Episode aired May 16, 1961
Director: Paul Henreid
Host: Boris Karloff
Guest Stars: Guy Rolfe • Hazel Court • Charles Aidman • Reggie Nalder
A concert pianist, so obsessed by the death of an arch-rival that he desecrates his grave, announces he will play a sonata written especially for the dead man's oversized hands.
Director: Paul Henreid
Host: Boris Karloff
Guest Stars: Guy Rolfe • Hazel Court • Charles Aidman • Reggie Nalder
A concert pianist, so obsessed by the death of an arch-rival that he desecrates his grave, announces he will play a sonata written especially for the dead man's oversized hands.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Kefka, is that you?
00:21 Yes, it's I.
00:23 [METAL CLANGING]
00:26 [METAL CLANGING]
00:31 Light your lamp.
00:32 The light?
00:34 No, not here.
00:36 Which way?
00:37 First the money.
00:39 It's not much for what we do together.
00:41 What I do, old man, you will merely keep watch.
00:44 [METAL CLANGING]
00:48 Lead the way.
00:52 Over here.
00:53 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:21 This one, a beautiful coffin.
01:25 The richest oak.
01:27 The handles are gold, solid gold.
01:30 The lamp.
01:30 [METAL CLANGING]
01:35 Your accent is strange to me.
01:38 What are you doing here, master?
01:40 A pilgrimage.
01:42 There were flowers on his coffin.
01:44 The women wept.
01:46 The duke listened in the morning, liked the tears.
01:51 I saw him weeping.
01:53 I let him to rest.
01:55 Wait for me outside.
01:56 Leave me alone.
01:57 Alone in here?
01:59 What kind of a man are you?
02:01 A man with money.
02:02 Now go.
02:03 Aye.
02:04 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:08 [METAL CLANGING]
02:36 Cruelty has a human heart.
02:39 Jealousy, a human face.
02:41 And terror, terror has the human form divine.
02:46 Tonight, we will see how one man's cruelty and jealousy
02:58 create a terror which can scarcely be considered human
03:02 and which waits silently, malevolently,
03:07 beneath the lid of this Teakwood chest.
03:10 That's the name of our story, "The Terror in Teakwood."
03:15 Join us now as these others did, who had the misfortune
03:18 to learn what it contains.
03:19 Mr. Guy Rolfe, Miss Hazel Court, Mr. Charles Aitman,
03:29 and Mr. Reggie Nalder.
03:31 [DOOR OPENS]
03:34 Oh, no.
03:36 I can't permit you to leave.
03:38 You've already learned a great deal too much.
03:40 I can only suggest that you get a grip on yourself.
03:46 [MUSIC PLAYING]
03:55 [SCREAMING]
03:58 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:07 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:10 [BUZZER]
04:25 [DOOR OPENS]
04:29 Hi, Leonie.
04:38 I thought you'd never get here.
04:40 Hello, Jerry.
04:41 Come on in.
04:42 Come on in.
04:45 It's nice to see you again, after all this long time.
04:54 Still a place of honor.
04:56 Turn it around so you'd notice.
04:58 Well, you shouldn't have.
05:00 But I admit it pleases me.
05:02 Champagne?
05:03 No, thank you.
05:06 All right.
05:07 Well, what's your problem?
05:15 Come on, you said you needed my help.
05:23 Well, it's-- it's Vladimir.
05:28 Oh?
05:30 What's wrong with him?
05:33 Well, I know it's silly, but I don't know.
05:38 I don't know.
05:41 Well, you married him.
05:42 He's your husband, in spite of anything I could do.
05:45 Oh, I'm sorry, Leonie.
05:51 Come on, now tell me what's upset you so.
05:55 Well, I'm frightened.
05:59 I'm terrified.
06:01 By your husband?
06:03 No, for him.
06:05 I'm convinced that someone's trying to kill him.
06:07 Well, then you, uh--
06:14 you ought to be talking to the police.
06:16 I tried to, but he wouldn't let me.
06:20 Last night, someone broke into the apartment.
06:23 Suddenly, I woke up, and I found someone
06:25 touching my throat and my face.
