Night Of The Demon (Curse Of The Demon)-HD (1957)
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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.
00:05:44Good night.
00:05:46Thank you again.
00:05:48Goodbye, Professor.
00:05:57Good night.
00:06:27Good night.
00:06:57No!
00:07:27No!
00:07:36No!
00:07:57No!
00:08:27No!
00:08:58Shit.
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.
00:13:07Good-bye.
00:13:08Good-bye.
00:13:09Good-bye.
00:13:10Good-bye.
00:13:11Good-bye.
00:13:12Good-bye.
00:13:13Good-bye.
00:13:14Good-bye.
00:13:15Good-bye.
00:13:20Good-bye.
00:13:25Good-bye.
00:13:27Good-bye.
00:13:29Hello, where could Professor Harrington be?
00:13:37Good-bye.
00:13:38I told Professor Harrington recently that if he wanted to find the key to Carswell's phony supernatural power,
00:13:44all he had to do was check the psychological makeup of some of his followers.
00:13:48I know, but we ran into difficulty.
00:13:50The one cult member we persuaded to speak up, a farmer named Rand Hobart,
00:13:55was arrested several weeks ago as an alleged murderer.
00:13:59Well, he could still be useful.
00:14:00I'm afraid not. His mind is in total collapse.
00:14:03He's in a state of catatonic shock and he's now in a home for the criminally insane.
00:14:07Why do you say alleged murderer?
00:14:09Well, that's just my personal view.
00:14:11A short while ago at the asylum, I succeeded in rousing Hobart.
00:14:15Under hypnosis, he produced this drawing.
00:14:17It's crude, but remarkably similar to these copies of old woodcuts and medieval drawings
00:14:23of a fire demon invoked by witchcraft to destroy an enemy.
00:14:27You mean you think that thing committed the murder?
00:14:30I thought the purpose of our convention was to disprove that type of thinking.
00:14:34Yes, but Mark says that he's...
00:14:35I speak for myself, Lloyd.
00:14:38I'm a scientist also, Dr. Holden.
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,
00:14:48the shadows that can blind men to truth.
00:14:50What truth? Myths.
00:14:52Demonology and witchcraft have been discredited since the Middle Ages, O'Brien.
00:14:56I wrote a book about it. That's why I'm here.
00:14:58Then explain how an uneducated farmer like Hobart
00:15:01could know anything about this creature
00:15:03whose legend has persisted through civilization after civilization.
00:15:07Babylonian Baal, Egyptian Seth Typhon, Persian Asmodeus,
00:15:13Hebraic Malak...
00:15:16Come in.
00:15:22Good evening.
00:15:24Katie 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?
00:15:33Dr. Holden, I'm very pleased to meet you.
00:15:35Your work on hypnotism 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 Coswell speaking.
00:16:02Speak of the devil.
00:16:05Yes, Coswell?
00:16:06I presume you know who I am.
00:16:08Yes. What can I do for you?
00:16:10Simply this.
00:16:11The newspapers say you're heading this so-called expose of my activities.
00:16:15Is that true?
00:16:16Yes, that's right.
00:16:17I suggest you have some second thoughts on this.
00:16:20Such as?
00:16:21Such as minding your business, not mine or Rand Hobart's.
00:16:25Harrington agreed to this.
00:16:26I think out of respect for him, you might do the same.
00:16:28Can you prove that, Mr. Coswell?
00:16:30At his personal assurance.
00:16:32I'm afraid you can't have mine.
00:16:34That's unfortunate.
00:16:36Maybe for both of us.
00:16:42O'Brien, see if you can have Hobart released to us for 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.
00:16:54Coswell's wary about what Hobart might tell us.
00:16:56That makes sense.
00:17:03You'll find the library straight through, sir.
00:17:25I'm sorry, sir, but the last volume you asked for,
00:17:27The True Discoveries of the Witches and Demons, is not available.
00:17:31What does not available mean?
00:17:33It should be in our restricted section.
00:17:36The oldest known existing copy, over 400 years old, you know.
00:17:40Yes, I know.
00:17:42Seems to be missing.
00:17:44Miss Bikini.
00:17:46Miss Bikini.
00:17:48Miss Bikini.
00:17:50Miss Bikini.
00:17:52Miss Bikini.
00:17:53Miss Peculiar.
00:17:55I'm having you checked.
00:17:59It was mentioned in these research notes.
00:18:02Never mind. I can probably find what I want in these.
00:18:05I hope so, sir.
00:18:07I'll do my best to trace it.
00:18:13Excuse me, sir.
00:18:16I couldn't help overhearing your conversation with the librarian.
00:18:20Your interest in seeing The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons, is that it?
00:18:24Yes.
00:18:25I have a copy I'll gladly put at your disposal.
00:18:29And the British Museum didn't have the only copy.
00:18:32Apparently not, Dr. Holden.
00:18:34I have what is perhaps the finest library in the world on witchcraft and the black arts.
00:18:39You know my name.
00:18:41Oh, yes. And you know mine.
00:18:44I'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 by 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.
00:19:08It'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.
00:19:18Just one thing.
00:19:20Let's understand each other, Mr. Carswell.
00:19:22My investigation of you and your cult won't be stopped.
00:19:27Oh, 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.
00:19:38Oh, well, in any event, here's my card.
00:19:43Blufford Hall, near Wargreave.
00:19:46I'll be seeing you soon, I'm sure.
00:19:49Oh!
00:19:51Excuse me.
00:19:52How clumsy.
00:19:54I'm so, so sorry.
00:19:56Here are your papers, sir.
00:19:58Thank you.
00:20:00Goodbye.
00:20:01Don't leave it too long.
00:20:08Goodbye.
00:20:33Can I help you, sir?
00:20:35Did you see that man who was just here?
