Simon Cordier's a well-respected magistrate who visits a condemned prisoner, Louis Girot, just before his execution. Girot pleads his innocence insisting he's been taken over by a spirit which forced him to commit the crimes. Cordier doesn't believe him and the man suddenly dies. In the following days, Cordier must face a number of strange occurrences iand begins to wonder if he's now dealing with those same spirits.
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00:02:09In his infinite wisdom, the Lord is seen fit to take from us a just and courageous friend.
00:02:16That Simon Cordier, in the prime of his manhood, should have come to his death as he did,
00:02:21makes his passing even a greater shock to those he has left behind.
00:02:28As one of France's most respected magistrates, Simon Cordier dedicated his life to the betterment of humanity.
00:02:37All that Simon Cordier was can be summed up in these words.
00:02:42He was a good man. May God have mercy on his soul.
00:02:58Requiem aeternum, Donna e Domine.
00:03:03Salut, Perpetua, Lucia e...
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00:03:10Requiescat in pace.
00:03:12Amen.
00:03:14Anima eius et animae omnium fidelium du functorum.
00:03:20Cum misericordium Dei requiescat in pace.
00:03:23Amen.
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00:03:45All those fine words. I'm glad he's dead.
00:03:50Mr. Darville? Miss Jean?
00:03:53It was Magistrate Cordier's wish before he died that we all assemble after the funeral.
00:03:59My daughter and I are willing to respect the wishes of the dead.
00:04:03More so than if he were living.
00:04:06We will see you at the gallery then.
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00:04:24Why Magistrate Cordier should have entrusted this task to my daughter and to me, I do not know.
00:04:30Our feelings toward him were no secret.
00:04:33As Father Bremont knows, this chest and the letter were given to my daughter by Magistrate Cordier the night he died.
00:04:44The letter written by the Magistrate says that if he died that night, then this chest must not be opened until immediately after the funeral.
00:04:53But why would he think he might die? Surely it was an accident.
00:04:57Father Bremont, my investigation proved that it was not suicide.
00:05:02The letter requested that we be present when the chest is opened.
00:05:06Since it involved matters important to all of you...
00:05:09The chest, Mr. Darville, please.
00:05:21A book?
00:05:25It seems to be a personal diary.
00:05:28And a note.
00:05:30I speak to you from the grave.
00:05:36In this sanctuary of my coffin, I can state certain facts which I could not do while I was alive.
00:05:43If I had attempted to do so before my death, I would have been judged insane.
00:05:48And my warning to mankind would have gone unheeded.
00:05:52Warning?
00:05:54What do you know about this?
00:05:55Nothing, I swear it, Captain. I did not know the Magistrate even kept a diary.
00:05:59That is the truth.
00:06:02Do not regard with cynicism what you learn now.
00:06:06Once you have heard the contents of my diary, the future will be in your hands.
00:06:11God be with you, for you will need his help.
00:06:18Perhaps that is why the Magistrate wanted you to be here.
00:06:21Please, Mr. Darville, the diary.
00:06:30September 17th, 1886.
00:06:34The strange events which occasioned me to begin this diary...
00:06:38...started three days before the murderer, Louis Giraud...
00:06:43...was to go to the guillotine.
00:06:45And Police Captain Renaudin came to the scene.
00:06:49Oh, Captain.
00:06:51Is the Magistrate Cordier busy?
00:06:53He's just come from the court.
00:06:57Come in.
00:06:59Captain Renaudin, sir.
00:07:01Oh, tell him to come in.
00:07:06Well, Robert.
00:07:08Simon.
00:07:09This is a pleasure, unless, of course, you've brought me trouble.
00:07:13I don't think I have.
00:07:14Considering your endless studies of the criminal mind...
00:07:17...which I'll never understand.
00:07:19It concerns Louis Giraud.
00:07:21He wants to talk to you.
00:07:23Oh, does he want to change the testimony he gave at the trial?
00:07:26A strange fish, Giraud.
00:07:28It's hard to tell what he wants.
00:07:31Well, he goes to the guillotine in three days.
00:07:34Perhaps it's his conscience.
00:07:36A confession?
00:07:38Maybe.
00:07:40It is possible.
00:07:41As you say, he is a strange fish.
00:07:45Giraud murdered four people...
00:07:48...without motivation.
00:07:50He didn't know any of them.
00:07:52He didn't rob them.
00:07:54He just killed.
00:07:57Yes, the case is most perplexing.
00:08:00Which means that you're curious enough to see it.
00:08:03To me, a thief is a thief.
00:08:05A murderer is a murderer.
00:08:07Life is most perplexing.
00:08:08A thief is a thief. A murderer is a murderer.
00:08:11Life is much simpler that way.
00:08:14Shall we go?
00:08:31I'd better go in with you.
00:08:33No, he might talk more if we were alone.
00:08:36All right, I'll wait here.
00:08:38All right.
00:08:53Magistrate Cordier.
00:08:55Thank you for coming.
00:08:59It's the only hospitality I can offer you.
00:09:02Captain Renaud believed you might be ready to make a statement, Giraud.
00:09:06A statement?
00:09:08Perhaps.
00:09:10But what is it you want me to say?
00:09:13Something I did not say at the trial?
00:09:16If there is truth in it.
00:09:19Can't you understand, Magistrate?
00:09:22I told the truth at the trial.
00:09:26I swear to you,
00:09:27it was something that...
00:09:29that used me.
00:09:31Just as if it took my body and made me murder.
00:09:35Please, Giraud.
00:09:37You seem to be a man of some intelligence.
00:09:43And in three days, my intelligence will be chopped off at the neck, eh?
00:09:50Do you think that I would go on lying to you?
00:09:54Do you think that I would go on lying,
00:09:57knowing that I'm going to die?
00:09:59But a man doesn't kill four people without reason.
00:10:03It was the thing that possessed me that had the reason.
00:10:07It lives on evil,
00:10:09and grows stronger and stronger.
00:10:11Please, Giraud, sit down.
00:10:14I didn't even know until afterward that I had killed.
00:10:18It had control of my mind.
00:10:20I had no will of my own.
00:10:21It forced me to murder.
00:10:24I couldn't accept this testimony before.
00:10:27Do you expect me to believe it now?
00:10:30I'd never thought that hatred is evil.
00:10:34Hatred is evil.
00:10:36But the thing knew,
00:10:38and it used that to feed on my will until it owned me.
00:10:42Giraud, I'm sorry.
00:10:44I had hoped you'd be able to give me some...
00:10:46Do you know why I never asked for a new trial?
00:10:50I want to die.
00:10:53Because so long as I live,
00:10:57the thing can make me kill again.
00:11:03Giraud,
00:11:05what is it your eyes...
00:11:08It can even make me...
00:11:12kill you!
00:11:14Giraud!
00:11:16Giraud!
00:11:18Giraud!
00:11:24God!
00:11:36He tried to kill me, Robert.
00:11:38I warned you.
00:11:40Murderers, they're all the same.
00:11:42Humanity would be much better off without them.
00:11:45Call the doctor, hurry!
00:11:48Is he badly hurt?
00:11:55There'll be no need to sharpen the guillotine.
00:11:58Dead?
