When his brother vanishes without a trace, American Robert Stone goes to his last known location: a remote English village. Robert's investigation leads him to the mansion of Jonathan Lanceford, a man obsessed with the Gothic works of Edgar Allan Poe, and his beautiful and enigmatic niece Dominie.
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00:00:30Let me out.
00:00:32Let me out!
00:00:35No!
00:00:36No!
00:00:38Let me out!
00:00:40Please!
00:00:41Let me out!
00:00:42Let me out!
00:01:01Please help.
00:01:07Please help.
00:01:09Awh, hell.
00:01:21Beautiful Village.
00:01:22The kind of English Shangri-La a man could get lost in, forever.
00:01:26I got a room at The Village Inn, The Columbine.
00:01:28There's a sign over the inn, a painting of a girl dressed as a columbine.
00:01:33Her face is haunting.
00:01:35It's obviously a very old painting.
00:01:38I wonder who she was.
00:01:40By the way, the inn serves the best bitter beer I've tasted in this country.
00:01:59MUSIC PLAYS
00:02:24Thank you, Charlie.
00:02:27Good morning, sir. What can I get you?
00:02:29I'd like a room, if you've got one.
00:02:31Oh, I think we might manage that.
00:02:33How long would you be wanting it for, sir?
00:02:35Oh, a few days, I imagine.
00:02:37Righty-o.
00:02:38Jenny!
00:02:40Show this gentleman up to number three, will you, please?
00:02:43Oh, right. This way, sir.
00:02:47Um...
00:02:51MUSIC PLAYS
00:02:56DOOR SLAMS SHUT
00:03:16I'll bring the money back with me, sir.
00:03:18Yeah, that's all right.
00:03:20Oh, yeah.
00:03:22Oh, everything all right, sir?
00:03:24Yes, fine, thank you.
00:03:26Anything I can get you, sir?
00:03:28Uh, yes, I'd like a glass of your bitter beer.
00:03:31Certainly. Would you like a half pint or a pint, sir?
00:03:34Oh, a pint, I think.
00:03:36My grandfather always told me never do anything good by halves.
00:03:39Oh-ho-ho! So you've heard all about our beer, have you?
00:03:43No, it's just that I'm an optimist.
00:03:45Aye, Jack's pints are a bit optimistic, too.
00:03:47Just you wait till the flasker, not on that one, and see how much you've got left.
00:03:51I'll put less froth on my beer when you put more cream in your milk, Milgurney.
00:03:56Ah, he's got you there, Milgurney.
00:03:58Tell you the truth, gentlemen, I like the froth.
00:04:02So do we. Would never do it to let old Jack Woodbridge know that.
00:04:05American, are you?
00:04:07Yes, Robert McKay. Mind if I sit down?
00:04:09Make yourself at home.
00:04:12Ah!
00:04:14Not there, though, if you pardon us. That's old Fred's chair.
00:04:17Fred?
00:04:19Old landy man, rat-catcher, Jack of all tribes.
00:04:22Pretty fair poucher, too. Downside nothing about that.
00:04:25If he found anyone sitting in his chair, he'd think the end of the world had come.
00:04:28He did find someone of mine a few months back.
00:04:30Another American gentleman, like yourself.
00:04:32Well, old Fred, he nearly started the Battle of Bunkers Hill all over again.
00:04:37An American, you said? That's right.
00:04:39Jim Stowe. Came from Chicago. Very fond of him, we were.
00:04:43Someone else was very fond of him, too.
00:04:45Can I get you another, sir?
00:04:47No, I'm fine, thank you. Who's that?
00:04:49Miss Dominie, up at the manor.
00:04:51Dominie Lansford, Jonathan Lansford's niece.
00:04:54You can just see the manor from here.
00:04:56The family goes back centuries.
00:04:59Mr. Jonathan owns everything round here, as far as the icons say.
00:05:03Far as the icons say. Genuine English squire, huh?
