The Anatomist. (1956 TV Film)
A doctor employs two men to dig up graves in order for him to have bodies on which to perform experiments, but the men begin to get their own ideas of where to get bodies.
Alastair Sim ... Dr. Knox
George Cole ... Dr. Walter Anderson
Adrienne Corri ... Mary Paterson
Jill Bennett ... Mary Belle Dishart
Margaret Gordon ... Amelia Dishart
David Blake Kelly ... William Burke (as Diarmuid Kelly)
Michael Ripper ... William Hare
Peter Halliday ... Adolphus Raby
Frank Taylor ... Paterson
Jefferson Clifford ... Nebby
Doria Noar ... Janet
Irene Sunters ... Jessie Ann
Alastair Sim ... Dr. Knox
George Cole ... Dr. Walter Anderson
Adrienne Corri ... Mary Paterson
Jill Bennett ... Mary Belle Dishart
Margaret Gordon ... Amelia Dishart
David Blake Kelly ... William Burke (as Diarmuid Kelly)
Michael Ripper ... William Hare
Peter Halliday ... Adolphus Raby
Frank Taylor ... Paterson
Jefferson Clifford ... Nebby
Doria Noar ... Janet
Irene Sunters ... Jessie Ann
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00:00:40So, gentlemen, you are quite right in approving this particular skull as one of the finest specimens we have ever examined.
00:00:50And I can well understand you hoping that it will turn out to be the skull of an eminent scientist,
00:00:58perhaps even a scientist in our own particular branch of study.
00:01:03Well, such hopes do you credit, gentlemen, but I'm sorry to disappoint you,
00:01:08because this superbly developed cranium is no other than that of a humble Zulu chief,
00:01:15whose dauntless spirit succumbed to the rattling fire of British musketry.
00:01:23So in going over your notes, gentlemen, you may spare a passing thought to our much vaunted civilization,
00:01:30which stamped this man as a mere savage, presumably because he did not wear breeches, nor learn the catechism.
00:01:42Well, I hope you enjoyed the lecture, gentlemen, and I look forward to continuing our discussion tomorrow.
00:01:49Good afternoon, gentlemen.
00:01:54I understand only too well, Mr. Anderson, you love your loathsome dissecting rooms
00:01:58and your horrible, bald-headed Dr. Knox and his lectures better than you love me.
00:02:02Oh, you know that's not true. And please don't speak that way of Dr. Knox.
00:02:05Don't speak that way of Dr. Knox. It is how everybody speaks of Dr. Knox.
00:02:08He is horrible. He is rude. He is pompous. He is overdressed. He is conceited. He is ugly.
00:02:13And people say worse things of him than that.
00:02:15Who say so? What do they say?
00:02:17Never mind.
00:02:18But I do mind. I insist upon knowing.
00:02:20You insist, Mr. Anderson.
00:02:22I do insist. Mary, you of all people must not have your judgment corrupted by malicious lies.
00:02:26Oh, but please don't gesticulate. You will not know the what-not.
00:02:29Mary, sit down.
00:02:31I cannot think why Walter comes here at all.
00:02:33Don't mind Mary's naughtiness, Walter. Her heart is in the right place.
00:02:37As a student of anatomy, I hope so, Miss Disher. It's tidier that way.
00:02:41How lovely and sad these autumn evenings are.
00:02:44We shall miss them when we go abroad next month.
00:02:47I think the autumn evenings are more beautiful in Scotland than anywhere else in the whole world.
00:02:52In the whole world, Walter?
00:02:54You must be the great traveler to pass your judgments on so wide an area.
00:02:58Well, I have been to Calais and Madeira.
00:03:00You are quite the Christopher Columbus.
00:03:03And you are suddenly very waggish. I rejoice to see you have become sprightly again.
00:03:08And I rejoice, sir, in your rejoicing.
00:03:12Don't go abroad, Miss Amelia.
00:03:14But it is all arranged.
00:03:16For how long?
00:03:17Six months.
00:03:18It's a long time.
00:03:20It will pass.
00:03:22Walter, dear, I think you are a sufficiently old friend of the family to excuse my leaving you and my sister.
00:03:28For a few moments.
00:03:30We have another guest tonight.
00:03:32Dr. Knox.
00:03:34Dr. Knox?
00:03:36Is he coming here tonight?
00:03:38Oh, yes.
00:03:40Poor soul, he's lonely.
00:03:42And he does so love Mary Bell and me to accompany him with his flutes.
00:03:46He plays shockingly, poor soul.
00:03:48You can be sorry for an Irish tinker in the street, but you do not invite him into your withdrawing room.
00:03:53Mary Bell, please do not talk in that way.
00:03:54Dr. Knox is a most interesting man.
00:03:57Such a fund of information.
00:03:59And he's Walter's hero.
00:04:01You must not speak ill of Walter's hero.
00:04:03I cannot compliment Walter on his hero, or you on your protege.
00:04:07Mary Bell, dear, what's come over you tonight?
00:04:10You're quite unlike yourself.
00:04:12You will excuse me, Walter, but I have some instructions to give to Jessie Anne.
00:04:17And I think we may overlook the proprieties for once and away.
00:04:20May we not?
00:04:22Yes, of course, Miss Amelia.
00:04:24Allow me.
00:04:26I shall be back presently.
00:04:30Mary, tell me, what lies have you heard against Dr. Knox?
00:04:34They were not lies.
00:04:36Well, he's a married man who is forever dancing attendants on unmarried ladies.
00:04:41But Dr. Knox's domestic life has been a tragedy.
00:04:44Is there compassion upon him to transform it into a French farce?
00:04:46But he's married unhappily.
00:04:48Mrs. Knox will not or cannot go out with him.
00:04:51That's all very well, but...
00:04:53But what?
00:04:55Everybody knows he's hand in glove with the sack-em-up men.
00:04:57With the what?
00:04:59The sack-em-up men, the body snatchers, the resurrectionists.
00:05:01It's utterly dreadful to think of.
00:05:03It is dreadful.
00:05:05It is dreadful to hear you talking thieves' slang,
00:05:07worthy of the lips that invented the lie but unspeakably unworthy of yours.
00:05:10You can't deny it.
00:05:12Everybody says it.
00:05:14Call them what you will.
00:05:16Body snatchers, resurrectionists, sack-em-up men.
00:05:19Dr. Knox is hand in glove with them.
00:05:23Ah, Patterson.
00:05:25I shall require another subject in the morning.
00:05:27I hope you've got one.
00:05:29Another doctor? But you had one only last week.
00:05:31May I remind you, Patterson, that I now have a class of over 400 students.
00:05:35Aye, but it's short notice.
00:05:37Where am I to get one by the morning?
00:05:39That, I am glad to say, is your problem, Patterson.
00:05:42Mine is to impart knowledge.
00:05:44Good night, Patterson.
00:05:46Good night, sir.
00:05:48Good night, Patterson.
00:05:50Good night, sir.
00:06:05I'll pay you later.
00:06:07I'll see that you do.
00:06:17Good evening to you, Mr. Patterson.
00:06:19Good evening.
00:06:21It's honoured we are by the presence of the great Dr. Knox's janitor.
00:06:24Ah, I just wished.
00:06:31Fine night.
00:06:33It is that.
00:06:38How is trade with you?
00:06:40Not so bad. I've seen it worse.
00:06:43Well?
00:06:44Well what?
00:06:47Have you the like of a shot for us in the morning?
00:06:50She did not say she come by as our lad.
00:06:53Didn't we bring you one last week?
00:06:55Aye, I know that. But Dr. Knox's, I happen to get more.
00:06:58That's what I'm telling you, Mr. Patterson.
00:07:00It's no shot we have for you in the morning.
00:07:02Oh, come away, Burke.
00:07:04Have I served this well before at a pinch?
00:07:06Besides, the session's just started and I'm short of subjects.
00:07:09Oh, dear me.
00:07:11Is that so?
00:07:12Supposin'.
00:07:14I say supposin' we was to bleach the doctor.
00:07:16What he give us for it in these hard times?
00:07:18You know well the price.
00:07:20Seven pounds.
00:07:22Well, so to glory.
00:07:24What's that? Seven pounds, is it?
00:07:26And we to get in a hurry?
00:07:28That's crazy, yeah, man.
00:07:30You think of the risk.
00:07:32And that last one we bought you, you give us seven pounds ten?
00:07:34I mauled your body to the drop to bits
00:07:36when I took it out of the tea chest.
00:07:38Naughty indeed.
00:07:40A fine fresh body it was.
00:07:42A devil's own job we had gettin' it.
00:07:44I know where there is a grand
00:07:46one we could get for you quick,
00:07:48but it'll cost you ten pounds.
00:07:50I'll give you eight.
00:07:52I'll get my head in my hands if I don't mind,
00:07:54but I'll give you eight.
00:07:56Wait a minute, Mr. Patterson.
00:07:58Wait a minute, Mr. Burke, wait a minute.
00:08:00I can make you a better offer than that.
00:08:02I'll give you two pounds now, this minute,
00:08:04and seven more when you bring the shot.
00:08:06I can't say fairer than that, now can I?
00:08:08Well, I've gone too hard together.
00:08:10Going down.
00:08:12I'll give you four.
00:08:14Mind, if you bring another old rickle of bones,
00:08:16you can take it back where it came from.
00:08:18Now, mind, a good, fresh, young, juicy corpse.
00:08:20You're a fine, juicy one yourself,
00:08:22and that's no lie.
00:08:26Leave it to us.
00:08:28Now, what about the sentries at the cemeteries
00:08:30and the militia rampaging the town?
00:08:32It's hard put a man is to earn a loss
00:08:34living for the sweat of his brow.
00:08:36Come on with the money,
00:08:38but we've a night's work before us yet.
00:08:40You want your shot in the morning.
00:08:42Where'd he go, just to clinch the bargain?
00:08:44By heavens, no, I'm not drinking with you.
00:08:46I've no notion of a morning on a marble table
00:08:48with Dr. Knox humbling him with tripes, eh?
00:09:01Walter, I'm horribly unhappy.
00:09:04Marry Belle.
00:09:07Why can we not marry?
00:09:09But we shall marry, my heart's love,
00:09:10only we must wait.
00:09:12Wait, wait, wait.
00:09:14I'm sick of wait.
00:09:16Uncle Matthew talked about it all afternoon.
00:09:18He asked again if you would accept the loan
00:09:20to start practice in Fife.
00:09:22Mary, if I went to Fife,
00:09:24I should be profaning something,
00:09:26something greater than my love for you.
00:09:29Your own personal selfish inclination.
00:09:31No, no, no, I have to fight them.
00:09:33Heaven knows how I have to fight them.
00:09:35They tell me to go to Fife, to marry you at once.
