Episode aired Jan 3, 1961
STARS: William Shatner, Joanna Heyes, Russell Johnson | Hollywood Classics movie
A married couple moves into a house that is haunted by images reflected in glass and mirrors.
STARS: William Shatner, Joanna Heyes, Russell Johnson | Hollywood Classics movie
A married couple moves into a house that is haunted by images reflected in glass and mirrors.
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00:34 I know she's in there doctor. She's always in there with her cursed mirrors.
00:40 [Music]
00:48 Go away. Oh go away.
00:51 Leave me alone, can't you?
00:54 Leave me alone with my mirror.
00:59 [Music]
01:02 A beautiful young face in the mirror, a pitiful old face at the door.
01:08 Could they have been one and the same?
01:11 Some people say that mirrors never lie.
01:14 Others say that they do, that they lie, they cheat, they kill.
01:18 Some say that every time you look in one, you see death at work.
01:25 But most of us see only what we want to see.
01:28 And perhaps it's better not to see too deeply into the darkness behind our mirrors.
01:34 For there live things beyond our imagination, as sure as my name is Boris Karloff.
01:41 But if you're skeptical, stay with me and watch the hungry glass with those others who doubt it.
01:47 William Shatner, Joanna Hayes, Russell Johnson and Elizabeth Allen.
01:55 Oh, you'll be perfectly safe.
01:57 That is if you turn your own mirrors to the wall and make sure that your television screen casts no reflection.
02:06 [Music]
02:19 [Music]
02:36 Storm warnings are still hoist along most of the New England coast.
02:39 Though the Weather Bureau now reports that the gale has spent itself in a sweeping, harmlessly out to sea.
02:44 Damage cannot yet be estimated, but power failures have plunged many areas into total darkness.
02:50 The northern tip of Cape Caution is among those affected.
02:54 We return you now to recorded music.
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03:09 Hello there.
03:12 My name is Thrasher. This is my wife. Has Mr. Thomas been in yet?
03:15 Thrasher?
03:17 He, the young couple, took on the old Bellman place.
03:20 Yes, that's right. Mr. Thomas said he'd meet us here with the keys.
03:22 Then I see no reason to doubt but what he will.
03:26 What you calculate to do with the old place anyhow?
03:29 I live in it.
03:30 Eh, oh?
03:31 [Growling]
03:32 You can look forward to a heap of visitors out that way.
03:36 Thank you. That's neighborly.
03:38 That tarnation property comes fully equipped with visitors.
03:44 Appears Mr. Thomas never told you about that, eh?
03:47 Well, he did say something about some local superstition.
03:50 Superstition. Ha, ha, ha. That be the word?
03:55 Hush up, Obed.
03:56 No, please.
03:58 What are you saying?
03:59 You bought the house, lock, stock and barrel? Furnishing too?
04:03 The whole shebang.
04:04 And it never struck you curious to find nary a looking glass in the hallibut?
04:09 Not especially, should it have?
04:11 You better ask your Mr. Thomas, ma'am.
04:14 He's from out of state, same as you be.
04:17 Likely he'll find some good reason for it.
04:19 Like, eh, superstition.
04:22 [Tires screeching]
04:25 Oh, I'm sorry to keep you waiting, folks.
04:28 You been here long?
04:29 Not too long. Howdy been, Adam?
04:31 In the pink. Except for I'm turning blue with this New England autumn.
04:34 I went by your house and I got struck with a sudden horrible thought.
04:37 I went inside to check.
04:38 Sure enough, empty socket. Not a light bulb in sight.
04:41 Mr. Cabot, how about a couple dozen light bulbs?
04:44 Say, 12, 100, waters and the rest 150s.
04:46 Just so you're not expecting to work without electricity.
04:50 Well, I had the electricity turned on a week ago.
04:52 Storm had it turned off again.
04:54 Still want bulbs?
04:56 Well, yes, of course.
04:57 I'm awfully sorry. I didn't know. The light's going on again in town.
05:01 And I thought that we expect a few inconveniences at first.
05:04 You have to have a few. And a few you don't expect.
05:07 Eh, Mr. Tommage?
05:09 Here be your bulbs.
05:11 7.46.
05:15 My wife's waiting in the station wagon.
05:17 She insisted on coming along.
