Night Of The Demon (Curse Of The Demon)
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00:00:00It has been written since the beginning of time, even onto these ancient stones, that
00:00:25evil, supernatural creatures exist in a world of darkness. And it is also said, man using
00:00:38the magic power of the ancient runic symbols can call forth these powers of darkness, the
00:00:47demons of hell. Through the ages, men have feared and worshipped these creatures. The practice of
00:00:59witchcraft, the cults of evil have endured and exist to this day.
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00:04:03I must see Dr. Carswell at once.
00:04:05Yes, sir. Who shall I say is calling, sir?
00:04:07Professor Harrington. Tell him it's most urgent.
00:04:09I'm afraid Mr. Carswell is not at home, sir.
00:04:12I know he's here. Tell him I won't leave until he does see me.
00:04:15I'm very sorry, sir.
00:04:16Well, go back and see... Carswell.
00:04:19That's all right, please. Please come in. This way.
00:04:27Good evening.
00:04:28Good evening, Mother.
00:04:30Well, I'll go and see about some tea.
00:04:33Oh, that won't be necessary. We shall only be a minute.
00:04:39Call it off, Carswell. Stop this thing you've started,
00:04:42and I'll admit publicly that I was totally wrong and that you were totally right.
00:04:45Oh, it's very gratifying to hear that,
00:04:47but some things are more easily started than stopped.
00:04:49But I've heard it. I've seen it. I know it's real.
00:04:52You involve me in a public scandal.
00:04:54I protested.
00:04:56You said, do your worst, and that's precisely what I did.
00:04:59Please, Carswell. I'll stop this investigation.
00:05:02When Holden arrives, I'll tell him I made a mistake.
00:05:04I'll send a statement to the newspapers.
00:05:06Oh, no, no, no, no, no more newspapers.
00:05:08All I ask for is privacy for myself and my followers.
00:05:11Well, I promise.
00:05:13All right. That's good enough.
00:05:15Then you'll stop this?
00:05:23You've still got that parchment I gave you.
00:05:25The runic symbols? No, they burned.
00:05:27I couldn't stop it.
00:05:29Oh, I see.
00:05:31Well, I think perhaps you'd better go home.
00:05:33Then you will help me?
00:05:35I'll do all that I can.
00:05:37Carswell, if you only knew.
00:05:39I do know.
00:05:40Thank you.
00:05:42Good night, Mrs. Carswell.
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00:05:46Thank you again.
00:05:48Goodbye, Professor.
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00:06:57No!
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00:09:11Yes, sir?
00:09:13Do you have one of those eye masks?
00:09:15I must get some sleep in that light shining in my eyes.
00:09:18I'm afraid we don't.
00:09:20Would you like a pill?
00:09:22No, thanks. I'm trying to cut down.
00:09:28Ah.
00:09:35Excuse me.
00:09:43I can't get out.
00:09:49Sorry.
00:09:51Good.
00:09:54Could I change my seat?
00:09:56I can't sleep, and I seem to be bothering the gentleman in front of me.
00:10:00I'm afraid it's impossible. We're full up.
00:10:02Oh. Thank you.
00:10:19Thanks.
00:10:22It was hard.
00:10:26Here they come.
00:10:32Dr. Holden?
00:10:34Yes?
00:10:36I'm Lloyd Williamson, Professor Harrington's personal aide.
00:10:38I'm so glad that I'll be able to meet you here, sir.
00:10:40The professor had planned to meet you here himself, but he...
00:10:42Well, Dr. Holden?
00:10:44Yes?
00:10:46Where are the press, sir? Could you spare a few minutes?
00:10:48What makes me news?
00:10:50Well, the press.
00:10:52The press?
00:10:54Could you spare a few minutes?
00:10:55What makes me news?
00:10:56Ghosts.
00:11:05What exactly is the function of this convention you're attending?
00:11:09Investigation of international reports on paranormal psychology.
00:11:13Paran-what psychology?
00:11:15To say, mind-reading, fortune-telling, spirits, and zombies.
00:11:19What are your views on those people in the States who claim to be reincarnated?
00:11:22Bunk. Under hypnosis, people are unusually susceptible to the power of suggestion.
00:11:26Do all your delegates share your views on the supernatural?
00:11:29There are probably some, O'Donnell.
00:11:32Ask Williamson here. He'll probably know.
00:11:34Do you believe those who don't to be fakers?
00:11:36Let's say some people honestly believe in the supernatural.
00:11:39But according to you, they're wrong.
00:11:41That's right.
00:11:42What about the other delegates?
00:11:43Oh, please. We haven't got time. I have a car waiting outside.
00:11:48One thing more, Doctor.
00:11:50Yes?
00:11:51Take it kind of easy on our ghosts.
00:11:53We English are sort of fond of them.
00:11:55Sure. Some of my best friends are ghosts.
00:11:59Operator, I'm still waiting for my number.
00:12:02I'm sorry. The number you requested is reported out of order.
00:12:05Could you check it, then? It's to Professor Harrington's house.
00:12:09That is the correct number, but I'm sorry. The line is out of order.
00:12:13Oh. Thank you.
00:12:16Sorry to keep you waiting, Williamson.
00:12:18You were saying Professor Harrington couldn't come?
00:12:21Yes. I'm afraid I have some terrible news for you.
00:12:24Professor Harrington was found dead this morning.
00:12:30Found dead?
00:12:46Sorry to disturb you like this, Holden,
00:12:48but there's so much to do and so little time.
00:12:50I'll be right out.
00:12:51The police say that Professor Harrington was electrocuted.
00:12:54Somehow his car ran into a power line outside his house.
00:12:57It was a terrible accident. He...
00:13:00He must have died instantly.
00:13:03The services will be held tomorrow.
00:13:05I'll be there.
00:13:06Thank you.
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00:14:41I know the value of the cold light of reason.
00:14:44But I also know the deep shadows that light can cast, the shadows that can blind men to
00:14:50truth.
00:14:51What truth?
00:14:52Myths.
00:14:53Demonology and witchcraft have been discredited since the Middle Ages, O'Brien.
00:14:57I wrote a book about it, that's why I'm here.
00:14:59Then explain how a non-educated farmer like Hobart could know anything about this creature
00:15:03whose legend has persisted through civilization after civilization.
00:15:08Babylonian Baal, Egyptian Seth Typhon,
00:15:12Persian Asmodeus, Hebraic Malak.
00:15:15Come in.
00:15:23Good evening.
00:15:24K.T. Kumar Bombay apologizes for being late.
00:15:27Oh, that's quite all right, Kumar. We're just about to begin.
00:15:30Now, this is Dr. Holden.
00:15:32How do you do? Dr. Holden, I'm very pleased to meet you.
00:15:35Your work on Hittitism is a great favorite of mine.
00:15:38Thank you, Dr. Kumar.
00:15:40We were just talking about devils and demons.
00:15:43What are your views on the subject?
00:15:45Oh, I believe in them. Absolutely.
00:15:49Well, now that we're all here, let's get down to business.
00:15:55Oh, excuse me.
00:15:58Hello?
00:15:59Holden, this is Julian Carswell speaking.
00:16:02Speak of the devil.
00:16:05Yes, Carswell?
00:16:07I presume you know who I am.
00:16:09Yes. What can I do for you?
00:16:11Simply this. The newspapers say you're heading this so-called expose of my activities.
00:16:15Is that true? Yes, that's right.
00:16:17I suggest you have some second thoughts on this.
00:16:20Such as? Such as minding your business,
00:16:23not mine or Rand Hobart's.
00:16:25Harrington agreed to this. I think out of respect for him, you might do the same.
00:16:29Can you prove that, Mr. Carswell?
00:16:31At his personal assurance. I'm afraid you can't have mine.
00:16:35That's unfortunate. Maybe for both of us.
