Sinopsis
Una serie de crímenes en el pueblo de Klineschloss, todos ellos con masivas pérdidas de sangre y mordeduras en la garganta, unido a una plaga de murciélagos, hace pensar a las autoridades del pueblo que se encuentran ante la amenaza de un vampiro.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024727/
Dirección
Frank R. Strayer
Starring
Lionel Atwill
Fay Wray
Melvyn Douglas
Dwight Frye
Maude Eburne
Guion
Edward T. Lowe
Fotografía
Ira H. Morgan (B&W)
Compañías
Majestic Pictures
Una serie de crímenes en el pueblo de Klineschloss, todos ellos con masivas pérdidas de sangre y mordeduras en la garganta, unido a una plaga de murciélagos, hace pensar a las autoridades del pueblo que se encuentran ante la amenaza de un vampiro.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024727/
Dirección
Frank R. Strayer
Starring
Lionel Atwill
Fay Wray
Melvyn Douglas
Dwight Frye
Maude Eburne
Guion
Edward T. Lowe
Fotografía
Ira H. Morgan (B&W)
Compañías
Majestic Pictures
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00:02:58But how else can we explain these terrible deaths
00:03:02One else last night five others before him. That's six within as many weeks inspector our friends
00:03:09Neighbors that we'd known for years drained of their life's blood found dead in bed
00:03:15lifeless skeletons of skin and bone
00:03:18Vampires are at large. I tell you vampires
00:03:22Malignant demons who issue forth from their graves in the dead of night to attack their victims and drink the blood from their veins
00:03:29Gotten him a breast night. I don't jest. Ah
00:03:32That blood-sucking legend belongs in the same category with werewolves and all other peasant superstitions, but the bats man the bats
00:03:40Got yes big one. So oh now we're switching to bats again
00:03:45There was an epidemic of giant bats in Klein Schloss in
00:03:491643 and at the same time there was an outbreak of vampirism rot
00:03:55Why this record from the town are quite prove it says it not prose it
00:04:01Showing I'll show you
00:04:04No, I hear it is
00:04:07And on this day was von Hausmann hanged from a gibbet in the public square
00:04:12After being convicted on a proven charge of vampirism and on this same day there did occur the departure of the bats
00:04:20Thousands of horrible flying creatures which infested the town for weeks and on the night of this same day February 13 in the year of our
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00:04:291643 was there a state driven through von Hausmann's heart and his head cut off with a grave digger shovel
00:04:36Yeah, well all the records in the world can't make me believe in vampires
00:04:41There are blood-sucking bats. Yes in South America thousands of miles from here, but not in Klein Schloss, but that's flying
00:04:49They could fly here. You saw the bodies all of them
00:04:53Two wounds on the neck right at the jugular vein
00:04:56two wounds on the neck pierced and spread apart just to do fang-like teeth have bitten through the flesh and
00:05:03right into the veins and
00:05:05in every case a
00:05:07Blood clot eight inches from the victim's neck the mark of the feast the devil's signature
00:05:14Does that appear as a mark of a human being?
00:05:17Or a demons God save us the devil's
00:05:23You ought to make a pretty fair meal for a vampire
00:05:26But let's be consistent. Are these human vampires or or bats?
00:05:32Vampires can take the shape of a human or a bat just as they choose. Oh, they're magicians
00:05:40Well, it doesn't make sense to me the whole village is in terror we live in closed houses
00:05:46Behind locked doors and bolted shutters
00:05:49Not daring to close our eyes
00:05:51Fearful lest this unseen silent death may find us in our sleep for it is then that it strikes
00:05:58swiftly
00:05:59Silently ghastly my room is tightly closed. The windows are barred nailed down
00:06:06Nothing can get in
00:06:07nothing
00:06:09But they tell me vampires can go through stone walls like that
00:06:13God save me so they can we've got to do something. I tell you Klein Schloss will become a deserted village
00:06:21Well, you might catch all the bats and drown them in the river
00:06:24Come come while you're hunting for vampires and chasing bats
00:06:28I'm looking for a human being a murderer a fiend. Well, then don't just about to do something. I'm trying to
00:06:34Every hour every day every night since this thing started
00:06:43Do you hear it?
00:06:45Yes
00:06:47Night after night lying awake until dawn waiting
00:06:52For what? I don't know
00:06:56That's what I thought
00:07:01Good night gentlemen, don't let the vampires get you
00:07:12You
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00:07:49Your kisses dynamite don't you like my kisses?