05:18 She wants to meet you and give you some sort of welcome.
05:20 How nice of her.
05:21 Well, it's the only one you'll get around here.
05:24 [engine starts]
05:28 [engine revs]
05:36 I'm going to be quick. The heater's on.
05:38 I'll throw these bags in the back.
05:41 There, introduce yourself.
05:43 [engine revs]
05:51 Hello, I'm Liz Tommage.
05:54 And I think you're both terribly brave.
05:56 Why, moving to the Cape in autumn or buying the old Bellman place.
06:00 So, the local gossips have already been at work.
06:04 Oh, bird inside had us thinking the place was built by vampires.
06:07 Vampires? That's a new one.
06:10 That's why the place had no mirrors.
06:12 Now everybody knows that vampires don't catch reflections, so...
06:15 So, what else? The only explanation.
06:19 Adam, the truth now.
06:22 The people who built that place, where were they from?
06:24 The Bellmans? Pennsylvania, I think.
06:27 Sure it wasn't Transylvania?
06:29 [laughs]
06:30 The mirrors.
06:31 Now that's what the old coots were bending your ears about.
06:33 Now look, I'll admit that you warned us that the roof leaks and cellar floods and the shutters go bang.
06:41 But what's this about no mirrors?
06:43 Didn't I tell you why you got the place so cheap?
06:45 You said the local characters think it's unlucky.
06:48 Yeah, unlucky because of the broken mirrors.
06:51 Gil, you have no idea how these people can build up a story.
06:54 Seems there were some nasty accidents up there years ago.
06:57 A couple of people killed by shattered glass.
07:00 So, now the yarn's been worked around to where they were actually murdered by the mirrors.
07:04 With malice aforethought.
07:06 Seems logical.
07:08 Sure, some mornings when I'm shaving, the guy in the glass looks pretty deadly, especially with a razor in his hand.
07:13 Well, I hadn't thought about it, but I better get you some sort of mirror, at least till you get settled.
07:17 And there's one in my traveling case.
07:19 Marsha couldn't live without her mirrors.
07:21 What woman could?
07:45 Here's the key. You go ahead, open up.
07:47 I'll bring in the bag.
07:49 And watch your step. The moment we put everything just inside the door.
07:52 This is the only one of Adam's properties I've never seen from the inside.
08:00 The outside was sufficient.
08:02 Here it is. Shine it up this way.
08:14 This way.
08:16 Well, well.
08:38 Early mausoleum.
08:42 But Liz, what a challenge.
08:44 Granted, if you choose a house to pick a fight with.
08:48 Marsha's a decorator, I'm a photographer.
08:50 We'll do a before and after layout that'll cover the down payment.
08:53 You'll see, it'll be a show place.
08:55 Like Madame Tussauds.
08:57 Well, Liz, now do you believe I can sell anything?
09:06 Darling, I'll never doubt you.
09:09 Actually, he tried to sell us any house with this one.
09:12 I think he was trying to keep it for himself.
09:14 Right, I needed a place to keep my old razor blades.
09:16 Right this way, I built a fire in the living room.
09:18 Oh, I love a fire.
09:20 And if you're lucky, it might spread.
09:22 Of course, we use the term living room rather loosely.
09:25 Your husband doesn't believe in the hard sell.
09:27 Who needs it? Behold.
09:29 Now I ask you.
09:32 Wow.
09:34 Widescreen.
09:36 Is that too much? Our own private ocean.
09:38 And by a startling coincidence, here's a bottle that came all the way across it.
09:41 Hey, champagne and chilled too.
09:44 Yeah, I put it on ice when I built the fire.
09:46 Now how many real estate agents would supply these sensitive little touches?
09:50 Only those with a guilty conscience, dear.
09:53 Actually, Liz, we practically had to force him to take our money.
09:56 Here's what really sold us.
09:58 You never have heard my pitch, have you?
10:00 Well, better late than never.
10:02 I propose a toast to your new home at Cape Caution, folks.
10:08 That year-round playground where there's never a dull moment.
10:11 Something stirring every second.
10:13 For example, in the wintertime, you can sit on the east side of your house
10:16 and follow the sun around to the west.
10:18 And in the summertime, you can sit on the west side of your house
10:20 and follow the shade around to the east.
10:22 (SCREAMS)
10:24 -Double? -What is it?