00:12:00It was so sudden.
00:12:03One moment he was completely rational, and then...
00:12:07This is terrible, Robert.
00:12:10If anything, I wanted to help him.
00:12:13You had to defend yourself. It was an accident.
00:12:15Besides, I'd say you did help him.
00:12:19This is a much easier way to die.
00:12:29For the next two days, I returned home from my work at the court
00:12:33with the death of the murderer Giraud still on my mind.
00:12:37Despite Renaudin's assurance of my innocence,
00:12:40somehow the accident still disturbed me,
00:12:42and I could not rid myself of the depression that weighed so heavily.
00:12:54Good evening, sir.
00:12:56Good evening, Pierre.
00:12:58Sir, I'll tell you Louise's secret.
00:13:01She's preparing your favorite dinner, baked lamb.
00:13:04Oh, that's fine, but I...
00:13:06I think I need a cognac before.
00:13:09In the study, please.
00:13:10Yes, sir.
00:13:29Well, Kiki, you're in fine voice.
00:13:34You must have been practicing all day.
00:13:36And just because you've been so industrious,
00:13:39you two are going to have a special dinner.
00:13:45There you are.
00:14:06Pierre!
00:14:11Sir?
00:14:13Why did you put this back in here?
00:14:16I? But I haven't even seen it since you...
00:14:19Would I do such a thing?
00:14:21But it was hanging there on the wall, Pierre.
00:14:23Who's been in the house?
00:14:25Only Louise and myself.
00:14:37Pierre.
00:14:39What is it? What has happened?
00:14:41I... I'm not sure.
00:14:44You remember the large photograph of Mrs. Cordier and the boy?
00:14:48Oh, the one that used to be in the study?
00:14:51It was back there tonight.
00:14:53But how could that be?
00:14:55It was put away in that trunk with the other things.
00:14:58Yes.
00:15:06Come on, let's go.
00:15:36Come on.
00:16:07HATRED IS EVIL
00:16:20Hatred is evil.
00:16:25Those were Gilot's words.
00:16:29Sir?
00:16:33Pierre.
00:16:35Somebody must have been up here.
00:16:38First the picture and then...
00:16:40then the writing on the pedestal.
00:16:42Writing?
00:16:44Yes, in the dust there.
00:16:53It was there.
00:16:55Perhaps it was the light. You only thought that...
00:16:57Pierre, I'm not in the habit of seeing things that do not exist.
00:17:00Of course not, sir.
00:17:02Why is this happening?
00:17:05They've been dead so long.
00:17:09I thought the past was behind me.
00:17:35I put the cognac in the study, sir.
00:17:37Thank you.
00:17:49Well?
00:17:51It's very strange.
00:17:53He looks so pale. Perhaps he's ill.
00:17:55I'll see if he'll have dinner.
00:18:05Sir.
00:18:07Shall I tell Louise to serve dinner?
00:18:10Pierre.
00:18:12You had ample time to know Mrs. Cordier well before she died.
00:18:16Why, yes, sir.
00:18:18You know that both she and the boy meant a great deal to me.
00:18:21Of course, sir.
00:18:23Perhaps memories are suddenly unlocked in a man's mind.
00:18:28And he has dreadful memories.
00:18:30I can only surmise that such memories of my wife and my son have returned.
00:18:37Pierre, after I've gone to sleep at night,
00:18:41have I ever left my bedroom?
00:18:44I'm not sure I understand, sir.
00:18:47Well, I mean sleepwalked,
00:18:49wandered in my sleep,
00:18:51recovered in my sleep.
00:18:53I'm not sure I understand, sir.
00:18:56Well, I mean sleepwalked,
00:18:57wandered in my sleep
00:18:59because of a dream, a nightmare.
00:19:03I don't know, sir.
00:19:05Our room is in the other wing.
00:19:08I must have.
00:19:11There has to be a logical explanation.
00:19:18Tell Louise that I'll have my dinner shortly.
00:19:20Yes, sir.
00:19:22My wife and son have been dead for 12 years.
00:19:26Why should these strange things be happening
00:19:29now only since the death of Louis Giraud?
00:19:41Good morning, Martin.
00:19:43Good morning, sir.
00:19:45Would you bring me the Costin brief, please?
00:19:47Yes, sir.
00:19:51Thank you.
00:20:19The Costin brief, sir.
00:20:21Thank you.
00:20:23Did you have any reason for leaving this here?
00:20:25The trial testimony of Louis Giraud.
00:20:30The prisoner who...
00:20:32who died the other day?
00:20:34No, sir. I didn't take it out of the file.
00:20:37It was on my desk.
00:20:39The office was locked.
00:20:41Could you have put it there before you left last night?
00:20:45Yes.
00:20:48Yes, that's possible.
00:20:50Perhaps I was so upset by what happened I...
00:20:54I didn't remember.
00:20:56Yes, sir. It must have been most unnerving.
00:20:59Yes, that will be all, Martin. Thank you.
00:21:20Martin.
00:21:22Will you find the superintendent of the building?
00:21:25I want you to ask him if any one of the cleaning people
00:21:28could have taken the Giraud testimony from the file.
00:21:32Immediately, sir.
00:21:34Thank you.
00:21:40I'm sorry, sir.
00:21:42I'm sorry.
00:21:44I'm sorry.
00:21:46I'm sorry.
00:21:47I'm sorry.
00:22:18Someone here?
00:22:33Magistrate Cordier.
00:22:36Magistrate.
00:22:38Magistrate.
00:22:40Magistrate.
00:22:42Magistrate.
00:22:44Magistrate.
00:22:45Mr. Cordier, since Louis Giraud is dead,
00:22:50you have no further use for his papers.
00:22:54You deprived me of Giraud's body, his mind, his will.
00:23:00Now, I will have yours.
00:23:07What's the matter with me?
00:23:10Can I be as sick as Giraud?
00:23:15Giraud!
00:23:28I was determined to take my place on the bench that day,
00:23:32despite the fears I had for my sanity.
00:23:35But suddenly, I felt I couldn't go on.
00:23:38It was impossible for me to concentrate.
00:23:40I hadn't even heard the arguments of the attorneys.
00:23:45I knew I would have to call a recess and leave for the day.
00:23:49Very interesting, Magistrate.
00:24:09I've been waiting patiently to see what you would write.
00:24:15You still think I exist only in your mind.
00:24:21Man's logic is always denied by existence.
00:24:27Since we've only begun to know each other,
00:24:29perhaps we should come closer to the truth.
00:24:37Rise, Simon Cordier.
00:24:45Life and death are the only truths.
00:24:48Everything else is illusion.
00:24:51Yourself.
00:24:56Your love for a useless bird in a cage.
00:25:00Death is a truth, Magistrate.
00:25:04Prove it.
00:25:20Prove it now.
00:25:30Who?
00:25:49Kiki, where are you?
00:25:53How did you get out?
00:25:59How does one explain what one cannot see, Dr. Borman?
00:26:17I hear this voice as though someone is in the room with me, but I am alone.
00:26:23No one else is there.
00:26:25And it was this voice that urged you to kill your pet?
00:26:29How else can I explain it?