00:07:59Well, how's my mastermind this evening well if you want the truth not so good
00:08:05The burgermeister and his grand council still stick to the vampire theory stick to it
00:08:10They're quoting history to prove it I
00:08:13Think you and dr. Von Niemann are the only sane people left in the village and you what about you? Hmm me
00:08:19Well, I'm beginning to think I'm seven different kinds of a fool
00:08:23Murders are being done under my very nose. I
00:08:27Must be as blind as the bats themselves. I can't find a single clue. Oh, but you will call you will well I haven't
00:08:40And here comes dear aunt Gussie to spread good cheer and hope
00:08:45Just what I thought slaving your life away in this awful place
00:08:48It hasn't got that nice clean
00:08:51Wholesome smell of a hospital. How are you Karl? Oh quite. Well, thank you. Well, I'm not this clammy old place is bound to give me
00:08:59pericarditis andricoditis
00:09:00Neuritis of this is well anyway rheumatism. Yes and coffee. No. No. Thank you for someone else as well
00:09:07There's only two cups. Yeah
00:09:09Take the chill out your bones. Thank you
00:09:12Speaking of chills for our schnappen. Did you know the village is supposed to be infested with ghouls and vampires?
00:09:18vampires
00:09:20Pariahs among fiends
00:09:23Demoniacal creatures with huge canine teeth who bite deeply into the necks of their victims
00:09:28To quaff and gorge on blood
00:09:31warm human blood
00:09:33There's no such thing as a vampire Karl Brett Snyder. I don't believe in it
00:09:37You're just saying that to frighten me and I just won't be frightened
00:09:41I'm entirely too sensible to believe in such rubbish. I think
00:09:45No, so what you I'm sorry if I frightened you who said you frightened me
00:09:50I'm not afraid of anything. Could you tell me where dr. Von Niemann is?
00:09:53We drove to the village to see Martha the old Apple woman. Thank you
00:10:07You
00:10:25Is this what dr. Huff described yes, sir, she takes it in water
00:10:30Well continue giving your job
00:11:00It's tackling in here open these windows Herman open windows me do me do
00:11:16Well, she'll sleep well now for soul
00:11:19It won't be necessary for you to stay here a good night's sleep will work wonders for her
00:11:23It was kind of you to come
00:11:25A good night's sleep will work wonders for her. It was kind of you to come doctor. Oh
00:11:32Mother has sold me Apple for many years. Always a good ripe juicy one Martha. Give me apples. I like
00:11:46She wants a cross Herman get
00:11:55Wrong
00:11:58She won't let it out of her sight a terrible experience
00:12:03To be attacked by a giant bears enough to shatter anyone's nerves
00:12:06She talks about it all the time how it flew in her face and tried to sink its teeth in her throat
00:12:12No, no, no, no, that's no do
00:12:15they
00:12:16soft
00:12:18Like cat they not bite Herman
00:12:25She'll be all right if she isn't let me know. Thank you for coming doctor. That's all right. Good night. Good night
00:12:40Run along Herman you can see Martha tomorrow
00:12:55Ah
00:13:05Dr. Von Niemann, ah Kringen, how are you much better? Thank you kindly sir, since you prescribed for me. That's right
00:13:13Go to bed Herman go to bed. You shouldn't be following on the streets dangerous. Oh
00:13:20I'm afraid
00:13:22Afraid afraid of what Kringen the bats are big giant bats with wings like an eagles
00:13:29You saw this back you say I saw it swooping down the street. It came directly for my throat, sir
00:13:35What was this Kringen last night when they came to take von else? It was a big monstrous thing
00:13:41I saw it leap across the alley and into a window. I
00:13:44Ran just as fast as my legs could carry me. You said nothing about this. There's enough fear in the village already
00:13:52Maybe I should
00:13:53Maybe I should I will I'll tell the burgermeister. Yes Kringen. That's the thing to know
00:14:01That's
00:14:02That's good
00:14:04They not hurt Herman
00:14:06He plays with them you you know tell no
00:14:11No, no, no, no, no go to bed Herman
00:14:13Go on. Go on go to bed
00:14:18You say he plays with bats
00:14:22His garret is filled with him. He makes pets of them
00:14:26That's odd
00:14:28very odd, maybe
00:14:34Maybe he's it
00:14:36Herman prowls around the streets all hours of the night just like an animal
00:14:40Maybe he's the vampire don't start any gossip of that Kringen
00:14:43Heavenly knows where it might end
00:14:47Good night
00:14:52I
00:15:19See what did I tell you
00:15:22Perhaps there's something in what Kringen says seems strange that a human being should want to play with bats
00:15:42He isn't human I tell you he's a league with the devil
00:15:52Put it on put it on
00:15:56There thanks I go to sleep you'll be all right in a few days the doctor says so
00:16:01Close the window close the window
00:16:04I'm afraid
00:16:05the vampire
00:16:07He said leave them open, but I'd have them closed
00:16:23You want the light leave the light, I'm afraid I can't blame you for that either
00:16:29I'll turn it down a little
00:16:32Good night. If you want me just pound on the floor. I'll hear you
00:16:37All right. Good night
00:16:39Good night, Martha
00:16:53Hale Brett Schneider is here to see you sir. He's in the laboratory with Miss Burton. Oh, thank you. Oh
00:17:04Here you are
00:17:06Good evening, doctor. Good evening Ruth. How are you Karl?