10:26 Behind you in the window.
10:28 There's nothing there, but there was.
10:30 Somebody's standing there reaching for you.
10:36 Impossible. It's a sheer drop down there, over 100 feet down to the reef.
10:39 But I saw him.
10:41 Fine, fine, you saw him. In the meantime, I'm bleeding to death.
10:44 Adam, what happened?
10:46 When you let out that howl, I dropped the blasted bottle and cut my hand.
10:49 Let's take a look at it. Can you flex your fingers?
10:52 Oh, it's nothing serious.
10:54 But you might have some broken glass in it.
10:56 Broken glass?
10:58 Sure.
11:00 Now, just a minute, Marsha.
11:04 Oh, forget it. I just cut my hand. That's all there is to it.
11:07 Liz, just what was it you thought you saw?
11:10 Well, I don't know now.
11:13 It was a face.
11:15 A man's face with a beard.
11:18 In a jolly red suit with a pack on his back?
11:20 I didn't imagine it.
11:22 You probably saw my reflection.
11:25 -Or items. -No, no, it was moving and blurring.
11:28 Firelight would have done that. Thickering.
11:31 Maybe, but...
11:34 I don't know.
11:36 Well, there goes our celebration.
11:38 Anyway, your carpet's been christened.
11:41 I'm so terribly sorry.
11:43 Never cry over spilt champagne.
11:46 It's good for the rug.
11:49 You better have a doctor look at that.
11:51 But if it was the firelight...
11:53 Oh, Liz, drop it.
11:55 But he had a hook. A hook for a hand.
11:57 Fine, fine. Next time we'll get him to open the champagne.
12:01 [laughing]
12:03 I feel like such a fool.
12:09 Now, now, now, my little Liz is nobody's fool.
12:14 Except maybe mine.
12:16 It's one thing for me to knock you.
12:18 But don't let me hear you doing it or you'll have a fight on your hands.
12:21 But I spoiled our party.
12:26 Oh, and your precious hand.
12:29 And all that champagne.
12:31 I'll grow a new hand and we can get more champagne.
12:34 In fact, we will.
12:35 Tomorrow night, beware of geeks bearing bubbles.
12:38 Now, that's a promise. Make it eight sharp and I'll spoil some steaks.
12:41 Oh, I think it's only fair to tell you that...
12:44 when my wife is having a real good time...
12:47 she's apt to scream a little.
12:49 Fine, fine. I'll hike down the hill two miles...
12:52 and warn the neighbors.
12:54 Come on, woman, let's quit while we're ahead.
12:56 Marsha, let me bring something.
12:58 I'll make some marvelous potato salad without potatoes.
13:01 Fine, fine. And I set a beautiful table without a table.
13:05 That's what floors are for.
13:07 What else?
13:09 Welcome home, dear. I really mean it.
13:12 Thanks, Liz.
13:13 Quiet on the left hand, girl. Lots of luck.
13:15 Thanks. I'm pretty sure I didn't have that looked at.
13:17 Well, I'm gonna get fitted for a hook.
13:19 I got one for your eyes.
13:24 (door slams)
13:26 Well, honey, we finally got ourselves a house.
13:34 Oh, Gil, it's gonna be all right, isn't it?
13:42 I mean, it's gonna be a good place to live.
13:51 Gil?
13:53 Sure, honey, sure.
13:58 It's gonna be fine.
14:01 (music playing)
14:03 I'm sorry, honey, I start...
14:29 Oh, oh, Gil, I saw your reflection, and I thought...
14:36 What did you think, Marsha?
14:38 Gil, what have you done to yourself?
14:43 Oh, I cut myself shaving.
14:46 I guess we both cut the shakes.
14:48 But that's a terrible guess.
14:50 It wasn't your fault, honey.
14:52 My fault?
14:53 Well, next time when you whistle or blow a horn or something,
14:55 I mean, I'll just pop your head in while I'm all tensed up over that two-bit pocket.
14:58 Mere, I could have cut my throat.
15:01 Oh, you... you saw me in the glass.
15:04 So now we're even.
15:06 One good turn deserves another.
15:08 Gil?
15:10 Mm-hmm?
15:11 I haven't been out of this room since you left it.
15:14 Well, I thought I saw you or something.