00:16:42O'Brien, see if you can have Hobart released to us
00:16:45for a clinical examination under test conditions.
00:16:48That's exactly what I had in mind.
00:16:50And forget this demon-monster theory of yours. It doesn't make sense.
00:16:54Carswell's wary about what Hobart might tell us.
00:16:57That makes sense.
00:16:59You'll find the library straight through, sir.
00:17:30I'm sorry, sir, but the last volume you asked for,
00:17:33The True Discoveries of the Witches and Demons, is not available.
00:17:37What does not available mean?
00:17:39It should be in our restricted section.
00:17:42The oldest known existing copy, over 400 years old, you know.
00:17:46Yes, I know.
00:17:48Seems to be missing.
00:17:50Miss Peculiar, I'm having it checked.
00:17:53It was mentioned in these research notes.
00:17:56Never mind. I can probably find what I want in these.
00:17:59I hope so, sir. I'll do my best to trace it.
00:18:07Excuse me, sir.
00:18:10I couldn't help overhearing your conversation with the librarian.
00:18:14You're interested in seeing the true discoveries of witches and demons.
00:18:18Yes.
00:18:20I have a copy I'll gladly put at your disposal.
00:18:23And the British Museum didn't have the only copy.
00:18:26Apparently not, Dr. Holden.
00:18:28I have what is perhaps the finest library in the world
00:18:32On witchcraft and the black arts.
00:18:34You know my name?
00:18:36Oh, yes. And you know mine.
00:18:38I'm Julian Carswell.
00:18:43How did you know my name?
00:18:45I'm Julian Carswell.
00:18:47How did you know I was here?
00:18:49Oh, isn't it the scientist who always calls what he can't explain otherwise
00:18:53By the word coincidence?
00:18:55Let's call this coincidence.
00:18:57I wouldn't like to think I'd been followed from my hotel this morning.
00:19:00Oh, I assure you, you weren't followed.
00:19:02I just thought it might be profitable for both of us to meet, you see.
00:19:06Shh.
00:19:08It's rather difficult to talk here.
00:19:10Why not come out to my place in the country?
00:19:12The book's there.
00:19:14If I don't find what I want, I might take you up on that.
00:19:17I'm delighted.
00:19:19Just one thing. Let's understand each other, Mr. Carswell.
00:19:23My investigation of you and your cult won't be stopped.
00:19:28Oh, but if I could make my point, I could persuade you.
00:19:31I'm not open to persuasion.
00:19:33But a scientist should have an open mind.
00:19:36That's what investigations are for.
00:19:39Oh. Well, um...
00:19:43In any event, here's my card.
00:19:45Lufford Hall, near Wargreave.
00:19:48I'll be seeing you soon, I'm sure.
00:19:51Oh!
00:19:53Excuse me. How clumsy.
00:19:56I'm so, so sorry.
00:19:58Here are your papers, sir.
00:20:00Thank you.
00:20:02Goodbye. Don't leave it too long.
00:20:13Oh!
00:20:32Can I help you, sir?
00:20:34Did you see that man who was just here?
00:20:36I can't say that I did.
00:20:39What do you make of this?
00:20:41It's a visiting card.
00:20:43Oh, I mean the handwriting on it.
00:20:45No handwriting.
00:20:47Yes, there is. I...
00:20:53Forget it.
00:21:12I can't find anything on this card.
00:21:15Nothing at all?
00:21:17No.
00:21:19Oh, I could try some absorption tests, but that would take time.
00:21:22How much time?
00:21:24Tonight?
00:21:26Fine. Call me at my hotel when it's finished.
00:21:28Right.
00:21:41Thank you.
00:22:07Aren't you...
00:22:09Yes, I'm playing.
00:22:11Did you...?
00:22:13Yes, I worked with him. I'm John Holden.
00:22:16Then I must talk to you. It's very important.
00:22:19I'm Joanna Harrington.
00:22:21Professor Harrington was my uncle.
00:22:23My deepest sympathies.
00:22:25Thank you. When can we meet?
00:22:27Tonight. Call me at my hotel.
00:22:30All right.
00:22:42Thank you.
00:22:52Well, come in.
00:22:54Thanks. So you really are Dr. Holden.
00:22:57All scientists don't wear thick glasses.
00:23:00I apologize for bothering you on the plane.
00:23:03What was all that writing about, anyway?
00:23:05Letters to my pupils about my trip to America.
00:23:07I'm a kindergarten teacher.
00:23:09I'm sorry it ended so tragically for you.
00:23:11Thank you.
00:23:13Sit down, won't you? Would you like a drink?
00:23:15No, thanks.
00:23:17You don't mind if I have one, do you? I need it.
00:23:19It's cold tonight, isn't it?
00:23:21No, it's hot. Quite hot.
00:23:23Do you think so?
00:23:25I heard you're continuing my uncle's project.
00:23:28And?
00:23:30I think you ought to drop it.
00:23:32You're the second person to suggest that in one day.
00:23:34What is your reason?
00:23:36I believe you're in danger.
00:23:38I found my uncle's diary.
00:23:40It's all in here.
00:23:42You make it sound very menacing.
00:23:44It is. I think it had something to do with my uncle's death.
00:23:47Something horrible happened to him.
00:23:49Something unexplainably horrible.
00:23:51I'd like to read it to you.
00:23:53Go ahead.
00:23:57Met Carswell at Albert Hall concert.
00:23:59He puts three exclamation marks after that sentence.
00:24:02Carswell can be a pretty startling character.
00:24:04You've met him?
00:24:06This morning.
00:24:08Pleasant. Lost my program during concert and Carswell gave me his.
00:24:12A nice gesture since I saved them.
00:24:14That doesn't sound particularly menacing.
00:24:16Wait.
00:24:18Today I found the parchment in the concert program Carswell gave me.
00:24:23It had runic symbols drawn on it.
00:24:26That's not mysterious.
00:24:28Runic symbols are the oldest form of an alphabet.
00:24:31They're found carved on ancient stones like hieroglyphics.
00:24:35Well, they're supposed to have magic powers.
00:24:38They don't.
00:24:40The parchment acted as if it were alive.
00:24:42It pulled from my hand and flew into the fire and burned.
00:24:45I think I can guess what Carswell has done to me.
00:24:48Will you have a cigarette?
00:24:50No, thanks.
00:24:52There's a lot more about seeing visions of a monstrous smoky shape
00:24:55and feeling cold like you said you were.
00:24:57I'm under some kind of witch's spell.
00:24:59My mind is in the balance.
00:25:01I must speak to Holden about this.
00:25:03Unfortunately, you came too late.
00:25:06What you're trying to tell me is
00:25:09your uncle was killed by witchcraft.
00:25:13As a doctor, I can assure you, you're wrong.
00:25:16It's a pure case of autosuggestion.
00:25:19But the way he knew he was going to die
00:25:21and the horrible way he actually did...
00:25:23It's not a thing that happened that couldn't have been an accident.
00:25:27You see, Miss Harrington, the shock of finding your uncle dead...
00:25:31Please don't treat me like a mental patient who has to be humored.
00:25:34I also majored in psychology.
00:25:36I'm sorry. I didn't mean to...
00:25:38You can learn a lot from children.
00:25:40They believe in things in the dark until we tell them it's not so.
00:25:43Maybe we've been fooling them.
00:25:45Good night, Dr. Holden.
00:25:47I'm really quite flattered that you've taken such an interest in my welfare.
00:25:50Don't be. If I hadn't have been away, my uncle might still be alive.
00:25:53It was an accident.
00:25:55I don't believe that.
00:25:57I love my uncle very much and I want to know exactly what happened to him.
00:26:00You don't seem to share my view. Good night.
00:26:03Wait just a minute.
00:26:06Hello?
00:26:08I've tested this card through and through.
00:26:10There's been no chemical used on it.
00:26:12Are you sure?