00:17:10Well, I'd feel a lot better if I could find the solution to these murders
00:17:13You don't believe in his vampire theory then sure, of course not. Do you?
00:17:18There are many strange happenings my boy
00:17:21Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend
00:17:24Have you a theory which might explain these deaths?
00:17:28well
00:17:29I'll be pleased to discuss it with you. But not now not now. I have some very important work to do tomorrow then tomorrow
00:17:35Yeah, perhaps we'll see
00:17:39Well, this isn't so important miss Betty that you can't let it go till tomorrow. All right. Thank you doctor
00:17:44Oh
00:17:46How about Martha? Huh? Oh nothing serious just a case of nerves. That's all
00:17:51Good night. Good night doctor. Good night
00:18:13I
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00:18:43Name
00:18:45Moeller
00:18:48Age I don't know
00:18:52Cause of death like all the rest
00:18:55The vampire. Yes. Yes, that's so when I said I was gonna tell you his eyes were up
00:19:01I close the fire his hand reached out towards me as if you were gonna sink it into my throat and weigh this well
00:19:07He never works and never begs and yet he appears well-fed always that's so he does
00:19:15What does he live on then
00:19:17I'll wages as Kringen says
00:19:20And my woman was in Martha's room tonight when Herman put a flower in their hand strange business if you ask me
00:19:27Mighty strange I hate to be in your shoes stringing. Yes after what happened tonight
00:19:33I've locked myself in my room and prayed God to protect me from the devil
00:19:44I
00:20:14I
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00:20:59Well, what do you make of it doctor
00:21:01Are these two wounds similar to those found on the other bodies?
00:21:05Dr. Hop can answer that for you, sir
00:21:09Yes, they were the same in every case
00:21:12This is a strange condition Kyle so strange that I doubt the evidence of my eyes
00:21:19What was your conclusion out I
00:21:22Diagnosed the wounds as having been made by needle sharp teeth
00:21:27punctures a clean cut
00:21:29Penetrating into but not beyond the jugular vein
00:21:34Do you mean to say that you also believe they could have been made by teeth frankly? I do
00:21:39You see Brett Schneider
00:21:41What kind of teeth doctor an animal of some sort?
00:21:45It's hard to say
00:21:46the fangs of a wolf perhaps a werewolf
00:21:50Could they have been made by?
00:21:52Well a bat for instance a certain species. Yes
00:21:57There are vampire bats
00:21:59Dr. William Jamison who explored many of the tributaries of the upper Amazon
00:22:04States that blood-sucking bats do exist. He further asserts the victim has often become blood drinkers themselves
00:22:11Citing a case in which he saw a native tortured to death in an anvil by his tribe brothers
00:22:16They swore he had become a human bat and states Jamison. He confessed it
00:22:23Do you mean to say that such a thing as a human vampire is possible?
00:22:28Who can say?
00:22:30Historic records would have us believe that an evil soul
00:22:33Assuming there is such can take any shape it pleases. So why not turn into that of a human being a cow?
00:22:40Why not?
00:22:42Have you any literature on the subject doctor? Yes. I have many interesting volumes of my
00:22:48Shows and my prove very enlightening. I'm glad to show them to you. I
00:22:52Don't mind admitting that I'm up a tree
00:22:55Stomped well, we'll see what could be done my boy
00:22:58No, no, no Herman. This is no place for you. Go away my boy. Go away
00:23:03Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night in the morning Karl. Thank you doctor
00:23:07I'm sorry to have dragged you out at such an ungodly hour. Oh, that's all right. That's all right
00:23:23A child fleeing in the hollow from the sight of death
00:23:26There goes the vampire arrest him lock him up. Kill him has the entire village gone mad
00:23:33Herman wouldn't harm a baby and you know it
00:23:35I've walked the streets of this village for over 40 years, but tonight's the end. He knows that I've totally played with bats
00:23:41He knows that I saw him sneak into Martha's house just before midnight
00:23:44Perhaps he was taking her another flower Kringen the boy brought her one this evening while I was there
00:23:48He killed her just like he did all the rest and now he's gonna kill me
00:23:53Unless he's killed in a state given to his heart. I'm a do man
00:24:02I'm a do man, he'll kill me
00:24:33You
00:24:54Good morning, mr. Bretschneider what brings you to Klein Schloss, a whaley. Yo
00:24:58Fibber. I heard the doctor tell Georgiana he expected you.
00:25:02I knew there was something else.
00:25:04You're a delightful prevaricator, Carl, but not a very convincing one.
00:25:23You don't mind me using your stethoscope, do you, Doctor?
00:25:26Not at all, Frau Schnappen. But what seems to be the ailment this morning?
00:25:29What's that?
00:25:33What seems to be the ailment this morning?
00:25:35Well, Doctor, I am positive that I have valvular deglaze of the aorta.
00:25:40Or maybe it's the right ventricle.
00:25:44There is something wrong with my heart.
00:25:46I can hear it beat, thump, thump, thump, thump, just like the book says.
