you must have come across the German language
00:42:44across the German language at some time in your life. I thought this was my day
00:42:48off. Think back. Are you sure that your parents never took you to Austria as
00:42:54a child I mean quite. You never studied German in college or French the
00:42:59lever is so let out the gravy. How far back into your childhood can you
00:43:06remember. About eight or nine I think no further than that I'm very stupid I
00:43:12warned you. After your mother died did your father bring you up alone he never
00:43:19married again if that's what you mean. Sorry no evil stepmother you can put
00:43:23under your microscope. Did you love your father very much.
00:43:31Jim. I'm I'm not to the memory up to increase that's hard to tell.
00:43:37I've I've read about people who black out for six months or a year they turn up
00:43:43in some little town in Nebraska Switzerland under another name. Going to happen to
00:43:48me. Some little thing disappointment shock of some kind.
00:43:56Could put you in a very serious state. You told me you never make personal
00:44:03friends out of your patients I think I can. Don't be ridiculous I'm going to send
00:44:08you
00:44:08a bill I might even better to cover the cookies it's so horrifying to think that
00:44:14there's this other person within me sort of
00:44:16a genie just waiting for somebody to pull the cork at least she's
00:44:20a baroness you travel in the best society. Please don't joke about. Defense
00:44:26mechanism. I always joke about the things I'm most serious about.
00:44:33Like you. Well I have
00:44:35a few defense mechanisms of my own. You still don't trust me do you. Not even if
00:44:42I told you that I'm falling in love with you. With me.
00:44:49On the rear of it. The front office where you belong I didn't hire you to get into
00:44:54a lawsuit you know journalism ended fifty years ago look I draw my check for
00:44:58bring in news now do I write the story or don't I look I know all about the
00:45:02responsibility of the press I've been
00:45:04a good boy Scott all my life I'll wave flags and I'll help the old age across the
00:45:07street but let's face it this will make better lines for
00:45:10a week you want to sell papers or do you want to win merit badges. Do I write the
00:45:15story or do I shuffle off to my favorite milk bar I'm telling you to kill the story
00:45:20let me outline the consequences of your credit we've been over that Hamilton will
00:45:23sue you'll not only so he'll win the trial will make good copy and if you can sell
00:45:28more papers in the amount we have to settle for out of court when the time comes
00:45:31you're still way ahead of the game. Bill. You've been my city
00:45:38editor for eighteen years I want you to know if you go ahead with this you'll take
00:45:42the responsibility for whatever happens. Stop standing around wasting time
00:45:48find
00:45:48a typewriter. Mine is not to reason why. Mine is but to write or die.
00:45:59Jim I really had a wonderful time glad you did. Jim you haven't discussed me with
00:46:05anyone have you I mean I don't want to be
00:46:06a case in the medical journal stop worrying. Jim if you insist on taking me to
00:46:13dinner I guess we'd better change yes we'd better probably what's the next stop
00:46:18eighty seven seven please.
00:46:30I'll go and. Send him right in. I just can't buy for
00:46:36a statement did you do this well it's
00:46:39a lie all of it how could you be so moronic I've had practice age regression Coney
00:46:44Island psychiatry that went out with
00:46:45a dinosaur doctor going to sue I want to retraction and quit the doc you can't
00:46:50retract headlines I advise you to sue do you realize what you've done that business
00:46:55at the bridge was bad enough but now I'll be taken for
00:46:57a carnival doctor selling snake oil you get in the back of this will make you the
00:47:00biggest head mechanic in town get out of your color look Doc if I were you I'd
00:47:06strangle me but supposing it really is reincarnation but then it's just too big for
00:47:11you to sit on your park Avenue office get it straight and print it straight you've
00:47:15blown
00:47:15a fairly simple case of split personality into a hoax reincarnation has nothing to do
00:47:20with it Doc can you prove it look how come your patient knows all about the mireling
00:47:24affair how come she can talk in German that can be explained but explain it. Get
00:47:29out. And I still advise you to sue Doc but I'll be there then Oh Doc the other
00:47:36papers will probably be in your neck any second maybe you should get out of town
00:47:40might do you some good.