00:20:37I can't say that I did.
00:20:40What do you make of this?
00:20:42It's a visiting card.
00:20:43Oh, I mean the handwriting on it.
00:20:46No handwriting.
00:20:47Yes, there is.
00:20:48I...
00:20:53Forget it.
00:21:08I can't find anything on this card.
00:21:12Nothing at all?
00:21:13No.
00:21:14Oh, I could try some absorption tests, but that would take time.
00:21:18How much time?
00:21:19Tonight?
00:21:20Fine, call me at my hotel when it's finished.
00:21:23Right.
00:21:37Thank you.
00:22:07Aren't you...
00:22:08Yes, on the plane.
00:22:10Did you know the professor?
00:22:12Did you?
00:22:13Yes, I worked with him.
00:22:15I'm John Holden.
00:22:16Then I must talk to you.
00:22:18It's very important.
00:22:20I'm Joanna Harrington.
00:22:21Professor Harrington was my uncle.
00:22:23My deepest sympathies.
00:22:25Thank you.
00:22:26When can we meet?
00:22:28Tonight.
00:22:29Call me at my hotel.
00:22:30All right.
00:22:38412, down to the left, miss.
00:22:40Thank you.
00:22:51Well, come in.
00:22:52Thanks.
00:22:53So you really are Dr. Holden.
00:22:55All scientists don't wear thick glasses.
00:22:58I apologize for bothering you on the plane.
00:23:01What was all that writing about, anyway?
00:23:03It is to my pupils about my trip to America.
00:23:05I'm a kindergarten teacher.
00:23:07I'm sorry it ended so tragically for you.
00:23:09Thank you.
00:23:10Sit down, won't you?
00:23:11Would you like a drink?
00:23:13No, thanks.
00:23:14You don't mind if I have one, do you?
00:23:16I need it.
00:23:17It's cold tonight, isn't it?
00:23:19No, it's hot, quite hot.
00:23:21Do you think so?
00:23:23I heard you're continuing my uncle's project.
00:23:26And?
00:23:27I think you ought to drop it.
00:23:29You're the second person to suggest it.
00:23:31You're the second person to suggest that in one day.
00:23:34What is your reason?
00:23:35I believe you're in danger.
00:23:37Oh?
00:23:38I found my uncle's diary.
00:23:40It's all in here.
00:23:41You make it sound very menacing.
00:23:42It is.
00:23:43I think it had something to do with my uncle's death.
00:23:46Something horrible happened to him.
00:23:49Something unexplainably horrible.
00:23:51I'd like to read it to you.
00:23:52Go ahead.
00:23:54Met Carswell at Albert Hall concert.
00:23:56He puts three exclamation marks after that sentence.
00:23:59Carswell can be a pretty startling character.
00:24:01You've met him?
00:24:02This morning.
00:24:03I see.
00:24:04Then listen to this.
00:24:05Carswell most pleasant.
00:24:06Lost my program during concert and Carswell gave me his.
00:24:10A nice gesture since I saved them.
00:24:12That doesn't sound particularly menacing.
00:24:14Wait.
00:24:16Today I found the parchment in the concert program Carswell gave me.
00:24:21It had runic symbols drawn on it.
00:24:23That's not mysterious.
00:24:25Runic symbols are the oldest form of an alphabet.
00:24:28They're found carved on ancient stones like hieroglyphics.
00:24:33Well, they're supposed to have magic powers.
00:24:35They don't.
00:24:37The parchment acted as if it were alive.
00:24:40It pulled from my hand and flew into the fire and burned.
00:24:43I think I can guess what Carswell has done to me.
00:24:46Will you have a cigarette?
00:24:47No, thanks.
00:24:48There's a lot more about seeing visions of a monstrous smoky shape
00:24:51and feeling cold like you said you were.
00:24:54I'm under some kind of witch's spell.
00:24:57My mind is in the balance.
00:24:59I must speak to Holden about this.
00:25:01Unfortunately, you came too late.
00:25:04What you're trying to tell me is your uncle was killed by witchcraft.
00:25:10As a doctor, I can assure you, you're wrong.
00:25:14It's a pure case of autosuggestion.
00:25:17But the way he knew he was going to die and the horrible way he actually did.
00:25:21It's not a thing that happened that couldn't have been an accident.
00:25:25You see, Miss Harrington, the shock of finding your uncle dead.
00:25:29Please don't treat me like a mental patient who has to be humored.
00:25:32I also majored in psychology.
00:25:34Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to...
00:25:35You could learn a lot from children.
00:25:37They believe in things in the dark until we tell them it's not so.
00:25:40Maybe we've been fooling them.
00:25:42Good night, Dr. Holden.
00:25:44Good night, Dr. Holden.
00:25:45Oh, please. I'm really quite flattered that you've taken such an interest in my welfare.
00:25:49Don't be. If I hadn't have been away, my uncle might still be alive.
00:25:53It was an accident.
00:25:54I don't believe that.
00:25:56I love my uncle very much, and I want to know exactly what happened to him.
00:25:59You don't seem to share my view. Good night.
00:26:02Wait just a minute.
00:26:06Hello?
00:26:07I've tested this car 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 car, and my absorption test would have shown it.
00:26:20This car is 100% clean, I guarantee it.
00:26:23I see. Well, thank you.
00:26:28How would you like to show me the way to Lufford Hall and the friendly Mr. Carswell tomorrow?
00:26:33Then you think...
00:26:34Don't jump to conclusions. I just want to borrow a book from him and discuss a chemistry problem.
00:26:43LUFFORD HALL
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.
00:27:13LUFFORD HALL
00:27:16LUFFORD HALL
00:27:39Sounds like a human sacrifice.
00:27:42Well, you remember the magic word, of course.
00:27:45Now!