00:25:50Well, if you didn't hear it beating, thump, thump, thump, just as the book says,
00:25:54I would say there is something wrong.
00:25:57What? Without a moon?
00:25:59You have a heart of stone.
00:26:01All right, then. Close your eyes.
00:26:07No.
00:26:11Oh, so, young lady.
00:26:13It's too early in the morning, Carl. Much too early.
00:26:15Oh, is it?
00:26:17Oh, there's Aunt Gussie.
00:26:20She would show up just at a time like this.
00:26:29Well, Aunt Gussie, what's the matter now?
00:26:32I have palpitation of the auricular, ventricular and microvalves with a cardiac tendency.
00:26:39You mean your heart's beating?
00:26:41Of course it's beating.
00:26:43Of course it's beating.
00:26:45Dr. von Nehlen tried to assure me, but I know, I know it's serious.
00:26:50I'm liable to go just like that.
00:26:52Did he prescribe for you, dear?
00:26:54Yes, monacidester salicylic acid.
00:26:56You mean salicylic acid, don't you?
00:26:58Well, salicylic, salicylic, it's...
00:27:00Help me. My heart is much quieter.
00:27:03Hello, Carl.
00:27:05Oh, Carl, you'll be good to her when I'm gone, won't you?
00:27:08Yes, of course I will, Frau Schnappmann.
00:27:10Well, I'm not gone yet.
00:27:12You can't marry her unless I say so. Don't forget that.
00:27:15Oh, my heart.
00:27:17There, Auntie, you'll be all right. Just rest a while.
00:27:20But you need...
00:27:21What?
00:27:22Rest, dear. Quiet.
00:27:36Aunt Gussie has a heart like a steam engine.
00:27:39Carl.
00:27:42Carl.
00:28:12Carl.
00:28:16Come here, come, come, come here.
00:28:18Here we go, here we go.
00:28:20Come on, come on, cutie pie.
00:28:22Come here, baby. Come on.
00:28:24Come on, cutie, cutie, cutie pie.
00:28:27Oh, you got it, baby.
00:28:29Come on, cutie pie, cutie pie.
00:28:31Come on.
00:28:33Oh, the taste of heaven.
00:28:36You nasty little beast.
00:28:43Don't you know it's wrong to steal?
00:28:46You've cut yourself.
00:28:48See? Blood.
00:28:50Yes. Stop it, stop it.
00:28:53No hurt me. No hurt.
00:28:55Oh, you poor thing.
00:28:57Now, you wait right here and I'll run in the house and get something for that finger.
00:29:00A subcutaneous wound like that might easily result in a tetanus infection.
00:29:04Tetan, tetan...
00:29:06Tetanus. Rock jaw.
00:29:09Tetanus. Rock jaw.
00:29:12Not that you need be afraid.
00:29:14From the way you talk, I think you've got it already.
00:29:17Look, here's a nice juicy apple for you.
00:29:35Ah, this is it.
00:29:38Traits sur les appréciants des esprits et sur les vampires,
00:29:41by Augustin d'Ancalame, in 1746.
00:29:46Hmm.
00:29:48Let us suppose that these corpses do not actually stir from their tombs,
00:29:52that only the ghosts or spirits appear to the living.
00:29:55Wherefore do these phantoms present themselves,
00:29:58and what is it that energizes them?
00:30:00Is it actually the soul of the dead man,
00:30:02which has not yet departed to its final destination?
00:30:06Now, how could a corpse buried under four or five feet of earth
00:30:09get out to do any such foolishness?
00:30:11I don't believe it.
00:30:13It's a fair question, Doctor. How could it?
00:30:16Well, according to accepted theory,
00:30:18the vampire dematerializes its body and reintegrates it outside the grave.
00:30:23It's a good explanation, if you can believe it.
00:30:25And while I'm standing here listening to all this rubbish,
00:30:28there's a poor man in the garden in danger of a tetanus infection.
00:30:31Now, what should I do for him, Doctor?
00:30:33Shall I apply mycochrome or 2% solution of bichloride?
00:30:36Well, either will do.
00:30:38Get some gauze and some mycochrome.
00:30:40Thank you, Doctor. I'll wait here.
00:30:42Difficult to believe, isn't it?
00:30:44It's impossible to believe.
00:30:47And yet, it would explain these deaths, wouldn't it?
00:30:55Ah, Breitschneider.
00:30:57Pardon our intrusion, Dr. von Niemann.
00:30:59But after what you saw last night, you'll be interested in this as well.
00:31:02Well, what's happened?
00:31:04Kringen was found dead an hour ago
00:31:07with the two punctures in his neck and not a drop of blood in his body.
00:31:11And what's more,
00:31:13Hermann Gleib has disappeared.
00:31:17What?
00:31:18Now are you convinced that we were right and you were wrong?
00:31:20That'd be proof enough for anybody.
00:31:22Kringen said Hermann would get him, and he did.