00:26:32The photograph, the writing in the dust, the trial testimony on your desk, the overturned
00:26:39inkwell, and the voice.
00:26:42You feel they are all related.
00:26:44Somehow, yes, yes.
00:26:50It is you who relate them, for they are all from your own imagination.
00:27:01Science does not accept gnomes, ghosts, demons, images of evil.
00:27:07The things you've told me about the tragic deaths of your wife and son, the abnormal
00:27:12loneliness you've lived in for the past twelve years.
00:27:15No, thank you.
00:27:17A man can torture himself just so long that it must end, or the mind will break under
00:27:23the strain.
00:27:24And I'm not sure what you mean.
00:27:27You want my help?
00:27:28Yes.
00:27:29Will you do as I say?
00:27:31Doctor, if there's hope, I'll do anything.
00:27:34A doctor always has hope.
00:27:37Hope of curing his patient, hope that his bill will be paid.
00:27:42Of course there's hope.
00:27:43Then I've come to the right man.
00:27:46I've never had reason before to go to an alienist.
00:27:51However, I can't cure you.
00:27:55You have to cure yourself.
00:27:57You have to change your life.
00:27:59Get out of yourself.
00:28:01Never submit to loneliness.
00:28:04You said you used to sculpt?
00:28:06In my younger days, I was quite interested in art.
00:28:10Fine.
00:28:11Become interested again.
00:28:13Get away from this existence you've been leading.
00:28:15Associate with people in the art world.
00:28:18Find something to sculpt, and start sculpting.
00:28:22Take a vacation from your work.
00:28:23Doctor, I have so many cases at court, I...
00:28:26I can only give you the prescription.
00:28:29The medicine you must take yourself.
00:28:32Well, thank you.
00:28:36Talking to you has been most reassuring.
00:28:37I can't tell you how relieved I am.
00:28:39And I've served my purpose.
00:28:41Let me hear from you again in a few weeks.
00:28:43Goodbye.
00:28:44Goodbye.
00:28:45♪♪♪
00:29:15Renoir.
00:29:18How emotional.
00:29:23Sensual.
00:29:24Nudes that look like nudes.
00:29:25You know what's the matter with you?
00:29:27You're a woman.
00:29:28Do you know what's the matter with you?
00:29:30You're a pig.
00:29:31I am a pig.
00:29:32You're a...
00:29:33Who told you all you know about...
00:29:35Who told you how to...
00:29:45Why don't you buy me, sir?
00:29:59It would be an act of charity if the artist could use the money.
00:30:05You're the model, aren't you?
00:30:07Would you believe it?
00:30:08I know nothing at all about ballet.
00:30:10No?
00:30:11Then either you have the natural grace of a dancer, or the artist gave it to you.
00:30:17You are an artist?
00:30:19Well, I like to sculpt.
00:30:21Oh, sculptors are always covered with clay and stone dust and have no money.
00:30:27Perhaps amateurs are more fortunate.
00:30:30Oh?
00:30:32Then perhaps you have enough money for me to pose for you.
00:30:37Do I not inspire you?
00:30:40Yes, I think so.
00:30:42Let me see, uh...
00:30:45A Greek goddess, perhaps.
00:30:47Oh, so serious.
00:30:50Of course.
00:30:51Why not Heinrich Heine, then?
00:30:53Who?
00:30:54Heine.
00:30:55He once wrote a wonderful poem.
00:30:57It was called Woman.
00:30:59Oh, I didn't think any man knew women.
00:31:02Each of the four stanzas is about a different situation, going from gaiety to tragedy.
00:31:08And yet each of the stanzas ends with the same words, and she laughed.
00:31:13Oh.
00:31:17Yes, I think you would always laugh.
00:31:19And that is the way you would like to sculpt me?
00:31:22As a girl who can laugh at life?
00:31:25Yes.
00:31:27Good.
00:31:28For your laughing woman, I shall charge you ten francs an hour to pose.
00:31:32Agreed.
00:31:34You're not going to haggle over the price?
00:31:36No, it's very reasonable.
00:31:39Here's my address.
00:31:41I'll expect you this evening at eight o'clock, so we can begin the preliminary sketches.
00:31:46My name is Odette Marat.
00:31:48I shall be there.
00:31:51Goodbye, Odette.
00:31:53Goodbye.
00:31:58Simon Cordier.
00:32:01Magistrate.
00:32:07Good afternoon.
00:32:08Oh, Odette.
00:32:09How are you, Odette?
00:32:13I've seen bigger crowds than this.
00:32:19There are always more customers at night.
00:32:25Let's hope they show more enthusiasm than these.
00:32:28It doesn't matter.
00:32:29I have faith in Paul's work.
00:32:32After all, Odette, it is Paul's first show.
00:32:34It takes time for an artist to become popular.
00:32:37Of course, Jean.
00:32:39We all have Paul's interests at heart, don't we?
00:32:46He's in the office having coffee.
00:33:05Oh, hello, darling.
00:33:06I thought there would be more customers by the time you got here.
00:33:10Six rich ones are better than 20 poor ones.
00:33:13Anybody buy?
00:33:14In the small seascape.
00:33:15The one where I posed on the rock?
00:33:1830 francs.
00:33:1930 francs?
00:33:22Oh, Paul, paint, canvas, a frame.
00:33:26Your time and my time for 30 francs?
00:33:29Larger ones will bring more.
00:33:30Oh, what is Andre doing?
00:33:31Trying to sell them by the yard?
00:33:35At least I'm going to make some money.
00:33:37You?
00:33:37I have a job, posing.
00:33:41When you married me, you said you'd give up posing for anyone else.
00:33:44I didn't say I'd give up eating.
00:33:49Well, at least we starve together.
00:33:54Odette, you know how much I love you.
00:33:57Oh, love, love.
00:33:59A man says the word so easily.
00:34:02Do I have to wait until you're an old man before I can get a new dress?
00:34:06Until I can feel like a woman again?
00:34:08Have I ever failed to make you feel like a woman?
00:34:1310 francs an hour.
00:34:16We need the money, Paul.
00:34:18Who is this artist who can afford so much money?
00:34:23You're jealous, eh, my husband?
00:34:24Yes.
00:34:26You worry too much.
00:34:28What man could know me better than you?
00:34:32There, for luck.
00:34:34Sell a lot of paintings and and we'll share a bottle of wine when I return.
00:34:39All right.
00:35:02Miss Mallotte?
00:35:05Yes.
00:35:06Come in, please.
00:35:12I'll tell Magistrate Cordier that you're here, please.
00:35:32Eight o'clock, exactly.
00:35:34You're most prompt.
00:35:35Well, the time of a magistrate is important.
00:35:38And is your time not important?
00:35:39Oh, the more I look at clocks, the more they keep saying,
00:35:43here it is tomorrow already and you're a day older.
00:35:47Only at my age is each day so valuable.
00:35:51Where do you work?
00:35:52The studio is upstairs. Come.
00:36:02When he brought home the clay and said to clean up the attic,
00:36:12I knew everything was going to be all right.
00:36:14She's beautiful.
00:36:15Yes.
00:36:17It's been a long time since we've seen a woman go up those stairs.
00:36:33Oh, how nice.