00:09:37I adore you.
00:09:38My whole soul aches for you.
00:09:40Only it aches just a bit more for the great Dr. Knox
00:09:42and just a little bit more for your horrid dead people.
00:09:44You're a cannibal.
00:09:46You come here weaking of mortality.
00:09:48It's disgusting.
00:09:50It isn't disgusting.
00:09:52It's beautiful.
00:09:54Lovely, intricate human bodies.
00:09:56It teaches me to see God.
00:09:59That's blasphemy.
00:10:01No, no, no, Mary.
00:10:03Anatomy is God's work.
00:10:05He made us and we ought to know how.
00:10:07It's as if they've taken
00:10:09the noblest of an artist's work
00:10:11and locked them in a dark gallery
00:10:13and barricaded the door.
00:10:15We are breaking down the barricade.
00:10:17We'll go on.
00:10:19We'll manifest God's work to man.
00:10:21We'll...
00:10:23I can't express myself.
00:10:25Ask Knox. Ask Knox.
00:10:27He'll tell you. He knows.
00:10:29God's work. God and Dr. Knox.
00:10:31A singular association.
00:10:33I wonder my sister does not forbid him to the house.
00:10:34Oh, that's very pleasant indeed.
00:10:36Forbid him the house.
00:10:38Miss Dishard at least has some dim conception
00:10:40that his visits here are an honor, ma'am.
00:10:42An honor.
00:10:44You dare to speak to me like that.
00:10:46Listen, Knox will be remembered
00:10:48when Bonaparte and Wellington have forgotten
00:10:50why his work on the comparative anatomy...
00:10:52Dr. Anderson, you are beside yourself.
00:10:54Please go away.
00:10:56Forgive me, Mary.
00:10:58You are unpardonable.
00:11:01You're right.
00:11:04I'm not myself tonight.
00:11:06I think you are yourself tonight.
00:11:08I think I have never known
00:11:10your true self until tonight.
00:11:12I count myself fortunate
00:11:14in discovering you in time.
00:11:18Here is your ring.
00:11:22I won't take it.
00:11:24Oh, this is a foolish quarrel.
00:11:26Oh, so I'm foolish, am I?
00:11:28I talk thieves' slang, do I?
00:11:30I'm unladylike, am I?
00:11:32I said no such thing.
00:11:34And so it is.
00:11:36It is not.
00:11:38You must choose between me and Dr. Knox.
00:11:40I choose both.
00:11:42I will have both.
00:11:44I will make you see my point of view.
00:11:46You'll never drag me as low as that.
00:11:48This is your last chance.
00:11:50I will share the affections of a gentleman with nobody.
00:11:52Which do you choose?
00:11:54What shall I do?
00:11:56Dr. Knox.
00:11:58What shall I do?
00:12:00Are you rehearsing some amateur theatricals
00:12:02and I intrude as usual?
00:12:04I'll go and find my sister.
00:12:06Thank you, ma'am.
00:12:08Mary, listen. Dr. Knox will speak for me.
00:12:10He'll tell you everything.
00:12:12Dr. Anderson, please let me talk.
00:12:14Mary, Mary.
00:12:23Well, Mr. Anderson,
00:12:25you tear yourself from your studies
00:12:27to sport with Emmerich in the shade.
00:12:29I'm interested to observe this in you, sir.
00:12:31Sir, I...
00:12:32Don't use that word to keep your amours to yourself.
00:12:35I am not a good natural confidant.
00:12:38Besides, there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
00:12:41What was it?
00:12:43Oh, yes, I remember.
00:12:45Was it you that gave that dolt, Raby, a head to dissect?
00:12:49Yes, sir, this morning.
00:12:51Why, pray, do you imagine dissecting room subjects
00:12:53are so easily come by that I can afford
00:12:55to have them mangled by that imbecile?
00:12:57He's a dull fellow, sir, I know,
00:12:59but he's conscientious and anxious to learn.
00:13:00Indeed.
00:13:02In that case, you'd better send him
00:13:04to my worthy and honoured colleague, Professor Munro.
00:13:07But I won't have him in my room, do you understand?
00:13:10Oh, I think you'd do him an injustice, sir.
00:13:12There are many worse students than old Raby.
00:13:14Oh, there are, there are.
00:13:16You know, Mr. Anderson,
00:13:18when I survey the brutish faces of the youth
00:13:20arranged round my lecture room,
00:13:22I thank my maker that I once studied
00:13:24the habits of the hyena.
00:13:26I presented a paper on these habits, sir,
00:13:28to the Royal Society.
00:13:30No doubt you are too occupied with petticoats
00:13:32to have read it, but it's in the library.
00:13:34I have read the paper, sir.
00:13:36What, you have?
00:13:38Oh, but this is fame, sir, this is glory.
00:13:41It is worth all the labour of stuffing
00:13:43these Bartholomew pigs for the slaughter
00:13:45to have awakened a glimmer of interest
00:13:47in one of them.
00:13:49If you'd follow my instructions without question,
00:13:51I'd be even better pleased.
00:13:53I suppose that's too much to hope for.
00:13:55Very well, sir.
00:13:57I'll make an arrangement with Raby.
00:13:58Good.
00:14:00Send him out to rob graveyards.
00:14:02That's all the ass is fit for.
00:14:04If you're serious, sir,
00:14:06I must tell you that that is no part of my duty.
00:14:08And what, pray, is no part of your duty?
00:14:10Arranging churchyard raids.
00:14:12I disapprove of them very strongly.
00:14:14Oh, you do, do you?
00:14:16We must have you in a militia
00:14:18with a cocked hat and a blunderbuss.
00:14:20You're a prid, Mr. Anderson.
00:14:22You're not very kind to me, Dr. Knox.
00:14:24Would you like to come and weep in my bosom?
00:14:25You looked in a point of tears when I arrived.
00:14:27You seem to be having a merry evening.
00:14:29Oh, damnation.
00:14:31Tonight I meet the two people
00:14:33I most reverence in the whole world
00:14:35and they make me a butt.
00:14:37I'd better go.
00:14:39Ah, mademoiselle.
00:14:41You're a humble servant.
00:14:43Are you?
00:14:45I'm very well indeed, thank you.
00:14:47Come now and tell us the news.
00:14:50Pray, sit down.
00:14:51Thank you, ma'am.
00:14:53Walter has been very silent all evening.
00:14:56He's a poor gossip.
00:14:59In Mr. Walter's trade and mine, ma'am,
00:15:01that is a high qualification.
00:15:03Mr. McCarthy was here last night.
00:15:05There's a chatterbox, if you like.
00:15:07Have you read his essay on Machiavelli?
00:15:10No, ma'am, I've no time
00:15:12for the follies of young scribblers.
00:15:14What does he say of Machiavelli?
00:15:16He makes some sort of a hero of him.
00:15:18I cannot think why.
00:15:20I myself think that Machiavelli
00:15:22was a great rascal.
00:15:24Ah, you're wrong, ma'am, you're wrong.
00:15:26He had the hallmark of greatness upon him.
00:15:28And what is the hallmark of greatness?
00:15:30To be assailed by the mob.
00:15:33Merci, when everyone tells us
00:15:35that the voice of the people is the voice of God.
00:15:37Ladies, ladies.
00:15:39I have fought, as you know,
00:15:41against the French at some personal danger.
00:15:43If there is such a thing as physical courage,
00:15:45I do not possess it.
00:15:46But I'd give all I have
00:15:48for the proud and happy privilege
00:15:50of standing with my back to the wall
00:15:52and my pistols in my hands
00:15:54and a thousand of the Cannae
00:15:56before me ravening for my blood.
00:15:59It's a strange wish.
00:16:01But your cause would, of course, be a good one.
00:16:04Cause?
00:16:06What do I care for the cause?
00:16:08I have no opinions I would die for,
00:16:10but have I heard, but once,
00:16:12the noble patriotic cry, crucify him.
00:16:13I'd know my cause was good.
00:16:15Dr. Knox.
00:16:17Pardon me a moment, Miss Amelia.
00:16:19You say you have no opinions you would die for,
00:16:21but surely you must feel,
00:16:23you must know you are right.
00:16:25Right about what, my disciple?
00:16:27Everything.
00:16:29You stand up so boldly against the schools
00:16:31and the clergy and the talk of all the drawing rooms.
00:16:33You preach a gospel.
00:16:35You must have confidence in it.
00:16:37Only a fool is sure of himself
00:16:39until the mob denies him.
00:16:41Let us have some mercy.
00:16:43You don't know how important this is to me.
00:16:45I'm at my wits end.
00:16:47No very long journey.
00:16:50What is the matter with you, man?
00:16:52Dr. Knox, tonight I have been offered the choice
00:16:54between my dearest happiness
00:16:56and another year's work at anatomy.
00:16:58I've risked my happiness,
00:17:00I may have lost it,
00:17:02to work with you.
00:17:04Am I in the right or have I been a fool?
00:17:06You are in the right.
00:17:08You have been a fool.
00:17:10You are in the right to be a fool
00:17:11and a fool to be in the right.
00:17:13Dr. Knox.
00:17:15No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:17:18Dr. Knox has come to play upon the flute,
00:17:21not to be deemed with dull family matters.
00:17:25Family matters are never dull, ma'am.
00:17:28That's a mistake you ladies make.
00:17:30Look, come now.
00:17:32I shall be judge in chambers.
00:17:37What is the cause?
00:17:38What is the cause?
00:17:40Sir, Miss Mary Bell Dishart says...
00:17:42I don't want to hear what she says, sir.
00:17:44She'll say it for herself. What have you to say?
00:17:46Please, Miss Amelia, you talk to...
00:17:48to Mr. Baby.
00:17:50Mr. who, girl?
00:17:52Mr. Baby, ma'am.
00:17:54An English-spoken gentleman.
00:17:56Oh, pardon me, Miss Dishart.
00:17:58I think she means Mr. Raby.
00:18:00He's a friend of mine.
00:18:02I took the liberty of asking him to call.
00:18:04Did you say Raby?
00:18:06Yes, sir.
00:18:08Come now, Jesse-Anne.
00:18:10You know something of genius, Mr. Ennison.
00:18:12He's most welcome if he's a friend of yours, Walter.
00:18:15Come now, this cause that these young people
00:18:18were about to bring before me...
00:18:20The cause can wait.
00:18:22A pack of nonsense, anyway.
00:18:24Mr. Baby, light the candles and the lamp, Jesse-Anne.
00:18:27How do you do, Mr. Raby?
00:18:29Ma'am?
00:18:31Will you present Mr. Raby, Walter?
00:18:33May I present Mr. Adolphus Raby, Miss Dishart.
00:18:36Miss Mary Bell Dishart, Mr. Raby.
00:18:38Dr. Knox.