00:31:25Well, Breitschneider,
00:31:27I appoint you my deputy.
00:31:29Organize a searching party and comb this countryside from one end to the other.
00:31:33Find Hermann Gleib and bring him in, but don't harm him, do you understand?
00:31:36What good will that do?
00:31:38He's a vampire.
00:31:39There's only one thing for us to do when we find him.
00:31:42Kill him and drive a stake through his heart.
00:31:44Hermann Gleib will be tried by a court of law.
00:31:47If the charge against him is proven true,
00:31:49the law will decide what to do with him, not you.
00:31:51Now get your men together and do as I tell you.
00:31:53That's the way to talk.
00:31:57I'm going into town for a little while, doctor.
00:31:59Would you care to come along?
00:32:00Oh, I hardly believe so,
00:32:01because it'll be done until they find the boy.
00:32:04If you need me then, I'll...
00:32:05All right, thanks. I'll let you know.
00:32:14I feel as though I was going to faint.
00:32:16Oh, there, auntie, there's nothing here to be afraid of.
00:32:18Here comes Emil with your macura chrome and bandages.
00:32:20Run along now and take care of that patient of yours.
00:32:23Oh, heavens, I forgot all about him.
00:32:25Oh.
00:32:27Oh, my heart.
00:32:29Oh.
00:32:31Poor auntie.
00:32:32She's had every ailment in the book.
00:32:34And a lot that aren't, I'm afraid.
00:32:36Particularly a palpitation of the auriculo-ventricular
00:32:39tricuspid and mitral valves, doctor.
00:32:43Well, I had to tell her something to satisfy her.
00:32:55Right here. You mustn't do that.
00:32:59Now, where's that finger?
00:33:07You good like Martha.
00:33:10She give me apples.
00:33:13Herman like you.
00:33:16Are you Herman?
00:33:19Me Herman?
00:33:21You give me apple?
00:33:24Herman give you nice, soft bat.
00:33:28Oh, dear.
00:33:59Oh.
00:34:01Oh, Herman.
00:34:02Are you the Herman?
00:34:03I know you.
00:34:04How you do?
00:34:05I'm a doctor.
00:34:06Oh, Doctor.
00:34:07I've got a good heart.
00:34:11Do you hear me?
00:34:13Herman?
00:34:14Herman?
00:34:15Herman, where are you?
00:34:17Herman?
00:34:18Herman?
00:34:19Herman?
00:34:21Where are you?
00:34:22Don't you remember where I put you?
00:34:24Oh, how I love you, Herman.
00:34:26Herman! No, you go away, Herman! I know you!
00:34:28I know you! Don't you touch me! I know you, Herman!
00:34:36Go away now, Herman! Go away!
00:34:56What is it, Georgiana?
00:35:06I just found this in Emil's room.
00:35:08Well?
00:35:10It belonged to my friend, Martha Mueller.
00:35:12Are you certain?
00:35:14I gave it to her myself.
00:35:16Martha died last night.
00:35:18I find her crucifix in Emil's room.
00:35:20Doesn't that mean Emil is the one Herr Bretschneider is seeking?
00:35:22This amazes me, Georgiana.
00:35:24It's impossible.
00:35:26It rained the night von Els died.
00:35:28There was mud on Emil's shoes the next morning.
00:35:30Have you mentioned this to anyone?
00:35:32I intend to tell Herr Bretschneider when he calls again.
00:35:34I can't believe it.
00:35:36Leave this with me.
00:35:38I want to talk to Emil before you say anything to anyone.
00:35:40The Bürgermeister should know at once.
00:35:42Yes, all in good time.
00:35:44Emil has been with me too long for us to jump to conclusions.
00:35:46Don't say anything until I tell you.
00:35:48And send Emil to me.
00:35:50Very well, Doctor.
00:36:00That's for the neuritis.
00:36:02And the pepsin.
00:36:04That Hassenpfeffer was tougher than shoelaces.
00:36:06And the amphetamine.
00:36:08And the amphetamine.
00:36:10And the amphetamine.
00:36:12And the amphetamine.
00:36:14And the pepsin.
00:36:16That Hassenpfeffer was tougher than shoe leather.
00:36:18And sweet spirits and lighter.
00:36:20That will help.
00:36:22And ginger.
00:36:24That will warm us.
00:36:26And now, a little pie tart with soda.
00:37:44Come on, men.
00:37:46We've got him.
00:37:48He can't get away from here now.
00:37:50Some of you go around that way.
00:37:52Go ahead.
00:37:54And if he tries to get past you, you know what to do.
00:38:08Come on, men.
00:38:14Get over here.
00:38:28There he is, men.
00:38:30Here, boys.
00:38:34Herman.
00:38:36You're going back to the village with us.
00:38:38Come on.
00:38:40We won't hurt you.
00:38:42No.
00:38:44No, we won't go.
00:38:46I'm afraid.
00:38:48Come on.
00:38:50You're going with us, Herman.