00:36:36It'll be a pleasure to pose for once in a studio that isn't drafted.
00:36:41Most artists can't even afford heat.
00:36:43Well, the house is quite old, but very well built.
00:36:47I think my ancestors demanded their comfort.
00:36:50Are those the ones who frowned at me in the hall downstairs?
00:36:53The portraits?
00:36:55I assure you, they they frowned at everyone.
00:36:58Is your laughing lady to laugh with or without her clothes on?
00:37:02No, it won't be a nude.
00:37:06Oh, that's right.
00:37:08There should be nothing to detract from the expression on her face.
00:37:14You know quite a good deal about art, don't you?
00:37:17One listens, one learns.
00:37:21Where shall I pose?
00:37:22Oh, I'm sorry. Right here.
00:37:24Light is best here.
00:37:28Oh, let's see.
00:37:36You want the head, throat and bare shoulders.
00:37:40Yes.
00:37:51I'm afraid I've forgotten how to compliment a beautiful woman.
00:37:55I hope perhaps the clay will be able to do it for me.
00:38:13Now the expression, Odette, the expression, gaiety.
00:38:17Think of something to laugh about.
00:38:18Oh, that's simple. Life is full of things to laugh at.
00:38:24There. There, that's it.
00:38:27That's the expression.
00:38:29Now keep it just like that.
00:38:37The sketches are finished and I have begun the actual working of the clay.
00:38:41My eagerness to capture Odette's laughing quality,
00:38:44which is gay yet strangely enigmatic,
00:38:47has found me sculpting for long hours without realizing it.
00:38:51But the girl has held the difficult pose without complaining.
00:38:54It is indeed flattering that she shares my dedication to the work.
00:38:58The nightmares have not returned and I feel so much better now.
00:39:02It is as if all the dark corners of my mind
00:39:06have been filled with bright sunlight.
00:39:09There. We've done it.
00:39:12We've brought Heine's poem to life.
00:39:15You are the master.
00:39:17We've brought Heine's poem to life.
00:39:20You are the laughing woman.
00:39:22Why not? Heine was writing about me all the time.
00:39:28It's good. It's really good.
00:39:32Ah! I am now immortal.
00:39:35You have created me.
00:39:37You are my master and I thank you.
00:39:40You really like it. I hoped you would.
00:39:43But what happens to me now? Do I stay up here
00:39:45like all the rest of your statues to gather dust?
00:39:47That wouldn't give her much to laugh about, would it?
00:39:50Perhaps you should do something new to keep her company.
00:39:55Oh? Who would you like?
00:39:57Oh, I don't know.
00:39:59Oh, of course. A life-size figure of me.
00:40:03Then she could look at herself and you would know why she's laughing.
00:40:06You don't take yourself seriously at all, do you?
00:40:10Now you've returned to being the magistrate who wants to know about people.
00:40:14Why should you want to know about me?
00:40:17I've posed. The work is finished.
00:40:22I will leave.
00:40:25Sometime I might just do that life-size figure of you.
00:40:29Tonight you think that.
00:40:32Tomorrow...
00:40:34You know what I am?
00:40:37Perfume.
00:40:39Your ten francs an hour bought it.
00:40:42And that is all you will remember of me.
00:40:46The scent of a perfume that was once in this room.
00:40:49No, really, Odette, I...
00:40:52Sensitive enough to...
00:40:55To be an artist.
00:40:57Strong enough to be...
00:41:00A man who can judge others.
00:41:05You're an unusual man, Simon.
00:41:08That is what I will remember of you.
00:41:11Thank you, Odette. You're very kind.
00:41:18When you told me your wife had died many years ago, I thought...
00:41:22How fine she looks.
00:41:25She must have meant a great deal to him.
00:41:29And yet you keep her locked away up here.
00:41:32I've wondered why.
00:41:34It was the way she died.
00:41:37She wasn't buried from the church.
00:41:42But surely she must have been a good woman.
00:41:45She took her own life.
00:41:49And you never forgave her.
00:41:52I...
00:41:55It was in the past.
00:41:58Perhaps she didn't know how to laugh at herself.
00:42:02Odette...
00:42:06I'm grateful to you...
00:42:09In more ways than you know.
00:42:12I think I will...
00:42:15Miss this attic.
00:42:18If I have another idea for a new work, I'll call on you.
00:42:22The coach is waiting.
00:42:28Goodbye, Simon.
00:42:30Goodbye, Odette.
00:42:35Goodbye, Simon.
00:43:06What is it, Magistrate?
00:43:09Are you wondering how so important a man can fail to see himself in a mirror?
00:43:16Come, come, Simon Courtier.
00:43:19You should know by now that I am real.
00:43:22That I am not a dream.
00:43:25That I am not an illusion.
00:43:28That I am not an illusion.
00:43:31That I am not an illusion.
00:43:34That I am not a dream.
00:43:38Common sense should tell you that the reason you can't see yourself...
00:43:42Is that someone stands between you and the mirror.
00:43:45What?
00:43:47I am that someone.
00:43:50This should assure you that my physical being is quite solid.
00:43:53Even if your eyes can't see me.
00:43:58It's not possible.
00:44:01I do not believe it.
00:44:12You are there.
00:44:14Then why can't I see you?
00:44:17Calm yourself, Magistrate.
00:44:20I will give you back your reflection.
00:44:25You see, as good as new.
00:44:28Tell me what's happening.
00:44:31Are you human?
00:44:34That depends on the point of view.
00:44:37If you mean, do the Horla live on the earth as you do?
00:44:42Yes, you are not the sole inhabitants.
00:44:45The Horla?
00:44:48But if you are here...
00:44:51We have always been.
00:44:54We just exist on different planes.
00:44:57Your plane, only when you make it possible.
00:45:04I don't understand.
00:45:07How could I have made it possible?
00:45:10Through evil, Magistrate.
00:45:13But I have fought evil all my life.
00:45:16The great Magistrate.
00:45:19The dispenser of justice for one and all.
00:45:22You are a murderer, Simon Cordier.
00:45:25I have never murdered anyone.
00:45:45This was your victim, Magistrate.
00:45:48You drove her to suicide.
00:45:51You tortured her mind until she took her own life.
00:45:54No.
00:45:56She was innocent, yet you judged her guilty.
00:45:59You blamed her for the death of your son.
00:46:10But forgive me.
00:46:13Now I am here, and I will never leave you.
00:46:18Why? What do you want?
00:46:21Be still, Magistrate.
00:46:24Your evil has delivered you to me.
00:46:27I have paid for my sins.
00:46:30You thought your loneliness was repentance for your wife's death.
00:46:35All it did was make you vulnerable.
00:46:38Look, Magistrate.
00:46:41Look at the clay you finished sculpting tonight.
00:46:44You wanted to believe
00:46:47that your model was what she pretended to be.
00:47:04But this is what she really is.
00:47:07You see evil in everything.
00:47:11You see evil in everything.
00:47:14Only where it exists.
00:47:17No.
00:47:19No, she is as I saw her.
00:47:41Pierre!
00:47:44Pierre, come up here at once.
00:47:47What is it?
00:47:50I don't know.
00:48:01Sir?
00:48:04Pierre.