00:26:14Couldn't it have rubbed off in my pocket?
00:26:16Maybe, but some of it certainly would have been absorbed into the card
00:26:19and my absorption test would have shown it.
00:26:21This card is 100% clean, I guarantee it.
00:26:23I see.
00:26:25Well, thank you.
00:26:28How would you like to show me the way to Lufford Hall
00:26:31and the friendly Mr. Carswell tomorrow?
00:26:33Don't jump to conclusions.
00:26:35I just want to borrow a book from him and discuss a chemistry problem.
00:26:56Are you sure this is Carswell's place?
00:26:58That's what it said back there.
00:27:00I don't know what his racket is, but it pays very well.
00:27:30Sounds like a human sacrifice.
00:27:33Well, you remember the magic word, of course.
00:27:36Now!
00:27:44B, a magic puppy.
00:27:47Now, who'd like to stroke a magic puppy?
00:27:50Another one, coming out on its own.
00:27:52B, a magic puppy.
00:27:55Now, who'd like to stroke a magic puppy?
00:27:57Another one, coming out on its own.
00:27:59It's magic.
00:28:02Just a tame magician.
00:28:04That's it.
00:28:06That was what?
00:28:08The answer to my chemistry problem.
00:28:10One...
00:28:12Oh, right, children.
00:28:14Now, now, just you be good for a few minutes, won't you now?
00:28:17And I shall be back.
00:28:19Ah, Holden, delighted to see you.
00:28:21I hope we're not intruding.
00:28:23Not at all. Just my annual Halloween party for the village children.
00:28:26I'll come right up.
00:28:28He's just a nice old guy.
00:28:30Perhaps he's Santa Claus in disguise.
00:28:33I didn't recognize you.
00:28:35I used to earn my living like this years ago.
00:28:37You see before you, Dr. Bobo, the Magnificent.
00:28:40Oh, excuse me, this is Miss Joanna Harrington.
00:28:42Miss, uh, not by any chance...
00:28:44Yes, he was my uncle.
00:28:46Oh. I was very sorry to hear of his accident.
00:28:49He was a man of, uh, great principle.
00:28:54Mother.
00:28:55Mother.
00:28:57Mother.
00:28:59Oh.
00:29:01I'd like you to meet my mother.
00:29:03You must try her homemade ice cream.
00:29:05She's very proud of it.
00:29:07Mother, may I introduce Dr. Holden?
00:29:09How do you do?
00:29:11And, uh, Miss Joanna Harrington.
00:29:13And Miss Harrington is a niece of Henry Harrington's.
00:29:16Uh, Dr. Holden's going to borrow a book from my library.
00:29:19I've asked him to stay.
00:29:21Oh, how nice. I hope you don't mind children's parties, my dear.
00:29:24Julian's so fond of children.
00:29:26He really ought to be married.
00:29:28But he's so fussy. Oh, you aren't married, are you?
00:29:30No.
00:29:32Oh, mother, mother.
00:29:34Do you like ice cream, my dear?
00:29:36Yes, I love it.
00:29:38Well, come with me and I'll give you a treat.
00:29:40Would you like to try some?
00:29:42Not right now, thank you.
00:29:44So this is quite a place you have here.
00:29:46Yes, yes. Let me show you round.
00:29:48Ha ha, snakes and ladders.
00:29:50An English game, you wouldn't know it.
00:29:52You climb up to the top.
00:29:54But if you land on the head of a snake, you slide all the way down again.
00:29:57Funny thing.
00:29:59I always preferred sliding down the snakes to climbing up the ladders.
00:30:02You're a doctor of psychology. You ought to know the answer to that.
00:30:05Maybe you're a good loser.
00:30:07I'm not, you know.
00:30:09Not a bit.
00:30:13Just how much do you know about this book that you're after?
00:30:16Not very much.
00:30:18Only that Professor Harrington referred to it in his notes.
00:30:20A remarkable work.
00:30:22He understood it, learned many strange and terrifying secrets.
00:30:25Only a few?
00:30:27Is it that hard to understand?
00:30:29I spent my life trying to decipher it.
00:30:31The ancient sorcerers who wrote it knew their information...
00:30:34was far too valuable to entrust to any known language.
00:30:37I didn't realize what I was asking for.
00:30:40You don't believe in witchcraft?
00:30:43Do you?
00:30:45Do I believe in witchcraft?
00:30:47What kind of witchcraft?
00:30:49The legendary witch that rides on the imaginary broom.
00:30:52The hex that tortures the thoughts of the victim.
00:30:54The pin stuck in the image that wastes away the mind and the body.
00:30:57Also imaginary.
00:30:59But where does imagination end and reality begin?
00:31:02What is this twilight?
00:31:04This half-world of the mind that you profess to know so much about?
00:31:07How can we differentiate between the powers of darkness...
00:31:10and the powers of the mind?
00:31:14Oh, how terrifying.
00:31:16Ah, what do I see here?
00:31:18Yes, some chocolate, I do believe.
00:31:20Hmm, and there as well. Here we are.
00:31:22Gosh, Rackley!
00:31:24Wonderful, aren't they?
00:31:26If only we grown-ups could preserve their capacity...
00:31:28for simple joys and simple belief.
00:31:30I see you practice white magic as well as black.
00:31:33Oh, yes.
00:31:35I don't think it would be too amusing for the youngsters...
00:31:37if I conjured up a demon from hell for them.
00:31:39Or for myself, for that matter.
00:31:41As we're not protected by the magic circle...
00:31:43we'd both of us be torn to shreds.
00:31:45And you'd spoil the party.
00:31:47You're so right.
00:31:49But how to prove my point?
00:31:52Ah, yes.
00:31:54Yes.
00:31:56Hmm.
00:31:58There.
00:32:00It's done.
00:32:02What is?
00:32:04The magician doesn't like to expose his magic, black or white.
00:32:47Aah!
00:33:15Where are the others?
00:33:17They went round by the back.
00:33:19I didn't know you had cyclones in England.
00:33:21We don't.
00:33:23You probably could use a drink.
00:33:25Perfect host. This way.
00:33:33I'm sorry. I miscalculated.
00:33:35The wind's stronger than I expected.
00:33:37Much too much.
00:33:39You're talking in riddles.
00:33:41To prove my point,
00:33:43a medieval witch's specialty, a windstorm.
00:33:45Take my professional advice
00:33:47and stick to rabbits and puppy dogs.
00:33:49You think I'm mad?
00:33:51Unfortunately, you won't be able to explain away your death
00:33:53on the 28th of this month so easily
00:33:55with my prediction of it at this moment.
00:33:57You're really serious, aren't you?
00:33:59You will die, as I said,
00:34:02at 10 o'clock on the 28th of this month.
00:34:05Your time allowed is just three days from now.
00:34:08My time allowed?
00:34:11Oh, yes, your trick with the card.
00:34:14Very good, too.
00:34:16I'm sorry you remain so skeptical,
00:34:18but as the time gets closer,
00:34:20mental disintegration will set in.
00:34:22First weakness and unsureness
00:34:24and then horror as the fear of what is behind you
00:34:26grips your heart
00:34:28because it's there, Dr. Holden, it's there.
00:34:30It has been from the moment we met in the museum.
00:34:32You actually believe this nonsense?
00:34:34I asked you to drop this ridiculous investigation.
00:34:37Perhaps you will before it's too late.
00:34:39Well, it's nice to know
00:34:41that I do have a way out, Mr. Carswell.
00:34:43The choice is yours.
00:34:49I don't know if the diagrams are of any use to you, dear,
00:34:52but as you see, the words make no sense at all.
00:34:56What kind of language is this?
00:34:58I really don't know.
00:35:00I didn't know that you were interested in the black arts, Miss Harrington.
00:35:03She wanted to see the books
00:35:05that you and Dr. Holden were discussing, didn't you, dear?