06:27 Cold, dreadful hands.
06:29 I screamed, and I reached for the light.
06:31 There was Vladimir sitting on the other bed.
06:34 His face was ashen.
06:35 There was blood all over his body,
06:37 and his pajamas were torn.
06:39 Oh, it was horrible, Jerry, absolutely horrible.
06:41 You didn't call the police?
06:42 I tried to, but he wouldn't let me.
06:45 He said I was never to speak of it again.
06:47 You mean somebody attacked you, and your husband
06:49 says to forget it?
06:50 This isn't the first time I've found him all
06:52 bloody and exhausted, as if he'd been fighting.
06:56 Something's come between us, Jerry.
06:59 Something so horrible that, well, he
07:01 can't talk to me about it.
07:04 All right.
07:07 What do you want me to do?
07:08 Thank you, Jerry.
07:09 I knew you'd help.
07:13 We've taken an apartment while we're here in New York,
07:16 and I want you to come and live with us.
07:18 Oh?
07:19 Oh, I have it all arranged.
07:21 Vladimir's manager is ill, and he
07:23 needs someone to look after his affairs
07:26 while we're here in New York.
07:28 Tomorrow night is the first concert of the American tour.
07:31 Before we left Vienna, Vladimir wrote to Glockstein,
07:35 asking to find someone to represent him here.
07:38 I called Glocki from Paris, asking him to recommend you.
07:42 I see you've been scheming.
07:46 Just a little.
07:47 Do you think your husband would accept me,
07:49 an old rifle working for him?
07:51 Oh, he doesn't know anything about you.
07:53 Please, Jerry.
07:55 I'll talk to Glocki.
07:57 But if he agrees with me, you're going to go to the police.
08:00 But if he thinks I can help, I'll do what you want.
08:03 Thank you.
08:04 [MUSIC PLAYING]
08:14 Legato, legato.
08:15 Are you deaf?
08:21 Can't you hear it?
08:22 I'm sorry, Professor.
08:25 Contrition is no substitute for talent.
08:28 Oh, you young people, you think technical proficiency
08:32 is all there is.
08:35 Music flows from heart.
08:36 You don't give me a chance.
08:42 You interrupt, interrupt, interrupt.
08:46 Oh, oh, forgive me, forgive me.
08:50 You must think nothing of it.
08:53 It was good, very good.
08:55 Pay no attention to an old man, huh?
08:57 Come on, start again, huh?
08:59 No.
09:00 You're saddest in the town.
09:02 And the best piano teacher in the world.
09:06 Oh, Miss Curtis, Miss Curtis.
09:10 What did you do to her?
09:11 Nothing.
09:12 I like her.
09:15 She's got talent.
09:17 Sit down, sit down.
09:18 You've come about Leonie, huh?
09:27 Did she call you?
09:29 Yes.
09:30 Well, what do I do, Glocky?
09:32 Take the job, of course.
09:34 That's what I want to do, is a chance
09:36 to be near Leonie again.
09:39 But you know how I feel about her.
09:43 How can she be happy with that Vychek?
09:47 Why, you know something about him?
09:48 I know he's the greatest pianist in the world.
09:51 All genius is hard to live with.
09:54 That she knew when she married him.
09:56 Yes, but Vychek must be impossible.
09:59 He has but one passion, his music.
10:02 For years, only one idea to surpass Karnavich.
10:07 Believe me, my friend, it was a mania.
10:10 But Karnavich is dead.
10:12 Can you believe this?
10:13 Vychek took his young bride on her honeymoon,
10:17 mind you, to Karnavich's funeral,
10:19 just to assure himself that his rival was really dead.
10:23 Since then, Leonie has been afraid.
10:26 Of what?
10:27 I wish I knew.
10:29 Even Leonie is not sure.
10:31 She told you about that night.
10:36 You don't think it could have been Vychek himself, do you?
10:39 I cannot tell.
10:42 I do not know.
10:44 But I know this, my friend.
10:46 You must help her.
10:48 [PHONE RINGING]
10:50 Hello?
10:56 It's for you.
10:57 Hello?
11:02 Oh, Jerry! Jerry, come over quickly, please!