00:48:07The clay.
00:48:10It's changed, sir.
00:48:13Yes. Yes, I wanted you to see.
00:48:16But why, sir? Why has it changed?
00:48:19Thank you, Pierre.
00:48:22That will be all. Leave me alone now, please.
00:48:40All my life I had sought knowledge,
00:48:43and now I was granted knowledge
00:48:46rarely granted other men.
00:48:49No more hideous fact could have been conceived
00:48:52to terrify my mind.
00:48:55The Horla really live.
00:48:58If they cannot be seen, still they are tangible,
00:49:01composed of solid matter.
00:49:04The Horla can be seen.
00:49:07If they cannot be seen, still they are tangible,
00:49:10composed of solid matter.
00:49:13Only the Lord knows if they are flesh and blood as we are.
00:49:16Why are they here?
00:49:19Why has their evil been turned loose upon the earth?
00:49:29You tremble, Magistrate?
00:49:32Why?
00:49:35Perhaps I will be a gentle and kind master.
00:49:38Get out. Leave me alone.
00:49:41But I want to help you.
00:49:44There. No reason we shouldn't be comfortable, is there?
00:49:47You do not believe that the woman who posed for you
00:49:50is without a heart?
00:49:53That your riches, your position, are the goal of her evil ambition?
00:49:56Makes no difference.
00:49:59I'll never see her again.
00:50:02Don't you want to prove that I'm wrong?
00:50:05The woman means nothing to me.
00:50:08She will.
00:50:12What are you saying?
00:50:15You will pursue her, Magistrate.
00:50:18You will seek to create love where there is no love.
00:50:21No.
00:50:24I will not. I tell you, I will not.
00:50:27Your will obeys me from this moment on.
00:50:30You have no choice.
00:50:35She is a vain woman, Magistrate.
00:50:38The painting of her,
00:50:41the one that brought you together,
00:50:44it would appeal to that vanity.
00:50:47I thought I'd never live to see it.
00:50:50The face of another woman where Mrs. Cordier's had been.
00:50:53There are so many strange things happening in this house.
00:51:01They're coming.
00:51:06And you won't tell me what the surprise is.
00:51:09Well, why spoil it?
00:51:12I'll tell you.
00:51:15Being you this soon again was enough of a surprise.
00:51:18Did you really think I'd let you get away so easily?
00:51:21I thought you were only interested in playing women.
00:51:29Good afternoon, sir.
00:51:32Good afternoon, Pierre.
00:51:35Tell Louise that we'll want her finest dinner.
00:51:38And champagne? Eighty-one was a good year.
00:51:41Champagne? You're filled with surprises.
00:51:45Well, I...
00:51:48I want this to be a most memorable day.
00:51:51Suspense is positively unbearable.
00:51:58My painting!
00:52:05Oh, Simon, why?
00:52:08Why did you buy it?
00:52:11Well, it was such an ugly, empty space there.
00:52:14Well, I think it's quite decorative, don't you?
00:52:17Well, is that the only reason you brought me here? To get my opinion?
00:52:20Can you think of a more charming audience for such a charming painting?
00:52:23I'm overwhelmed.
00:52:26Then perhaps this memorable day will lead to many such days.
00:52:31I'm not sure what you mean.
00:52:34Well, it's really quite simple.
00:52:37You see, after you left here last night,
00:52:40I suddenly realized that both the house
00:52:43and my heart were quite empty.
00:52:47Oh, and yesterday I thought I'd never see you again.
00:52:52Oh, Simon, you...
00:52:55You gave me no indication that you felt this way.
00:52:58But I realize that I'm much older than you are.
00:53:01Oh, no, please. I'm flattered.
00:53:06Can't you understand? All those weeks we were together,
00:53:09I was the one who cared.
00:53:12Very well, then, defendant, how do you plead?
00:53:15I don't know whether I'm innocent of guilty feelings
00:53:18or guilty of innocent feelings.
00:53:22Are you wondering if I am proposing marriage?
00:53:26Marriage?
00:53:28Would you accept less?
00:53:31Oh, Simon, I...
00:53:34I only know I love you.
00:53:37Then I will pronounce the sentence. Turn around.
00:53:40Turn around.
00:53:54Oh, Simon.
00:53:57Simon, it's lovely.
00:54:02Thank you, Simon.
00:54:05Would it answer your question if I told you
00:54:08that cameo once belonged to my wife?
00:54:13Oh, Simon.
00:54:22When she came home last night, she was a stranger to me,
00:54:25as though I had never known her.
00:54:28Nothing I said made any difference.
00:54:31She just laughed when I told her that the ballet painting
00:54:34had been sold for 100 francs.
00:54:37You mean she's already taken the new apartment?
00:54:40Moved into it this morning.
00:54:43Oh, Paul, I'm terribly sorry.
00:54:46Am I supposed to accept it? What do I do, Jean?
00:54:51She always wanted so much.
00:54:54Why couldn't she have waited for your success?
00:54:57As you would.
00:55:00She's my wife, not a friend. There's a difference.
00:55:03Yes, there's a difference.
00:55:08I found this in her dresser drawer after she'd moved.
00:55:20A magistrate?
00:55:23Yes, a rich man, a man of position.
00:55:26Who else do we know could afford 10 francs an hour?
00:55:29But how can you be sure?
00:55:33When she left, she said she was going to have
00:55:36all the things I could never give her.
00:55:39I didn't know what she meant then. I do now.
00:55:43Paul, she's still married to you.
00:55:46Yes, and as long as she is,
00:55:49that's the one thing he can't give her.
00:55:52To my future wife,
00:55:55who taught me how to laugh again.
00:56:02Simon.
00:56:05Simon, would it matter very much to you
00:56:08if we didn't announce the wedding just yet?
00:56:11Wait, but why?
00:56:14I don't know.
00:56:17I don't know.
00:56:20Wait, but why?
00:56:23There's something I must take care of first.
00:56:26Surely there's nothing so important...
00:56:29Simon, trust me, please.
00:56:32Of course, my dear, but I wanted to open our place
00:56:35on the lake at Lucerne.
00:56:38The weather's still fine and our honeymoon could be...
00:56:41Oh, darling, I promise you,
00:56:44nothing will stop us from having that honeymoon.
00:56:47And Duclos?
00:56:50Duclos, the artist?
00:56:53Yes.
00:56:56Well, have him wait.
00:56:59What is it, Odette?
00:57:02I'd wanted to have it settled before I told you.
00:57:05Does Duclos mean anything to you?
00:57:11He is my husband.
00:57:14I've told him I'll never go back to him.
00:57:19Simon, I don't want to go through another scene with him.
00:57:25I understand.
00:57:28Good evening.
00:57:44Good evening, Mr. Duclos.
00:57:47This way, please.
00:57:54You were the one who bought the painting.
00:57:57I'm an admirer of your work.
00:58:00And of my wife.
00:58:03Well, then we have much in common.
00:58:06Won't you sit down?
00:58:09You do admit you're the reason Odette left me.
00:58:12I do not. I only know that she had left you.
00:58:15I want you to leave her alone.
00:58:18But, Mr. Duclos, Odette is no child.
00:58:21She has made a choice.