00:18:40I think you already know Mr. Raby.
00:18:42He's a student of yours.
00:18:45He was.
00:18:48Do you sit here by me, Mr. Raby?
00:18:51Most happy.
00:18:53Have you been in Edinburgh long?
00:18:55Not very. No, not very.
00:18:57Do you like Edinburgh, Mr. Raby?
00:18:59Yes.
00:19:01It is an interesting old city.
00:19:03Every stone speaks of history, doesn't it?
00:19:06Yes, it does.
00:19:08I'm told you work very hard, Mr. Raby.
00:19:11I don't know.
00:19:13Oh, you're too modest.
00:19:15Is he not, doctor?
00:19:17I have no means of judging, ma'am.
00:19:20Never having had occasion to shock his modesty.
00:19:23Doctor, you are terrible.
00:19:25Are his lectures full of terrible things, Mr. Raby?
00:19:28No, ma'am, nothing of the sort.
00:19:30They're wonderful.
00:19:32All about bones and joints and so forth and bowels.
00:19:36And what?
00:19:38Doesn't matter really.
00:19:40What I really meant was...
00:19:44Walter, would you hand me that album of Neapolitan views?
00:20:00A friend of Naples, Mr. Raby?
00:20:02Yes, ma'am, I like him very much.
00:20:08My sister and I visited Naples last year.
00:20:13This is Mount Vesuvius.
00:20:16At night particularly, it's a very awe-inspiring sight.
00:20:20It must be, ma'am.
00:20:24Have you been to Naples?
00:20:26No, ma'am.
00:20:28Tons of molten lava are thrown into the air.
00:20:32Yes, ma'am.
00:20:35This is the bay.
00:20:38But no pictorial representation
00:20:41can give the remotest idea of the depth of pleasure
00:20:45presented by the still waters in the sunlight.
00:20:48Yes, ma'am, very deep, I'm sure.
00:20:50Miss Amelia,
00:20:52however fascinating the lunge and riposte
00:20:55of your conversation with Mr. Raby,
00:20:57it was not to listen to intellectual dialogue that I came here.
00:21:01I came here to play upon the flute.
00:21:04Really, Dr. Knox, sit down and behave yourself, Mr. Raby.
00:21:07Please don't mind him.
00:21:09No, I don't, ma'am. At least...
00:21:11At least what? Well, at least what?
00:21:13Dr. Knox!
00:21:15Miss Amelia, I may not appear so, but I'm a very sensitive man.
00:21:18I'm conscious of a suppressed atmosphere of strife.
00:21:22It is clear that a domestic imbroglio
00:21:25makes the atmosphere impossible for the flute
00:21:28until the tangle is resolved.
00:21:30I was about to resolve it
00:21:32when Mr. Raby entered
00:21:33like a high wind from Mount Olympus.
00:21:36May we not proceed where we left off?
00:21:38Come now, Miss Maribel, let us have your story.
00:21:40What have you to say?
00:21:44I doubt you will hardly be pleased with what I have to say.
00:21:47Signorina, I do not solicit your compliments.
00:21:50I am unaccustomed to compliments.
00:21:52I ask you to add honesty to your natural beauty and wit,
00:21:55and to add dispatch to all three.
00:21:58Maribel, if ever you had any regard for me,
00:22:00tell Dr. Knox how difficult it was.
00:22:01If you do not, I... I don't know what I shall do.
00:22:04Dr. Knox, Mr. Anderson and I were engaged.
00:22:07We were to be married this year.
00:22:09Since you appointed him your assistant,
00:22:11Walter has changed his plans.
00:22:14My darling, no, no, no, no!
00:22:16You must not say, my darling, no, no, no, no, no,
00:22:18when the witness is giving evidence.
00:22:20Proceed, Signorina.
00:22:22My uncle, Sir Matthew Goody,
00:22:24has offered an advance of a thousand pounds
00:22:26that Walter may commence medical practice in Fife.
00:22:28Now, at once, but...
00:22:29Walter has refused it.
00:22:31Quite rightly.
00:22:33He is unfit to start practice.
00:22:35He is better than most,
00:22:37but not yet fit to be responsible for human lives.
00:22:39He is.
00:22:41Well, he is, or he never will be.
00:22:43Besides, that was not the excuse he gave me
00:22:45for breaking his word to me.
00:22:47And what was his excuse?
00:22:49She said he was doing God's work,
00:22:51and he said he was employed on some heroic task.
00:22:53He said that if he went to Fife,
00:22:55he would be profaning something holier
00:22:56than his love for me.
00:22:58He said all that, did he?
00:23:00Yes, and I meant it.
00:23:02No doubt you did.
00:23:04And you, my dear young lady,
00:23:06took all this play-acting quite seriously.
00:23:08Was.
00:23:10I knew it was.
00:23:12Play-acting.
00:23:14Well, be calm, be calm.
00:23:16Ninety percent of all the amateur game
00:23:18is play-acting.
00:23:20By far the most delightful part.
00:23:22I've no doubt he meant what he said,
00:23:24but he had a far better reason for it.
00:23:26I'm sorry for breaking his engagement with you.
00:23:28I did not break our engagement.
00:23:30Hold your tongue, you.
00:23:32Miss Mary Bell,
00:23:34I can quite understand that the pursuit of science
00:23:36may appear mean and trivial to a young lady
00:23:38brought up on Shakespeare,
00:23:40embroidery,
00:23:42and the use of the musical glasses.
00:23:44Dr. Knox,
00:23:46you appear to find this situation humorous.
00:23:48I find it humiliating.
00:23:50Walter tells me the occupation
00:23:52which keeps us apart is God's work.
00:23:54You tell me Walter is play-acting
00:23:56because I don't understand,
00:23:58and I must understand.
00:24:07Listen, my child.
00:24:10Our friend Walter has a sacred thirst
00:24:13of which he's only half conscious.
00:24:16The vulgarian, the quack,
00:24:18and the theologian
00:24:20are confronted with the universe.
00:24:22They at once begin to talk and talk and talk.
00:24:24They have no curiosity.
00:24:26They build a mean structure
00:24:28of foolish words and phrases
00:24:30and say to us, this is the world.
00:24:32The comparative anatomist has curiosity.
00:24:36He institutes a divine search for facts.
00:24:40He's unconcerned with explanations and theories.
00:24:43And in time,
00:24:45when you and I are dead,
00:24:47these facts will be collected
00:24:49and their sum will be the truth.
00:24:54Truth, the truth.
00:24:56It will show the noblest thing in creation,
00:24:59how to live.
00:25:01That's all very fine,
00:25:03but it's just a lot of words to me.
00:25:05It is a passion.
00:25:07It is a religion.
00:25:09It's a very horrid sort of religion.
00:25:11My dear young lady, it is less horrid
00:25:13than the religions of most of mankind.
00:25:15It has its martyrs, its heresy hunts,
00:25:17but its hands are clean
00:25:19of the blood of the innocent.
00:25:21Are they?
00:25:23Of course they are.
00:25:24It cleanses the blood of the innocent.
00:25:26Grave robbing is worse than murder.
00:25:28Madam, with all respect,
00:25:30you're a pagan atheist to say so.
00:25:32If you believe in an immortal soul,
00:25:34why should you venerate the empty shell
00:25:36it spurns in its upward flight?
00:25:38And with a false veneration too.
00:25:40No, no, no, no.
00:25:42The anatomist alone has a true reverence
00:25:44for the human body.
00:25:46He loves it because he knows it.
00:25:48He pays the Rockians to tear it from the grave
00:25:50where loving hands have laid it.
00:25:52I abhor such methods.
00:25:54Hm?
00:25:56How should I know?
00:25:58My duty is to teach.
00:26:00Ah.
00:26:02Look, my child.
00:26:06You love my friend.
00:26:08To love is to understand.
00:26:10Try to understand that he is doing great things,
00:26:13of which not the least
00:26:15is to sacrifice a part of his happiness.
00:26:17Mary.
00:26:19Mr. Anderson, your presence here
00:26:21is inexpressibly painful to me.
00:26:24I'm greatly obliged to Dr. Knox
00:26:26for trying to put me in the wrong.
00:26:28He's only convinced me how right I am.
00:26:31Pray excuse me.
00:26:36Then, that's the end.
00:26:39If you want me, you'll find me in the gutter.
00:26:42You'll find me in the gutter.
00:26:44You'll find me in the gutter.
00:26:45If you want me, you'll find me in the gutter.
00:26:51Mr. Raby, perhaps you'd better follow him to his gutter
00:26:54and exercise a restraining influence on his wallowing.
00:26:57I don't quite follow.
00:26:59Go after him and see he comes to no harm.
00:27:05I cannot possibly afford to lose a good anatomist.
00:27:08Dr. Knox,
00:27:10it is common talk in the town
00:27:12that you are generally admired by persons of my sex.
00:27:13And this is in spite of your hideous face
00:27:15and your cynical, filthy, scandalous tongue.
00:27:18But there is one lady who does not share their admiration.
00:27:21She loathes and detests and abhors you and your ways
00:27:24and she wishes you a very good night.
00:27:35Poor things.
00:27:38Poor, poor young hearts.
00:27:40Your sentiment rings abominably false, Dr. Knox.
00:27:43What, false?
00:27:45False, Miss Amelia. I've never in my life been accused.
00:27:49Perhaps it does.
00:27:51But what does it matter?
00:27:53My sister's happiness
00:27:55matters to me a very great deal.
00:27:58And Walter's, too.
00:28:01Well, I did my best, Miss Amelia.
00:28:03But we who are grouping amongst the roots of life
00:28:06can't be expected to take too seriously
00:28:08the whimsies of the creatures of the air.
00:28:14You're crying.
00:28:17No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:28:19You mustn't cry.
00:28:21It, uh, it congests the conjunctival sac.
00:28:27Look, let us hear what herself has to say
00:28:30of the quarrels of young lovers, shall we?
00:28:32Hmm? Come.
00:28:34Ah, no. I couldn't play for you tonight, Doctor.
00:28:37I insist. Come.
00:28:38Look.
00:28:40I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain.
00:28:46Strike up.
00:29:01Nebby!
00:29:03Good evening, Nebby.
00:29:04Good evening, Mary.
00:29:09Johnny, Nebby's my only Joe.
00:29:11Nebby, this is Johnny.
00:29:13Good evening, Mrs.
00:29:15Is he no funny, Johnny?
00:29:17He's Nebby's late red, red rose
00:29:19as newly sprung in June.
00:29:21If you attack him, Franny, I'll kill you.
00:29:23Whist, whist, Mary.
00:29:25I'll mistall your threat.
00:29:27I'll mishackle you tonight.
00:29:29And I'll no whist, Mr. Nebby.
00:29:31Whist to a lady indeed I'll whist you.