00:35:08But we can't read a word, can we, dear?
00:35:10What especially interests you?
00:35:12The power of the runic symbols.
00:35:14Oh, undoubtedly, the answer to your question
00:35:16lies in that remarkable work.
00:35:18Unfortunately, it's unreadable. It's written entirely in cipher.
00:35:21You offered to lend it to Dr. Holden. Shall I take it to him?
00:35:24He also knows it would be useless without a word key.
00:35:27The storm has ended.
00:35:29I'm sure you and the doctor are anxious to return to London.
00:35:32Yes.
00:35:34You mean the party's over?
00:35:36You'll find him in the morning room where I left him. Wait.
00:35:39Well, goodbye, my dear.
00:35:42I'll see you...
00:35:46I'll see you again soon, I hope.
00:35:48Yes. Thank you.
00:35:51Goodbye.
00:35:57It was a lovely party, wasn't it?
00:35:59Except for that dreadful wind.
00:36:04Have I done something wrong?
00:36:06Yes, Mother.
00:36:08Do sit down.
00:36:11I only wanted to show her your books.
00:36:13I know how proud you are of them.
00:36:15Yes, I know.
00:36:17Listen, Mother, you believe in the supernatural.
00:36:20I've shown you some of its power and some of its danger.
00:36:23Yes, Julian.
00:36:25Well, believe this also. You get nothing for nothing.
00:36:28This house, the land, the way we live,
00:36:32nothing for nothing.
00:36:34My followers who pay for all this do it out of fear.
00:36:37And I do what I do out of fear also.
00:36:41It's part of the price.
00:36:43But if it makes you unhappy, stop it.
00:36:46Give it back.
00:36:48How can you give back life?
00:36:50I can't stop it. I can't give it back.
00:36:53I can't let anyone destroy this thing. I must protect myself.
00:36:56Because if it's not someone else's life, it'll be mine.
00:36:59You understand, Mother?
00:37:01It'll be mine.
00:37:07You're home.
00:37:10That's the first thing you've said for half an hour.
00:37:13What's the use of talking? It has no effect.
00:37:16Oh, but it has.
00:37:18Then what are you going to do about it?
00:37:20Practice restraint.
00:37:22I'm going to order a sandwich and a glass of milk and go to sleep.
00:37:26How a man who's been told...
00:37:28I'm going to order a sandwich and a glass of milk and go to sleep.
00:37:31How a man who's been told...
00:37:33I'm going to order a sandwich and a glass of milk and go to sleep.
00:37:35How a man who's been told he'll die in exactly three days...
00:37:38can consider sleeping is all the proof I need of the supernatural.
00:37:41Well, I'm not all that brave.
00:37:43I'm not all that gullible, either.
00:37:45When am I going to see you again?
00:37:47Why, do you think I'm gullible?
00:37:49But nice. When?
00:37:52Well, I'll be too busy going through my uncle's papers.
00:37:55I have a full day tomorrow, too,
00:37:57but I'd be happy to accept an invitation to dinner.
00:38:00Come on, say yes.
00:38:03I know some very interesting experiments in cause and effect.
00:38:08We could discuss them as, uh...
00:38:10as fellow scientists, of course.
00:38:13About 8?
00:38:15Thank you. And don't worry.
00:38:17I'll be around to see the outcome of Mr. Carswell's remarkable prediction.
00:38:21Good night.
00:38:33Good night.
00:39:04Nice of you to drop in, Coomer.
00:39:06Oh, good evening, Holden.
00:39:08Well, Mr. Holden, are you ill?
00:39:10No, I'm all right. Hello, Mark.
00:39:12Oh, I phoned you earlier.
00:39:14The authorities are being difficult about cooperating on Hobart.
00:39:17We'll need the family to sign a release. I have it here.
00:39:20Horfitz couldn't be that much trouble. Forget it.
00:39:22His memory patterns are probably worthless anyway.
00:39:25Besides, I've met this Carswell.
00:39:27He's a good man.
00:39:29He's a good man.
00:39:31Besides, I've met this Carswell.
00:39:33He's just a harmless faker.
00:39:35You are a very skeptical man.
00:39:37That's what Carswell said.
00:39:39Care for a nightcap?
00:39:41I wouldn't mind.
00:39:43Coomer, haven't you gentlemen heard that alcohol is the devil's brew?
00:39:47And interested as I am in the devil, I never indulge. Thank you.
00:39:51O'Brien, don't you think that skepticism is the scientific attitude?
00:39:56Oh, sometimes.
00:39:58All good scientists are from Missouri.
00:40:01In other words, they should continually be saying, show me.
00:40:04And if you are shown?
00:40:06Then I look twice. Like water?
00:40:08No, thank you.
00:40:10The whole question of this demon monster that you think shocked Hobart out of his mind
00:40:13is a perfect example of auto-suggestion and mass hysteria.
00:40:17Just the same as flying saucers.
00:40:20Someone imagines that they see moving lights in the sky,
00:40:24and the next thing, a thousand hysterical witnesses
00:40:27turn up all over the world swearing the Martians are attacking us.
00:40:31And now this nonsense.
00:40:33It even affects serious men like yourselves.
00:40:36Sometimes even me.
00:40:39But logic, the reality of the seeable and the touchable,
00:40:43that's what convinces me, finally.
00:40:45Certainly not rumor or intuition or funny feelings.
00:40:49Here's how.
00:40:51I wouldn't dream of arguing with you.
00:40:53You say, show me.
00:40:55Look for yourself.
00:40:58You know, the devil has something here.
00:41:00Very pleasant.
00:41:02He's most dangerous when he's being pleasant.
00:41:07Look, Mark, I don't want to be arbitrary about this Hobart business
00:41:10if you're so set on it.
00:41:12Let me think it over, will you?
00:41:14We haven't much time, you know. This is the release form.
00:41:16Thank you.
00:41:18I wonder if either of you could recognize this tune.
00:41:22It goes something like this.
00:41:26And then it goes...
00:41:31It sounds like a distortion of an Irish folk tune
00:41:34about the devil, I believe.
00:41:36The present devil is accepted, of course.
00:41:38A most odd coincidence.
00:41:40For in northern India there is a similar tune
00:41:43which is also part of an enchantment spell.
00:41:47Well, that takes care of that.
00:41:49I guess I must have heard it somewhere.
00:41:51It kept running through my head.
00:41:53Tell me, what have you got in your program for the convention tomorrow?
00:41:56Only a few sessions on extrasensory perception.
00:41:59The timetable is over there on the desk.
00:42:02I'd like to look in and watch your work. Do you mind?
00:42:04Not at all. I'd be glad to have you.
00:42:08Alden, you're not leaving us after the 28th, are you?
00:42:12No. Why did you ask that?
00:42:15Well, it's just that all the pages after the 28th are torn out.
00:42:23I don't know.
00:42:50I hope we don't run out of candles
00:42:52and my candlelight is romantic.
00:42:54Yes, but not on a night like this.
00:42:59Shall we have some brandy in the living room?
00:43:01Fine. I could use something to warm me up.
00:43:04Don't say it. I know you think it's hot in here.
00:43:06No. As a matter of fact, it's rather chilly.
00:43:19Do you know the ancient Mariner?
00:43:21Vaguely. I read it in school.
00:43:24I found a copy of it in my uncle's desk.
00:43:26He underlined one part.
00:43:31Like one that on a lonesome road
00:43:33doth walk in fear and dread,
00:43:36because he knows a frightful fiend
00:43:38doth close behind him dread.
00:43:41I hope you don't read poems like that
00:43:43to your kindergarten class.
00:43:45When it's important that a child learn something,
00:43:47I use the most direct means available.
00:43:49I get it, teacher.
00:43:52He scribbled a note on the next page.
00:43:55I never had a kindergarten teacher as pretty as you are.
00:43:58I'm serious.