00:27:52B, a magic puppet.
00:27:55Now, who'd like to stroke a magic puppet?
00:27:57Another one, coming out on its own!
00:28:01It's magic.
00:28:03Just a tame magician.
00:28:05That's it.
00:28:07That was what?
00:28:09The answer to my chemistry problem.
00:28:11One...
00:28:13Oh, uh...
00:28:14Right, children, now just be good for a few minutes, won't you now, and I shall be back.
00:28:20Ah, Holden, delighted to see you.
00:28:22I hope we're not intruding.
00:28:24Not at all. Just my annual Halloween party for the village children.
00:28:27I'll come right up.
00:28:30Is this the nice old guy?
00:28:32Perhaps he's Santa Claus in disguise.
00:28:34I didn't recognize you.
00:28:36I used to earn my living like this years ago.
00:28:39You see before you, Dr. Bobo, the Magnificent.
00:28:42Oh, excuse me, this is Miss Joanna Harrington.
00:28:44Miss, uh, not by any chance...
00:28:46Yes, he was my uncle.
00:28:48Oh.
00:28:49I was very sorry to hear of his accident.
00:28:51He was a man of, uh, great principle.
00:28:56Mother!
00:28:58Mother!
00:29:00Oh!
00:29:02I'd like you to meet my mother.
00:29:04You must try her homemade ice cream.
00:29:06She's very proud of it.
00:29:07Mother, may I introduce Dr. Holden?
00:29:09How do you do?
00:29:10And, uh, Miss Joanna Harrington.
00:29:12Miss 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.
00:29:20Oh, how nice.
00:29:21I 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, but he's so fussy.
00:29:28Oh, you aren't married, are you?
00:29:30No.
00:29:31Oh, mother, mother.
00:29:32Do you like ice cream, my dear?
00:29:33Yes, I love it.
00:29:34Well, come with me and I'll give you a treat.
00:29:37Would you like to try some?
00:29:38Not right now, thank you.
00:29:40Say, this is quite a place you have here.
00:29:42Yes, yes.
00:29:43Let me show you round.
00:29:46Snakes and ladders.
00:29:48An English game, you wouldn't know it.
00:29:50You see, if you land at the foot of the ladder, you climb up to the top.
00:29:53But if you land on the head of a snake, you slide all the way down again.
00:29:56Funny thing, I always preferred sliding down the snakes to climbing up the ladders.
00:30:01You're a doctor of psychology, you ought to know the answer to that.
00:30:04Maybe you're a good loser.
00:30:06I'm not, you know.
00:30:08Not a bit.
00:30:13Just how much do you know about this book that you're after?
00:30:16Not very much, only that Professor Harrington referred to it in his notes.
00:30:19A remarkable work.
00:30:21The few men that really understood it learnt 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 was far too valuable to entrust to any known language.
00:30:36I didn't realise what I was asking for.
00:30:40You don't believe in witchcraft?
00:30:42Do 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?
00:31:08How can we differentiate between the powers of darkness and the powers of the mind?
00:31:15Oh, how terrifying.
00:31:16Ah, what do I see here?
00:31:18Yes, some chocolate, I do believe.
00:31:20And there as well, here we are.
00:31:22Gosh, broccoli!
00:31:24Wonderful, aren't they?
00:31:26If only we grown-ups could preserve their capacity for simple joys and simple belief.
00:31:30I see you practice white magic as well as black.
00:31:33Oh, yes.
00:31:34I don't think it would be too amusing for the youngsters if 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, we'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.
00:31:59There.
00:32:00It's done.
00:32:02What is?
00:32:03The magician doesn't like to expose his magic, black or white.
00:32:55Ah!
00:33:15Where are the others?
00:33:16They probably went round by the back.
00:33:18I didn't know you had cyclones in England.
00:33:20We don't.
00:33:22You probably could use a drink.
00:33:24Perfect toast.
00:33:25This way.
00:33:32I'm sorry, I miscalculated.
00:33:35The wind's stronger than I expected.
00:33:37Much too much.
00:33:38You're talking in riddles.
00:33:40To prove my point.
00:33:42The medieval witch's specialty, a windstorm.
00:33:45Take my professional advice and 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 on the 28th of this month so easily with my prediction of it at this moment.
00:33:57You're really serious, aren't you?
00:34:00You will die, as I said, at 10 o'clock on the 28th of this month.
00:34:06Your time allowed is just three days from now.
00:34:09My time allowed.
00:34:12Oh, yes, your trick with the card.
00:34:14Very good, too.
00:34:15I'm sorry you remain so sceptical.
00:34:18As the time gets closer, mental disintegration will set in.
00:34:22First, weakness and unsureness, and then horror as the fear of what is behind you grips 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?
00:34:35I 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 that I do have a way out, Mr. Carswell.
00:34:44The 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 that you and Dr. Holden were discussing, didn't you, dear?
00:35:07But 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 lies in that remarkable work.
00:35:17Unfortunately, it's unreadable. It's written entirely in cipher.
00:35:20You offered to lend it to Dr. Holden. Shall I take it to him?
00:35:23He also knows it would be useless without a word key.
00:35:26The storm has ended.
00:35:28I'm sure you and the doctor are anxious to return to London.
00:35:32Yes. You mean the party's over?
00:35:35You'll find him in the morning room where I left him. Wait here.
00:35:39Well, goodbye, my dear.
00:35:41I'll see...
00:35:45I'll see you again soon, I hope.
00:35:47Yes. Thank you.
00:35:50Goodbye.
00:35:56It was a lovely party, wasn't it?
00:35:58Except for that dreadful wind.
00:36:03Have I done something wrong?
00:36:05Yes, Mother.
00:36:07Do 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.
00:36:24Well, believe this also.
00:36:26You 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.
00:36:40It's part of the price.