00:29:32Don't whist you.
00:29:34Nebby, Nebby.
00:29:36Nebby, introduce me to your lady friends.
00:29:38This is Mrs. Mary Patterson and a friend of hers.
00:29:41Your servant, ma'am.
00:29:43And what may your name be?
00:29:45Well, he's Mr. Wadderspoon, Fritter Keith.
00:29:48He is nothing of the sort.
00:29:50Nothing of the sort.
00:29:52I am Dr. Walter Anderson, at your service.
00:29:55Don't, don't you tell lies about me,
00:29:58Sir Wadderspoon, Fritter Keith.
00:30:00Do you hear?
00:30:02May, may, may I beg of you to join me
00:30:05in a glass of cordial?
00:30:07With great pleasure.
00:30:09We are much obliged.
00:30:11It pleases me.
00:30:13What, what may I order for you?
00:30:16I can't find what Mrs. Patterson takes.
00:30:19How are you?
00:30:21Sit you down, you'll create a better impression that way.
00:30:25The evening is beginning to draw in.
00:30:28Yes, I, I think the autumn evening
00:30:30is more beautiful in Scotland
00:30:33than anywhere else in the whole...
00:30:38Oh, you poor wee thing.
00:30:42With your mouth all treacle and your tail all parrish
00:30:45and your head all whoops, what are you greeting for?
00:30:48I, I said that before, didn't I?
00:30:51Now, how didn't I hear you?
00:30:53Now, now, it's all right, my wee head.
00:30:56It's, it's not that.
00:30:57I, I don't mind repeating myself now and again,
00:31:00but it reminded me of something.
00:31:03Oh, now, now, now, now.
00:31:07Was it a lassie that was bad to you?
00:31:12How did you know?
00:31:14I came more than a letter on, as the man said.
00:31:17Now, now, my poor wee thing,
00:31:19what caught your frightened face?
00:31:21You, you're awfully kind.
00:31:23You, you're as good as I am.
00:31:24You, you're awfully kind.
00:31:26You, you're as good and kind as you are bonny.
00:31:29And you, you are bonny.
00:31:31What, what magnificent hair.
00:31:33It's like, like polished copper.
00:31:35It's beautiful.
00:31:37No, no, my young gentleman, less of that.
00:31:39That's not gentile.
00:31:41Now, dry your eyes and your mouchoir
00:31:43and set up like a wee gentleman.
00:31:45Oh, no, but, how, how can I repay you?
00:31:48Ever.
00:31:50Well, if you're going to let poor Jenny here die of thirst.
00:31:52Me and Mary will find plenty.
00:31:54Come on and wash him.
00:31:56Ten thousand pounds.
00:31:58Say him again.
00:32:00Come on.
00:32:02Oh, Mary, your hair, it's like,
00:32:04it's like fallen beech leaves.
00:32:06Oh, it's beautiful.
00:32:08Ah, less of that.
00:32:11Davy.
00:32:14Davy Patterson.
00:32:16My old friend Davy.
00:32:18Come on, Davy, we're having a party.
00:32:19Hey, Davy, Davy, bring Davy's tipple.
00:32:21Oh, it must kind of be Dr. Ann Smith,
00:32:23if I'm not presuming too much.
00:32:25Oh, not a word, not a word.
00:32:27Miss, Miss, Miss Mary,
00:32:29may I introduce my friend and colleague Davy Patterson.
00:32:32How do you do?
00:32:34Lord High Senator to the great Dr. Knox.
00:32:36Patterson, same name by Jove.
00:32:39Your Uncle Davy.
00:32:41Oh, I'm sure he's no uncle of mine, Doctor,
00:32:43what's your name?
00:32:45Oh, you can't be sure, Miss Mary,
00:32:47you can't be sure he's not your uncle.
00:32:49These are naughty times.
00:32:52Come on over here, Uncle Davy.
00:32:54I'm going, Davy, out of here.
00:32:56I'm sure it's real kind of you, ma'am,
00:32:58if the Doctor has no objections, beg his pardon.
00:33:00Not the least in the world,
00:33:02a happy family party,
00:33:04family reunion,
00:33:06happy family gathering.
00:33:08This is the proudest moment of my life.
00:33:10Oh, oh, oh.
00:33:12Oh.
00:33:14Oh.
00:33:16Oh, that poor little thing,
00:33:18slow down.
00:33:20Oh, are you all right, my wee head?
00:33:23Oh, I'm all right, but the world's all wrong.
00:33:25It's spinning backwards and backwards
00:33:28through the constellations
00:33:30and the ether's full of thunder and lightning.
00:33:32Is that not awful?
00:33:34Oh, never mind, go to sleep for a bit
00:33:36and it'll be all right in a wee while.
00:33:38Do you think I should?
00:33:40Very well, I will.
00:33:42Well, ma'am, what's the class of the town?
00:33:45East, east.
00:33:47I'm afraid they'll not wake him
00:33:49this side of tomorrow morning.
00:33:51The devil couldn't wake him.
00:33:53Well, dinner you try.
00:33:57Oh, can you sew cushions?
00:34:01Oh, can you sew sheets?
00:34:05And can you sing ballaloo
00:34:09when the bairn greets?
00:34:14That's an anatomical subject.
00:34:17You'd be a ridiculous man, a corpse.
00:34:19Why don't they say so?
00:34:21Who?
00:34:23Young Dr. Knox.
00:34:25What's it say?
00:34:27Arrangements have been made
00:34:29to secure, as usual,
00:34:31an ample supply of anatomical subjects.
00:34:33Oh, what have they?
00:34:35Mr. Hare.
00:34:37Mr. Buck.
00:34:39The clouded line was silver.
00:34:41Aye, but we knew where to come
00:34:43by an ample supply of commodities.
00:34:45Oh, I can't be too over the graveyard.
00:34:47What about the money?
00:34:49Which was it Davy Patterson gave us for the last one?
00:34:51Seven pound ten.
00:34:53Oh, don't do it properly.
00:34:55I hope the whore of Grogan's ass
00:34:57can't be wearing the man's clothes.
00:34:59It's not worth the digging.
00:35:01You know, with that old fellow
00:35:03that's lodging with you,
00:35:05it'll still be his long breath.
00:35:07Why, he is poor soul.
00:35:09He'll miss you when he goes over.
00:35:11That's the truth.
00:35:13There's no one who'll miss him.
00:35:15What's that supposed to mean?
00:35:17How much is he good for?
00:35:20Maybe seven pound ten,
00:35:23if you don't recollect it.
00:35:25We go into Nebby's and discuss the matter.
00:35:28Good.
00:35:47Here's a couple of jills of malt.
00:35:49Be quick about it.
00:35:51Are you the seller to pay for it?
00:35:53Silver, is it?
00:35:55There's what's better than silver.
00:35:57A note.
00:35:59And you can take it and nail it to the counter
00:36:01if you have a mind to providing
00:36:03that we have drink for the worth of it.
00:36:05It has the stink of the malt clover in it, Mr. Burke.
00:36:07How do you pray it?
00:36:09That's no way to talk to your betters.
00:36:11Stink of it?
00:36:13I'll make a kettle out of you talking about stink.
00:36:15You living in a filthy old she-bean,
00:36:17what can I gather to make you?
00:36:19And as for you, Mr. Nebby,
00:36:21it'll be better for you
00:36:23to keep reddening that ugly nose of yours
00:36:25with your rotten rum
00:36:27than to be smelling out stinks what there isn't on.
00:36:29Let you bring us our drinks and stop your blabbering.
00:36:32Oh, hello, Patterson.
00:36:34Good evening, Mr. Reagan, sir.
00:36:36I say, have you seen Dr. Anderson?
00:36:38The chief told me to take charge of him.
00:36:40I'm damned if I haven't lost him.
00:36:42There he is over there, sir.
00:36:44And I must say, he's in bonier-like hands.
00:36:45I'll leave him to you now, sir.
00:36:47And if you bring him up to square after,
00:36:49we'll play the pump on him.
00:36:51That's the best thing to do.
00:36:53Right. Very good.
00:36:55I am all that sort of thing.
00:36:58Now, doctor.
00:37:00Now, sir.
00:37:03Have you got it yet?
00:37:05There's time enough.
00:37:07I've passed four of mine on the way.
00:37:09What's that?
00:37:11We'll be there.
00:37:13A good, fresh, young corpse
00:37:15if you don't mind.
00:37:17I mind.
00:37:20Good night to you, Mr. Rabies, sir.
00:37:22Au revoir.
00:37:24And don't lose sight of the doctor again.
00:37:27Doctor, you must come home.
00:37:29You really must.
00:37:31But you said I was watchless for Wednesday morning.
00:37:33It's all right, my good girl.
00:37:35I'm taking him home.
00:37:37Oh, dear.
00:37:39No, you'll do nothing of the sort.
00:37:41Come on, doctor. Wake up.
00:37:43Now, you go to bye-byes again like a good young lady
00:37:45and don't come back.
00:37:47You're way a tinker, Nathan.
00:37:49You're way a deal-brat.
00:37:51I'd have no likes of you.
00:37:53Call yourself a man.
00:37:55You wouldn't make a pair of boots for a man.
00:37:57Mary, Mary, come on.
00:37:59Come over here.
00:38:01Come here.
00:38:03Can you please?
00:38:05I couldn't help it.
00:38:07Come along, sir.
00:38:09No, I'll sit down.
00:38:11Mary.
00:38:13Mary.
00:38:15Jerry, they're taking him away from me.
00:38:17Jerry.
00:38:19Jerry, he needs me.
00:38:21He wants me.
00:38:23I want to go with him.
00:38:25No, Mary Popperson.
00:38:27Just sit still.
00:38:29Just sit still, Mary.
00:38:31It's an awful light place to bring a decent girl.
00:38:33It's an awful light place.
00:38:35You should think shame, Mary.
00:38:37Sneak up.
00:38:39Good evening to you, miss.
00:38:41And what would your business be
00:38:42to stick your ugly fist between me and my lady friend?
00:38:44Business, is it?
00:38:46Sure not at all.
00:38:48It's just I was wondering,
00:38:50was it yourself I heard singing
00:38:52like an angel from heaven
00:38:54and meself coming along the passage beyond?
00:38:57Eh?
00:38:59Maybe.
00:39:01I thought it was.
00:39:03And yet I wasn't sure.
00:39:05And then when I come in and seen you
00:39:07it's all dressed up so grandly.
00:39:09So I say to meself,
00:39:11a lovely girl that's all dolled up like a peacock
00:39:15is hardly likely to have a voice
00:39:18like a weeshy little nightingale.
00:39:21But I was wrong, I say.
00:39:24And it was yourself I heard singing
00:39:27so soft and low
00:39:29that not the heart of a man
00:39:32to listen to the like of it.