00:44:00So am I.
00:44:02You wouldn't deny a dying man a last request, would you?
00:44:05You listen whether you like it or not.
00:44:07You haven't much time left.
00:44:09Today I found all the pages of my desk calendar
00:44:11torn out after October the 22nd.
00:44:14I know why.
00:44:16He died on the 22nd.
00:44:20John, what's the matter?
00:44:22The same thing happened to my desk calendar
00:44:25after the 28th.
00:44:27And I know why.
00:44:29You put the two together and they add up
00:44:31to a very obvious trick.
00:44:33You see, when a tribal witch doctor
00:44:35puts a hex on his victim,
00:44:37he always lets the victim know well beforehand.
00:44:41Let me see your uncle's diary.
00:44:50In case it would make you feel better,
00:44:52a parchment has to be passed.
00:44:55And the person has to take it without knowing.
00:44:59My mother taught me never to take anything from strangers.
00:45:02And I still don't.
00:45:04Then what killed my uncle?
00:45:06An accident with a falling power line killed him.
00:45:08Then he should only have been burned.
00:45:10His body was mutilated horribly.
00:45:14The police said it could have been an animal.
00:45:17The only thing they didn't say was what kind of animal.
00:45:21Well, what do you expect me to do?
00:45:23Nobody's free from fear.
00:45:25I have an imagination like anyone else.
00:45:27It's easy to see a demon in every dark corner.
00:45:30But I refuse to let this thing
00:45:32take possession of my good senses.
00:45:34If this world is ruled by demons and monsters,
00:45:36we may as well give up right now.
00:45:38Nobody said we were ruled by them.
00:45:40You just want me to give in to Carlswell's
00:45:42carefully calculated threats.
00:45:44That's exactly what he wants me to do
00:45:46because he knows he can't stand up to a real investigation.
00:45:49If he's so all-powerful, what's he so afraid of?
00:45:51I wish I knew.
00:45:53Are you sure Carlswell never passed anything
00:45:56or gave you anything on which the runes could have been written?
00:45:58What if he did?
00:46:00Did he?
00:46:02Well, he could have at the museum
00:46:05when my notes fell to the floor.
00:46:07As a matter of fact, he mentioned the museum the other day.
00:46:09Yes?
00:46:11Well, he picked up the papers and handed them back to me.
00:46:13Where are they now?
00:46:15In the hotel, I suppose.
00:46:17No.
00:46:19They're in my briefcase. I have it here.
00:46:38He did give you the parchment.
00:46:46It's trying to escape.
00:46:48It's just the wind.
00:46:56But it is trying to escape into the fire.
00:47:01That's a draft through the chimney.
00:47:15What made them stop?
00:47:24I don't know.
00:47:46Pardon me. Is this the Hobart farm?
00:47:51Wait a minute. Is this the Hobart place?
00:47:53Get off this property!
00:47:55All I'm trying to find out...
00:47:57You heard what I said. Get off!
00:47:59Look, they told me this was the Hobart farm.
00:48:01If it is, I've got to see Mrs. Hobart.
00:48:16All right, come in.
00:48:29Sit, you.
00:48:40What did he want with us?
00:48:42He ran to Hobart, your son.
00:48:44He was my son?
00:48:46You know, he hasn't been proven to be the killer, Mrs. Hobart.
00:48:49Speak your business.
00:48:51I'm not interested in his guilt or want of guilt.
00:48:54Very well.
00:48:56I had a group of scientists who would like to examine him...
00:48:59and try and find out what it was that drove him out of his mind.
00:49:02We know what it was.
00:49:04Let him be.
00:49:06Let him die.
00:49:08Do you know for a fact he was the murderer?
00:49:10He made the killing happen.
00:49:11He was chosen, and he passed it to a brother.
00:49:14The time will come when them that have no true beliefs shall be accursed.
00:49:18What do you want to do with him?
00:49:20The authorities say that I'll have to have the written permission...
00:49:23of the next of kin before he can be released to us.
00:49:26So I was hoping you would sign this release paper, Mrs. Hobart.
00:49:30What will this examination do?
00:49:32We hope that under hypnosis...
00:49:34that's a special technique we have...
00:49:37that we'll be able to find out what he did and saw...
00:49:40at the time of the killing.
00:49:42You say it was his brother who died.
00:49:44I didn't realize it was one of the family.
00:49:46A brother of the faith.
00:49:48A true believer.
00:49:50Not like him.
00:49:52I'll sign it as you ask.
00:50:00Why do you do this for him?
00:50:02What be it to us what they want?
00:50:04Let them all know what he saw.
00:50:11Thank you very much, Mrs. Hobart.
00:50:17Well, uh...
00:50:19I'll let you know what happens.
00:50:23He has been chosen.
00:50:25I've been chosen for what?
00:50:29What do you mean?
00:50:41Let no arm be raised to defend him.
00:50:44Defend me from what?
00:51:41Please.
00:52:03That's it, sir. Number 44.
00:52:05Thank you.
00:52:10Oops.
00:52:13Over here, John.
00:52:17I'm sorry I'm late. I just got back to the hotel and found your message.
00:52:20It's only a minute or two. I wanted to wait and go in with you.
00:52:24What is this all about?
00:52:26I'm not sure I know. That's why I asked you to come here like this.
00:52:29I didn't want to have to explain.
00:52:31I promised Mrs. Carswell I'd bring you here.
00:52:33Mrs. Carswell?
00:52:35John, she wants to help you. I thought we might take a chance.
00:52:38I thought at least we might learn something.
00:52:42Well, after this afternoon, I must confess there are a few things I don't know.
00:52:46Oh, I'm so glad you've come, both of you.
00:52:50Mr. Meek has just telephoned. He's on his way.
00:52:53May I ask who Mr. Meek is?
00:52:55The gentleman I want you to meet.
00:52:57And this is Mrs. Meek.
00:52:59Miss Harrison. I mean Harrington.
00:53:01And Dr. Holden.
00:53:03Excuse me, please.
00:53:08Don't you worry. All your problems will be solved, you'll see.
00:53:11That's very nice. May I ask how?
00:53:13Through tonight's seance.
00:53:15Seance?
00:53:17Yes. Mr. Meek is a most remarkable medium.
00:53:20I come to him with all my problems.
00:53:22Ah, here he is now.
00:53:24John, she's trying to help you.
00:53:26I said I'd talk to her about this nonsense.
00:53:28These things are all phony.
00:53:30Oh, please. You'll hurt Mr. Meek's feelings.
00:53:33He really is a most wonderful man.
00:53:36Well, good evening. Tis a good evening, too.
00:53:38A little warm, perhaps, but...
00:53:40This is Dr. Holden.
00:53:42Oh, so you're the gentleman who was in trouble.
00:53:44Maggie, dear? Well, life's full of little problems, isn't it?
00:53:47Let's see, Mr. Holden, what's yours?
00:53:49Now, perhaps you'd better not tell me.
00:53:51The spirits sometimes resent previous knowledge.
00:53:56Well, let's see if we can clear the air.
00:53:59Oh, not being part of the circle,
00:54:01you two had better sit by the window.
00:54:04Maggie, no point in wasting these good people's time.
00:54:15I must be insane to get involved in a thing like this.
00:54:18John, please.
00:54:30Very well, Maggie.
00:54:32Cherry ripe, cherry ripe, ripe, I cry
00:54:37Through the fell ones come and buy
00:54:40We must all sing the spirits like it
00:54:42Cherry ripe, cherry ripe, ripe, I cry
00:54:47Through the fell ones come and buy
00:54:52Cherry ripe, cherry ripe, ripe, I cry
00:54:57Shh! He's going off.
00:54:59Through the fell ones come and buy
00:55:09That's really very quick.
00:55:11He's so helpful, you'll see.
00:55:13Mrs. Carswell...