00:38:52No.
00:38:54You're going with us.
00:38:56No.
00:38:58Get him.
00:39:00Come on, Herman.
00:39:02We won't hurt you.
00:39:04No.
00:39:06No.
00:39:12No.
00:39:22Come on, that settles him.
00:39:24Yes, let's go.
00:39:26Hey.
00:39:34You've got to make certain.
00:39:36I won't go down there.
00:39:38Nobody asked you to.
00:39:42I'll go myself.
00:39:44Can you see him?
00:39:48He's on a ledge about 50 feet down.
00:39:50I'll get a rope.
00:39:54We've got to make certain, I tell you.
00:39:56You must be careful, Emil.
00:40:00Very careful.
00:40:26No.
00:40:46No.
00:40:48It must be.
00:40:50It must be.
00:40:52She's no better than the rest.
00:40:54No.
00:41:24No.
00:41:54No.
00:42:24No.
00:42:54Come on.
00:43:16Oh, it's you, Doctor.
00:43:18I'm sorry to have to disturb you, Doctor,
00:43:20but we simply couldn't make Georgiana hear the bell.
00:43:22Georgiana's becoming careless.
00:43:24Very careless.
00:43:26Yes, I've noticed that, too.
00:43:28In my opinion, she has nigella.
00:43:30That's sleeping sickness.
00:43:32You know the symptoms, Doctor.
00:43:34At first I thought it was creeping paralysis,
00:43:36so I stuck a pin in her leg to see,
00:43:38and there was a splendid reaction of the reflex motor nerves.
00:43:40Why, auntie.
00:43:42You're shocked.
00:43:44So was she.
00:43:46Won't you join me in some coffee?
00:43:48Yes, thanks, Doctor, we will.
00:43:50Yes, I'm afraid so.
00:43:52So am I.
00:43:54Well, good night.
00:43:56If such a thing is possible, I'm going to bed.
00:43:58Won't you join us, too, Frau Schnappmann?
00:44:00Coffee at this hour of the night?
00:44:02No, thank you.
00:44:04I'm going to stick to my Mona S. Vester's salmon salad.
00:44:06Acid, Doctor, acid.
00:44:08Good night.
00:44:10What's the news in the village, Carl?
00:44:12Have they located Herman yet?
00:44:14No, not a trace of him.
00:44:16I hate to think of that poor misfit
00:44:18being hunted down like a dog.
00:44:20You know, I simply can't bring myself
00:44:22to believe in that vampire theory.
00:44:24Will you, Paul, Ruth?
00:44:26Good night.
00:44:28I know, Carl.
00:44:30Our saner, calmer judgment
00:44:32tells us that such things can't be,
00:44:34and yet, here, for instance, in this ponderous tome,
00:44:36are cited a thousand and one phobias and complexes
00:44:40that human beings are heir to.
00:44:42Some of them are strange,
00:44:44more untenable even than werewolves and vampires.
00:44:46Could I have some more, please?
00:44:48You drink entirely too much coffee.
00:44:50It's my one weakness,
00:44:52and also my excuse for tolerating Georgiana's laxity
00:44:54and other things.
00:44:56She does know how to make good coffee.
00:45:00She brings it to me every night at exactly 10 o'clock,
00:45:02and when I've drunk it all,
00:45:04then I know it's time to quit.
00:45:06Yes, and eat breakfast so you can have more coffee.
00:45:08Oh.
00:45:11Georgiana!
00:45:13You mustn't lie like that.
00:45:18You'll get yourself a tartar colas.
00:45:20Yes, didn't I?
00:45:22Georg... Georgiana.
00:45:24Ah!
00:45:26Ah!
00:45:28That was a good one, wasn't it?
00:45:30Yes, it was.
00:45:32Oh, dear.
00:45:34Oh, dear.
00:45:36Oh, dear.
00:45:39That was Auntie.
00:45:50Auntie!
00:45:55Oh, my baby. I'm all right.
00:45:57I'm all right now.
00:45:59Oh, it's just...
00:46:01Maybe it'll help to follow us back to the dorm room.
00:46:03Silly imagination.
00:46:05I mentioned I saw Georgiana...
00:46:07Ah!
00:46:18The same two wounds, Doctor.
00:46:21My last words to her were angry ones.
00:46:24Perpetual reprimand for being late with my coffee.
00:46:27What time is that?
00:46:29About two or three minutes after 10.
00:46:31She's been dead then about 45 minutes.
00:46:33Hmm.
00:46:37Godless like the rest.
00:46:42It passes all belief.
00:46:46Ruth's aunt saw Herman Glive in the garden this morning.
00:46:50Could it be that he...
00:47:02You were the first one here.
00:47:04What happened?
00:47:06I was in my room reading.
00:47:08My door was open.
00:47:10I must have dozed off for a minute or so
00:47:12because I awoke to hear Froschnapman scream.
00:47:14You say your door was open?
00:47:16Yes, my room was very poorly ventilated.