11:04 For heaven's sake, come quickly!
11:06 [SCREAMING]
11:08 [SCREAMING]
11:11 [MUSIC PLAYING]
11:31 [RUMBLING]
11:34 I tell you, I've heard it 100 times.
11:58 It's the seventh sonata, the Karnavich sonata.
12:01 Well, whatever it is, we've got to get a doctor.
12:04 He won't have a doctor.
12:06 Oh, look at him.
12:07 We can't tell how badly he's hurt, all right?
12:08 He doesn't want the police, but a doctor.
12:10 No, no, no.
12:12 No, take him.
12:15 Leonie!
12:16 Leonie!
12:17 Darling?
12:19 Darling, are you all right?
12:20 Oh, I've been so worried about you.
12:22 Yes, yes, yes.
12:23 You mustn't worry.
12:24 It's not serious.
12:25 What was going on in that room?
12:27 I was trying to break down the door.
12:29 Who is this?
12:30 Oh, this is Mr. Welsh, darling.
12:33 Glockey sent him over.
12:34 How do you do, Mr. Vitchick?
12:36 Glockey?
12:36 Mr. Glockstein.
12:37 Of course, of course.
12:39 I called him because I needed some help.
12:41 And Mr. Welsh was in the office talking
12:43 about the secretarial job, and he very kindly came over.
12:47 He feels that-- well, he thinks you should have a doctor,
12:50 darling. - No.
12:51 I need no doctor.
12:52 Is there anything I can do?
12:55 Yes, there is one thing you can do.
12:57 Forget what you have seen.
12:58 But--
12:59 There are no buts, Mr. Welsh.
13:03 Mr. Glockstein seems to think you're the man I need.
13:06 Your presence here indicates that you
13:07 find my proposition acceptable.
13:11 If you're to work for me, one thing
13:13 must be clearly understood.
13:15 I expect my employees to accept my wishes without question.
13:18 Yes, of course.
13:19 It might be more convenient for you to stay here
13:21 whilst you're in my employ.
13:22 Well, I-- I don't think--
13:24 There is a spare room down the corridor.
13:26 Now, if you'll excuse me, I must make myself presentable.
13:29 I shall be rehearsing most of the day.
13:30 Thank you.
13:38 Thank you, Mr. Welsh, for coming over.
13:45 You've been most helpful.
13:47 Not at all.
13:48 I hope your husband will feel better soon.
13:50 Oh, I'm sure he will.
13:51 Thank you.
13:52 [MUSIC PLAYING]
13:56 Since you are to work for me, Mr. Welsh,
13:59 in a position of trust, I would like you to look after this
14:02 for me until I return.
14:03 It's an interesting box.
14:09 Looks a little like a casket.
14:11 It's valuable.
14:13 Important would be a better word.
14:15 Keep it always in sight.
14:17 You understand?
14:17 Always in sight.
14:19 Leonie, will you drive me down to the hall?
14:21 Yes, of course.
14:22 I'll just show Mr. Welsh his room.
14:23 [MUSIC PLAYING]
14:26 He's wonderful, you have to admit that.
14:42 [MUSIC PLAYING]
14:46 [MUSIC PLAYING]
14:49 Having trouble with the arpeggio?
15:03 Leonie, there's something you haven't told me, isn't there?
15:09 No.
15:10 Look, it's only a suspicion, and it makes no sense.
15:14 No sense at all to me.
15:17 I don't know.
15:19 I don't know.
15:21 What's going on here right now doesn't make any sense at all.
15:25 Somebody's trying to kill him, and you too maybe.
15:29 Your husband doesn't want to go to the police.
15:32 That only means one thing to me, that he knows who it is,
15:35 and he's frightened.
15:37 Yes, he's frightened.
15:39 Sometimes in the night, I catch him staring at me.
15:42 All this began when Carnovich died.
15:44 Glocky said that he went to Carnovich's funeral.
15:49 Yes, except-- well, I believe that Carnovich is still alive.
15:55 Oh, no, that's ridiculous.
15:57 The press, friends, there were thousands
15:59 of people at the funeral.