00:36:42But if it makes you unhappy, stop it.
00:36:45Give it back.
00:36:47How can you give back life?
00:36:49I can't stop it. I can't give it back.
00:36:52I can't let anyone destroy this thing.
00:36:54I must protect myself.
00:36:56Because if it's not someone else's life, it'll be mine.
00:36:59You understand, Mother? It'll be mine.
00:37:11You're home.
00:37:13That's the first thing you've said for half an hour.
00:37:15What's the use of talking? It has no effect.
00:37:17Oh, but it has.
00:37:19Then what are you going to do about it?
00:37:21Practice restraint.
00:37:23I'm going to order a sandwich and a glass of milk and go to sleep.
00:37:27How a man who's been told he'll die in exactly three days
00:37:30can consider sleeping is all the proof.
00:37:32I'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.
00:38:07We could discuss them as, uh, as fellow scientists, of course.
00:38:12About 8?
00:38:14Thank you. And don't worry.
00:38:16I'll be around to see the outcome of Mr. Carswell's remarkable prediction.
00:38:20Good night. Good night.
00:38:37Good night.
00:39:08Nice of you to drop in, Coomer.
00:39:10Oh, good evening, Holden.
00:39:12Well, Mr. Holden, are you ill?
00:39:14No, I'm all right. Hello, Mark.
00:39:16Oh, I phoned you earlier.
00:39:18The authorities are being difficult about cooperating on Hobart.
00:39:20We need the family to sign a release. I have it here.
00:39:22Well, if it's going to be that much trouble, forget it.
00:39:24His memory patterns are probably worthless anyway.
00:39:27Besides, I've met this Carswell.
00:39:29He's just a harmless faker.
00:39:31You are a very skeptical man.
00:39:33That's what Carswell said.
00:39:35Care for a nightcap?
00:39:37I wouldn't mind.
00:39:39Coomer, haven't you gentlemen heard that alcohol is the devil's brew?
00:39:43And interested as I am in the devil, I never indulge. Thank you.
00:39:47O'Brien, don't you think that skepticism is the scientific attitude?
00:39:52Oh, sometimes.
00:39:54All good scientists are from Missouri.
00:39:57In other words, they should continually be skeptical.
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.
00:40:07Like water?
00:40:08No, thank you.
00:40:09The 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 turn up all over the world
00:40:28swearing that 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.
00:40:50I wouldn't dream of arguing with you.
00:40:53You say, show me.
00:40:54I say, look for yourself.
00:40:59You know, the devil has something here.
00:41:01Very 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 if you're so set on it.
00:41:12Let me think it over, will you?
00:41:13But we haven't much time, you know.
00:41:15This is the release form.
00:41:16Oh, thank you.
00:41:18I wonder if either of you could recognize this tune.
00:41:22It goes something like this.
00:41:29And then it goes...
00:41:34It sounds like a distortion of an Irish folk tune.
00:41:37About the devil, I believe.
00:41:39The present devil is accepted, of course.
00:41:41A most odd coincidence.
00:41:43For in northern India there is a similar tune,
00:41:46which is also part of an enchantment spell.
00:41:50Well, that takes care of that.
00:41:52I guess I must have heard it somewhere.
00:41:54It kept running through my mind.
00:41:57Tell me, what have you got in your program for the convention tomorrow?
00:42:00Only a few sessions on extrasensory perception.
00:42:03The timetable is over there on the desk.
00:42:06I'd like to look in and watch your work. Do you mind?
00:42:08Not at all. Be glad to have you.
00:42:11Holden, you are not leaving us after the 28th, are you?
00:42:16No. Why did you ask that?
00:42:18Well, it's just that all the pages after the 28th are torn out.
00:42:28I hope we don't run out of candles
00:42:30before the power lines are repaired.
00:42:33Don't you think eating by candlelight is romantic?
00:42:36Yes, but not on a night like this.
00:42:58Shall we have some brandy in the living room?
00:43:00Fine. I can use something to warm me up.
00:43:03Don't say it. I know you think it's hot in here.
00:43:06No. As a matter of fact, it's rather chilly.
00:43:18Do you know the ancient Mariner?
00:43:20Oh, vaguely. I read it in school.
00:43:23I 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 doth walk in fear and dread,
00:43:35because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him dread.
00:43:41I hope you don't read poems like that to your kindergarten class.
00:43:44When it's important that a child learns something,
00:43:46I 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.
00:43:59So am I.
00:44:01You wouldn't deny a dying man a last request, would you?
00:44:04You listen whether you like it or not. You haven't much time left.
00:44:08Today 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 after the 28th.
00:44:27And I know why.
00:44:29You put the two together and they add up to a very obvious trick.
00:44:32You see, when a tribal witch doctor puts a hex on his victim,
00:44:36he always lets the victim know well beforehand.
00:44:41Let me see your uncle's diary.
00:44:44In case it would make you feel better,
00:44:46a parchment has to be passed,
00:44:49and the person has to take it without knowing.
00:44:53My mother taught me never to take anything from strangers,
00:44:56and I still don't.
00:44:57Then what killed my uncle?
00:44:59An accident with a falling power line killed him.
00:45:02Then he should only have been burned.
00:45:04His body was mutilated horribly.
00:45:07I don't know what happened to him.
00:45:09He should only have been burned.
00:45:11His 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 take 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 Carswell's carefully calculated threats.
00:45:43That's exactly what he wants me to do.
00:45:45Because he knows he can't stand up to a real investigation.
00:45:48If he's so all-powerful, what's he so afraid of?
00:45:51I wish I knew.
00:45:53Are you sure Carswell never passed anything
00:45:55or gave you anything on which the runes could have been written?
00:45:58What if he did?
00:45:59Did he?
00:46:01Well, he could have.