00:47:18And you saw nothing?
00:47:20Heard nothing unusual?
00:47:22Nothing.
00:47:24Carl.
00:47:26What is it?
00:47:28This crucifix belonged to Martha.
00:47:33See who it is, Emil.
00:47:36Can you positively identify this as belonging to Martha?
00:47:38Without a doubt.
00:47:40I saw it in her room the night she died.
00:47:42How in the world did it get here?
00:47:44Herman Glive was in her room.
00:47:46He had that crucifix in his hands.
00:47:48And Herman was here today.
00:47:54Maybe here now for all we know.
00:48:07Who is it?
00:48:08Carl.
00:48:13How is she?
00:48:14She's had a real shock this time, but she'll be all right.
00:48:16I'm putting her to bed.
00:48:17Leave her there.
00:48:18Don't let her out of this room.
00:48:20And don't you leave it either.
00:48:21What do you mean?
00:48:22It looks as if Herman Glive is the killer after all.
00:48:25It's possible he may be hiding here in the castle.
00:48:28Why, what makes you think so?
00:48:29I'll tell you later.
00:48:30Stay in your room and keep your door locked.
00:48:33Don't worry about that.
00:48:37I heard every word you said.
00:48:39And I don't think there's any use of them searching for Herman.
00:48:42They should look for a dog, a human-faced dog.
00:48:45Andy, the doors and windows are all locked.
00:48:47There's nothing to be afraid of now.
00:48:48Well, who said I was afraid?
00:48:50I'm not a bit afraid.
00:48:51No, of course you're not afraid, but you must get some rest.
00:48:53Rest in this awful place?
00:48:55With dog-faced Hermans and human-faced bats
00:48:59and blood and murders and vampires.
00:49:04Do you find anything, Carl?
00:49:06There's an unbroken cobweb in that window.
00:49:09If Herman did it, he came through the door.
00:49:11He must have.
00:49:13And yet I don't understand how he could find his way up here
00:49:15without us hearing him.
00:49:17Yet Amiel was asleep and I was in the library.
00:49:21Yes, he could have done it.
00:49:23The facts speak for themselves.
00:49:25I don't know how he could have done it.
00:49:27I don't know how he could have done it.
00:49:30Yes, he could have done it.
00:49:32The facts all point to it.
00:49:35What was it, Amiel?
00:49:36The burgomeister.
00:49:37He has news for her, Brettschneider, about Herman.
00:49:42Oh.
00:49:53Pardon the intrusion, Doctor, pardon the intrusion.
00:49:56I knew Carl was here and I thought you wouldn't mind
00:49:58if I ran in to tell him the news.
00:50:00About Herman?
00:50:01Yes.
00:50:02He fell into the devil's well in the cave.
00:50:05He's dead?
00:50:06Dead as a doornail.
00:50:08This ends our troubles, Carl.
00:50:10The vampire's dead.
00:50:12I can feel it in my bones.
00:50:14Hmm.
00:50:15Well, your bones may be wrong.
00:50:17What time did this happen?
00:50:19Quite early, about 9 o'clock.
00:50:21The cave is nearly two hours from here.
00:50:23That's why we didn't hear it sooner.
00:50:25Well, it may interest you to know that there's been another death
00:50:28after your vampire died.
00:50:31Who?
00:50:32Dr. von Neumann's housekeeper.
00:50:34Right here in her own room.
00:50:36Mother of mercy.
00:50:37What are we going to do?
00:50:39Well, a natural death wouldn't kill a vampire, Carl.
00:50:41You know the accepted theory.
00:50:43A stake driven through the heart.
00:50:45Oh, yes, that's the theory, all right.
00:50:47But, but, but...
00:50:48But what?
00:50:49But they did.
00:50:50They drove a stake through his heart.
00:50:52Good God, are we living in the Middle Ages?
00:50:54It wasn't through my sanction, Carl.
00:50:56Massawa did it.
00:50:58He told me so himself.
00:51:01Well, that ends the vampire theory as far as I'm concerned.
00:51:05Hermann Gleib died in the accepted fashion for killing a vampire.
00:51:09Oh, no, there's some human agency at work here, Doctor.
00:51:12A madman who kills to satisfy some violent, sadistic urge.
00:51:16Yes, you're right, Carl.
00:51:18I've been a fool, a superstitious fool.
00:51:22Did they leave his body in the cave?
00:51:24Yes.
00:51:25Yes, they did.
00:51:27Well, in view of what's happened, don't you think you owe him a decent burial?
00:51:30You're right.
00:51:32In view of what has happened, we do owe him that, Carl.
00:51:35I'll see to it at once, this very instant.
00:51:38And I'll make arrangements for Georgiana's removal to the morgue.
00:51:41Good night, Doctor.
00:51:43Pardon the intrusion.
00:51:44Good night, Gustav.
00:51:45Pardon the intrusion.
00:51:48Well.
00:51:50Here I am, just where I started weeks ago.