15:25 I mean, just for a second, it seemed to be moving behind me.
15:28 Must be that cheap glass, some sort of reflection.
15:32 Gil, do you believe what you're saying?
15:34 Of course I do.
15:35 The little light we get on that side of the house bounces in off the ocean,
15:37 reflects all over the place.
15:39 Like the firelight last night.
15:41 Look, let's level with each other.
15:47 We've both been having some pretty peculiar sensations, right?
15:53 And they've all had to do with mirrors.
15:56 Glass.
15:58 There's nothing more powerful than the power of suggestion.
16:04 If you let it take hold of you...
16:06 When I had the fever in Korea, I saw things you wouldn't believe.
16:10 They said I was delirious, but I knew better.
16:11 What I saw was real. The doctors were delirious.
16:13 But you're not delirious now, and neither am I.
16:15 No, but the point is, we're both very susceptible to suggestion.
16:20 All this garbage about no mirrors, I mean, just because some oddball couldn't stand a sight of himself,
16:23 and had them all jerked out, even the medicine cabinet...
16:26 But why? Why would anybody do that?
16:29 I still stick to my original theory. It was Dracula.
16:34 Now, Gil, be serious. Liz Talmadge saw something, too.
16:37 How do we know that?
16:39 Really, what do we know about Liz?
16:42 I mean, she's bright, attractive, well...
16:45 But she could also be a kook.
16:48 Who knows? Maybe she's jealous. Maybe she wants the place for herself.
16:51 Well, it's true Adam didn't want to sell it to us.
16:55 Oh, I'm not saying that, honey. I'm not saying anything, except...
16:58 What?
17:00 Except...
17:02 Let's not jump to conclusions.
17:05 There's never been a question that didn't have an answer.
17:07 I mean a plain, common-sense answer.
17:10 Yet it's as if somebody doesn't want us here.
17:13 I never felt so unwelcome.
17:18 Well, if anybody's staging these things to get us out...
17:21 Well, that's ridiculous.
17:25 Who'd want the place?
17:27 We did!
17:28 Hey, don't use the past tense. We still do.
17:32 And whether we do or not, we're stuck with it.
17:35 It's simple economics.
17:37 We got the place cheap because nobody else would have it.
17:40 We couldn't sell it. We couldn't give it away.
17:42 There you go. Electricity's on.
17:46 That's a good omen.
17:48 Gil, I never had the slightest intention of giving up this place.
17:53 Why, what can we tell our friends or even ourselves
17:56 that there were boogie men in the looking glass?
17:58 Okay, that's settled.
18:00 Let's make a pact. We don't holler till we're heard. Deal?
18:04 Deal.
18:05 Now, we've got ten million things to do before Liz and Adam get here,
18:10 so let's not be tripping all over each other.
18:12 You start setting up your darkroom in the cellar.
18:14 I'll look around for places to put things.
18:16 I think I'll take a few horrible shots of the interior first
18:18 before you turn it into a Joan Crawford set.
18:20 That's me, nightmares into daydreams
18:22 and pants pressed while you wait.
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25:47 - Well, well.
25:52 Hello there, Marsha.
25:54 You're not afraid of mirrors, are you?
25:57 Why should you be?
25:59 You have nothing to fear.
26:01 Not yet, anyway.
26:03 Not for a few more years.
26:06 - Marsha, where are you?
26:10 - I'm up here, darling, in the attic.
26:13 I found the mirrors.
26:15 - The what?
26:17 - I found the mirrors.
26:19 I found the mirrors.
26:23 Big mirrors, little mirrors, fat mirrors, thin mirrors.
26:25 It's like the fun house.
26:27 - Hey, look at all the junk.
26:30 Somebody sure pulled out in a hurry.
26:32 - But it's not all junk.
26:34 You'll see, we'll find enough authentic antiques up here
26:36 to pay for the place.
26:38 I've already found a screen that'll buy us a car.
26:42 - I hope that old Adam didn't know about this.
26:45 Maybe we did latch onto a bargain after all, huh?
26:52 - You wanna see the monkeys more fun than a barrel of?
26:56 Well, look inside.
26:58 Go ahead, they don't bite.
27:01 - Ooh.
27:08 - Ever see so many funny faces?
27:11 - I don't like to look in one mirror, let alone 50.