16:00 Look, Jerry, just let me tell you.
16:03 One night he left me, late.
16:05 A few hours later, he came back.
16:08 And the look of hatred in his eyes was maniacal.
16:12 He said he'd been to the cemetery.
16:15 That's a pleasant honeymoon chat.
16:17 Well, I asked him why.
16:18 He just looked at me and said one word, Carnovich.
16:23 Now, Jerry, that was when all this terror began.
16:26 And I believe he went to the cemetery,
16:28 and he found that the body was missing.
16:30 I believe that Carnovich is still alive,
16:32 that he's here in New York.
16:35 Does that make any sense to you at all?
16:37 No, it doesn't.
16:39 Jerry, I know I'm right.
16:42 The music, the music in the room
16:45 was the seventh sonata, the Carnovich sonata.
16:48 And it was being played with a mastery
16:50 like I've never heard before.
16:52 Carnovich is the only person in the world that can do that.
16:54 No one else is physically capable of it.
16:58 When the music stopped, Vladimir
17:00 screamed like a frightened child.
17:02 Now, Vladimir is not a man to scream easily.
17:06 But in the grip of a fear--
17:07 No, wait, wait.
17:10 If he was to think, mind you, if he was to think that Carnovich
17:14 was still alive, can you imagine what that would do to him?
17:20 A genius like that is very close to--
17:24 it's a very delicate thing.
17:27 Supposing Carnovich was in our apartment that night,
17:30 has been there many times before.
17:32 Supposing that Carnovich is trying to kill Vladimir.
17:36 Just answer me one question, Leonie,
17:39 and then I'll believe you.
17:41 Why?
17:43 I don't know.
17:45 I don't know.
17:47 But I'm frightened.
17:49 I think we both need a drink.
17:51 How about you?
17:54 [MUSIC PLAYING]
17:57 Come on.
17:58 You won't miss us.
17:59 All right.
18:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
18:03 You're very patient of him.
18:23 He's a very good man.
18:25 You're very patient of me, Jack.
18:27 I wonder why.
18:28 [MUSIC PLAYING]
18:32 [MUSIC PLAYING]
18:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]
18:39 Judah?
19:01 Yes?
19:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]
19:07 I thought I heard that when I was leaving
19:21 the apartment downstairs.
19:24 What should we do?
19:26 You go in there.
19:28 If I'm not back in five minutes, I'll see you at the theater.
19:31 All right.
19:32 [MUSIC PLAYING]
19:36 [MUSIC PLAYING]
19:39 [MUSIC PLAYING]
19:43 Hey, you.
20:08 [MUSIC PLAYING]
20:11 Grab it.
20:14 Grab it.
20:15 Now talk.
20:21 You are Witzek's new manager, aren't you?
20:25 Come on now, what do you want?
20:27 Money.
20:29 Money.
20:30 It will put an end to my troubles.
20:32 Plenty of it.
20:34 I'm listening.
20:36 My name is Gafke.
20:39 And once I was caretaker in a graveyard.
20:42 You know, the man puts away those empty yellow carcasses
20:47 that used to be full of life and love and hate
20:52 and all the wonderful things that life could be.
20:57 A nice occupation, isn't it?
20:59 Get to the point, Gafke.
21:01 Always in a hurry, like the time that's
21:04 running out for all of us.
21:08 There's not much left for me.
21:10 And I know just how little money would make it easy for me
21:14 to face the grave and the silence and the cold
21:19 in a coffin with candles of gold.
21:22 Pure gold.
21:26 What I know is worth a lot more than what I have.
21:30 What do you know about what?
21:32 About Witzek.
21:34 And about Karnovitz.
21:36 He's not dead, is he?
21:38 Not dead.
21:39 [LAUGHTER]
21:42 You don't know very much, do you?
21:46 You go back to your Witzek and tell him
21:49 that Gafke has come from the graveyard all the way to America
21:53 to put an end to his poverty.
21:57 When I opened the doors of the mausoleum for him,
22:01 he was just a stranger with a touch of madness on him.
22:06 But now I know who he is.
22:09 A famous man.
22:11 A rich man.