00:46:03At the museum, when my notes fell to the floor.
00:46:06As a matter of fact, he mentioned the museum the other day.
00:46:09Yes?
00:46:10Well, he picked up the papers and handed them back to me.
00:46:13Where are they now?
00:46:14At my hotel, I suppose.
00:46:17No.
00:46:19They're in my briefcase. I have it here.
00:46:37He did give you the parchment.
00:46:48It's trying to escape.
00:46:50It's just the wind.
00:46:58But it is trying to escape into the fire.
00:47:03That's a draft through the chimney.
00:47:07What made them stop?
00:47:15I don't know.
00:47:37Pardon me. Is this the Hobart farm?
00:47:42Wait a minute. Is this the Hobart place?
00:47:44Get off this property!
00:47:46All I'm trying to find out...
00:47:47You heard what I said. Get off!
00:47:49Look, they told me this was the Hobart farm.
00:47:51If it is, I've got to see Mrs. Hobart.
00:47:55I'm sorry, sir.
00:47:56I'm sorry, sir.
00:47:57I'm sorry, sir.
00:47:58I'm sorry, sir.
00:47:59I'm sorry, sir.
00:48:00I'm sorry, sir.
00:48:01I'm sorry, sir.
00:48:02I'm sorry, sir.
00:48:03I'm sorry, sir.
00:48:04I'm sorry, sir.
00:48:06I'm sorry, sir.
00:48:16All right, come in.
00:48:29Sit you.
00:48:35You know, he hasn't been proven to be the killer, Mrs. Hobart.
00:48:38Speak your business.
00:48:39I'm not interested in his guilt or want of guilt.
00:48:43Very well.
00:48:44I had a group of scientists who would like to examine him
00:48:47and try and find out what it was that drove him out of his mind.
00:48:51We know what it was.
00:48:53Let him go.
00:48:54I'm not going to let him go.
00:48:56I'm not going to let him go.
00:48:58I'm not going to let him go.
00:49:00I'm not going to let him go.
00:49:02I'm not going to let him go.
00:49:04Let him be.
00:49:05Let him die.
00:49:06Do you know for a fact he was the murderer?
00:49:09He made the killing happen.
00:49:10It were he that were chosen, and he passed it to a brother.
00:49:13The time will come when them that have no true belief shall be accursed.
00:49:18What do you want to do with him?
00:49:21The authorities say that I'll have to have the written permission of the next of kin
00:49:24before 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, that's a special technique we have,
00:49:37that we'll be able to find out what he did and saw at the time of the killing.
00:49:42You say it was his brother who died.
00:49:45I didn't realize it was one of the family.
00:49:47A brother of the faith.
00:49:49A 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.
00:50:14Thank you very much, Mrs. Hobart.
00:50:19Well, uh...
00:50:21I'll let you know what happens.
00:50:25He has been chosen.
00:50:28I've been chosen for what?
00:50:32What do you mean?
00:50:43Let no arm be raised to defend him.
00:50:46Defend me from what?
00:51:32No!
00:52:03That's it, sir. Number 44.
00:52:06Thank you.
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 mean, I 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.
00:52:47Oh, I'm so glad you've come, both of you.
00:52:51Mr. Meek has just telephoned. He's on his way.
00:52:54May I ask who Mr. Meek is?
00:52:56The gentleman I want you to meet. And this is Mrs. Meek.
00:52:59Miss Harrison. I mean, Harrington. And Dr. Holden.
00:53:04Excuse me, please.
00:53:08Don't you worry. All your problems will be solved. You'll see.
00:53:12That's very nice. May I ask how?
00:53:14Through tonight's seance.
00:53:16Seance?
00:53:17Yes. Mr. Meek is a most remarkable medium.
00:53:20I come to him with all my problems.
00:53:23Ah, 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. These 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...
00:53:40Mr. Meek, this is Dr. Holden.
00:53:41Oh, so you're the gentleman who was in trouble.
00:53:43Maggie, 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. The spirits sometimes resent previous knowledge.
00:53:54Well, let's see if we can clear the air.
00:53:57Oh, not being part of the circle, you two had better sit by the window.
00:54:02Well, Maggie, no point in wasting these good people's time.
00:54:14I must be insane to get involved in a thing like this.
00:54:16John, please.
00:54:24Very well, Maggie.
00:54:26Cherry ripe, cherry ripe, Rye, my rye,
00:54:31Fruits and melons,
00:54:34We must all sing the spirits like it.
00:54:36Cherry ripe, cherry ripe, Rye, my rye,
00:54:41Fruits and melons,
00:54:44Fruits and melons,
00:54:47Cherry ripe, cherry ripe,
00:54:50Fruits and melons,
00:54:53Cherry ripe, cherry ripe,
00:54:56Rye, my rye,
00:54:59Fruits and melons,
00:55:10That's really very quick.
00:55:12He's so helpful, you'll see.
00:55:14Mrs. Carswell...
00:55:16Something's here.
00:55:18What is it?
00:55:29That's Crimson Eagle.
00:55:31He's Mr. Eagle's guide.
00:55:33He's the Red Indian chief from an obscure part of your country, Professor.
00:55:37I... I...
00:55:45Wheel.
00:55:47A kindly good evening to you, friends.
00:55:50Good 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 get to the floors and the barley.
00:56:02Lovely weather, Mr. McGregor.
00:56:05In a sense, we have strangers in our midst.
00:56:08Two strangers.
00:56:10But they're very sympathetic.
00:56:13Will you have 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.
00:56:21Uh, yeah, over here, both of you.
00:56:36Mummy!
00:56:38Oh, Mummy!
00:56:40Oh, Mummy!
00:56:42Oh, somebody's poor departed child.
00:56:44I wonder whose.
00:56:46I can't find...