27:13 Those three-way things in the clothing store are bad enough.
27:16 - That's because you're not a woman.
27:18 You know, darling, I didn't realize what I'd been missing
27:20 around this house until I stumbled into that room.
27:23 Why, mirrors bring a house to life.
27:26 - Well, you ought to know.
27:28 You spend half your life looking into one.
27:30 - All right, I'm vain, foolish, and female,
27:33 and I like mirrors.
27:36 - And they like you, baby.
27:40 - First thing I'm gonna do is dust them all off again
27:42 and put them up again all over the house.
27:44 - Let's not lose our heads.
27:46 You know the old saying,
27:47 people who live in glass houses shouldn't.
27:49 - And my old granddad used to say
27:51 that if I didn't stop staring at myself in the mirror,
27:53 I'd go blind.
27:54 You know what I said to him?
27:55 - What?
27:56 - I said I'd quit when I needed glasses.
27:58 - Oh.
28:00 - Ah.
28:03 - Say, um, speaking of little girls,
28:06 did you take a picture of one with my camera?
28:08 - Me? Of course not.
28:11 - You know I can't tell a shutter from a tripod.
28:13 Why?
28:14 - Oh, I got a double exposure in one of my negatives.
28:16 I can't figure it out.
28:17 It's supposed to be a brand-new film.
28:20 - Well, you'll just have to hike right back to New York
28:22 and get yourself a refund.
28:23 - Yeah, I'll do that right after dinner.
28:25 - Dinner? What time is it?
28:29 - It's getting on toward 6.
28:30 - Liz and Adam, they'll be here any minute.
28:32 - It'll be two hours yet.
28:34 - But I've got to start the charcoal for the steaks,
28:36 set the floor, bathe, dress, make up.
28:39 Be a doll.
28:40 Help me move that big stand-up mirror down to the bedroom.
28:43 I just can't get dressed in that traveling cape.
28:45 - You sure you want to take that chance?
28:46 - Chance?
28:47 - I mean, somebody did think he had a reason
28:49 for putting them all out of sight up there.
28:51 - And I once knew a lady who had three French telephones
28:53 pulled out of her apartment because they kept her awake
28:55 singing the Marseillaise.
28:58 - All right. We'll stick by the deal.
29:01 We don't holler till we're hurt.
29:04 I'll start rustling that thing through the door.
29:06 You get some blankets and rope to wrap it up in.
29:08 - Right.
29:36 - Gail, what is it?
29:39 - God knows, Marsha, God knows.
29:44 - Gail! Gail! Gail!
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30:24 - Now tell me, Gail, what was it?
30:26 What happened?
30:28 - I told you.
30:31 The attic, that stuffy little room,
30:35 got the sweating, got the shakes.
30:38 It was the old trouble.
30:42 - But you've been over that for years.
30:45 Gail, you saw something, didn't you?
30:48 - No.
30:51 I mean, I don't know.
30:54 I can't remember now if I saw it before I passed out or afterwards.
30:57 - But you did see something.
30:59 - In my mind, yes.
31:01 Ever since we got to this place last night,
31:03 my imagination's been working overtime, playing tricks.
31:05 Listen, believe me, this is nothing to what I went through before.
31:08 When I was really sick.
31:11 - Gail, you've got to see a doctor.
31:13 - What for?
31:15 The army doctors told me I'd have to expect recurrences now and then.
31:17 You never get the stuff completely out of your system.
31:19 - I never get the stuff completely out of my system.
31:21 When I was burning up with the fever,
31:32 all my friends used to come calling on me.
31:37 All my buddies from Korea.
31:43 All the dead ones.
31:46 I could see them playing.
31:50 And was it one of them you thought you saw upstairs?
31:53 - No.
31:56 But it wasn't any more real than they were.
32:18 It looked like an old woman.
32:21 With a fan.
32:29 You see?
32:35 I've just been doing too much. I'm all keyed up, overstimulated.
32:38 I've just got to take it easier, that's all.
32:40 - I'll call Liz and Adam and tell them not to come.
32:42 - You're no such thing. They're no strain.
32:45 They'll help me unwind. They'll be good for me.
32:47 For you too.
32:49 - Are you sure? Are you sure you're up to it?
32:52 - I'll tell you the truth, Marsha.
32:54 I wish we had a whole house full of people coming tonight.