00:58:24But I prefer to believe that she has found it possible
00:58:27to think of me as a man she wants.
00:58:30And if I refuse to give you a divorce?
00:58:33Do you really think it would make any difference?
00:58:36She has already intimated to me that she prefers me on any terms.
00:58:39I could kill you for that.
00:58:42You are in my house.
00:58:45And I am trying to be as kind as possible under the circumstances.
00:58:48I don't need your kindness.
00:58:51I love Odette and I will not give her up.
00:58:54And what of your fine reputation if this were made public?
00:59:00Are you threatening me?
00:59:03Yes. Think about it, Magistrate.
00:59:09You will be trouble, Simon. Kill him.
00:59:15No.
00:59:19Do not make me commit murder.
00:59:35What happened?
00:59:38It almost fell on me.
00:59:41I'm sorry.
00:59:44It was an accident.
00:59:47It would have been a most convenient accident, wouldn't it?
00:59:51Mr. Duclos, I...
00:59:55Those urns have been up there since the house was built.
00:59:58How could it have fallen?
01:00:01It's all right, Pierre.
01:00:04You may clean this up in the morning.
01:00:11I'm frightened, Pierre.
01:00:25I tried to kill him.
01:00:28No. We are not ready for his death yet.
01:00:31It was merely to show you how simple killing can be.
01:00:35As simple as crushing the life from a bird.
01:00:38But you cannot make me take a human life.
01:00:42Not as long as there is a shred of my will left.
01:00:48You've already started to murder him by taking the one thing he loved.
01:00:52The time will come, Magistrate.
01:00:55And you will end his agony.
01:00:58No.
01:01:01Has Paul gone?
01:01:04Yes.
01:01:07He's gone.
01:01:10Where is he?
01:01:13I don't know.
01:01:16I don't know.
01:01:19I don't know.
01:01:22I don't know.
01:01:25I don't know.
01:01:28Has Paul gone?
01:01:31Yes.
01:01:34Odette, we can't stay here.
01:01:37I want to leave Paris.
01:01:40Tell me that you'll come to Lucerne with me now.
01:01:43But what of Paul?
01:01:46I have some influence.
01:01:49Perhaps I can arrange an annulment.
01:01:52We'll be married in Switzerland.
01:01:55My parents will leave immediately. There's a train at midnight.
01:01:58They'll have the villa ready for us by the time we get there.
01:02:01We'll leave on the morning train. I'll pick you up at ten o'clock.
01:02:04We'll be happy, Simon. I know we will.
01:02:08We must take whatever happiness we can, Odette.
01:02:11That's all we can do.
01:02:25You're here, aren't you?
01:02:28You've been here all the time.
01:02:31You must admit that patience is a virtue.
01:02:34Are you running from me?
01:02:37No.
01:02:40I'm running from you.
01:02:43I'm running from you.
01:02:46I'm running from you.
01:02:49I'm running from you.
01:02:52Are you running from me, Magistrate?
01:02:55Yes!
01:03:00The human body is so fragile.
01:03:03It withers and dies so easily.
01:03:06As a flower does.
01:03:12Do you think that by putting distance between yourself and Paul Duclasse
01:03:15that I can't make you kill him?
01:03:22You say the Horla exist as people do?
01:03:25Very well, then your powers must be limited as ours are.
01:03:30Do you think that I'll let you run
01:03:33so that you can share your life with that woman?
01:03:36I will not be stopped.
01:03:39You'll share nothing.
01:03:42As this rose is destroyed, so can I destroy your resistance.
01:03:45Every thought you think, your senses, your will,
01:03:48they belong to me to use as I wish.
01:03:51No more bullets left, Magistrate.
01:03:57The woman is useless to us.
01:04:00As useless as any dead thing.
01:04:05What are you saying?
01:04:08A dead thing owns nothing.
01:04:11Possesses no one.
01:04:14No one.
01:04:17No one.
01:04:21There is no one, Magistrate.
01:04:24That is what she must be.
01:04:27I can't.
01:04:30I can't.
01:04:33A dead thing, Magistrate.
01:04:51Who is it?
01:04:54Odette, I must talk to you.
01:04:57Paul, go away. Leave me alone.
01:05:02You're my wife. You owe me this much.
01:05:05All right, all right. Stop it.
01:05:08You'll break down the door.
01:05:13Odette, I've...
01:05:16Odette.
01:05:19Odette, I've...
01:05:22Where are you going?
01:05:25None of your business.
01:05:28You're going with him.
01:05:31My things. My things.
01:05:34Get out. You're not going to spoil it for me.
01:05:37Odette, I can't let you do this to either of us. I'd rather see you dead.
01:05:40Doesn't it matter what I want?
01:05:43Maybe I should feel sorry for him.
01:05:46Take every cent he's gotten.
01:05:49Meanwhile, be looking for another man with even more money.
01:05:52Yes. Yes, that's exactly what I'll do.
01:05:55Are you satisfied?
01:05:58Yes, I'm satisfied that I'm a fool and that he's a bigger one.
01:06:16Simon, I didn't expect...
01:06:19Simon, I didn't expect...
01:06:22Simon, I didn't expect...
01:06:25Simon, I didn't expect...
01:06:55Hey!
01:07:25Hey!
01:07:55Good morning, Magistrate.
01:07:58Good morning, Marcel.
01:08:01I expected Pierre.
01:08:04Pierre and Louise have left for my place in Switzerland.
01:08:07Please forward my mail there until I notify you.
01:08:10I'll be very glad to, sir.
01:08:13Thank you.
01:08:25Blood.
01:08:46Odette.
01:08:55No.
01:09:15No.
01:09:25No.
01:09:46You murdered her.
01:09:49You're quite wrong, Magistrate.
01:09:52It was your hand.
01:09:55No.
01:09:58Can you deny the evidence you've hidden in the clay?
01:10:01I couldn't have done it.
01:10:04I never left the house.
01:10:07That's right, Magistrate.
01:10:10I'm the only one who knows you left here last night.
01:10:13You're quite safe, I assure you.
01:10:16I didn't do it. I didn't kill her.
01:10:19The murderer Giraud never thought he killed either.
01:10:25Had you learned to love her, Magistrate?
01:10:49Father.
01:10:52What is it?
01:10:55The police. They've arrested Paul.
01:10:58Paul? For killing Odette?
01:11:01But why? I don't understand.
01:11:04The landlady identified him.
01:11:07She heard him arguing with Odette.
01:11:10There was a struggle.
01:11:13Paul wouldn't have done it. He loved her.
01:11:17We know Paul is innocent.
01:11:20He doesn't even have money for a good lawyer.
01:11:23Whatever we have will be his if he needs it.
01:11:31Helen.
01:11:34If only it was in my power to bring you back.
01:11:37So that I could tell you how meaningless my life became when you were no longer with me.
01:11:42Tragedy can blind the judgment of a man.
01:11:45I knew you would understand that.
01:11:54What is it, Magistrate?
01:11:57Are you talking to memories now?
01:12:00Do you think she can hear you?
01:12:03My heart has spoken to her many times.
01:12:06Yes, she can hear me.
01:12:09Fool.
01:12:12Do you expect me to have patience with sentiment?