00:39:34Eh?
00:39:36Eh?
00:39:37To listen to the like of it?
00:39:39I wonder they'll never see.
00:39:44I wonder now,
00:39:46would you be vexed for me
00:39:48if I was to ask you to let me
00:39:51aisle that lovely pal for you?
00:39:54With a drop on every vest?
00:39:56It seems to me that you've got a bit much to say.
00:39:59But I'll drink with you
00:40:01because I've got a throat like a half stone in hell tonight.
00:40:03Oh, Mary, come on now.
00:40:04It's a shame.
00:40:06I've been in like hell
00:40:08because Mary's got a face like a warlock.
00:40:10Oh, please, come on.
00:40:12Why, Mary.
00:40:14Had your wish.
00:40:16He's only so big created
00:40:18I could crack him like a macaroni
00:40:20if I had her mind.
00:40:22And he's a nice, well-spoken child.
00:40:24It's the last time you come out with me, mistress.
00:40:26So you don't like me looks, don't you?
00:40:28Well, you can go look at a picture.
00:40:30So who cares what you like?
00:40:31Why don't you look at me, little darling?
00:40:33Here, have a drink with me.
00:40:35Let me pass, let me pass.
00:40:37Please let me pass, please.
00:40:39Let me pass, let me pass.
00:40:41Please let me pass.
00:40:43Come on now, have a drink with us.
00:40:45Let's be friends.
00:40:47All right, then I'll drink your health for three of us.
00:40:49Where's this one, Liz?
00:40:51She's coming in with me.
00:40:53Come on, Mary, come on.
00:40:55Here with you?
00:40:57Here with you, you slut?
00:40:59You don't know I come here with you.
00:41:01Don't hate her.
00:41:03This is me mate.
00:41:05He's a great playboy with a girl.
00:41:07Come on over.
00:41:09You'll have such a time you'll feel like kicking a star.
00:41:11Mary!
00:41:13That day I'll haul you through hell.
00:41:15You're scowling like a pig hen.
00:41:17Mary, Mary, I'll never see you again.
00:41:19Get out of here, will you?
00:41:21Go on, get out of here.
00:41:23Get out of here, will you, I say?
00:41:32My heart, you're an ugly old dog.
00:41:34You're uglier than your black face, me, dear.
00:41:36I'd be obliged to see that face
00:41:38grinning out of hangman any day.
00:41:40Be me soul, that's something that you'll never see.
00:41:43It's courtin' and courtin' that you'll also be
00:41:46from now till the judgment day.
00:41:49What the devil are you gapin' at,
00:41:51you black-faced donadon?
00:41:53Go and get another drink for me, sweetheart.
00:41:55Go on.
00:41:57No, you, stop that!
00:41:59I'll not take any familiarity from you or any man!
00:42:02Easy now, easy, Alanna.
00:42:05I meant no harm.
00:42:07It's great strength you've got
00:42:09in those pretty arms of yours.
00:42:11And a figure that's fine enough
00:42:13to make Venus herself get back into the sea.
00:42:16And a figure that's fine enough
00:42:18to make Venus herself get back into the sea.
00:42:20And a figure that's fine enough
00:42:22to make Venus herself get back into the sea.
00:42:23And it's great joy I'd have pullin' you to pieces
00:42:26And it's great joy I'd have pullin' you to pieces
00:42:28the way I'd see if you're as beautiful inside as you're out.
00:42:31the way I'd see if you're as beautiful inside as you're out.
00:42:38I, I'm a-feelin' no well.
00:42:41I'll get away home with it.
00:42:43Now you'll not store a step till you've drunk this.
00:42:46Now you'll not store a step till you've drunk this.
00:42:48Come on now.
00:42:50You'll put new life into it.
00:42:51You'll put new life into it.
00:42:53As for goin' home, you'll do nothin' as art.
00:42:56As for goin' home, you'll do nothin' as art.
00:42:58It's meself will take you to the grand hotel
00:43:00that I'm stoppin' at in Westport.
00:43:02Those beds there are fit for a queen to be sleepin' in.
00:43:05Those beds there are fit for a queen to be sleepin' in.
00:43:07And you can rest there quiet and easy till the mornin'.
00:43:10And you can rest there quiet and easy till the mornin'.
00:43:12He is awful kind to a poor orphan, was it?
00:43:15He is awful kind to a poor orphan, was it?
00:43:17Nellie, what's left of that note
00:43:19I gave you to pay for a demijohn?
00:43:21Then give it to us quick,
00:43:23because we ought to be gettin' on to Westport.
00:43:27Easy day.
00:43:29Easy day.
00:43:31Easy day.
00:43:36Rise my statutes,
00:43:38or if your soul abhors my judgments,
00:43:43so that ye will not do all my commandments,
00:43:47but that ye break my covenant,
00:43:49I will also do this unto you.
00:43:53I will even appoint over you
00:43:56terror consumption on the burning egg you,
00:44:00that shall consume the eye and cause sorrow of heart.
00:44:06God, that's an awful curse.
00:44:10Who's there?
00:44:13Who's there?
00:44:15Open up, Edison.
00:44:17Oh, you frighten me, Dr. Knox.
00:44:20You're early about the day.
00:44:24I was expectin' four cullents for the corpse.
00:44:27Good.
00:44:29I was oughtin' 12 pounds for it, Doctor.
00:44:31There were, were there?
00:44:33I feared we'll have to pay.
00:44:35Well, pay them, damn it.
00:44:37Why, but I haven't got silver by me.
00:44:39You can get it from Dr. Wharton-Jones and Mr. Anderson,
00:44:41which is in duty tonight.
00:44:43Dr. Jones is away, I was expectin' Dr. Anderson any minute.
00:44:44And what the devil do you mean by botherin' me?
00:44:46What's this you're reading?
00:44:48Oh, it's lonely in here, sir.
00:44:50It's the book.
00:44:52It's bread and meat to me, it's the book.
00:44:54You're a canting humbug, Patterson.
00:44:56There's poetry and philosophy there,
00:44:58but what do you know about poetry and philosophy?
00:45:00There's God's word in it, sir, there's religion.
00:45:02If they'd cut out the religion,
00:45:04it would be a more useful book.
00:45:08I'd bang the door, you blasphemer.
00:45:11Who's there?
00:45:13What's your world?
00:45:15Come on, Davey, open up.
00:45:17It's I, sir.
00:45:19Oh, Dr. Wharton, I'm right glad to see you.
00:45:22Are you all right now, doctor?
00:45:24Yes, I'm all right.
00:45:26Ramey gave me a corpse to find at his lodgings.
00:45:29Oh, yes, sir.
00:45:31The chief?
00:45:33What's he doing here at this hour?
00:45:35Well, I don't know.
00:45:37I don't know.
00:45:38What's he doing here at this hour?
00:45:40Oh, I have his lectures to get ready.
00:45:42Oh, all right, I'm tired.
00:45:44You tired, Ramey?
00:45:46So, sir.
00:45:48Ramey wants to see daybreak in the Chamber of Horrors, Davey.
00:45:51He has a gruesome mind.
00:45:53The chief's the only horror I know here.
00:45:55Oh, I'm going to have a nap on this bench.
00:45:57You'll do the same if you've any sense, Ramey.
00:45:59I couldn't sleep here, sir.
00:46:03I couldn't sleep here.
00:46:05Well, you're not feared, are you?
00:46:06Day after day.
00:46:08Well, it's all right in the daytime.
00:46:10It might not be so bad in the nighttime, if you understand me,
00:46:12but it's this half-way time.
00:46:14It's so uncanny.
00:46:16I've been here ten years with old Dr. Barclay
00:46:18and two with doctors,
00:46:20and I've never got used to the eerie feeling of the half-life.
00:46:23It's as if...
00:46:25as if a dead man starved.
00:46:30What's that?
00:46:32It's all right, Mr. Rabies, sir.
00:46:34It'll just be a corpse, I was expecting.
00:46:36Are you there, Daniel?
00:46:38I am here.
00:46:40Have you got the parcel?
00:46:42We've got it.
00:46:54What's your name, my man?
00:46:56William Burke, Your Honor.
00:46:58What do you work at?
00:47:00I'm an old soldier, Your Honor.
00:47:02That's not work. What else do you do?
00:47:03I'm a shoemaker, Your Honor.
00:47:05I see.
00:47:07This is the body, I presume?
00:47:09It is, Your Honor.
00:47:11How did you come by?
00:47:13It's a young woman, Your Honor.
00:47:15Her cousin, Mrs. Harris.
00:47:17This gentleman's good lady, Your Honor.
00:47:20She came over from Belfast three days back.
00:47:23I was too badly in Harris' lodgings.
00:47:26Too badly with what?
00:47:28With a colleague, Your Honor.
00:47:30What name?
00:47:31The name of the young lady, sir?
00:47:33Yes, yes.
00:47:35Euphemia Brannigan, Your Worship.
00:47:38I mean, Your Honor.
00:47:40You been here before with subjects?
00:47:42Sure, Your Honor, I have.
00:47:44Mr. Patterson knows me well.
00:47:47I know him. A very honest man, Dr. Anderson.
00:47:50I have no doubt.
00:47:52Well, take the body into the mortuary.
00:47:54If you please, sir.
00:47:56I'd be afraid to go into a place like that.
00:47:57There's no harm in bringing him here at all, sir.
00:48:00I'm begging your pardon, sir.
00:48:02Will you give us our seven guineas,
00:48:04and let's be gone out of here?
00:48:06Guineas? You Irish thief! Guineas!
00:48:08You can't believe a word they say, sir.
00:48:10Pounds it was!
00:48:12Holy St. Patrick and all the saints will you listen to him!
00:48:16Did you ever hear the like of that hair?
00:48:19I can't believe me ears!
00:48:22Guineas, you said, Mr. Patterson!
00:48:25Seven guineas!
00:48:27That was your very word!
00:48:29Don't give him a penny more than he asked for, sir.
00:48:31Seven pounds it was!
00:48:33Oh, for heaven's sake, give them their pieces of silver
00:48:35and let them get out of it.
00:48:37Here you are.
00:48:39May the Lord Almighty watch over you, sir.
00:48:42And keep you in the palm of his hand
00:48:45for your great kindness to honest, hard-working poor people
00:48:50the like of ourselves.
00:48:52Hey you, move that box into the mortuary.
00:48:54In there, is it?
00:48:56Don't ask me, Your Honor.
00:48:59Don't ask me, I couldn't do it.
00:49:01It would frighten me out of me seven senses
00:49:04so it would the Lord between us in all harm.
00:49:07Come on, Will.
00:49:09Get out of here.
00:49:24I can't compliment you on your friends, Davy.