00:47:49The same. I am not into anyone. On this summer's no I'll talk to her put her on
00:47:57place.
00:47:57And. And I'm sorry. How could you do such a despicable thing.
00:48:05You've got to believe me I and who else did you discuss my case with the janitor
00:48:10and listen to me the sound of your voice makes me sick I've never checked to cover
00:48:15your services you can cancel the rest of my appointment I never want to see you again
00:48:20have doctor. I'm not going to see you again I'm not going to see you again I'm
00:48:26not going to see you again have doctor. And Maria.
00:48:56I.
00:49:11Don't miss Dr Hamilton is here so much as an upset I'll tell myself she is where's
00:49:17the room. What is going on here where is it just. I've got to see.
00:49:24I'm Dr Hamilton. Yes I read the papers this morning and is in danger
00:49:32and if you will show the gentleman as you call him to the door and do it will you
00:49:37listen to she's in danger I take me to. I think you've got
00:49:42a call the police. If and has been in any danger it has been through
00:49:48you. Very much appreciate your saving me from the embarrassment of
00:49:55the. Wasting your time and left. Twenty minutes ago where'd you go.
00:50:03I have known. And she was born and in all those
00:50:08years. I have never. Asked. Where she was going.
00:50:14But Lady Fitzmorris good I'll go quietly and cause you no trouble if you'll allow
00:50:21me two or three minutes to talk to you. Cancel that
00:50:28call. There is.
00:50:35In the parlor.
00:50:35You may sit down.
00:50:44Young man what have you done to this poor girl I'm concerned with what she's up to
00:50:49do to herself. Lady Fitzmorris have you ever known and to a visited Vienna
00:50:55never but she speaks the German language badly but it's German that is quite
00:51:00impossible so she was brought up in the care of private nurses.
00:51:06English nurses. Might one of them have been an Austrian I do not like
00:51:12this line of questioning there was an Austrian. Perhaps the words I forgot. You
00:51:19haven't forgotten a thing in sixty years have you Lady Fitzmorris. Seventy two
00:51:24years. How old was and during the domestic reign of her Austrian nurse. And must
00:51:30have been almost eight when her father threw that Viennese husky out of his
00:51:36house. Do I have to ask why he dismissed her. If you do I shall
00:51:42not. I understand. Could and have become aware of what was going on between
00:51:49her father and her nurse. It's not like. But it's very possible. And might have
00:51:56come upon them at some indiscreet moment in shock. Then and picked up
00:52:01a smattering of German from the nurse any possible language must have filled and
00:52:07said with all sorts of romantic tales among them the story of my. Handsome crown
00:52:13prince. Beautiful Baroness Maria that. What more does it take to impress
00:52:18a child's mind and. Then the shock of seeing her Austrian nurse displacing the
00:52:25memory of her own mother in her father's arms I will not listen to this can you
00:52:30imagine the workings of and mine I hate but she must have felt for that nurse.
00:52:36Then grew older those hateful images must have disappeared from sight a memory
00:52:41block today and has forgotten that the nurse ever existed in her life. And good
00:52:47riddance. I want to thank you Lady Fitzmorris would you have and call me the
00:52:53moment you return I think you understand how important it is to her.
00:53:09It's
00:53:09a gentleman here from the police. Thank you. You may come in.
00:53:14I don't think that's right the kind of fight. Homicide Homicide I don't have
00:53:20a warrant but if you insist I'll get one war and homicide what is all this it's
00:53:25about and some of it and what's happened to her well that's why I'm here. Here's
00:53:32a translation of
00:53:32a letter we received this morning it was written in German. To
00:53:38whom it may concern this is in the interest of and some. James Hamilton has
00:53:45been trying to. Kill her my mind cannot overcome the fear that he has at last
00:53:51succeeded in his deed. Signed Maria veteran. But this is
00:53:57ridiculous psychiatrically and we're not interested in the big words doctor we're
00:54:02interested in the facts. But there are no facts this letter suggests the
00:54:07possibility of your having killed and summers well maybe it was written by
00:54:11a crackpot maybe not. Maria veteran doesn't exist she's
00:54:15a figment of and imagination before you start accusing me of anything why don't you
00:54:19check Oh we have there's no such person. But doctor we're not accusing you of
00:54:25anything I'm just here to check. We have
00:54:32OK help yourself.