00:56:48I can't find Frederica.
00:56:50She's lost her doll.
00:56:56Joanna.
00:56:58Joanna.
00:57:00It's my uncle.
00:57:02Don't be foolish.
00:57:04Are you there, Joanna?
00:57:06Yes.
00:57:07These things are all fate.
00:57:09But it is my uncle. I know his voice.
00:57:11He's who hurt Mr. Meek.
00:57:13Got to...
00:57:15Got to tell Holden.
00:57:18He can't fight it.
00:57:20It's too strong.
00:57:22He means we must give up the investigation.
00:57:24This is crazy.
00:57:26Carswell has the key.
00:57:28He's translated the old book.
00:57:31The answer is there.
00:57:33No.
00:57:34Oh, look.
00:57:36It's in the trees.
00:57:38It's coming.
00:57:40The demon!
00:57:42It's coming!
00:57:43No!
00:57:44Ah! Ah!
00:57:46Ah!
00:57:47That does it.
00:57:49Don't turn the light on. He's in a trance.
00:57:51Trance my eye.
00:57:53Maggie, I feel sick.
00:57:55You're not the only one.
00:57:57He's still alive, no thanks to you.
00:57:59Don't you know that to wake a medium out of a trance is to risk his life?
00:58:02But it was real.
00:58:04You 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.
00:58:19Julie, let them go.
00:58:21All right, Mother, come along with me.
00:58:24But I tell you, it did sound like my uncle's voice.
00:58:28It was Mr. Meek doing voice impersonations.
00:58:32And your supposed friend, Mrs. Carswell, states the whole thing.
00:58:36She's looking out for her son's interests, not mine.
00:58:41Tomorrow's the 28th.
00:58:43Now, that would be a real miracle if Carswell could change that.
00:58:47What if it was?
00:58:49Now, that would be a real miracle if Carswell could change that.
00:58:52What if he did find he really had a translation of that book?
00:58:56Would that convince you that there is something in all this?
00:58:59It might help.
00:59:01Then I'm going to Carswell's house to see if I can find it.
00:59:05Go ahead.
00:59:07Aren't you even going to try to stop me?
00:59:10It would be easier to stop Carswell's demon than a woman who has her mind made up.
00:59:20Carswell.
00:59:38No lights are showing.
00:59:40If anybody finds you there, the charge will be burglary.
00:59:44Carswell is away. His mother told me.
00:59:47If you 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 that this has all been put on just to scare you off.
01:00:07Where are you going?
01:00:09To 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.
01:00:18I know it'll be much easier for me.
01:00:20I can get next to the house by going through the woods without being seen.
01:00:24And with you waiting, I'll hurry back.
01:00:46Carswell.
01:01:16Carswell.
01:01:46Carswell.
01:02:16Carswell.
01:02:46Carswell.
01:03:16Carswell.
01:03:47Carswell.
01:03:55Carswell.
01:04:16Carswell.
01:04:47Carswell.
01:05:12Oh, why did you drop the poker?
01:05:15I read hot.
01:05:16Which 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 I set 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, I don't keep you as a watch cat.
01:05:36I left the book in full sight for him.
01:05:39His name's Grimalkin.
01:05:41A very 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.
01:05:52In the time of the full moon, when cats wander and witches dance.
01:05:55Oh, yes, they do dance. I'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 to 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. She can.
01:06:19She believes that she's alive. She is.
01:06:22She believes that you'll die tomorrow night. You 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, you might find it unpleasant.
01:06:40I suggest you use the driver. I'll put on the light for you.
01:06:43I have one superstition. I 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. He just wouldn't listen.
01:07:07Come on.
01:07:37Come on.
01:08:07Come on.
01:08:37Come on.
01:09:07Come on.
01:09:32It was dark in the trees, and I...
01:09:34I saw this smoke.
01:09:36I know this sounds crazy, but...
01:09:38I 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. Well, 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 can be anything more than an interested spectator until...
01:10:21Oh, I 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 to cover phantoms and demons?
01:10:31Not that I know of.
01:10:32I didn't think so.
01:10:33You're right.
01:10:34It will seem different in the morning.
01:10:36But it is morning.
01:10:37It's three o'clock in the morning to be exact.
01:10:40All right.
01:10:41Now, if you insist on setting the wheels grinding, will you please wait here?
01:10:50Spare me a minute, sir.
01:10:51There's a Dr. John Holden outside, sir.
01:10:53The psychology chap?
01:10:54That's it, sir.
01:10:55It's a bit awkward.
01:10:57He's...
01:10:58It seems he's bewitched.
01:11:00You know, broomsticks and all that.
01:11:02Thinks he's being followed by something.
01:11:04Apparently, he's going to die tomorrow night.
01:11:06Does he say so?
01:11:07Well, not exactly, sir.
01:11:08There's a young lady with him, a Miss Harrington.
01:11:10Apparently, her uncle went through the same thing.
01:11:13Thought he was being followed by something or other.
01:11:15Thought he was going to die on a certain night at ten o'clock.
01:11:18Did he?
01:11:19Well, that's the thing that's got me puzzled, sir.
01:11:21He did.
01:11:26You 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 what 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, they'd all walk around it.
01:11:49I'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 to keep it from crossing their paths.
01:11:59But 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 over absolutely nothing at all.
01:12:08And I've made a career studying it.
01:12:11Maybe just to prove one thing.
01:12:13That I'm not a superstitious sucker like 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 to 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 you,
01:12:33sweet old Mrs. Carswell, plant the story about his being away.
01:12:37Now, don'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 into 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.
01:12:56Good night.
01:13:08When your partner comes out, tell him it was just a bad Halloween joke.
01:13:18I want to clear up everything today,
01:13:20even if it means having the closing session tonight.
01:13:22Is that all right with you?