22:12 And if I tell what I know, they will put him in prison.
22:18 Put him in prison?
22:19 For what?
22:21 [LAUGHTER]
22:25 What happened in that graveyard?
22:28 The money first.
22:30 And it's got to be plenty, you understand?
22:32 I tell him that I've got this, his knife.
22:38 Let him keep his wooden box.
22:42 But I want my money.
22:44 All this will have more work to do.
22:46 Where can I find you when I want you?
22:53 Right here.
22:54 Every night.
22:55 Go.
22:59 [MUSIC PLAYING]
23:03 [FOOTSTEPS]
23:06 [MUSIC PLAYING]
23:10 [FOOTSTEPS]
23:14 [MUSIC PLAYING]
23:18 [DOOR OPENS]
23:19 [MUSIC PLAYING]
23:23 [MUSIC PLAYING]
23:27 [MUSIC PLAYING]
23:30 [MUSIC PLAYING]
23:58 [MUSIC PLAYING]
24:01 [MUSIC PLAYING]
24:19 Yeah.
24:27 [DOOR OPENS]
24:29 Says you.
24:31 What?
24:32 Hey, wait a minute.
24:34 OK, OK, boy.
24:37 Take the city desk.
24:38 [FOOTSTEPS]
24:41 Hi, Sylvia.
24:44 Ha!
24:45 The very man I want to see.
24:48 How are you?
24:49 You're working for a madman, lover boy.
24:51 Did you know that?
24:52 I know, but I didn't think you knew.
24:55 You don't know how mad.
24:57 An egotistical, ill-mannered, conceited, arrogant madman.
25:01 I take it he's not your favorite musician.
25:04 Here, I brought your tickets myself.
25:05 Tickets to a funeral.
25:08 To the destruction of a once great pianist,
25:12 doomed to the extinction he deserves.
25:15 I wish I hated music, and I could really take pleasure
25:18 in watching V-sex folly.
25:21 I wish I knew what you were talking about.
25:26 You mean you don't know about the change in the program?
25:30 Well, I know he's not going to play the Paisiello.
25:32 And you don't know what he's substituting?
25:34 Do you?
25:36 I do.
25:37 He's going to play the Carnovet Seventh.
25:47 His choice of words, not mine.
25:53 I'd say he's going to attempt it,
25:55 and he'll make himself a laughing stock.
25:57 He'll be booed off the stage.
25:59 He must be out of his mind.
26:01 Like I said, a madman.
26:03 Carnovets and V-sex, the great rivals.
26:06 Brother, I could tell you a story or two about them
26:08 if you weren't so young and innocent.
26:11 They hated each other's chitterlings.
26:13 Chitterlings?
26:15 Do you find that in the style book?
26:16 There's nothing fit to print that describes those two.
26:21 You know why Carnovets wrote that Seventh of his?
26:24 Because he was fed up with V-sex yapping at his heels.
26:28 He wrote himself a sonata no one could play,
26:31 who couldn't match the phenomenal spread of his hands.
26:35 I've heard that.
26:36 V-sex never forgave him for it.
26:38 And when Carnovets died, I tell you, V-sex positively gloated.
26:42 Publicly.
26:43 He laid his hatred out for all the world to see.
26:48 A hatred bordering on insanity.
26:52 A pathological hatred centred on a pair of hands.
26:57 But what hands?
27:00 They were long and white and delicate.
27:03 The most beautiful hands in the world.
27:07 Did you ever see them?
27:08 [GROWLING]
27:10 Yes, Sylvia.
27:12 I have seen them.
27:15 Jerry.
27:17 Jerry!
27:18 Jerry, look!
27:19 Mr. Webber, I want another piano.
27:22 In a hurry.
27:23 No, no, no, it's all right.
27:24 There is no time.
27:26 No, the black, letter L, grand.
27:29 The one I've always liked second best.
27:32 Yes, but you must hurry.
27:35 There is no much time.
27:38 Good.
27:39 I'll wait for it.
27:40 As soon as you can, I have to tune it.
27:47 Fine.
27:48 Oh, Jerry, thank heaven you've come.
27:51 Now look at this, a disaster.