00:54:49First but for many
00:54:51a doctor. I was. About two thousand dollars
00:54:58worth. All signed by and summers that makes them negotiable doesn't it.
00:55:08I could. Looks like blood it is I can explain that it's and
00:55:15thank you for all right she cut herself in my office the other day relax doctor we
00:55:21haven't got a murder case yet a murder case but we do have exhibits A B and
00:55:27C. But the police do not share
00:55:33the good faith gossip that Miss Summers possessed by the person within her as run
00:55:38off in search of her historical lover crown Prince Rudolph how does it sound you
00:55:44must be proud of yourself could get the full of surprise for fiction OK I will
00:55:52write. Yes Sir I understand. Missing persons
00:55:59drawing blanks she might have left the city if she's alive we'll find her and if
00:56:05she's dead we'll find. My under arrest I'll let you know when
00:56:12I'll be.
00:56:21Back.
00:56:44And I said to him I'm not going I said I could have been married Queen of God
00:56:49it's getting terrible really it is why it's one thing you know who your friends
00:56:53are but it's another to know who they were.
00:57:20And.
00:57:31Yes I'm still being followed Look Charlie you're working at school I can meet you
00:57:36at the golf room for lunch OK fine fine that's better.
00:57:43Say. Why don't you ride with me they may need your car for something important.
00:57:49And. Say the police is still after you.
00:57:58I hate to bring this up again Jim but. Got to get that girl off your mind. Are you
00:58:05in love with. I'm in love with. That's unfortunate.
00:58:12Can't work I can't sleep. On a diet to not hungry.
00:58:20Tell me what's new with that Morley fellow find anything new inside that criminal
00:58:25mind of his completely asocial I have a few more tests to run before they send him to
00:58:30the electric chair we tell it's delicious. Talk to the police lieutenant last night
00:58:36they had a report and had been seen in New Orleans but it didn't check out.
00:58:43If she's alive. Beginning to wonder myself.
00:58:47Jim. History is
00:58:50a game of patience so it's like. Sure.
00:59:00Don't look now but my fan club just arrived.
00:59:04She's bound to read something in the papers I'm sure being suspected of murder I
00:59:09mean. Reincarnation or not she'll be decent enough to show her face and get you
00:59:15off the hook that's just it Charlie the person of Maria has taken full possession of
00:59:20and Maria hates me she's loving every minute of this.
00:59:24One woman with two sets of different personalities. And it's Maria that you've got
00:59:29to look for another. That's what I keep telling the police.
00:59:35You know there's time even till they can find a body.
00:59:41How about the crown prince of New Orleans.
00:59:46I don't know. I don't know.
00:59:49Find a body. How about the crown prince Rudolph what about
00:59:56a. Maybe you're
00:59:58a baroness Maria's gone off looking for him cut it out Charlie. Thought.
01:00:06What you said before is right though. The thing is the only thing is what.
01:00:13Wait a minute.
01:00:17Big. You can't catch fish without bait if she's alive I can bring her back by
01:00:24finding Rudolph. I'm Jim he just I was no joke I'm serious that's ridiculous
01:00:31finding Rudolph not finding him. Creating.
01:00:36Why you need to rest. I need only one thing Charlie. I need
01:00:42a killer.
01:00:52Your subconscious will remember everything I say your name is Rudolph von
01:00:59Habsburg. While the crown prince of Austria. Repeat that.
01:01:07My name. Is Rudolph von Habsburg.
01:01:14I am the crown prince of Austria.
01:01:19Repeat that to me no Maria. I would rather die with you.
01:01:28Than live without you. You know what to do with the gun then don't you
01:01:36yes everything I have put in your mind will remain in your subconscious.
01:01:42You will remember nothing when you awake.
01:01:58I. Thought I'd find you here. Want to talk to you. Think I have
01:02:03a story you might be interested in you where a psychiatrist.