00:49:27You should have had a peek at the corpse before you fled them.
00:49:29Well, that'll be all right.
00:49:31Come on, Rebic, give me your hand.
00:49:33George, it's heavy.
00:49:35You go on up and light the candle, Davy.
00:49:37Steady, Rebic.
00:49:39Wait a minute.
00:49:41Right.
00:49:47Easy.
00:49:49George, it's heavy.
00:49:52Here you go.
00:49:54That's all right.
00:49:58There you go.
00:50:00Over there, Rebic.
00:50:04Go and get a tap, come on, Davy, will you?
00:50:07All right, I'll get you one.
00:50:09The nail goes away.
00:50:11All right, the lid's fairly loose.
00:50:13I've got it off, sir.
00:50:15Seamus!
00:50:16Seamus!
00:50:18Rebic!
00:50:20Rebic, did you see what I saw?
00:50:22Yes, sir.
00:50:24I'm not still drunk, am I?
00:50:26Did you see that face?
00:50:28Yes, sir.
00:50:30Have you seen it before?
00:50:32I think I have.
00:50:34You think? Think? Go and look again.
00:50:36Not for a thousand times.
00:50:38Rebic, Rebic.
00:50:40Was that the girl I spoke to in the Three Tons last night?
00:50:43Yes.
00:50:45Davy.
00:50:48She was so beautiful.
00:50:51A man's heart stopped when he looked at her.
00:50:56There's been foul play. We must get out of here.
00:50:58What's going on down there?
00:51:00Dr. Knox has been murdered.
00:51:02Come on, Rebic.
00:51:03I'm a cancer now, sir.
00:51:12Has Dr. Anderson been drinking, Patterson?
00:51:14Well, as you might say, sir, he's...
00:51:16I'm not drunk. I swear I'm not.
00:51:18Go in there, sir. Look for yourself.
00:51:20She's dead. Dead!
00:51:22You're a very foolish young man.
00:51:24You've been drinking spirits.
00:51:26You're positively reeking of stale spirits.
00:51:28Go home to your bed.
00:51:30Dr. Knox, a very few hours ago,
00:51:31I was in conversation with a young woman
00:51:33in the Three Tons public house.
00:51:35Ten minutes ago, she was brought up here
00:51:37by two Irish ruffians.
00:51:39Rigor mortis had set in, but the body was still warm.
00:51:41I believe to the bottom of my soul
00:51:43that she's had foul play.
00:51:47Come with me, Patterson.
00:51:54Rebic.
00:51:56What shall I do?
00:51:58What shall I do?
00:52:01This may not be the first time either.
00:52:03Those men have brought bodies here before.
00:52:07I may have seen them.
00:52:09I forget.
00:52:11Mary.
00:52:14That was her name.
00:52:16Mary Patterson.
00:52:18She was so beautiful.
00:52:21I shouldn't take it so much to heart.
00:52:23I expect it's all right.
00:52:25All right. All right.
00:52:27But she was so full of life,
00:52:29and they've choked the life out of her.
00:52:31The murderers.
00:52:33The murderers.
00:52:35What are you raving about, man?
00:52:37Dr. Knox, don't you realize that girl was murdered?
00:52:39How the devil do you know?
00:52:41There isn't a mark of violence on her body.
00:52:43She was murdered, I tell you.
00:52:45Dear, dear, dear, dear.
00:52:47Murdered, eh?
00:52:49Supposing she were, Dr. Anderson,
00:52:51do you think her life was so significant
00:52:53that we must grue at her death?
00:52:56Come and troll off the streets.
00:52:58Don't you dare say that.
00:52:59Mr. Anderson, sit down.
00:53:04I understand you, my dear boy,
00:53:06but it's past the time for sentiment.
00:53:08At four in the morning,
00:53:10cold common sense creeps into the chamber.
00:53:12It is now nearly half past five.
00:53:14You must not sentimentalize, if you please,
00:53:16over my anatomy room subjects.
00:53:18You owe them at least that respect.
00:53:20He thinks he recognizes the girl, sir.
00:53:22Thinks?
00:53:24Ah.
00:53:26I see.
00:53:27Well, in that case,
00:53:29perhaps it'll be a satisfaction for you
00:53:31to know that your friend will now be improving
00:53:33the minds of the youth of the town,
00:53:35in place of corrupting their morals.
00:53:39Oh, come, my dear boy.
00:53:41I perceive you're in a shock.
00:53:43You mustn't mind my rough tongue.
00:53:45It's a defect in me,
00:53:47a sentimentality as in you.
00:53:49Our emotions, Walter,
00:53:51are forever tugging at our coattails,
00:53:53lest at any time we should look the truth in the face.
00:53:55The truth is she was murdered.
00:53:57You know she was.
00:53:59You're as bad as a murderer yourself.
00:54:02You've been drinking, Mr. Anderson.
00:54:04Sir, this is what all your fine words come to.
00:54:06This is your passion.
00:54:08This is your religion.
00:54:10You paid blood money.
00:54:12You paid the money, Mr. Anderson, I think.
00:54:14Oh, God help me, so I did.
00:54:16Hmm.
00:54:18That point seems to be pertinent
00:54:20if we are talking of blood money.
00:54:22Another point of interest to you is this,
00:54:24that if I did not think you a drunken young fool
00:54:25in no way responsible for your words,
00:54:27I'd call you out and shoot you
00:54:29like a dog at 20 pitches.
00:54:31You mean a duel?
00:54:33You're very intelligent.
00:54:35All right, I'll fight you.
00:54:37Hmm?
00:54:39Mr. Anderson,
00:54:41you're a good prosecutor in your sober moments.
00:54:43I've no wish to be compelled to maim you.
00:54:46You coward!
00:54:51Mr. Anderson,
00:54:53I shall not require your services
00:54:55this forenoon.
00:54:57In the afternoon, you'll present yourself
00:54:59in my private room and apologize to me.
00:55:01Now go home to your bed.
00:55:03And in the future,
00:55:05I advise you to abstain from alcohol.
00:55:08Go on, take yourself off.
00:55:10Would you like me to go down
00:55:12to the police station, sir?
00:55:14I know where it is.
00:55:17Oh, you do, do you?
00:55:20You gaby.
00:55:22You porunciferic monstrosity.
00:55:27I'm going to kill you.
00:55:29I'm going to kill you.
00:55:31I'm going to kill you.
00:55:33I'm going to kill you.
00:55:35I'm going to kill you.
00:55:37I'm going to kill you.
00:55:39You will keep quiet, imbecile.
00:55:44You gable of nothing.
00:55:46You've seen or heard or thought this morning.
00:55:49You will forget.
00:55:51You will forget with that lethal-like forgetfulness
00:55:55that you apply to your studies.
00:55:57Do you understand?
00:55:59I understand, sir.
00:56:01Good.
00:56:03Now go and help the janitor to prepare the subject.
00:56:05I'll demonstrate it to the class this afternoon.
00:56:10I got something.
00:56:23Oh, yes.
00:56:25What is this?
00:56:31What are those sheets?
00:56:40Oh.
00:56:53Oh.
00:56:55Oh, Miss Bishop, Miss Marybelle.
00:56:57Oh, St. Kevin's just there.
00:56:59What is it?
00:57:01What's been happening?
00:57:03Oh, it's the riots, ma'am.
00:57:05What riots?
00:57:07Didn't you hear tell?
00:57:09It's only like homecoming for foreign parts.
00:57:11What riots are you talking about, Jessie-Ann?
00:57:13It's over the head of the man in Burt, ma'am.
00:57:17I saw them hang him with my own eyes, ma'am.
00:57:20Just in front of my auntie's house in the high street.
00:57:23There were faces, all the windows,
00:57:25and faces on all the doors, and...
00:57:28You should have seen him, ma'am.
00:57:30He had a thing, a napkin over his head,
00:57:33and then a big fellow in a black satou came
00:57:36and pulled away from where he was standing,
00:57:37and he tried to grab it with his feet,
00:57:39and then he burrowed in three times.
00:57:42Then he did a tenor hunch with his shoulders,
00:57:47and he just hung still.
00:57:51Oh.
00:57:53Oh, how was that feel, ma'am?
00:57:55Oh, perfectly horrible.
00:57:59Mr. Raby!
00:58:01You should not have brought that heavy case up here.
00:58:03Oh, it's nothing, ma'am.
00:58:05Nothing whatever.
00:58:07I'll get you a wee cup of tea.
00:58:10It was most kind of you to meet us, Mr. Raby.
00:58:13Oh, the streets are not over safe today,
00:58:15and Dr. Anderson made a point of somebody meeting you.
00:58:19How is Walter?
00:58:21He'll be along presently, ma'am.
00:58:24What are they shouting?
00:58:26Knocks next, ma'am.
00:58:28Hang knocks.
00:58:30Knocks?
00:58:31Dr. Knocks, ma'am.
00:58:33Our Dr. Knocks.
00:58:35Hang him?
00:58:37Mr. Raby, what does all this mean?
00:58:39Harris, you look ill.
00:58:41Please sit down.
00:58:43Mr. Raby, what has happened?
00:58:45Tell us.
00:58:47Well, ma'am.
00:58:49Oh, there's Dr. Anderson.
00:58:51I met the ladies all right, Dr. Anderson.
00:58:53Here they are all right.
00:58:55Good afternoon.
00:58:57You shouldn't have left the door.
00:58:59Anyone might have come in.
00:59:01The characters in the city are abroad today.
00:59:03Walter, what is all this about?
00:59:05Hasn't Raby told you?
00:59:07Well, I tried to, sir, but they didn't seem to understand.
00:59:10Tell us, Walter.
00:59:12You left to go on the grand tour on Halloween.
00:59:17That night, an old, vagrant Irish woman
00:59:20was found murdered in the Westport
00:59:22at the lodgings of a man called Burke.
00:59:26This man, Burke, and his associate, Hare,
00:59:28had inveigled her into a trap
00:59:31and smothered her in cold blood.
00:59:34Go on.
00:59:37At the trial, Hare turned King's evidence,
00:59:41and he told an appalling story.
00:59:44November, a year ago,
00:59:46Burke and Hare sold the body of an old pensioner
00:59:49to the anatomy rooms to recoup themselves for his rent.
00:59:53They were paid five pounds ten.
00:59:55They had some plausible cock and bull story.
00:59:58The rooms...
01:00:02The rooms to which they took the body
01:00:05were those of Dr. Knox.
01:00:07Patterson, the janitor, and Wharton Jones bought the body.
01:00:10We... We were very short of subjects at the time.
01:00:14Of what?
01:00:16Their next lodger was a woman.
01:00:18She was in an unconscionable time in dying, and they...
01:00:20They put a pillow over her face.
01:00:24They sold her body to Patterson.