00:05:06Well, not exactly.
00:05:08But I tell you this, he behaves more like one than if he was one.
00:05:12What do you mean?
00:05:13Well, as you can see, Lansford family's got roots here and Bavaria.
00:05:18Lots of intermarrying, combining fortunes.
00:05:21So you get half and half.
00:05:23And when Miss Dominie's father died, and her father was here...
00:05:26He gets the other half, the German half. Not English at all.
00:05:30Jonathan Lansford.
00:05:31Ah, it used to be Johan, but he changed it to Jonathan.
00:05:34That's right, he's a foreigner.
00:05:36Yes, but he's nice enough chap mind just the same.
00:05:38He's always been very good to us, isn't he?
00:05:40This other American, Jim...
00:05:42Stone.
00:05:43Stone. Did he stay up at the house?
00:05:45Oh, no.
00:05:46But he might as well have done. He was up there that afternoon.
00:05:49There was a time when we all thought Jim Stone would be settling down here.
00:05:53Either that, or she'd be off to America with him right now.
00:05:56Right now.
00:05:57What happened?
00:05:58Come along now. Time, gentlemen, please.
00:06:00Let's have your glasses, and we shall have the law down on us.
00:06:03Get away. We've time for another.
00:06:05You certainly have not. I've got my license to think about.
00:06:08Sir, I wonder if you'd mind signing the register while you're about it.
00:06:14Oh, nice to talk to you.
00:06:16Nice to talk to you too, sir.
00:06:18What was all that about? Since when did you keep licensing ours?
00:06:22You know perfectly well that Mr. Lansford does not like his private affairs discussed with strangers.
00:07:09I'm beginning to regret the time I spent vacationing in the rest of Europe,
00:07:13when all the time, Dominie was here, kind of waiting for me,
00:07:19the face of her ancestor looking down from the inside.
00:07:23I can't bear to think that I might not have come here,
00:07:27never have met her.
00:07:29Strange.
00:07:31Strange.
00:07:33I might not have come here, never have met her.
00:07:37Strange, isn't it?
00:07:39The ways we meet our fate.
00:07:41And this is my fate.
00:07:43I... I feel it.
00:07:46That's the end of this tape.
00:07:48I'm sending it to you by the afternoon mail.
00:08:23I should say it does work.
00:08:26Well, my old uncle was using it until the day he died last year.
00:08:31You know, with his powder flask and a few rounds of ball shot,
00:08:35well, he could pick the legs off a fly.
00:08:38You ask old Fred there.
00:08:41Fred?
00:08:43Fred with the chair?
00:08:45The very same, sir.
00:08:51Hey, tell me, one of my countrymen nearly started a war in here.
00:08:55Oh, how's that, sir?
00:08:57When he sat in your chair.
00:08:59Oh, that? Oh, yes, yes.
00:09:02Yes, indeed, but he did make up for it, though.
00:09:06Oh, let me get you a beer.
00:09:08Oh, that's very kind of you, sir. Thank you.
00:09:16Now, that's better.
00:09:18That is much better.
00:09:20Isn't it? Isn't it, Sally, me old girl?
00:09:24I caught her in one of my traps once.
00:09:27And look how she looked at me, so old-fashioned,
00:09:30I did not have the heart to kill her.
00:09:33Go on then, home. There's a girl.
00:09:35Now, then, what was that you were saying, sir, about your American friend?
00:09:40Oh, he wasn't a friend. I didn't know him.
00:09:42But they tell me he was very popular.
00:09:44He was, Fred.
00:09:45Oh, popular he was.
00:09:46I don't remember any other stranger who was ever invaded so often up to the manor.
00:09:50Fred!
00:09:52Are you on business in these parts, are you?
00:09:55No, I'm a painter, sort of.
00:09:58I'd love to see the inside of that house.
00:10:00You can have another one.
00:10:02No, no, I'm afraid you will never manage that, sir.