27:54 Look at it.
27:56 We locked the vault so that no one would touch the piano.
28:00 Who would do such a thing?
28:02 Does he know about this?
28:04 We thought it best not to mention it.
28:05 Don't you agree?
28:07 Did you see a weird man with a limp around here?
28:10 Yes, I did.
28:11 He said that he wanted to see Mr. Vichek.
28:14 And?
28:15 I told him to come back after the concert.
28:18 You think he's the one that did this?
28:20 Maybe, maybe.
28:21 Did you order another piano?
28:22 Yes, it will be here soon.
28:25 We'll have to call the police.
28:26 And then Weber and Grant will want to know about it.
28:28 And there's a business about insurance.
28:30 Now we're not going to say anything about this
28:32 before the concert, agreed?
28:34 I'll tell Vichek myself after the concert.
28:37 Good.
28:38 Locky.
28:38 He's decided to play the Carnivate Seventh.
28:47 What?
28:48 The Carnivate Seventh?
28:49 Well, Jerry, he's insane.
28:51 He'll never do it, never.
28:53 It will mean his ruin if he tries it.
28:58 We must stop it.
29:00 How?
29:01 You think he'll listen to either one of us?
29:02 I came over as soon as he went to rest.
29:18 Jerry, I think he saw us together last night.
29:21 Did you tell him about us?
29:23 No, no, of course not.
29:25 You don't know how violent he can be.
29:28 I do, Leonie, believe me, I do.
29:30 You just can't stay with him any longer.
29:32 He's my husband, Jerry.
29:34 Do you know what was in that box he gave me to keep for him?
29:37 No, but after he'd given it to you,
29:38 a sort of peace came over him, as if a menace
29:40 had been removed.
29:42 What he's done, Leonie.
29:43 What he's done is really horrible.
29:48 [MUSIC PLAYING]
29:51 Do you remember telling me that he
29:54 went to Carnovitz's crypt?
29:55 Yes, yes.
29:57 Well, it wasn't enough for him to know
29:58 that Carnovitz was really dead.
30:01 Your husband went to the crypt, opened the casket,
30:06 and made a cast of his hands.
30:09 I don't believe it.
30:10 What?
30:11 I don't believe it.
30:12 It's not possible.
30:13 Now, listen to me, listen to me.
30:15 This afternoon, Sylvia Slatterley
30:17 told me that this pathological hatred of Carnovitz
30:20 was centered on those tremendous hands.
30:23 Don't you see, he wanted a permanent reminder
30:25 of his rival's death.
30:26 And that's where this madness took him,
30:29 to the desecration of a corpse.
30:31 And that's where this gaffke is blackmailing him, because he
30:34 led him into the mausoleum.
30:35 And you know where the cast is now?
30:37 It's in that teakwood box he gave me yesterday.
30:40 It's horrible.
30:42 It's horrible.
30:43 I don't believe it, Jerry.
30:44 It's true.
30:44 I saw them.
30:45 They're in the box.
30:46 You've got to leave him, Leonie.
30:53 You've got to leave him now.
30:56 All right.
30:58 All right.
30:59 But I must go to the concert.
31:01 Why?
31:03 I don't know.
31:04 I don't know, but I must go.
31:06 All right.
31:11 All right, but I'm going to be there with you.
31:13 It may be dangerous.
31:15 [MUSIC PLAYING]
31:19 [CROWD CHATTER]
31:47 [APPLAUSE]
31:50 [MUSIC PLAYING]
32:14 [MUSIC PLAYING]
32:17 [MUSIC PLAYING]
32:20 [MUSIC PLAYING]
32:23 [HORSE NEIGHING]
32:38 [MUSIC PLAYING]
32:47 [MUSIC PLAYING]
32:50 Oh, Miss Latherley.
32:56 Hi, Clarky.
32:57 Out here, you can't hear so good.
33:00 You should be inside.
33:01 It's beautiful.
33:03 Yes, Clarky.
33:04 It's beautiful.
33:05 Schumann, Denany, Grieg--
33:08 that's not what I came to hear.
33:10 You too?
33:11 Huh?