01:00:27They killed about 16 people altogether.
01:00:30They're not quite certain of the numbers.
01:00:32What a dreadful thing.
01:00:35And Dr. Knox?
01:00:37Dr. Knox never set eyes on either of these men, I swear to that.
01:00:40He left the supply of subjects to...
01:00:42to others.
01:00:44His assistants, his porters.
01:00:46He never would deal with known resurrectionists,
01:00:48and that made it difficult.
01:00:50Walter, did you buy those bodies from the men?
01:00:54Yes, I did.
01:00:56What's going on?
01:00:58Burke was hanged this morning.
01:01:00There's been an outcry against Knox.
01:01:02Every man's hands against him.
01:01:04The other surgeons have deserted him.
01:01:06The mob is mad for his blood.
01:01:08But... But surely he has fled the town.
01:01:11No, he's facing it out.
01:01:13What is he doing?
01:01:15He's delivering his lecture as if nothing had happened.
01:01:17He's too proud even to answer his persecutors.
01:01:19Heaven knows I loved and admired him,
01:01:21but never so much as at this hour.
01:01:23Is he in danger?
01:01:24He came out to face them with two pistols in his hands.
01:01:26The mob hadn't the courage to go on.
01:01:28He's a dead shot, you know.
01:01:30The constables, have they not given him a guard?
01:01:32He won't have a guard.
01:01:34He's lectured every day since the trial.
01:01:36Nobody can stop him.
01:01:38We all carry life preservers and take turns to mount guard.
01:01:40He's afraid of nothing.
01:01:42He's a hero, that's what he is.
01:01:44Forgive me, Walter.
01:01:46Your news is a little overwhelming.
01:01:48You'll excuse me.
01:01:51No, no, Mary Bell.
01:01:52I shall be perfectly all right.
01:01:55Do you want me, Dr. Anderson?
01:01:57No, Ramey.
01:01:59At least, why do you ask?
01:02:01Dr. Knox's lecture is in 20 minutes.
01:02:03I'd rather die than miss any of it.
01:02:05Au revoir, Miss Mary Bell.
01:02:07I'll see you again, Doctor.
01:02:09Au revoir, Mr. Ramey.
01:02:13It was good of you to come, Walter.
01:02:15I had to come.
01:02:17It was only right I should see you
01:02:19before leaving Edinburgh.
01:02:20Leaving?
01:02:22Yes.
01:02:24But why just when Dr. Knox is in need of friends?
01:02:26Dr. Knox understands.
01:02:28I wanted to go before,
01:02:30but he persuaded me to stay.
01:02:32I must go to London now.
01:02:34Is there a better anatomy school in London?
01:02:37No, not so good.
01:02:39Then I don't understand.
01:02:41Mary Bell.
01:02:43The night I...
01:02:45The night I ran out of your house,
01:02:47something happened.
01:02:48Something that shook me to the depths.
01:02:52I have the horror of it still in my bones.
01:02:55Walter, what happened?
01:02:57Mary, I can never tell you that.
01:03:00You must help me to forget it.
01:03:02How can I help you to forget it
01:03:04if I don't know what it is?
01:03:06This way.
01:03:19Walter.
01:03:21I missed you so desperately.
01:03:23Heavens, how I missed you too.
01:03:25There never was a time when I needed you more.
01:03:28I... I thought of you every step of the way.
01:03:31Oh, did you?
01:03:33Did you?
01:03:35I cried my eyes out at my... my cruelty to you.
01:03:37Oh, you weren't cruel.
01:03:39I drove you out into the street that night.
01:03:42Mary, you were right.
01:03:44Heaven knows how right you were.
01:03:46No, no, I was cruel.
01:03:48I was only cruel because I ran after you.
01:03:50All love is cruel.
01:03:57Walter, it's me again.
01:03:59The rioter is not coming this way.
01:04:02Keep back from the window.
01:04:05I hear someone coming.
01:04:07He's walking briskly.
01:04:09Almost a run.
01:04:11The mob's following him.
01:04:13It's Knox.
01:04:15I must let him in.
01:04:19Doctor Knox!
01:04:21Come in here, sir.
01:04:23They stoned me!
01:04:26They stoned me?
01:04:28Pigs!
01:04:30Awful, can I?
01:04:32I'm no mealy-mouthed saint and martyr
01:04:35that you very soon find.
01:04:37I'm not the sort of man to die in a night shirt
01:04:39looking like an angel.
01:04:41No, by heavens, I'll break a few heads first.
01:04:43Doctor, don't stand back from the window.
01:04:45You're beside yourself.
01:04:46In fact, I'm in better company
01:04:48than I've been during the last five minutes.
01:04:50I beg your pardon, Miss Mary Bell, Miss Amelia.
01:04:54It's a somewhat heady business to be embroiled with a mob.
01:04:57I forgot my notoriously polite manners.
01:05:00I think they're going.
01:05:02Yes, they're going.
01:05:04I've given them a slip, it appears.
01:05:06Don't show yourself at the window.
01:05:08I see.
01:05:10Someone has told you that I am unpopular.
01:05:12Well, what does it matter?
01:05:14They're more afraid of me than I am of them.
01:05:16Doctor Knox, please sit down and rest yourself.
01:05:18You have been running.
01:05:21I, running?
01:05:23Nothing of the sort.
01:05:25Doctor Knox, I don't think it would be wise for you
01:05:27to go out again until nightfall.
01:05:29I have said that I will lecture.
01:05:31It will take more than the riffraff of old Ricky to prevent me.
01:05:33Very well, sir, but wait a moment, sir.
01:05:35They've got organised bands out for you all over the town.
01:05:37Look, sir, let me go and see how things are.
01:05:39It won't take long.
01:05:41This is safe.
01:05:43Perfectly safe.
01:05:44I shan't be long.
01:05:51Take your cloak off and sit down, Doctor Knox.
01:05:55Thank you, ma'am.
01:06:02My sister and I have just heard of the monstrous things
01:06:06that are being said against you.
01:06:08We're so sorry.
01:06:10You waste your sympathy on me, ma'am.
01:06:11I find all this inexpressibly exhilarating,
01:06:14like swimming in a storm.
01:06:17Doctor Knox.
01:06:19Senorina.
01:06:21Oh, it doesn't matter.
01:06:23You were about to ask a question.
01:06:25Doctor Knox, you and I have never been friends,
01:06:27but I should like you to know that I, my sister,
01:06:30will listen to nothing anybody says against you
01:06:33in this dreadful business.
01:06:36I am indeed grateful.
01:06:38I expected nothing less from you.
01:06:39Only I...
01:06:41Make a reservation.
01:06:43No, but...
01:06:45Doctor Knox,
01:06:47why is Walter going to London?
01:06:50I should say because of some
01:06:52ineradicable strain of vulgarity in his nature.
01:06:55It is this that drives
01:06:57many of our most promising young men
01:06:59to these provincial towns.
01:07:01London.
01:07:03No dull and witless city.
01:07:05The women chatter like parakeets.
01:07:06The men fawn like jackals.
01:07:08And of my soul, Miss Mary Bell,
01:07:10vulgarity or no vulgarity,
01:07:12I cannot tell you why Walter Anderson is going there
01:07:14or what there is in London
01:07:16to awaken in a realist.
01:07:18Any feelings but loathing and contempt.
01:07:21Yet she entraps great men
01:07:23and sucks their blood
01:07:25as streets are littered with their bones.
01:07:27Doctor Knox,
01:07:29six months ago,
01:07:31Walter left this house in a rage.
01:07:33You remember?
01:07:34He's not been back until today.
01:07:36Something happened that night.
01:07:38What was it?
01:07:40Well, my dear young lady,
01:07:42even if I ever knew,
01:07:44it isn't likely I should remember.
01:07:46Whatever it was,
01:07:48it has driven him from us
01:07:50and now drives him from Edinburgh.
01:07:52Please tell me.
01:07:54Her subject...
01:07:56Her subject was brought into our anatomy rooms
01:07:58by some of our middlemen
01:08:00and he thought he recognized her.
01:08:02A girl, I think it was.
01:08:04I'm not really sure it was a girl.
01:08:06Anyway, he would have it that she'd been murdered.
01:08:09Murdered? And had she been?
01:08:11How can I tell?
01:08:13I know enough now to be sure that I can trust nobody.
01:08:16But Doctor Knox, what did you do?
01:08:18What did he do?
01:08:23Well, if you must know,
01:08:25he told me that I had murdered her.
01:08:28And what did you say?
01:08:30I told him not to play the fool.
01:08:31If it was anybody's duty
01:08:33to probe into the source of our supply,
01:08:35and I stoutly deny that it was,
01:08:37the responsibility was his.
01:08:39He apologized to me that same afternoon
01:08:41for his wild words.
01:08:43Did he say anything else?
01:08:45Yes, yes, yes, that was all.
01:08:47And did he say he must leave Edinburgh?
01:08:50Something of the sort.
01:08:52Of course, I couldn't possibly allow him to do so.
01:08:54Why not?
01:08:56Why not?
01:08:58My dear young lady,
01:08:59do you realize the pains and patience
01:09:01I had spent in making Mr. Anderson
01:09:03into some semblance of an anatomist?
01:09:05Do you realize that Mr. Anderson is my demonstrator?
01:09:08Any conception of the time and trouble
01:09:10it takes to replace a demonstrator?
01:09:12I simply could not spare him.
01:09:14I have another demonstrator now,
01:09:16and Walter can go to London or Jericho if he likes.
01:09:18If he remembers, one-tenth,
01:09:20one-tenth of what I have taught him.
01:09:23He'll be a great man there in the 12 months.
01:09:25I quite understand, Doctor Knox.
01:09:26Please will you excuse me?
01:09:28Certainly, my dear.
01:09:33You should marry him after all.
01:09:35You'll make him a knight,
01:09:37and you will be Lady Anderson
01:09:39and drive in your carriage to visit Fat Duchess's.
01:09:42I intend to marry him, Doctor Knox.
01:09:56You see, Miss Amelia,
01:09:58adversity hasn't taught me
01:10:00to bridle my unfortunate tongue.
01:10:03I'd better go.
01:10:05You must wait for Walter to return, Doctor.
01:10:08It's taking a very long time.
01:10:12Miss Amelia, I cannot help this jeering vein of talk,
01:10:16but it's a poor reward for loyalty.
01:10:18My sister needs no rewards to be loyal to you, Doctor Knox.
01:10:22And you?
01:10:23I think you need hardly ask.
01:10:28Miss Amelia.
01:10:34In this quiet house, I have known
01:10:37the only happiness I have ever known.
01:10:40You'll never know what you've done for me.
01:10:43Yours has been a great happiness to us.
01:10:46We're proud of your friendship.
01:10:48You understand, Miss Amelia.