00:55:15Shh! Something's here.
00:55:17Can't you feel it?
00:55:29That's Crimson Eagle. He's Mr. Eagle's guide.
00:55:32He's the Red Indian chief from an obscure part of your country, Professor.
00:55:45Well, a kindly good evening to you, friends.
00:55:49Good evening, Mr. McGregor.
00:55:52That's Mr. McGregor. He always comes through.
00:55:54He's a friend of ours.
00:55:56Funny weather we're having.
00:55:58It'll do a mickle to give to the flowers and the barley.
00:56:02Lovely weather, Mr. McGregor.
00:56:05But I sense we have strangers in our midst.
00:56:08Two strangers.
00:56:10But they're very sympathetic.
00:56:13Will you hear them into the circle?
00:56:16Oh, that's really a great honor.
00:56:18And Mr. McGregor's so particular who sits in the circle.
00:56:21Here, over here, both of you.
00:56:27Oh!
00:56:37Mummy! Oh, Mummy!
00:56:40Oh, Mummy!
00:56:42Oh, somebody's poor departed child. I wonder whose.
00:56:46I can't find...
00:56:48I can't find Frederica.
00:56:51She's lost her doll.
00:56:57Joanna.
00:56:59Joanna.
00:57:01It's my uncle.
00:57:03Don't be foolish.
00:57:05Are you there, Joanna?
00:57:07Yes.
00:57:09These things are all fate.
00:57:11But it is my uncle. I know his voice.
00:57:13It is you who hurt Mr. Meek.
00:57:15Got to...
00:57:17Got to tell Holden.
00:57:19He can't fight it.
00:57:21It's too strong.
00:57:23He means we must give up the investigation.
00:57:25Carswell has the key.
00:57:28He's translated the old book.
00:57:31The answer is there.
00:57:33No. Oh, look.
00:57:36It's in the trees.
00:57:38It's coming.
00:57:40The demon!
00:57:42It's coming!
00:57:44No!
00:57:46That does it.
00:57:48Don't turn the light on. He's in a trance.
00:57:51Trance, my eye.
00:57:53Maggie, I feel sick.
00:57:56You're not the only one.
00:57:58He's still alive, no thanks to you.
00:58:00Don't you know that to wake a medium out of a trance is to risk his life?
00:58:03But it was real. You must do as he says.
00:58:06Don't you understand?
00:58:08Oh, dear.
00:58:11Mr. Holden.
00:58:13Oh, don't go, Mr. Holden.
00:58:15Oh, Mr. Holden, you must listen.
00:58:17Mr. Meek knew nothing.
00:58:19Let them go.
00:58:21Mother, come along with me.
00:58:30But I tell you, it did sound like my uncle's voice.
00:58:34It was Mr. Meek doing voice impersonations.
00:58:38And your supposed friend, Mrs. Carswell, states the whole thing.
00:58:42She's looking out for her son's interests, not mine.
00:58:47Tomorrow's the 28th.
00:58:50Now, that would be a real miracle if Carswell could change that.
00:58:53What if he did find he really had a translation of that book?
00:58:57Would that convince you that there is something in all this?
00:59:00It might help.
00:59:02Then I'm going to Carswell's house to see if I can find it.
00:59:05Go ahead.
00:59:08Aren't you even going to try to stop me?
00:59:11It would be easier to stop Carswell's demon than a woman who has her mind made up.
00:59:20Come on.
00:59:39No lights are showing.
00:59:41If anybody finds you there, the charge will be burglary.
00:59:45Carswell is away. His mother told me.
00:59:47I'll find a reception committee waiting for you.
00:59:50Will you believe then that Mrs. Carswell loves her son, not us?
00:59:54I hope that's what does happen.
00:59:56Don't you see I want to be wrong?
00:59:59There's nothing I'd like better than to find out...
01:00:02that this has all been put on just to scare you off.
01:00:07Where are you going?
01:00:09I'm going to see if I can get into the house.
01:00:11But it was my idea.
01:00:13You didn't think for a minute that I'd let you go in there, did you?
01:00:16I'll go with you.
01:00:17I know it'll be much easier for me.
01:00:19I can get next to the house by going through the woods without being seen.
01:00:23And with you waiting, I'll hurry back.
01:01:16I'll go with you.
01:01:46I'll go with you.
01:02:16I'll go with you.
01:02:46I'll go with you.
01:03:16I'll go with you.
01:03:46I'll go with you.
01:04:16I'll go with you.
01:04:46I'll go with you.
01:05:13Why did you drop the poker?
01:05:15I dropped the pot.
01:05:17Which isn't, you know.
01:05:18Oh, my boy, you're as pale as death.
01:05:20There was something in here.
01:05:22Oh, nothing to worry you.
01:05:23Just a minor demon.
01:05:24I said to protect the room.
01:05:25Nothing like the real thing when you meet it.
01:05:27It may have been minor, but it had claws and teeth.
01:05:29Oh, claws and teeth.
01:05:32Did you bite the man?
01:05:34Oh, shame.
01:05:35I don't keep you as a watchcat.
01:05:37I left the book in full sight for him.
01:05:39His name's Grimalkin.
01:05:41That's a fashionable name for English cats in the Middle Ages.
01:05:45They were used in witchcraft, you know.
01:05:47It was not that cat.
01:05:48Oh, yes, it was.
01:05:49You must have awakened him.
01:05:51You shouldn't have at the time of the full moon
01:05:53when cats wander and witches dance.
01:05:55Oh, yes, they do dance.
01:05:56I've seen them.
01:05:58You really are crazy, aren't you?
01:06:00On the contrary, it's you who seem to be mildly unhinged.
01:06:02I mean, is breaking into my house at night
01:06:04to read a few of my scribbles an indication of sanity?
01:06:07I was talked into that.
01:06:08Oh, Miss Harrington, no doubt.
01:06:10That's quite horribly bright, young woman.
01:06:13I don't think she'd be flattered.
01:06:15At least her head isn't in the sand.
01:06:17She believes that she can see.
01:06:18She can.
01:06:19She believes that she's alive.
01:06:21She is.
01:06:22She believes that you'll die tomorrow night.
01:06:24You will.
01:06:25Julian, I thought I heard...
01:06:26It's all right, Mother, just a social visit.
01:06:28Dr. Holden was just leaving.
01:06:30Is your car outside?
01:06:31Housebreakers don't leave cars in driveways.
01:06:33Oh, you have a point there, my boy.
01:06:35Give my regards to that intelligent young woman.
01:06:37Oh, if you're thinking of going through the woods,
01:06:39you might find it unpleasant.
01:06:41I suggest you use the driver.
01:06:42I'll put on the light for you.
01:06:43I have one superstition.
01:06:45I like to go back the way I came.
01:06:50He's a very obstinate young man.
01:06:54I told him not to go through the woods.
01:06:56He just wouldn't listen.
01:07:09Come on.
01:07:39Come on.
01:08:09Come on.
01:08:39Come on.
01:09:10Come on.
01:09:32It was dark in the trees and I saw this smoke.
01:09:36I know this sounds crazy,
01:09:38but I could have sworn the smoke came after me.
01:09:41And don't forget Carswell tore out those pages.
01:09:44I mean, the book must have had the answer.
01:09:46Why would he have torn them out otherwise?
01:09:48Right.
01:09:49Well, one usually has a reason for tearing things out.
01:09:51And this feeling of being followed.
01:09:53And Carswell says Dr. Holden will die tomorrow night.
01:09:57Of this enchantment thing.
01:09:59Hex.
01:10:00Forget the hex.
01:10:01Let's say something came after me.
01:10:03Take it from there.
01:10:04Look, we've been through all of this before.
01:10:06Frankly, I think a bit of sleep is indicated.
01:10:09It's extraordinary how different a thing will look in the morning.
01:10:11But there's so little time.
01:10:13If what you say is true.