32:57 - Here's champagne to our real friends
33:08 and real pain to our sham friends.
33:11 - Cheers.
33:13 - Mmm.
33:22 I don't know if it's the sentiment, the food or the champagne,
33:25 but it's very satisfying.
33:28 I feel so neighborly.
33:31 And in this house too.
33:33 You know, Marsha, I'm beginning to think you can work miracles.
33:36 - There's really nothing to it.
33:39 A little concentration, plus a bell, a book and a candle.
33:42 - Oh, don't forget the pinch of hogweed,
33:44 ground up with the right ear of a bat killed by the dark of the moon.
33:48 - Adam, stay off the spooky talk, even in fun.
33:51 - Oh, I'm sorry, dear. Aren't you in good voice tonight?
33:55 Liz had an offer from the Met today.
33:57 They heard that high note of hers in New York.
33:59 - Oh, Adam, aren't you awful?
34:02 He won't let me forget it.
34:04 - Why should I? I'm proud.
34:07 I'm a big wife in Cape Caution.
34:08 - Come on, Liz, you don't have to listen to that.
34:11 Let me show you what I'm gonna do with the rest of the house.
34:14 - Well, if we don't come back, it's been fun.
34:19 - I'll go with you.
34:21 - No, no, stay put. You boys can talk about girls.
34:23 - If you want anything, dear, just scream.
34:26 - A barrel of chuckles, that boy.
34:29 - Kind of quiet tonight, Gil.
34:34 You in a reflective mood?
34:36 - Reflective? That's a funny word to use.
34:38 - Is it? Never got a laugh with it?
34:40 - I mean, this house has a reputation for reflections, hasn't it?
34:43 - Oh, you've been listening to the local prophets of doom again.
34:47 - No, Adam, I've been waiting for you to tell me the story.
34:50 - Story?
34:53 - You know what I mean.
34:55 What is it about this place? What do they say?
34:57 You've skipped around the subject long enough.
35:00 - Gil, listen.
35:02 I've been giving a lot of thought to this deal of ours.
35:05 - You were quite right about it from the start.
35:07 So if you want to back out, I'll refund your down payment. Fair?
35:09 - Why? Why would you do that?
35:11 - Well, it's more important to me to make a friend than to make a deal.
35:14 - Pardon me if I don't think that's the reason.
35:16 - Well, what other reason would I have?
35:18 - You're the businessman. Suppose you tell me.
35:20 - If I were a businessman, I'd have never taken on this place.
35:23 No local agent would touch it.
35:25 Just another reason for the townspeople to resent me.
35:27 - And that's why you want it back.
35:29 - I don't want it back. I'm giving you a chance to get out.
35:31 - Thanks, but we're staying.
35:33 - Well, that's your privilege.
35:35 - Why do you keep evading the issue?
35:37 I've asked for the truth about this place.
35:39 I'll find it out anyway, so why try to hide it?
35:41 - It's not a question of hiding anything.
35:43 I didn't see the point of repeating a lot of careless talk.
35:45 I did tell you the place had a reputation for being unlucky.
35:47 You laughed. I expected you to laugh.
35:49 But just the same, that's why the place hasn't been occupied for the last 20 years.
35:52 That's why it's been standing here just like this
35:54 without a single living soul inside it.
35:56 - Living soul? Oh, you're clever with words, Adam.
35:58 - All right, you want the story? Then keep quiet. Let me tell it.
36:02 (Street noise)
36:03 - Your wife says she can turn this house into a showplace.
36:08 Well, it was a showplace in the 1860s when it was built.
36:12 A man named Jonah Bellman built it.
36:15 He said he'd make it a jewel box.
36:18 Pulled the sunlight and silver off the sea.
36:21 He built it for the most beautiful bride in New England.
36:28 The most admired, the most desired woman he'd ever known.
36:31 Laura. Laura Bellman.
36:34 He was madly in love with her.
36:36 She was madly in love with herself.
36:39 It was more than vanity. It was a tragic sickness.
36:43 But she was so beautiful that he was blinded to that.
36:47 He couldn't blame her for loving him less.
36:50 She never did belong to him.
36:52 Only to her own reflection in the glass.
36:56 They say he died of a broken heart.
36:58 Then she was alone.