01:10:50You understand me so well.
01:10:53So well.
01:10:55You see the little pink shivering boy
01:10:58crouching beneath this grotesque,
01:11:01this grisly shell of a body.
01:11:04You're sunshine to me, Amelia.
01:11:07You're a safe harborage in storms.
01:11:11I love you.
01:11:14You're everything to me.
01:11:21I love you.
01:11:23Doctor, you mustn't.
01:11:25Say but the word and I'll strike my flag.
01:11:28In the light of your presence,
01:11:30I see all this battle,
01:11:32so much foolish bombast and vanity.
01:11:37Come with me to Italy.
01:11:39Will you come?
01:11:41Come with me.
01:11:44I love you.
01:11:46And how is Mrs. Knox?
01:11:51These times must be very trying for her.
01:11:54How could you?
01:11:57Mrs. Knox, ma'am, enjoys her usual ill health.
01:12:00I'm sorry she keeps so poorly.
01:12:03I've so looked forward to meeting her someday.
01:12:05Heaven forbid that you should.
01:12:07You can hardly expect me to go to Italy with you
01:12:09without having the benefit of Mrs. Knox's advice.
01:12:12It would be most valuable.
01:12:14Madam, have you no heart?
01:12:16Have you no manners?
01:12:17You must know that no real lady
01:12:19would ever force a lover to talk about his wife.
01:12:22It embarrasses him beyond bearing.
01:12:25I know that.
01:12:28Sit down.
01:12:37I feel very much inclined to whip you.
01:12:41Now, try to be a man
01:12:44and not a barnstorming Turner.
01:12:48All right, I'll try.
01:12:50I do hope nothing has happened to Walter.
01:12:53I think it's unlikely.
01:12:55He's an active fellow and the mob are cowards to a man.
01:12:59Well, hatred is a dreadful thing.
01:13:01Dreadful?
01:13:03The only compliment that can pay me, ma'am.
01:13:05You will stay in Edinburgh?
01:13:07Stay in Edinburgh?
01:13:09Yes, ma'am.
01:13:11Nobody's going to threaten or bully or talk me out of Edinburgh.
01:13:13Oh, I do my little dog's tricks for you, ma'am.
01:13:15I love soft voices and sugar.
01:13:18But I do not broke the whip.
01:13:20You will talk yourself out of Edinburgh.
01:13:24You're a very injudicious man.
01:13:27That's as may be, ma'am.
01:13:29I'll do what I consider to be right as I've always done.
01:13:31As you have always done?
01:13:33What do you mean?
01:13:37Do you think that I'm a murderer?
01:13:39Heavens, what a question!
01:13:41Look, I must know what is in your mind.
01:13:42I think of you galloping on a crusade
01:13:45with your eyes to the front fixed on your goal.
01:13:48How could you know that your horse's hoofs
01:13:50were trampling poor crushed human bodies?
01:13:53You don't realize it yet.
01:13:56Heavens, ma'am.
01:13:58Do you believe that of me?
01:14:00Do you think because I strut and rant
01:14:02and put on a bold face that my soul
01:14:04isn't sick within me at the horror of what I've done?
01:14:07What I have done, do you hear?
01:14:09Do you hear?
01:14:10No, no, you didn't mean to.
01:14:12I didn't mean to.
01:14:14The beast's excuse.
01:14:16Do you mean the justice, ma'am,
01:14:18to believe I'd never make that excuse, even to myself?
01:14:20Oh, no.
01:14:22I carry the deaths of these poor wretches
01:14:24round my neck till I die.
01:14:26And perhaps after that.
01:14:29Yes.
01:14:31Perhaps after that.
01:14:33But I tell you this, ma'am,
01:14:35the cause is between Robert Knox and almighty God.
01:14:38I'll answer to no one else.
01:14:41Oh, poor doctor.
01:14:43What will you do?
01:14:45Oh, that's easy.
01:14:47I've acquired a certain knowledge of benefit to mankind.
01:14:49It's my duty to pass that knowledge on.
01:14:51That's clear, that's simple.
01:14:53Yes.
01:14:55The things that will trouble me in the night,
01:14:57they're not so simple.
01:15:00Oh, Robert.
01:15:02You're not the only one who has to fight battles.
01:15:11Is Walter not back yet?
01:15:13I'll go and fetch him.
01:15:15Are you sure your value to science
01:15:17is not too great for you to hazard yourself so?
01:15:20Miss Mary Bell, you may use me as you like.
01:15:23I am not the monstrous fine fellow
01:15:25I thought I was half an hour ago.
01:15:27You are not a monstrous fine fellow
01:15:29at all, Dr. Knox.
01:15:31Oh.
01:15:33So you think that I'm a murderer?
01:15:35Oh, Walter.
01:15:37Oh, Walter.
01:15:38So you think that I'm a murderer?
01:15:40Oh, worse than that,
01:15:42a sneaking soutenir of assassins, eh?
01:15:44Too great a coward to strike the blow.
01:15:46Yes, you think well of me by heaven.
01:15:49I think you are a vain, hysterical,
01:15:51talented, stupid man.
01:15:53I think you are wickedly blind and careless
01:15:55when you have fixed your mind on something.
01:15:57But all men are like that.
01:15:59There is nothing very uncommon about you, Dr. Knox.
01:16:02Indeed, ma'am.
01:16:04Perhaps you'll leave posterity to judge of that.
01:16:05Posterity will have to be very clever
01:16:07to judge you justly, Dr. Knox.
01:16:09At least you will have the facts before it.
01:16:11But the excuses will be hard to find.
01:16:13Look, I'll make no excuses,
01:16:15at least you will do justice to say that.
01:16:17You are too pig-headed, Mary Bell.
01:16:19Madam, I'll take my leave.
01:16:21You're sulking now.
01:16:23Have I your permission to withdraw?
01:16:25Dr. Knox, it isn't safe for you to go out yet, sir.
01:16:27There's a crowd 2,000 strong outside the surgeon's hall.
01:16:29I couldn't get near the place,
01:16:31but I saw Raby and he said he'd try.
01:16:33They've broken all the windows
01:16:35and one of them's doubling back on the trail.
01:16:38Someone may have seen you come in here, sir.
01:16:40Then they will break your windows too, Miss Amelia.
01:16:42I'd better go.
01:16:44But they will kill you.
01:16:46What does that matter? I'm a nobody.
01:16:48Here they come.
01:16:50I'll go to meet them.
01:16:52No, Dr. Knox, you must stay here.
01:16:54Ladies, don't you realize there may be bloodshed?
01:16:56I could never forgive myself.
01:16:58It'll be all right.
01:17:00They may not know you're here.
01:17:02I really think you'd better stay, sir.
01:17:03Miss Amelia!
01:17:05Don't hold yourself, Jessie-Ann. What is it?
01:17:07There's a gang of ruffians at the door, ma'am,
01:17:09and they want Dr. Knox to hang them.
01:17:11You must come upstairs to my room.
01:17:13You can climb along the roof.
01:17:15I'll give you a shawl and an old vest.
01:17:17Yes, do, Dr. Knox.
01:17:19Or you can carry me out in a laundry basket,
01:17:21buried in dirty linen.
01:17:23No, thank you, ma'am.
01:17:25I have my pistols and I'll fight if necessary.
01:17:27There isn't much time, sir.
01:17:29Give me one of your pistols.
01:17:31I'll hold them at bay from the steps.
01:17:33Get behind me, everybody, do you hear?
01:17:35Get behind me!
01:17:44Stand back!
01:17:47Oh, it's you, is it?
01:17:50Are you all right, Dr. Knox?
01:17:52Are you all right, sir?
01:17:54Yes, yes, yes, I'm all right.
01:17:56But what on earth has happened?
01:17:58Well, we heard they were after you,
01:18:00so we came down hell for leather.
01:18:01We came down hell, sir.
01:18:03It's all right, Knoxites.
01:18:05Three cheers for Dr. Knox. Hip, hip!
01:18:07Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
01:18:10All right, sir. You're quite safe now, sir.
01:18:13Thank you, Mr. Levy.
01:18:15Now, gentlemen, if you're ready,
01:18:17I shall lead you to Surgeon Square.
01:18:19We'll never get through that mob, sir.
01:18:21Why not?
01:18:23What's without cannons, sir?
01:18:25Well, what does it matter where I let you?
01:18:27I'll let you in the grass market.
01:18:29I'll let you in the cotton hill.
01:18:31Hooray! Hooray!
01:18:33If it doesn't matter where you lecture,
01:18:35why not lecture here?
01:18:37Here, ma'am.
01:18:38Why not?
01:18:40The place is unsuitable, ma'am.
01:18:42Oh, lectures, doctor.
01:18:44You've given so many here.
01:18:46Why not lectures?
01:18:48It's the last time we're starting anyhow.
01:18:50Oh, do say you will.
01:18:52Very well.
01:18:54Hooray!
01:18:56It is on the subject of which ladies may listen.
01:18:58Eminently so, ma'am.
01:18:59It is on the human heart.
01:19:01Charming!
01:19:03Do say you will.
01:19:05By all means, ma'am.
01:19:07A free cheers for Miss Dishon.
01:19:09Hip, hip, hip.
01:19:11Hooray! Hooray!
01:19:13Move.
01:19:29Move.
01:19:43Everything's ready, sir.
01:19:45Thank you, Mr. Raby.
01:19:48Hooray! Hooray!
01:19:50Hooray! Hooray!
01:19:52Hooray! Hooray!
01:19:54Hooray! Hooray!
01:19:56Hooray! Hooray!
01:19:57Hooray! Hooray!
01:19:59Well, gentlemen.
01:20:02I should say ladies and gentlemen.
01:20:06Gentlemen, the human heart, we are told,
01:20:10is deceitful and desperately wicked.
01:20:15However that may be, Mr. Raby,
01:20:18it consists of four chambers.
01:20:20The right ventricle, the left ventricle.
01:20:27The left ventricle.
01:20:29The ventricle.
01:20:31The ventricle.
01:20:33The ventricle.
01:20:35The ventricle.
01:20:37The ventricle.
01:20:39The ventricle.
01:20:41The ventricle.
01:20:43The ventricle.
01:20:45The ventricle.
01:20:47The ventricle.
01:20:49The ventricle.
01:20:51The ventricle.
01:20:53The ventricle.
01:20:55The ventricle.
01:20:57The ventricle.
01:20:59The ventricle.
01:21:01The ventricle.
01:21:03The ventricle.
01:21:05The ventricle.
01:21:07The ventricle.
01:21:09The ventricle.
01:21:11The ventricle.
01:21:13The ventricle.
01:21:15The ventricle.
01:21:17The ventricle.
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01:21:21The ventricle.
01:21:23The ventricle.