00:51:54There isn't a single theory that doesn't lead straight into a stone wall.
00:51:59I've jested about this vampire business because my better judgment told me it was a lot of nonsense.
00:52:04Then I reached the point where I was willing to accept even that.
00:52:08Because it seemed to satisfy the equation.
00:52:10All of it a bit superstitious.
00:52:13I don't know which way to turn.
00:52:15Where to look? What to look for?
00:52:18Why should anyone want human blood?
00:52:21Why? Why?
00:52:22Calm yourself, Carl.
00:52:24Calm myself? Calm myself?
00:52:26With all these unsolved murders staring me in the face and no solution in sight?
00:52:35How much blood is there in the human body, Doctor?
00:52:38About six liters, approximately.
00:52:41Can you think of any purpose for which that amount of blood might be used?
00:52:46No. Not even in transfusions.
00:52:49That's the point which stops me.
00:52:51There isn't any other use for human blood.
00:52:56Murderers leave clues.
00:52:58And these atrocities are murders, Doctor.
00:53:00Those simple fools in the village can believe what they like.
00:53:03But you and I are sane thinking people.
00:53:05And you now and I know, Doctor, that these are murders.
00:53:09The last one was done here.
00:53:11In this very house, right under this roof.
00:53:16All right, I'll start here.
00:53:18I'm going over every foot of this place, both inside and out.
00:53:21Nobody, sane or insane, is clever enough to get away with murder without leaving a clue of some sort.
00:53:25And I'm going to find that clue.
00:53:27Now, come, Carl. You mustn't let your nerves run away with you.
00:53:30Here. These...
00:53:35These will help to give you a good night's sleep.
00:53:39If there are any clues,
00:53:41they'll be here in the morning when your nerves are calm and your...
00:53:45your mind is clear.
00:53:47Take my advice and go home and rest.
00:53:49I imagine a thousand demons were after me as I came down those stairs.
00:53:52Ruth, didn't I tell you to stay in your room?
00:53:54Yes, but I wanted the doctor to come up and quiet Auntie.
00:53:57You know, it isn't her imagination this time.
00:53:59Of course, Ruth. I'll come right away.
00:54:01Take my advice, young man.
00:54:03Go home and go to bed.
00:54:05Good night, Carl.
00:54:09Good night, Ruth.
00:54:17Good night, Carl.
00:54:19Good night, Doctor.
00:54:38Good night, Carl.
00:55:08Good night, Carl.
00:55:10Good night.
00:55:37If his lights are on,
00:55:40I'll call Samuel.
00:55:43Wait until he has gone to bed.
00:56:10Good night.
00:56:40Good night.
00:57:11Handle him as you did the others, Amiel.
00:57:16You are strong.
00:57:19Very strong.
00:57:24I am waiting for you.
00:57:28I am waiting for you.
00:57:31I am waiting for you.
00:57:34I am waiting for you.
00:57:37I am waiting for you.
00:57:40Waiting for you to bring him to the lab.
00:58:11You. You're the one.
00:58:13What mad thing are you doing?
00:58:15Mad?
00:58:17Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?
00:58:20Life. Created in the laboratory.
00:58:23No mere crystalline growth, but tissue.
00:58:26Living, growing tissue.
00:58:28Life. That moves.
00:58:30Life.
00:58:32Life.
00:58:34Life.
00:58:36Life.
00:58:38Life, that moves, pulsates and demands food for its continued growth.
00:58:44You shudder in horror.
00:58:46So did I the first time.
00:58:48But what are a few lies bewayed in the balance against the achievement of biological science?
00:58:52Think of it.
00:58:54I have lifted the veil.
00:58:56I have created life.
00:58:58Arrested the secret of life from life.
00:59:00Now do you understand?
00:59:02From the lives of those who have gone before.
00:59:04I have created life.
00:59:06I'll tell Karl.
00:59:09You may.
00:59:11For tonight Karl's name will be added to yours.
00:59:15And all of those who misachieve it will immortalize.
00:59:36Karl! Karl! Karl!
01:00:06Karl! Karl! Karl! Karl!
01:00:36I didn't take your sleeping tablets, Doctor.
01:01:07Karl!
01:01:26Emil brought them here.
01:01:28He's the one who murdered them.
01:01:30Stay where you are. You'll have a chance to tell everything, Doctor.
01:01:36I'll take care of her, Niemann. Get her out of here.
01:02:07You stay here.
01:02:25For Niemann and Emil.
01:02:30Doctor! Doctor von Niemann!
01:02:33Karl, she mustn't see you.
01:02:34Where is Doctor von Niemann? I must see him immediately.
01:02:37I'm guessing you can't. He can't be disturbed.
01:02:41Oh, but I must see him. I simply must.
01:02:43That hydrous magnesium sulfate he gave me is affecting me most peculiarly.
01:02:48You'll pardon me?
01:02:53Hydrous magnesium sulfate.
01:02:57Why, that's Epsom salts.
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