01:12:15You had no reason to do that.
01:12:18You were only talking to your conscience, Magistrate.
01:12:21You're still a murderer.
01:12:24If I am, then I will not let an innocent man die for something I did.
01:12:29On the contrary.
01:12:32Paul Duclasse will go to the guillotine.
01:12:35Haven't you done enough?
01:12:38Why should I let them execute you, Magistrate, when you serve my purpose so well?
01:12:43Cover your victim with this.
01:12:48No, I...
01:12:51I can't. I... I can't!
01:12:54You think I'm so stupid as to let the police find it?
01:12:58The grave is waiting.
01:13:02Do as I say.
01:13:08Yes, sir.
01:13:25To the back of the garden, Magistrate.
01:13:28Yes.
01:13:36You see? I can be most accommodating.
01:13:39The grave is already dug.
01:13:44You used clay to make her likeness.
01:13:47She returns to clay.
01:13:58When the grave is filled,
01:14:01we will remove the last vestige of the woman from your life.
01:14:17The painting, Magistrate.
01:14:20It, too, must be destroyed.
01:14:23Leave me alone!
01:14:26I doubt whether such art is meant for immortality.
01:14:34Burn it.
01:14:39No.
01:14:42No, I've done enough.
01:14:45There's the fire. You burn it.
01:14:48You heard what I said.
01:14:52Do it.
01:14:55Do as I say. Burn it!
01:15:25The police, Magistrate.
01:15:34You will tell them only what I want you to tell them.
01:15:55Robert.
01:15:58Good evening, Simon.
01:16:01Oh, come in, come in.
01:16:04It isn't often that I'm honored by your presence.
01:16:07A policeman isn't supposed to have time for his friends.
01:16:10If it isn't one thing, it's another.
01:16:13Now, this stupid murder.
01:16:16Oh, yes, yes. It's a terrible thing.
01:16:19A glass of wine, Robert?
01:16:22No, I can only stay a minute.
01:16:25Oh, then this isn't a social call.
01:16:28Yes and no. I have to ask a favor of you.
01:16:31Oh? Well, sit down.
01:16:34This, uh, murderer, Duclasse, he wants to talk to you.
01:16:37To me? But whatever for?
01:16:40Well, he, uh, seems to have the idea that you'll help him.
01:16:43But I don't want to.
01:16:46He seems to have the idea that you'll help him.
01:16:49But I don't even know the man.
01:16:52Many people know your reputation as a man who works hard for justice.
01:16:55Oh, I see.
01:16:58Frankly, Simon, I don't think anybody can help him.
01:17:01We have the testimony of his landlady
01:17:04and other people in the house who he killed his wife.
01:17:07And earlier this morning, we found the murder weapon hidden in his bedroom.
01:17:10The examining magistrate already has the case.
01:17:14Yes, he says there's no doubt about it.
01:17:17Everything points to Duclasse as the killer.
01:17:20Might be very interesting.
01:17:23Still studying the criminal mind?
01:17:26It's a fascinating subject, Robert.
01:17:29Bring Duclasse to my chambers. I'll talk with him.
01:17:32I can see you've earned your reputation, honestly.
01:17:35Tomorrow noon.
01:17:38Good night, Simon. Good night.
01:17:44Oh, Captain, Magistrate Cordier is waiting.
01:17:47Go right in, please.
01:17:50Magistrate,
01:17:53this is the man Duclasse.
01:17:56Sit down, Duclasse.
01:18:01I thought you would see me alone.
01:18:04You're lucky to be seeing him at a time like this.
01:18:07I thought you would see me alone.
01:18:10You're lucky to be seeing him at all. Say what you have to say.
01:18:13What makes you think I can help you, Duclasse?
01:18:16Because you know I wouldn't kill Odette.
01:18:19How can you assume such a thing?
01:18:22I don't know you.
01:18:25You knew my wife well enough.
01:18:28Duclasse. Please, Captain.
01:18:31Under what circumstances could I have known your wife?
01:18:34Are you denying that you wanted to marry her?
01:18:37This is preposterous, Duclasse.
01:18:40You're making a grave mistake.
01:18:43Liar! What are you trying to hide, that you would take another man's wife away?
01:18:46That's enough, Duclasse. Guards!
01:18:49I didn't kill Odette!
01:18:52Duclasse,
01:18:55if you think these accusations will influence the court
01:18:58to declare you insane,
01:19:01you are quite mistaken.
01:19:04Take him away. I won't let this rest!
01:19:07I didn't kill Odette! I didn't kill her!
01:19:10You see, Simon?
01:19:13What is there to understand about the human mind?
01:19:16A person becomes evil. How? Who knows?
01:19:19He is evil, so society must crush him as if he were a bug.
01:19:22You think your studies are profound.
01:19:25I think that the only profound thing is the guillotine.
01:19:28When I come across such a brutal killer as Duclasse,
01:19:31I begin to think you're right.
01:19:34We must get together some evening and discuss our parts of you.
01:19:37Can it be only his reputation he's afraid of, Gene?
01:19:40To deny knowing Odette or me?
01:19:46Perhaps.
01:19:49I don't know.
01:19:52I don't know.
01:19:55I don't know.
01:19:58I don't know.
01:20:01I don't know.
01:20:04Perhaps I had begun to hate Odette,
01:20:07but I never would have killed her.
01:20:10Paul, Magistrate Cordier wouldn't let an innocent man die
01:20:13just to save his own reputation.
01:20:16You should have seen him. There was no sympathy in him.
01:20:19Nothing. It was as if there were no feeling of any kind.
01:20:22I didn't even see any grief for Odette in him.
01:20:25We're doing everything we can, Paul, and somehow we're going to find out the truth.
01:20:28I know how much you and your father are trying to help me,
01:20:31and I'm very grateful.
01:20:34We don't want to lose you.
01:20:41How can a man be such a fool about what is right?
01:20:44It's like an artist who wants to say something fine on canvas
01:20:47and only paints the things that blind his eye.
01:20:50It's like an artist who wants to say something fine on canvas
01:20:53and only paints the things that blind his eye.
01:20:57Oh, Paul.
01:21:02I wanted to kiss you when we were children.
01:21:15Oh, Paul.
01:21:23We're going to be all right.
01:21:26We're going to do.
01:21:36There has to be a way to prove Cordier's relationship to Odette.
01:21:40Odette never lived in a world by herself.
01:21:50I have learned today that I am to preside at the trial of Paul Duclasse.
01:21:55Whatever is left of my will, of my conscience,
01:21:58rebels at sending an innocent man to the guillotine.
01:22:02But I know now that I am helpless under the Horler's influence.
01:22:06I have become a slave, a machine that must do his bidding.
01:22:10I have but one means of escape.
01:22:13May the Lord see fit to grant me mercy
01:22:16for what I am about to do.
01:22:25Suicide, Magistrate?
01:22:28Did you think I would let your destruction be so simple?
01:22:37Did you want the gun, Magistrate?
01:22:40I'm going to kill you.
01:22:43I'm going to kill you.
01:22:46I'm going to kill you.
01:22:49I'm going to kill you.
01:22:52Did you want the gun, Magistrate?