01:10:14But it is, all of it.
01:10:16Doctor, I don't think that Scotland Yard
01:10:18can be anything more than an interested spectator until...
01:10:21I see your point.
01:10:22You mean until you have a victim?
01:10:24Well, you already have one, my uncle.
01:10:27Have we got anything in criminal records
01:10:29to cover phantoms and demons?
01:10:31Not that I know of.
01:10:32I didn't think so.
01:10:33You're right.
01:10:35It will seem different in the morning.
01:10:37But it is morning.
01:10:38It's three o'clock in the morning, to be exact.
01:10:41All right.
01:10:42Now, if you insist on setting the wheels grinding,
01:10:44will you please wait here?
01:10:51Spare me a minute, sir.
01:10:52There's a Dr. John Holden outside, sir.
01:10:54The psychology chap?
01:10:55That's it, sir.
01:10:56It's a bit awkward.
01:10:58He's...
01:10:59It seems he's bewitched.
01:11:01You know, broomsticks and all that.
01:11:03Thinks he's being followed by something.
01:11:05Apparently, he's going to die tomorrow night.
01:11:07Does he say so?
01:11:08Well, not exactly, sir.
01:11:09There's a young lady with him, a Miss Harrington.
01:11:11Apparently, her uncle went through the same thing.
01:11:14Thought he was being followed by something or other.
01:11:16Thought he was going to die on a certain night at 10 o'clock.
01:11:19Did he?
01:11:20Well, that's the thing that's got me puzzled, sir.
01:11:22He did.
01:11:27You look angry.
01:11:29Maybe that's because I am.
01:11:31With me for bringing you here.
01:11:33No, with myself for not realizing
01:11:35what their attitude was bound to be.
01:11:39Look, Joanna.
01:11:41Let me tell you something about myself.
01:11:43When I was a kid,
01:11:45I used to walk down the street with the other kids
01:11:47and when we'd come to a ladder,
01:11:48they'd all walk around it.
01:11:50I'd walk under it,
01:11:51just to see if anything would happen.
01:11:53Nothing ever did.
01:11:55When they'd see a black cat,
01:11:57they'd run the other way
01:11:58to keep it from crossing their paths.
01:12:00But I didn't.
01:12:01And all this ever did for me was make me wonder why.
01:12:04Why people would get so panicky
01:12:06over absolutely nothing at all.
01:12:09And I've made a career studying it.
01:12:11Maybe just to prove one thing.
01:12:13That I'm not a superstitious sucker
01:12:15like about 90% of humanity.
01:12:18But what did you run from in the woods?
01:12:20Oh, some trick gadget that Carswell had rigged up
01:12:23to frighten me away.
01:12:24And I fell for the bait like an idiot.
01:12:26But he told you himself not to go back through the trees.
01:12:29That's good psychology.
01:12:31The same as he used when he had your sweet old Mrs. Carswell
01:12:34plant the story about his being away.
01:12:37Don't bother about him.
01:12:39He thinks I'm crazy anyway.
01:12:41I'm beginning to think so myself.
01:12:43Allowing myself to be stampeded like this
01:12:45into a state of hysteria, I...
01:12:47I suppose you mean by me.
01:12:49I didn't say you were doing it deliberately.
01:12:51But that's what you meant.
01:12:52Good night, Dr. Holden.
01:12:59Well, when your partner comes out,
01:13:02tell him it was just a bad Halloween joke.
01:13:11I want to clear up everything today
01:13:14even if it means having the closing session tonight.
01:13:16Is that all right with you?
01:13:17Fine.
01:13:18I hope I've been sent down today by ambulance under guard.
01:13:21I want to get back to the States
01:13:23as soon as possible.
01:13:24I don't want to be a burden to you.
01:13:26Yes, who's calling?
01:13:28It's Mrs. Carswell.
01:13:30Tell her I cut my throat.
01:13:32Anything. Get rid of her.
01:13:33She's been calling all night.
01:13:35Dr. Holden has just left today.
01:13:37I'm sorry.
01:13:39She's hung up.
01:13:40Carswell's working his mother overtime.
01:13:42Let's go, shall we?
01:13:56Hello?
01:13:58Oh, yes, Mrs. Carswell.
01:14:00I tried to get Mr. Holden all day,
01:14:02but he won't take a call.
01:14:04I thought perhaps you could get through to him.
01:14:07Believe me, I was as much surprised
01:14:09by Julian's return last night as you were.
01:14:12I don't know what to say to you.
01:14:14I'm sorry.
01:14:16I don't know what to say to you.
01:14:18I don't know what to say to you.
01:14:20I don't know what to say to you.
01:14:22I don't know what to say to you.
01:14:25I think I found another way to help Mr. Holden.
01:14:28I'm not certain that he needs help,
01:14:30and even if he does, I'm quite sure
01:14:32that he doesn't want it from me.
01:14:34But you can't mean that, Shirley.
01:14:36You must listen to me.
01:14:38Someone else knows the secret of the parchment.
01:14:41Tell him Rand Hobart knows.
01:14:43All this evil must end, Miss Harrington.
01:14:46It must end.
01:14:48I must ring off now.
01:14:51Julian, I...
01:14:53Yes, Mother?
01:14:55Please, Julian, try to understand.
01:14:57I'm afraid it's you who don't understand.
01:15:20I'm afraid it's you who don't understand.
01:15:50I'm afraid it's you who don't understand.
01:16:20Alright.
01:16:22All of us here know that through the use of hypnotism,
01:16:51we can unlock certain sections of the human mind that are not accessible to memory.
01:16:56A great deal of publicity has been given lately to hypnotized persons
01:17:02who supposedly recall an existence prior to birth.
01:17:07In all cases, we must ask ourselves,
01:17:10do hypnotized people always tell the truth?
01:17:14The subject of hypnotism brings us to a presentation
01:17:17of the late Professor Harrington's study and investigation
01:17:21of people who follow witch cults and practice devil worship.
01:17:27We're going to perform an experiment on the platform
01:17:31with a Mr. Rand Hobart who, through an experience related to devil worship,
01:17:38has lost all contact with reality.
01:17:41Professor O'Brien, the platform is yours.
01:17:48We have here an extraordinary subject.
01:17:51For a period of time, this man has been as you see him here.
01:17:55He fails to respond to any normal stimulation.
01:17:59His experience, whatever it was, which we hope here to discover,
01:18:03has left him in a state of absolute catatonic immobility.
01:18:08When I first investigated this case,
01:18:09the problem of how to hypnotize a non-responsive person was the major one.
01:18:13Now, the proceedings may be somewhat dramatic, but they are necessary.
01:18:17The only way of bringing his mind out of the womb of darkness
01:18:20into which it has retreated to protect itself
01:18:23is by therapeutic shock, electrical or chemical.
01:18:28For our purpose, we are today using pentothal and later methyl amphetamine.
01:19:13Oh! Oh! Oh!
01:19:32Hobart, look at this.
01:19:38Look at this.
01:19:40You see only this.
01:19:42You see nothing else.
01:19:44Only the light.
01:19:46Only this.
01:19:49You see only the light.
01:19:52Look at this.
01:19:54You see only this.
01:19:57You see nothing else.
01:20:01You see only this.
01:20:04Your eyelids are getting heavy.
01:20:08Tired.
01:20:10More and more tired.
01:20:14You're going to sleep.
01:20:17Sleep.
01:20:19Calm, restful sleep.
01:20:24Rest. Sleep.
01:20:28Now, you hear nothing but my voice.
01:20:34Do you understand, Hobart?
01:20:37You hear nothing but my voice.
01:20:41The patient is now in a deep trance
01:20:43and will obey the commands of Dr. Holden.
01:20:45Methyl amphetamine.
01:20:48Do you wish to proceed?
01:20:50No, I'll turn him over to you.