33:12 Yes, Clarky.
33:13 I too.
33:14 How the mighty fall in the midst of the seventh sonata.
33:20 I want to see it, Clarky.
33:22 Is that bad?
33:29 I suppose it is.
33:31 How one man can inspire so much hatred.
33:34 He's a great pianist, but a blaggard, Clarky.
33:39 A catiff, a cullion, and a loon.
33:42 A lot of people in there have come to watch him die.
33:46 All right.
33:47 I'm one of them.
33:49 I want to see their mockery tear him apart.
33:52 And that's what they're going to do.
33:55 You're late, Sonny.
33:56 You might have missed the fireworks.
33:57 I'm sorry, Miss Latherley.
33:58 But the traffic is backed up on that avenue a mile long.
34:01 You never saw anything like it.
34:02 You're in the big city now, boy.
34:04 Get in there and find yourself a dark corner.
34:07 And if the stage manager sees you, he'll throw you out.
34:10 So keep out of his sight.
34:12 Gee, I'm sorry, Miss Latherley.
34:14 I won't let it happen again.
34:15 I promise.
34:16 Shut up and get in there.
34:18 Yeah.
34:19 You OK, Miss Latherley?
34:21 Too good to go unrecorded, Clarky.
34:28 So I'm a Jezebel.
34:31 I'm a good reporter, too.
34:36 Well, unless he backs down, the next one is the big one.
34:41 Now the devil gets his due, Clarky.
34:45 See you after the funeral.
34:47 [APPLAUSE]
35:05 Oh, relax, Buster.
35:09 Musical history is being made, so enjoy it.
35:11 The seventh sonata, and only one man could ever play it.
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36:18 You can do it.
36:44 Jerry, he's going to make it.
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37:42 Bravo!
37:49 [APPLAUSE]
37:52 I can't believe what he did.
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38:12 Gnats.
38:34 Gnats.
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39:03 She'll be all right now.
39:13 She should sleep until morning.
39:15 If she does stir, give me a call.
39:18 What the devil's going on?
39:19 I looked for you, Mr. Welch.
39:20 I had to take a taxi.
39:22 Leonie, what's wrong?
39:25 She collapsed.
39:26 I had to bring her home.
39:28 This is Dr. Hilton, who there's nothing to worry about.
39:32 But I don't understand.
39:33 What's happened?
39:33 I gave her a sedative.
39:34 She'll be fine in the morning.
39:35 Just let her rest.
39:37 Did she hear the sonata, Mr. Welch?
39:38 She heard it.
39:40 Good.
39:41 Good, I wouldn't have liked her to have missed it.
39:43 A triumph for both of us.
39:44 If you'd like, I'll stop by again in the morning.
39:46 Yes, do that, please.
39:48 And thank you.
39:49 Not at all. It's a pleasure.
39:50 A pleasure.
39:51 I'll show you out.
39:51 Thank you.
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40:44 Stand back.
40:45 [MUSIC PLAYING]
40:48 Stand back.
40:55 Kafka.
40:56 So you remember my name.
40:58 Shh.
41:01 Why did you come here?
41:02 I want money.
41:04 What else is there for an old man?
41:07 Blackmail.
41:08 Call it what you like.
41:10 A lot of money for my old age, Mr. Witzek.
41:14 I do know how to use your life.
41:17 Do you think I keep enough money here in the house
41:19 to satisfy you?
41:21 I'll pay for your silence, yes, but you'll have to wait.
41:24 You've had time to get the money.
41:26 Let us not play games, huh?
41:29 I told your manager what I wanted.
41:32 You told my manager?
41:34 What did you tell him, Kafka?
41:36 I want the money now.
41:39 You miserable scum.
41:41 You think I'm afraid of you?
41:42 You think I'll let you ruin my triumph?
41:44 [MUSIC PLAYING]
41:47 Because of me, you came out of the grave.
41:58 And because of me, you shall be--
42:02 [SCREAMING]
42:04 [MUSIC PLAYING]
42:07 [MUSIC PLAYING]
42:10 Leonie, Leonie, my darling, it's all for you.
42:28 For you, just for you.
42:30 I love you so.