01:23:05It seems that your will surrenders most reluctantly.
01:23:09I must congratulate you on your strength of character.
01:23:14Well then, since I have regained control once more, we can...
01:23:18The door, Magistrate. Shall we see who it is?
01:23:37Is there something you wish?
01:23:40Don't you remember me, Magistrate Cordier?
01:23:43No, I'm sorry.
01:23:46Is there someone here you wish to see?
01:23:49Your memory is short.
01:23:52I'm Jean Darville. You bought a painting from me at my father's gallery.
01:23:55A painting? Oh, won't you please come in?
01:24:02You must have the wrong address.
01:24:05Perhaps I can help you.
01:24:08That's very possible.
01:24:11Would your coachman have taken the wrong turn?
01:24:14I'm very good at remembering faces, Magistrate, even if you're not.
01:24:24A man has little difficulty recalling a pretty face, Miss Darville.
01:24:28Now, perhaps we can get to the bottom of this.
01:24:31Oh, won't you sit down? No, thank you.
01:24:34You denied knowing either Odette Millat or Paul Duclasse. Why?
01:24:38Oh, that again. Is that what brought you here?
01:24:41I want to know why you lied.
01:24:44Under the circumstances, I'm trying to be patient, Miss...
01:24:47Paul Duclasse doesn't have time for patience.
01:24:50Since you won't tell me the truth, perhaps your servants will.
01:24:53Really, Miss Darville, I really think you... Where are they?
01:24:56They know Odette posed for you in this house. They also know Paul was here.
01:24:59I don't know where you and Duclasse got this ridiculous notion.
01:25:02But unfortunately, my servants are in Switzerland.
01:25:05Now I trust that that is an end of your accusations.
01:25:10Oh, no, Magistrate Cordier. This isn't the end.
01:25:14I'm sure the police will be interested in bringing your servants back from Switzerland for questioning.
01:25:19Even though you may prefer leaving them where they are.
01:25:32Galerie Darville.
01:25:40A most determined young woman.
01:25:43There can be no doubt that she will go to the police.
01:25:47Then I can only hope that nothing changes her mind.
01:25:53You still want to die?
01:25:56You chose the wrong one for death, Magistrate.
01:26:00She will die, not you.
01:26:03Leave her alone.
01:26:06I can't.
01:26:10I can't kill again.
01:26:17Before the night is over, Magistrate,
01:26:20there isn't much time.
01:26:23You must go to the police.
01:26:26You must go to the police.
01:26:29You must go to the police.
01:26:32Magistrate, there isn't much time.
01:26:40Do you realize what this would mean?
01:26:43Accusing him before the police?
01:26:46A man with such a fine reputation?
01:26:49I already know what they think.
01:26:52But Paul's entitled to justice.
01:26:55And I'm going to demand that they bring the servants back to testify.
01:26:58Jean, you asked my advice.
01:27:01I can only tell you that I believe it will be useless.
01:27:04Father, I'm going to the police.
01:27:07It's all I can do to help Paul.
01:27:11I hope you're right.
01:27:14Perhaps I'm too old to believe in miracles.
01:27:31I'm going to the police.
01:28:01I'm going to the police.
01:28:31THE END
01:29:01THE END
01:29:15Simon?
01:29:18What are you doing here at this time of night?
01:29:21Father Bramont,
01:29:24quickly take me to your church.
01:29:27Perhaps there is safety there.
01:29:30Sanctuary, Father.
01:29:33There's something that I must tell you.
01:29:36I must confess.
01:29:45Help me.
01:29:48Come with me.
01:29:53Paul!
01:29:56Paul!
01:30:00Paul!
01:30:08Father, are you all right?
01:30:11What happened?
01:30:14I'm not sure.
01:30:22You're not hurt?
01:30:25No.
01:30:28What happened to my hands?
01:30:31You tried to kill both of us.
01:30:34Kill us? Simon, please explain.
01:30:37Father, I can't go with you now.
01:30:40It would mean your life too.
01:30:43Listen to me. Do as I say.
01:30:46There's a girl walking down the street.
01:30:49She can't be more than a few blocks away.
01:30:52You'll recognize her by the brown dress and the plumed hat she's wearing.
01:30:55Please, tell her to come.
01:31:04The hoiler has tried to kill me.
01:31:07I have become his enemy instead of his slave.
01:31:10It is now his life or mine.
01:31:25Father, are you sure he wanted me to come back?
01:31:28I don't know what is wrong, but it was most important to him.
01:31:44Father, thank you for coming.
01:31:47Forgive me, but I can't ask you in.
01:31:50I hope there's time enough for this.
01:31:53Simon, there must be something very wrong.
01:31:56Can't I help?
01:31:59No, this is something I must do myself.
01:32:02Pray for me, Father.
01:32:05Take these. They're most important.
01:32:08It is imperative that you follow the instructions in the letter exactly.
01:32:11I don't know what these are.
01:32:14Please, take her away, Father. Go, I beg of you.
01:32:17Simon, you will have my prayers. I think we better do as he says.
01:32:20Something has occurred to me.
01:32:23Something that happened the night
01:32:26the hoiler made me destroy the painting of Odette.
01:32:29If my observation is correct,
01:32:32then I will be staking my life
01:32:35on the turn of one solitary card.
01:32:39If I am wrong,
01:32:42then this will be my last meeting with him.
01:32:45He will kill me.
01:32:48I have made my preparations.
01:32:51I am ready.
01:33:09You seem very smug, Magistrate.
01:33:12Is it because I failed to make you kill the girl?
01:33:15Do you think that evil
01:33:18can always be stopped by a cross?
01:33:21Perhaps not.
01:33:24But there may be something
01:33:27that I must do.
01:33:30I must do it.
01:33:33I must do it.
01:33:36But there may be something
01:33:39that can stop your evil.
01:33:46Do you remember the painting?
01:33:49How you insisted that I burn it?
01:33:52Could it be that you were afraid to go near the flames in the fireplace?
01:33:55Fire has no will of its own.
01:33:58Can you control it? Try.
01:34:01Let me see how fast your powers are.
01:34:04There is no place to run.
01:34:07The window is a furnace. The doors are locked.
01:34:10You are trapped.
01:34:13The whole room is drenched in kerosene.
01:34:18How does terror feel?
01:34:21Doesn't it give you enough strength to break a lock?
01:34:26I was right about the fire.
01:34:29Then you die with me.
01:34:34No!
01:35:04No!
01:35:07No!
01:35:31The last words he wrote,
01:35:34If what I think is true,
01:35:37then there may be deliverance from the Hauler for me
01:35:40or all of us.
01:35:43Are you convinced now that Paul didn't murder Odette?
01:35:46The diary will clear him.
01:35:49Poor Simon.
01:35:52He was ill for so long. The insanity grew worse.
01:35:55He didn't know what he was doing.
01:35:58This Hauler, it was in his imagination, of course.
01:36:01Did he decide that evil exists or that it can possess a man?
01:36:04Then Cordier was saying,
01:36:07the Hauler is real.
01:36:10Simon's letter spoke of a warning to mankind.
01:36:13He wanted us to know,
01:36:16wherever evil exists in the heart of man,
01:36:19the Hauler lives.
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