01:13:23Fine.
01:13:24I was sent down today by ambulance under guard.
01:13:26I want to get back to the States as soon as possible.
01:13:30I'll get it. You finish your breakfast.
01:13:34Yes? Who's calling?
01:13:37It's Mrs. Carswell.
01:13:38Tell her I cut my throat.
01:13:40Anything. Get rid of her. She's been calling all night.
01:13:43Dr. Holden has just left today. I'm sorry.
01:13:47She's hung up.
01:13:48Carswell's working his mother overtime.
01:13:51Let's go, shall we?
01:13:54Let's go.
01:14:10Hello?
01:14:12Oh, yes, Mrs. Carswell.
01:14:14I tried to get Mr. Holden all day, but he won't take a call.
01:14:17I thought perhaps you could get through to him.
01:14:20Believe me, I was as much surprised by Julian's return last night as you were.
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 that he doesn't want it from me.
01:14:34But you can't mean that, surely.
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...
01:14:52Yes, Mother?
01:14:53Please, Julian, try to understand.
01:14:56I'm afraid it's you who don't understand.
01:15:20Come in.
01:15:50Come in.
01:16:20All of us here know that through the use of hypnotism,
01:16:23we can achieve our goals.
01:16:25We can achieve our goals.
01:16:27We can achieve our goals.
01:16:29We can achieve our goals.
01:16:31We can achieve our goals.
01:16:33We can achieve our goals.
01:16:35We can achieve our goals.
01:16:37We can achieve our goals.
01:16:39We can achieve our goals.
01:16:41We can achieve our goals.
01:16:43We can achieve our goals.
01:16:45We can achieve our goals.
01:16:47We can achieve our goals.
01:16:49Through the use of hypnotism,
01:16:51we can unlock certain sections of the human mind
01:16:54that are not accessible to memory.
01:16:57A great deal of publicity has been given lately
01:17:01to hypnotized persons
01:17:03who 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
01:17:24and practice devil worship.
01:17:27We're going to perform an experiment on the platform
01:17:31with a Mr. Rand Hobart
01:17:33who, through an experience related to devil worship,
01:17:37has lost all contact with reality.
01:17:42Professor O'Brien, the platform is yours.
01:17:47We have here an extraordinary subject.
01:17:50For a period of time, this man has been as you see him here.
01:17:54He fails to respond to any normal stimulation.
01:17:58His experience, whatever it was, which we hope here to discover,
01:18:02has left him in a state of absolute catatonic immobility.
01:18:07When I first investigated this case,
01:18:09the problem of how to hypnotize a non-responsive person
01:18:12was the major one.
01:18:13Now, the proceedings may be somewhat dramatic,
01:18:15but they are necessary.
01:18:16The only way of bringing his mind out of the womb of darkness
01:18:20into which it has retreated to protect itself
01:18:22is by therapeutic shock, electrical or chemical.
01:18:27For our purpose, we are today using pentothal
01:18:30and later methyl amphetamine.
01:18:45PENTOTHAL
01:19:15PENTOTHAL
01:19:33Hobart, look at this.
01:19:39Look at this.
01:19:41You see only this.
01:19:43You see nothing else.
01:19:45Only the light.
01:19:47Only this.
01:19:51Only the light.
01:19:53Look at this.
01:19:55You see only this.
01:19:58You see nothing else.
01:20:02You see only this.
01:20:05Your eyelids are getting heavy.
01:20:09Tired.
01:20:11More and more tired.
01:20:15You're going to sleep.
01:20:17Sleep.
01:20:19Calm, restful sleep.
01:20:24Rest.
01:20:26Sleep.
01:20:28Now.
01:20:31You 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.
01:20:46Methyl amphetamine.
01:20:49Do you wish to proceed?
01:20:51No, I'll turn him over to you.
01:20:53Hobart, you will next hear the voice of Professor O'Brien.
01:20:57From that point on, it will be his voice and his alone
01:21:00that you will hear and obey.
01:21:02Do you understand that?
01:21:06Hobart?
01:21:09Yes?
01:21:10Do you hear me?
01:21:11Yes.
01:21:13Mine is the only voice you will hear, is that clear?
01:21:16Yes.
01:21:18Only you.
01:21:20Hobart, what is the order of the true believer?
01:21:25Those of us who believe that evil is good and good evil.
01:21:33Yes, go on.
01:21:35Who blaspheme and desecrate.
01:21:40In the joy of sin will mankind that is lost find itself again.
01:21:47And who revealed this to you, Hobart? Who?
01:21:52The one who has brought us the wisdom of the true belief.
01:21:58Julian Carswell?
01:22:01Yes.
01:22:03Now I want you to come forward in time.
01:22:07It is the night of the demon.
01:22:11No, no.
01:22:15You must.
01:22:17It is the night of the demon.
01:22:21Lord's there.
01:22:23I see it in 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?
01:22:35He's not in rapport with you. Do you want me to turn him over to you?
01:22:37Yes, please.
01:22:39Hobart, 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?
01:22:56I've been chosen.
01:22:59How will you die?
01:23:01The parchment was passed to me.
01:23:04I took it without knowing.
01:23:09Hobart, open your eyes.
01:23:20Is this the parchment?
01:23:23No.
01:23:25No.
01:23:27I passed it back to the brother who gave it to me.
01:23:31It was the only way.
01:23:33I had to return it to him.
01:23:35I didn't want to, but it was the only way I could save myself.
01:23:39To save yourself, you had to give it back to the one who gave it to you?
01:23:42Yes.
01:23:44Yes, I had to.
01:23:46And the demon took him.
01:23:49And the demon took him.
01:23:51Not me.
01:23:53Not me.
01:23:57You're trying to pass it to me again.
01:24:00But I won't take it.
01:24:02I won't.