01:20:52Hobart, you will next hear the voice of Professor O'Brien.
01:20:56From that point on, it will be his voice and his alone
01:20:59that you will hear and obey.
01:21:01Do you understand that?
01:21:05Hobart?
01:21:08Yes?
01:21:09Do you hear me?
01:21:11Yes.
01:21:12Mine is the only voice you will hear. Is that clear?
01:21:15Yes.
01:21:17Only you.
01:21:19Hobart, what is the order of the true believer?
01:21:24Those of us who believe that evil is good
01:21:30and good evil.
01:21:32Yes, go on.
01:21:34Who blaspheme and desecrate.
01:21:39In the joy of sin will mankind that is lost
01:21:43find itself again.
01:21:46And who revealed this to you, Hobart? Who?
01:21:51The one who has brought us the wisdom of the true belief.
01:21:57Julian Carswell?
01:22:00Yes.
01:22:03Now I want you to come forward in time.
01:22:07It is the night of the demon.
01:22:10No. No.
01:22:15You must.
01:22:17It is the night of the demon.
01:22:21Lord's there. I see it.
01:22:24In the trees.
01:22:26The smoke and the fire.
01:22:29My time allowed is almost over.
01:22:32Hobart, what do you mean, your time allowed?
01:22:34He's not in rapport with you. Do you want me to turn him over to you?
01:22:36Yes, please.
01:22:38Hobart, from now on the only voice you'll hear is that of Dr. Holden. Do you understand?
01:22:47What do you mean by your time allowed?
01:22:51To prepare for my death.
01:22:55Why must you die?
01:22:58I've been chosen.
01:23:01How will you die?
01:23:03The parchment was passed to me.
01:23:06I took it without knowing.
01:23:10Hobart, open your eyes.
01:23:22Is this the parchment?
01:23:28No. I passed it back to the brother who gave it to me.
01:23:34It was the only way. I had to return it to him.
01:23:38I didn't want to, but it was the only way I could save myself.
01:23:41To save yourself, you had to give it back to the one who gave it to you?
01:23:44Yes. Yes. I had to.
01:23:49And the demon took him.
01:23:51Not me. Not me.
01:23:56You're trying to pass it to me again.
01:24:00I won't take it. I won't.
01:24:05Let it escape! Let it escape!
01:24:09Everybody, fire!
01:24:13No! No!
01:24:17No!
01:24:25No!
01:24:45Oh, this is terrible. Really terrible.
01:24:49Could you get me a car to take me to Leffert Hall?
01:24:51I can use mine. But why should you want to go there?
01:24:54Are you going to return to Mr. Carter or give me the key?
01:24:57Certainly.
01:24:59Dr. Rudin. Wait.
01:25:02I do not believe he is there. How do you know?
01:25:04Mrs. Carswell told me earlier on the telegraph.
01:25:07Knowing your attitude, I told her you would not be interested.
01:25:11Are you? Yes, I am.
01:25:13She kept saying that all evil must end, but how could it?
01:25:17Go on. I hardly understood her,
01:25:19but it seems that her son is taking the 845 train to Southampton tonight.
01:25:23Would you know why?
01:25:25845.
01:25:47Has the Southampton train come through yet?
01:25:49She's in the station now.
01:25:50Give me a one-ticket, please.
01:25:54Charge!
01:26:20Charge!
01:26:50Charge!
01:27:17Good evening, Dr. Holden.
01:27:21My boy, I've been expecting you.
01:27:23Joanna. First-aid hypnosis.
01:27:27Oh, just a convenient way to stop idle chatter on the train.
01:27:31She's not harmed. I'll get her out of it.
01:27:36Now, wait.
01:27:39There's a friend here. Talk to him.
01:27:44John.
01:27:45This is abduction, you know.
01:27:47Oh, dear me, no.
01:27:49No, no. She came quite willingly.
01:27:52You came willingly, didn't you?
01:27:55You remember? We discussed it. Oh, at great length.
01:27:59John, he's frightened. Terrified of you.
01:28:02I thought it was supposed to be the other way around.
01:28:04He's trying to run away from you.
01:28:06You see why I let her sleep? This idle chatter.
01:28:11Carswell, I know now that you were right when I was wrong.
01:28:15Really?
01:28:16But there is a way out for me. You always said so.
01:28:19Here. Watch this.
01:28:20Feed it.
01:28:21You want me to admit your power.
01:28:23You can send this to any newspaper.
01:28:25And photostatic copies to all your followers.
01:28:28Isn't that what you want?
01:28:29Yes, but it's too late now. It's six minutes to ten.
01:28:35I guess it was my fault for not listening to Joanna.
01:28:39I'm sorry now that I didn't listen.
01:28:41And I want to thank you for convincing me of the existence of a world I never thought possible.
01:28:47Oh, if only you'd understood sooner.
01:28:51I suppose I still have time for a last cigarette.
01:28:56Joanna.
01:28:58Shall we go?
01:28:59No. No, thank you. I've stopped smoking.
01:29:03It must have been quite recently.
01:29:06Have you got a match?
01:29:07Ah, yes, of course.
01:29:19Thank you.
01:29:21That's all right. You keep them. I shan't need them anymore.
01:29:25You're very generous.
01:29:28Well, I leave you to a little rest.
01:29:33Well, I leave you two alone.
01:29:36I know there's a certain feeling between you and you might want to be alone.
01:29:40Sit down.
01:29:41Your generosity is becoming overwhelming as it gets closer to ten o'clock.
01:29:45You're staying with me, Carswell.
01:29:48You've sold your bill of goods too well.
01:29:50Because I believe you now.
01:29:52I believe that in five minutes something monstrous and horrible is going to happen.
01:29:57And when it does, you're going to be here so that whatever happens to me will happen to you.
01:30:03You're insane. You can't do this.
01:30:05No. You're staying here, Carswell. You're staying right here.
01:30:10No.
01:30:11Let him go, Holden.
01:30:13This man's insane. I must go.
01:30:14It's all right, Doctor. We're the police, as Holden knows.
01:30:17We've had you under observation more or less at his request.
01:30:20Fortunately for you, as you can see.
01:30:22Yes, I see. Thank you.
01:30:23It's obvious that Holden has got a bit of a persecution complex about you.
01:30:26Something about your putting a hex on him.
01:30:29Well, that's utterly ridiculous.
01:30:30Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm getting out of this station.
01:30:32John, he's lying. He bought a ticket to Southampton. I saw it myself.
01:30:35This is idiotic. I can leave this train when I want.
01:30:37Excuse me.
01:30:38Here's your book, Mr. Carswell.
01:30:39No, no, no. It's not mine. I found it here when I got on the train.
01:30:41Your bag, sir?
01:30:42My bag.
01:30:43Oh, yes. Yes, of course.
01:30:45Yes.
01:30:46These are his too.
01:30:47Well, you want your hat and coat, don't you, sir?
01:30:49My coat.
01:30:50Oh, yes, yes.
01:30:51Oh, yes, yes.
01:30:52They're very forgetful of me. Thank you very much.
01:30:57You pass them.
01:31:03You zip them in my pocket.
01:31:11It's two minutes of ten.
01:31:12Go on.
01:31:21Go on.
01:31:51Thank you.
01:31:52Thank you.
01:32:21Thank you.
01:32:51Thank you.
01:32:52Thank you.
01:33:22Thank you.
01:33:43What was that?
01:33:44Come on.
01:33:47There's a man on the train.
01:33:48What's happened?
01:33:49I don't know, but I think the train's hit him.
01:33:52Maybe it's better not to know.
01:34:11The train must have hit him and dragged him.
01:34:13I thought he was on the other side, sir.
01:34:15Don't be ridiculous, Simmons.
01:34:17Look at him.
01:34:18The train must have hit him.
01:34:30You're right.
01:34:31Maybe it's better not to know.
01:35:18THE END