37:00 Alone with the house, the servants, and the mirrors.
37:05 The years passed. The house grew old.
37:08 Servants grew old.
37:10 But Laura? Laura never grew old.
37:13 Not in her mirrors.
37:16 She never saw herself as anything but young and beautiful.
37:20 When the last servant died of old age,
37:24 he, too, brought a doctor to take charge of her.
37:26 She was very old, very ugly.
37:28 Painted and powdered like a bad job of embalming.
37:31 The doctor said she belonged in a madhouse.
37:34 But they kept her here.
37:36 They locked her in her room, away from her mirrors.
37:39 But she wasn't beaten. Not yet.
37:42 He found she could still see herself in the window glass,
37:45 as beautiful as ever.
37:48 One night, she danced happily toward that glass.
37:53 She danced right through it.
37:55 That was how she died.
38:00 But the story goes that she lives on in her mirrors,
38:03 because there's been more of her living there
38:06 than there'd been in her own body.
38:09 They say that she still guards her privacy.
38:12 They blame her for the other accidents.
38:15 What other accidents?
38:17 There've been several.
38:21 After she died, the nephew took over the house.
38:23 He was taking down one of the mirrors.
38:26 It fell on him. Killed him.
38:29 Of course, he was a seafaring man. He was clumsy around the house.
38:32 And he lost one hand to a shark.
38:34 Now tell me he had a hook in place of it.
38:36 It's a fact, Gil.
38:38 Now, look.
38:40 I'm not saying my wife saw him.
38:42 Certainly, she's heard the story, too.
38:45 Well, she saw something and imagined the rest.
38:49 I suppose I imagined the old lady in the mirrors.
38:51 What mirrors?
38:53 Mirrors in the attic.
38:55 Oh, yes, I forgot. You don't know about that.
38:57 So that's where they are.
38:59 No, I didn't.
39:01 I don't know.
39:03 I'm getting so I don't know who my friends are or my enemies.
39:06 I've been driven half crazy with suspicion.
39:09 Just plain fear.
39:11 Maybe you didn't know about the attic, but somebody did.
39:14 Somebody rigged a pretty good trick up there.
39:18 You know the kind of illusion they do with mirrors?
39:19 But that doesn't make sense, Gil.
39:21 What does? That I saw something supernatural?
39:23 That I imagined it?
39:24 I don't know. I really don't.
39:26 But try to believe this.
39:28 I'm on your side.
39:30 If there's any human agency behind this, let me help you uncover it.
39:35 You haven't said anything about the little girl.
39:37 Little girl?
39:39 I suppose she's been dead for 50 years, too.
39:42 A pretty little girl.
39:44 Blonde, about five or six.
39:47 A true Dempster.
39:48 But that's not ancient history.
39:50 Why, I was living here on the Cape when she disappeared.
39:53 It wasn't two years ago.
39:55 She was playing here near the house.
39:58 She'd been warned against it, but...
40:03 Well, I say she just stumbled and fell from the cliff.
40:07 The local people blame it on the house.
40:10 I say the sun shining on the windows must have blinded her.
40:15 Anyway, I never found a trace of her.
40:17 No?
40:19 Well, I took a picture of her this afternoon.
40:23 [♪♪♪]
40:26 It's her. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.
40:49 You're awful positive.
40:51 The police would never accept anything as blurred and washed out as that for any kind of identification.
40:56 What are you saying, that I'm lying? That I don't recognize her?
40:59 I don't know. I don't know what I'm saying.
41:02 Adam, tell me I'm not losing my mind.
41:07 That I'm not back in Korea somewhere having myself a nightmare.
41:11 Or better still, tell me that I am.
41:15 Well, you didn't imagine this, Gil.
41:17 But it has to be some sort of hoax, hasn't it?
41:19 I mean, a camera couldn't photograph a...
41:21 Go ahead, say it. A ghost.
41:23 That's what we're talking about, isn't it? Why do we keep dodging the word?
41:25 All right, then answer the question.
41:27 The answer is yes.
41:29 You've heard of spirit photography? It was all the rage a few years back.
41:31 Easy, Gil. You're working yourself into a nervous breakdown.
41:34 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'll be all right.
41:37 I'll pull myself together.
41:39 Well, we can't allow ourselves to accept that kind of evidence.
41:43 I mean, it has to be a trick.