00:10:08Why not?
00:10:09Oh.
00:10:12Oh, put that on my bill, please.
00:10:14Yes, sir.
00:10:16Why not?
00:10:18Because you won't be invaded.
00:10:21That's why.
00:10:24Ah, Mr. Lansford was close enough before,
00:10:26but he's been washing ever since the American went.
00:10:29And yet, nowadays you don't see nobody.
00:10:33No more does Miss Dominie.
00:10:35Yet it used to be such a fine old household,
00:10:37always full of people and parties.
00:10:40Why did it change?
00:10:42Nobody knows.
00:10:44It seems, in a way, as if a great can of sorrow fell in that house
00:10:48when Mr. Lansford became responsible for Miss Dominie.
00:10:51That was after her parents died.
00:10:53This Mr...
00:10:55Lansford.
00:10:56Lansford.
00:10:57What's he like?
00:10:59Oh, he's a scholar and a gentleman.
00:11:03He owns a family bank in the city,
00:11:06but he spends most of his time on the estate.
00:11:09Just runs it like it were a business.
00:11:12Is he married?
00:11:14Divorced.
00:11:16Yeah, he's got plenty of money, has Mr. Jonathan.
00:11:20But he don't have much luck.
00:11:23Even his blessed rats are bigger and stronger than anyone else's.
00:11:29His rats?
00:11:31Oh, I'll put that one on your bill as well, sir.
00:11:35Oh, thank you, sir.
00:11:38Yes, well, you see, sir,
00:11:41I am, by way of being unofficial, rat catcher in these parts.
00:11:47Well, it be about six months ago,
00:11:49they asked me to come up the manor and set some chain traps in the cellar.
00:11:52I did, and they worked too,
00:11:54cos Miss Dominie told me that the rats had all been disposed of,
00:11:57and she said I wouldn't be wanted no more.
00:12:01So?
00:12:02Well, on, um,
00:12:05one of my little moonlight walks
00:12:09about two months ago,
00:12:11I heard them chains still rattling.
00:12:15Well, it was, uh,
00:12:17they'd reset the trap and it was a new rat.
00:12:21Don't you think?
00:12:23Evening, Fred.
00:12:25Evening, Ben.
00:12:27If you don't mind, I'll just say goodnight to you then, sir.
00:12:31Finish your beer.
00:12:32No, no, no, thank you very kindly, sir.
00:12:34I'll just be saying good evening to you, sir.
00:12:46Who's that?
00:12:48That's Ben Crew.
00:12:50Been with Mr Jonathan for years.
00:12:52He's Mr Jonathan's gamekeeper.
00:12:55And old Frat's the local poacher.
00:12:57Ha, ha, ha.
00:12:59I see.
00:13:15Ha, ha, ha.
00:13:45Ha, ha, ha.
00:13:47Ha, ha, ha.
00:14:02KNOCK AT DOOR
00:14:12Uh, my arm.
00:14:14Uh, some barbed wire.
00:14:16I wondered if I could...
00:14:17I'm sorry, there's nobody here who can help you.
00:14:20But my arm, it's...
00:14:21You better go to the doctor in the village.
00:14:23What is it, Miss Fathersham?
00:14:25It's just a stranger, Miss Dominey.
00:14:27It's nothing for you to worry about.
00:14:31It's all right.
00:14:33Sorry to have bothered you.
00:14:40Heavens, that looks alarming.
00:14:42You'd better sit down.
00:14:44Miss Fathersham, some water and antiseptic and a bandage.
00:14:52How did it happen?
00:14:54I got careless with some barbed wire.
00:14:58On the stairs just now,
00:15:00you looked at me as though you knew me.
00:15:04How could I?
00:15:07Uh, be thankful it wasn't your painting arm.
00:15:11You'd make a good nurse.
00:15:13I used to think I'd like to be a surgeon.
00:15:16Strange, isn't it,
00:15:18how few women surgeons there are?