01:02:07Is reincarnation still selling papers getting a little stale could use
01:02:11a shot in the arm. Would it make headlines if I told you that. I found the
01:02:17reincarnation of Crown Prince Rudolph. What are you trying to hand me
01:02:23I'm serious going one chance in a billion and you found me.
01:02:27Not even my readers believe that I did think of. Two lovers reunited after
01:02:33nearly a half a century of death as Sam bring me a scotch reincarnation with
01:02:39a sex angle. Make it a double slam. Who is your crown prince that's my secret
01:02:45I'm the reincarnation of Crown Prince Rudolph.
01:02:48What are you trying to hand me I'm serious going one chance in a billion and
01:02:51you found me a scotch reincarnation with
01:02:54a sex angle. Make it a double slam. Who is your crown prince that's my secret
01:03:02you want to hear the recording. And if I print it you know what it does to you
01:03:09Sam put these on my tab and break them yourself come on.
01:03:19If she comes here first I shall call you she's got to come back you must love
01:03:26her very much but you are ruining your reputation I don't care who thinks I'm
01:03:32a fraud as long as Maria believes me. I hope she comes back to your.
01:03:40You're doing a very unselfish thing. It's got to lure her back she'll come back
01:03:46for a crown prince. Then I'll kill her.
01:03:57The news broke this afternoon that Dr. Hamilton has come up with a living
01:04:01reincarnation of the Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria. Some of the principles
01:04:06involved in this story which has become the sensation of the country are here on
01:04:10film brought to you exclusively by this television station. Here is the house at
01:04:1487 Sutton Place the last known location to be visited by the girl who calls
01:04:18herself Maria Ventura. And here is the beach house on Long Island belonging to
01:04:23the controversial Dr. James Hamilton. Caught here by our news camera is Dr.
01:04:27Charles Gore the historian friend of Hamilton.
01:04:33Looks like he's in quite a hurry doesn't it. What will Dr. Hamilton come up with
01:04:37next. Turning to the European.
01:04:40Crown Prince and magic isn't it romantic.
01:04:43We're supposed to get married. In this life I mean.
01:04:49How do you like that? The crown prince my foot. He'll lose his license if that's not
01:04:53well. Believe me if I was the commission I'd pull him in on the Funko chart.
01:04:56Oh you were the commissioner big man.
01:05:02I swear to Bill I don't know what pigeon he dug up for this crown prince bit.
01:05:07Could have been anybody. Even you. Bad chance.
01:05:11Look see if you can find out who. I'll keep the story open.
01:05:15Now then what about the criminal he's been brain reading.
01:05:19Might be something for the feature page. Yeah you mean Morley.
01:05:23I had Dr. Hamilton tailed by one of our fellas the past two weeks.
01:05:28Came up with some good information. Let's see on Monday he saw Morley from 10 to
01:05:321040 and then again on Thursday and then three times last week.
01:05:38Hey. What.
01:05:41This could be our pigeon. Morley it figures.
01:05:46The crown prince behind bars. Yeah think of that in print.
01:05:51Listen I'll go over and check on this and if it's true watch out.
01:05:54Behind the book. At the knock on the door.
01:05:59You will pick it up and fire.
01:06:02You will pick it up and fire. After the knock.
01:06:06I love you doctor we can't go along with that.
01:06:09You will close your eyes and hear nothing.
01:06:13No sound. Nothing.
01:06:17I can't believe it.
01:06:19No sound. Nothing.
01:06:23I told you I must have a killer mind for this.
01:06:27I understand that doctor.
01:06:29Are you sure that you told the district attorney exactly what you're doing.
01:06:33Look the only reason you haven't pinned a murder on me is because you can't find the corpus delicti.
01:06:38If you charge me and Miss Summers turns up suntanned after a few weeks in Florida.
01:06:44Yeah you could pin our ears back in any court.
01:06:47Our case against you is closed the minute that we see Miss Summers alive.
01:06:53All right let's get on with it.
01:06:57You can hear me. You can hear my voice.
01:07:02Open your eyes.
01:07:17Hi Doc. Just in time for the four stars.