41:45 Like you said, a double exposure.
41:48 The rest of it. There are ways of getting those effects.
41:51 Projected images on the window. Slides. Something like that.
41:54 I don't know how they do it, but they do it.
41:57 Sure, they...
41:59 They sit up in the attic...
42:02 For 20 years.
42:05 And stuff a little room with a slide projector.
42:08 And they wait.
42:10 They wait for somebody to pry the catch off the door.
42:14 Gil, please. Get out of this house.
42:18 Don't stay another night.
42:21 What's the point? What do you have to prove?
42:25 You're right.
42:30 There's nothing else I can do now.
42:35 Let's say if you can't lick them, join them.
42:42 I don't think I want to do that either.
42:48 I'm sorry.
42:50 Do me a favor.
42:59 Yeah, don't.
43:01 Don't tell Marsha about the picture.
43:04 I've already destroyed the negative.
43:06 I understand.
43:09 Poor Marsha.
43:12 She had her heart set on this place. I'm doing it over.
43:18 And those mirrors.
43:21 She fell in love with them at first sight.
43:27 Almost like...
43:30 What can I tell her? I can't tell her the truth.
43:35 What is the truth, Gil?
43:38 The truth is we don't know.
43:42 But nothing is worth this.
43:44 Hello, down there.
43:46 How exclusive can you get?
43:48 Hello, Liz.
43:49 We're fresh out of cigarettes. Marsha sent me down to bum a couple.
43:53 Down from where?
43:55 We've been up in the attic having a party of our own.
43:57 Nobody there but us chickens.
43:59 You and Lutter alone up there?
44:01 Why, sure. But that's one place you can be alone and still have a crowd.
44:04 I've never seen so many mirrors.
44:06 What's the matter with him?
44:08 Gil!
44:10 Gil!
44:12 Gil!
44:14 Gil!
44:16 I forgot to say "stay."
44:19 Gil!
44:21 Gil!
44:23 Gil!
44:25 Gil!
44:27 Gil!
44:29 Gil!
44:31 Save me!
44:33 Gil!
44:35 Gil!
44:37 Marsha!
44:44 Marsha!
44:47 Let me go, you fool! Let me go!
44:55 They've got Marsha! Can't you see them?
44:57 I've got to go after them!
44:59 Gil, stop it! Stop it! You don't know what you're doing!
45:01 Look, they've got her!
45:03 I've got to go after her!
45:05 She's here! Marsha's here! Look!
45:07 Look down! Look at the floor!
45:09 Look at the floor!
45:12 Oh, my God!
45:13 Oh, my God!
45:15 What have I done?
45:18 I've killed him!
45:21 How? How did it happen?
45:23 Oh, Marsha!
45:25 Oh, Marsha!
45:27 Oh, Marsha!
45:29 Oh, Marsha!
45:31 Oh, Marsha!
45:33 Oh, Marsha!
45:35 Oh, Marsha!
45:37 Oh, Marsha!
45:40 Marsha, baby, I was trying to break through, trying to reach you.
45:43 Through the glass.
46:08 You see how it was.
46:10 There was this...
46:15 This madwoman.
46:19 And she saw herself in the glass.
46:24 It was vanity.
46:28 All vanity, nothing but vanity.
46:31 And you see...
46:35 She danced herself...
46:38 Into the glass.
46:40 And died there.
46:43 But somehow...
46:47 She stayed on...
46:49 And pulled others in there with her...
46:52 Into the glass.
46:55 And that's how it happened.
47:03 And that's how it happened.
47:06 That's how I...
47:08 Happened to...
47:10 Kill my wife.
47:13 Don't talk about it, Gil.
47:16 You didn't know what you were doing.
47:19 You thought she was in danger. You tried to help her.
47:22 Thought you saw her in the glass.
47:25 But I did see her, Adam.
47:28 She was there.
47:30 She was there.
47:31 She's there now.
47:36 In the window.
47:39 No, Gil. None of that ever happened. Not really.
47:43 She is there, Adam.
47:46 She needs me.
47:48 Easy, Gil. You must rest. You need a long rest.
47:51 Don't worry, Marsha. I'm coming.
47:53 No! Don't go without me.
47:55 Marsha! Wait! Marsha! Wait!
47:59 Marsha!
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