01:24:06Let it escape. Let it escape.
01:24:10He was born in fire.
01:24:12Let it die.
01:24:14No.
01:24:15No.
01:24:17No.
01:24:45Oh, this is terrible.
01:24:47Really terrible.
01:24:49Could you get me a car to take me to Leffert Hall?
01:24:51I can use mine.
01:24:53But why should you want to go there?
01:24:55I have something to return to Mr. Carter, he'll give me the key.
01:24:57Certainly.
01:24:59Dr. Horton.
01:25:01Wait.
01:25:03I do not believe he is there.
01:25:05How do you know?
01:25:07Mrs. Carswell told me earlier on the telegraph.
01:25:09Knowing your attitude, I told her you would not be interested.
01:25:11Are you?
01:25:13Yes, I am.
01:25:15I understand, but how could it?
01:25:17Go on.
01:25:19I hardly understood her, but it seems that her son
01:25:21is taking the 845 train to Southampton tonight.
01:25:23Would you know why?
01:25:25845.
01:25:46Has the Southampton train arrived yet?
01:25:48She's in the station now.
01:25:50Give me a ticket, please.
01:27:16Good evening, Dr. Holden.
01:27:20My boy, I've been expecting you.
01:27:22Joanna.
01:27:24First aid hypnosis.
01:27:26Oh, just a convenient way of stopping idle chatter on the train.
01:27:30She's not harmed.
01:27:32I'll bring her out of it.
01:27:35Now, wait.
01:27:38There's a friend here.
01:27:40Talk to him.
01:27:45John.
01:27:47This is abduction, you know.
01:27:49Oh, dear me, no.
01:27:51No, no.
01:27:53She came quite willingly.
01:27:55You came willingly, didn't you?
01:27:57You remember?
01:27:59We discussed it, oh, at great length.
01:28:01John, he's frightened.
01:28:03Terrified of you.
01:28:05I thought it was supposed to be the other way around.
01:28:07He's trying to run away from you.
01:28:09You see why I let her sleep?
01:28:11This idle chatter.
01:28:13Carswell,
01:28:15I was wrong.
01:28:16Really?
01:28:18But there is a way out for me.
01:28:19You always said so.
01:28:20Here.
01:28:21What's this?
01:28:22Read it.
01:28:23You want me to admit your power.
01:28:25You can send this to any newspaper
01:28:27and photostatic copies to all your followers.
01:28:29Isn't that what you want?
01:28:31Yes, but it's too late now.
01:28:33It's six minutes to ten.
01:28:37I guess it was my fault for not listening to Joanna.
01:28:40I'm sorry now that I didn't listen.
01:28:45And I want to thank you
01:28:47for convincing me of the existence of a world
01:28:49I never thought possible.
01:28:51If only you'd understood sooner.
01:28:55I suppose
01:28:57I still have time for a last cigarette.
01:29:00Joanna.
01:29:02Shall we go?
01:29:04No, thank you. I've stopped smoking.
01:29:07It must have been quite recently.
01:29:12Have you got a match?
01:29:13Ah, yes, of course.
01:29:16Thank you.
01:29:18That's all right. You keep them.
01:29:20I shan't need them anymore.
01:29:23You're very generous.
01:29:26Well, I leave you two alone.
01:29:29I know there's a certain feeling between you
01:29:31and you might want to be alone.
01:29:33Sit down.
01:29:35Your generosity is becoming overwhelming
01:29:37as it gets closer to the end of the day.
01:29:39I've got to go.
01:29:41I've got to go.
01:29:43I've got to go.
01:29:45It's getting closer to 10 o'clock.
01:29:47You're staying with me, Carswell.
01:29:49You've sold your bill of goods too well
01:29:51because I believe you now.
01:29:53I believe that in five minutes
01:29:55something monstrous and horrible is going to happen.
01:29:58And when it does
01:30:00you're going to be here
01:30:02so that whatever happens to me will happen to you.
01:30:04You're insane.
01:30:06You can't do this.
01:30:08No, you're staying here, Carswell.
01:30:10You're staying right here.
01:30:12No!
01:30:13Holden!
01:30:15This man's insane. I must go.
01:30:17It's all right, Doctor.
01:30:19We're the police, as Holden knows.
01:30:21We've had you under observation more or less at his request.
01:30:23Fortunately for you, as you can see.
01:30:25Yes, I see. Thank you.
01:30:27It's obvious that Holden has got a bit of a
01:30:29persecution complex about you.
01:30:31Something about your putting a hex on him.
01:30:33Well, that's utterly ridiculous.
01:30:35Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm getting out of this station.
01:30:37John, he's lying.
01:30:39He bought a ticket to Southampton.
01:30:41I saw it myself.
01:30:43Your bag, sir?
01:30:45My bag.
01:30:47Yes, yes, of course.
01:30:49These are his tools.
01:30:51Well, you want your hat and coat, don't you, sir?
01:30:53Oh, yes, yes.
01:30:55They're very forgetful of me.
01:30:57Thank you very much.
01:30:59You pass them.
01:31:04You zip them in my pocket.
01:31:05It's two minutes of ten.
01:31:35Come on, John.
01:32:05Come on, John.
01:32:35Come on, John.
01:33:05No!
01:33:36What was that?
01:33:37Come on.
01:33:40There's a man on the train!
01:33:41What's happened?
01:33:42I don't know, but I think the train's hit him.
01:33:50Maybe it's better not to know.
01:34:06The train must have hit him and dragged him.
01:34:08I thought he was on the other side, sir.
01:34:10Don't be ridiculous, Simmons.
01:34:12Look at him.
01:34:14The train must have hit him.
01:34:32You're right.
01:34:33Maybe it's better not to know.
01:35:03The train must have hit him.
01:35:33THE END