01:07:20Hi Cullen.
01:07:22Doc I'm going to give it to you straight between the eyes.
01:07:26Morley is your crown prince isn't he.
01:07:30I thought so but we'll see around.
01:07:32Cullen.
01:07:34Don't deny it. I want you to know I sure feel sorry about all this.
01:07:38You know the public is going to raise a storm.
01:07:42Cullen listen.
01:07:43You know some people are born to make news.
01:07:46Some people are born to write.
01:07:48Listen there's a bigger story in this if you'll string along just a little bit longer.
01:07:53There just ain't no bigger story.
01:07:55Is it a story of Ann Summers is found alive?
01:07:59That's big I'll say.
01:08:02You'll scare her off if you print that story. Believe me.
01:08:05Miss a couple of headlines Cullen for her sake.
01:08:08And I'll give you a call the moment she turns up.
01:08:14You know Doc I think you're scared.
01:08:17I'm scared.
01:08:20Call my desk. They'll know where to find me.
01:08:43I'm scared.
01:09:13I'm scared.
01:09:36Where is he?
01:09:38Hello Maria.
01:09:40Where have you been?
01:09:41have found him I have found it's
01:09:44a trick you are trying to trick me if you believe that why did you come back. I'm
01:09:52glad you're back. I will take you.
01:10:11To.
01:10:22What is. Rudy is here you'll be here in
01:10:26a moment. Stay here this is
01:10:32a fine time and I could be doing a thing like this it brought her back on to
01:10:36satisfy yeah that's her all right. You can't get here yet yeah he's in the press
01:10:41room give me about three minutes in the morning. Where can I take her right there
01:10:47you can use my office.
01:10:56Where is where is he I'll bring him. I will bring you
01:11:03a movie. If you're in way.
01:11:13Maria what's the line what's the line.
01:11:23What's the line if your eyes on the line. On the line.
01:11:29What. I need to close. Slowly close.
01:11:37It makes you sleep. Sleep.
01:11:47Open your eyes. You open your eyes you will be in my.
01:11:52You will open your eyes. And see the little angels painted on the wall.
01:12:01Crystal chandeliers. With a hundred candles dancing.
01:12:10There is your music box. What is it playing.
01:12:22The. I will.
01:12:34Next person you will see. Will be the crowned Prince Rudolph.
01:12:44You will see only your room.
01:12:52You. Know Doc you didn't call. Just.
01:13:00Here is.
01:13:05A little more like.
01:13:11Morning. Morning.
01:13:17Morning.
01:13:23Morning.
01:13:30Who are you. I am crowned Prince Rudolph.
01:13:39All right warden you take off the cuffs please. You will do what you were told.
01:13:46You will walk through that door. You will find Maria.
01:14:03Darling how much I.
01:14:08I have been followed. The emperor sent Lushak after me.
01:14:16So now your father has a valet. A lackey spy for you.
01:14:25You are so strong. So good to be in your arms again.
01:14:29But you never smile Rudy. Even when you kiss me you never smile. I have been told never to see you again. But now we are such a scandal.
01:14:41Yes. Things are going worse with my family.
01:14:46I have been told to stay away from my family.
01:14:48I have been told never to see you again. But now we are such a scandal.
01:14:56Things are going worse with my family.
01:14:59I know the emperor hates me.
01:15:04What can we do.
01:15:07This is the only way. No Maria. I would rather die with you than live without you.
01:15:15But I am only 18. So young to die. There is no other way.
01:15:36I am such a coward and I love you so. I must go first.
01:15:44Rudy. Do it Rudy.
01:16:04Say if you want Morley. You will now awaken Morley. Morley you are awake.
01:16:10Take him back. Anne.
01:16:13Blanken the gun. The top of the whole thing is this. Hamilton had to use a real killer. Why? Because only a real murderer would have pulled that trigger even under hypnosis.
01:16:27Anne you will slowly awaken. You will forget everything that has happened in this room. Maria Vetura is dead. Dead Anne.
01:16:39You will awaken. You are coming awake. You feel refreshed. Awake. You are Anne Summers. Anne Summers.