00:15:22Yes.
00:15:26What a fantastic atmosphere.
00:15:29The tone of the whole thing.
00:15:31It's like a dream.
00:15:34The tone of the whole thing?
00:15:39I mean the color tone.
00:15:42It's the painter talking.
00:15:46Could I use it?
00:15:48What?
00:15:49This room.
00:15:51It would make a great background for a painting.
00:15:55From here.
00:15:58No.
00:16:00From, uh...
00:16:03From here, yes.
00:16:05Yes, you get the full depth,
00:16:07fading away to mysterious shadows,
00:16:10and you,
00:16:12there in the foreground.
00:16:15You would have to be the centerpiece, of course.
00:16:18The room is beautiful, but it's nothing without you.
00:16:23I'll make it, uh, noon,
00:16:26with the sun streaming in,
00:16:28yes, catching your hair,
00:16:30standing just like that.
00:16:34Maybe with a book in your hand,
00:16:37sort of brooding,
00:16:39enigmatic.
00:16:42They're Jonathan's.
00:16:44First editions, mostly, and all Edgar Allan Poe.
00:16:49Jonathan says he's still an underestimated writer.
00:16:52What do you think?
00:16:54I never read him.
00:16:56What, not even The Pit and the Pendulum?
00:16:58I don't get much time for reading,
00:17:00any reading at all.
00:17:02Someone should take your education in hand.
00:17:06Maybe you could read them to me,
00:17:08in the cellars.
00:17:12For atmosphere.
00:17:14No.
00:17:16Jonathan wouldn't allow that.
00:17:19But you can come and paint if you like.
00:17:22I'm sure Jonathan couldn't object to that.
00:17:26Tomorrow, then?
00:17:29Tomorrow.
00:17:31I look forward to it.
00:17:37You shouldn't, you know.
00:17:40Overdo it.
00:17:43Mr. Jonathan wouldn't like that.
00:17:45Chat with a passing stranger.
00:17:47What's the harm in that?
00:17:49Oh, it's disturbing you.
00:17:51Overexciting you.
00:17:54Oh, look at you, Miss Dominey.
00:17:56Your cheeks are all flushed.
00:17:58Bit of colour back in them. That must be good.
00:18:00Well, all the same, Miss Dominey, I don't...
00:18:02You fuss too much.
00:18:04I care for you, Miss Dominey.
00:18:07I look after you.
00:18:17What was he doing here?
00:18:19He hurt himself.
00:18:20Did she see him?
00:18:22It's all right. I was here most of the time.
00:18:24Yeah.
00:18:26Well, there'll be trouble when Mr. Jonathan hears about it.
00:18:28I promise you.
00:18:32He's coming again.
00:18:34Tomorrow.
00:18:36Oh, no.
00:18:38Not if Mr. Jonathan has anything to do with it, he won't.
00:18:40Oh, he'll come.
00:18:42Mr. Jonathan don't cross around a thing like that.
00:18:44Huh?
00:18:56Can I see?
00:18:58No.
00:19:00Just stand there. Relax.
00:19:02Talk if you want to.
00:19:04What about?
00:19:06Oh, I don't know.
00:19:08What do girls usually talk about?
00:19:11Boyfriends?
00:19:13Don't be boring.
00:19:15Can you get any of the books in?
00:19:18What's boring about boyfriends?
00:19:20Let me see.
00:19:22No.
00:19:24I insist on seeing.
00:19:26It doesn't look like anything yet.
00:19:28It never will look like anything.
00:19:30You don't know the first thing about it.
00:19:34What on earth are you playing at?
00:19:36Why did you say you were an artist in the first place?
00:19:38I needed to get into this house.
00:19:40Talk to you.
00:19:42For heaven's sake, why?
00:19:44Why didn't you just come and call?
00:19:46Would I have gotten in?
00:19:48No, I suppose not.
00:19:50Jonathan's very protective.