42:34 Oh, the hands, the hands.
42:39 Take them away.
42:40 No.
42:41 [MUSIC PLAYING]
42:44 Jerry, Jerry, help me.
42:49 [MUSIC PLAYING]
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42:56 Not sleeping, Mr. Walsh?
43:09 A successful night for all of us, wouldn't you say?
43:11 You mean the concert?
43:12 For me, the pianist.
43:18 For you, the lover.
43:20 What's that supposed to mean?
43:23 It was kind of you to leave your door open, Mr. Walsh.
43:26 What did you expect to hear?
43:28 Screams, perhaps, as I beat my unfaithful wife?
43:32 Should I be less careful about her safety than you are?
43:35 I told you once that what is mine, I keep.
43:38 Perhaps I shall also add that what I cannot keep, I destroy.
43:43 Where is she?
43:44 In her room.
43:45 Our room, Mr. Walsh.
43:48 Where else should she be?
43:49 Make yourself easy, Mr. Walsh.
43:54 Open the box.
43:56 Go on, it is not locked.
43:57 What have you done with them, Vitchick?
44:05 Where are they?
44:08 You will not leave this room, Mr. Walsh.
44:10 And I will.
44:12 But first, I will tell you something of Carnivitz.
44:15 That once great pianist now lying a mangled corpse in a desecrated grave.
44:20 And even after he died, you couldn't forgive him for being a greater pianist than you?
44:24 That's a lie. He was second-rate, always second-rate.
44:27 Those freakish hands of his were all he had.
44:29 There was nothing else, no greatness, nothing but the hands of a freak.
44:32 Do you hear me? A freak!
44:33 But you stole them.
44:34 Yes, I stole them.
44:37 Because they had always stood between me and the fame that should have been mine.
44:41 And even in death, Carnivitz left that malevolent sonata of his behind that he and no one else could play.
44:47 But even in death, I found a way to conquer him.
44:50 I won.
44:52 You know you're insane, don't you?
44:54 Am I, Mr. Walsh?
44:57 Am I?
44:59 Who is to say?
45:01 Yes, I stole those hands.
45:04 So that I could keep them with me always in my possession, the helpless hands of Carnivitz.
45:09 There's more to the story, isn't there?
45:11 Yes, there is more.
45:13 A strange thing happened, Mr. Walsh.
45:16 In time, in time, those hands came alive.
45:20 Can you believe that?
45:23 Supple and soft and flexible and alive.
45:29 I found I could even put them on like gloves. Does that horrify you?
45:33 The dead hands of a dead man.
45:35 That came alive for me.
45:37 I found that I could use them.
45:39 And once I even played that great, incredible seventh sonata with them.
45:43 And then I knew the truth, the truth, Mr. Walsh.
45:46 It was never Carnivitz who played.
45:48 It was those wonderful, incredible hands that once were his and now they're mine.
45:54 And they still fought you?
45:56 Yes, they fought me.
45:57 The spirit came back into them even as the life had done and they fought me.
46:01 They tried to tear me to pieces while I was sleeping.
46:04 To wreak their vengeance on me, to kill me.
46:08 They became alive with a savage, monstrous will of their own.
46:12 And then you came, Mr. Walsh.
46:14 Full of sly, insidious evil to take my Leonie from me.
46:18 An unfaithful wife, Mr. Walsh.
46:20 What punishment would you say she deserves?
46:23 Stay where you are.
46:25 You will wait with me and you will listen with me and then you will watch with me.
46:30 I know what those hands are capable of in the night.
46:34 I placed them on her bed, close beside her on the pillow while she slept.
46:40 She stirred once and she called your name, but she sleeps again like an innocent child.
46:46 Like an innocent child.
46:49 [Screams]
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47:30 Leonie. Oh, Leonie, my darling.
47:33 Jerry. Jerry, those hands. They were my throne and my faith.
47:41 It's all right, my dear. It's all right.
47:44 Take me away, Jerry. Take me away.
47:54 We've got the roof of this house now.
47:56 [Screams]
47:59 I'm coming with you.
48:01 [Screams]
48:11 Don't look, girl.
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