00:19:52What was it he wants to talk about?
00:19:56Jim Stone.
00:19:58I don't know what you're talking about.
00:20:00I think you do.
00:20:02I'm a detective.
00:20:04Jim Stone disappeared.
00:20:07I think you better leave.
00:20:09It's not a very pleasant thing to do,
00:20:11tricking your way into a private house.
00:20:13I've never heard of him.
00:20:20I've found my Snow White.
00:20:22Her name is Dominie Lansford.
00:20:24Wow.
00:20:30She lives at the big house.
00:20:32She's like everything else around here.
00:20:34Stop it.
00:20:36Shut it off.
00:20:38I never want to hear his voice again.
00:20:40Who are you?
00:20:42What do you really want?
00:20:44I told you.
00:20:46I'm a detective,
00:20:48but my name's not McCabe.
00:20:50It's Stone.
00:20:52Same as my brother.
00:20:54Jim Stone is your brother?
00:20:56That's what stopped you yesterday,
00:20:58the likeness.
00:21:00Jim and I work together, our own business.
00:21:02He was taking a sabbatical holiday over here,
00:21:04but he always kept in touch with me,
00:21:06let me know where he was.
00:21:08After he reached this village,
00:21:10the messages stopped.
00:21:12That was two months ago,
00:21:14and Jim didn't come home.
00:21:18You do know him, don't you?
00:21:22Yes.
00:21:24Why did you say you never wanted to hear his voice again?
00:21:28Why?
00:21:32Would you say I was pretty, Mr. Stone?
00:21:34Attractive?
00:21:36Yes, I would.
00:21:40I'm 22,
00:21:42almost 23.
00:21:44Since I grew up,
00:21:46I've had three serious boyfriends.
00:21:48I mean,
00:21:50ones I really cared about.
00:21:52I couldn't hold any of them.
00:21:54How do you mean,
00:21:56hold?
00:21:58They all walked out on me,
00:22:00walked out of my life,
00:22:02disappeared.
00:22:04Have you any idea what effect
00:22:06that has on one?
00:22:08Kids are funny like that.
00:22:10Jim Stone wasn't a kid.
00:22:14I thought he was the one.
00:22:16I really did.
00:22:20He was strong.
00:22:22He loved me.
00:22:24He really loved me.
00:22:26Or so I thought.
00:22:28I certainly loved him.
00:22:32I swore I'd hold on to him,
00:22:34even if I had to.
00:22:36Even if you had to what?
00:22:40What is all this?
00:22:42A room terribly under attack
00:22:44by an artist.
00:22:48You know, if I wanted a painting
00:22:50of my niece,
00:22:52I'm quite capable
00:22:54of commissioning one myself.
00:22:58Who are you?
00:23:00What on earth do you want here?
00:23:02He's a detective, Jonathan.
00:23:04He's looking for James Stone.
00:23:06What do you mean, looking for him?
00:23:08He's back in America, isn't he?
00:23:10No, Mr. Lancer, he isn't.
00:23:12He was last heard of in this village.
00:23:14That was two months ago.
00:23:16Since then, nothing.
00:23:18Miss Dominey tells me
00:23:20that he walked out of here
00:23:22suddenly for no reason.
00:23:24I didn't say for no reason.
00:23:26Yes, there was.
00:23:28What was the call about?
00:23:30I don't know.
00:23:32One thing we do know.
00:23:34It was evidently about something
00:23:36more important than me.
00:23:44Mr. Lanceford,
00:23:46I'm not only a detective,
00:23:48I'm Jim Stone's brother.
00:23:52There was no phone call from the States.
00:23:54I know.
00:23:56But she just said that there was.
00:23:58To have someone walk out on you
00:24:00for no reason is one thing, Mr. Stone.
00:24:02To have him do it
00:24:04after a possibly traumatic telephone call
00:24:06is quite another.
00:24:08At least I should imagine
00:24:10it helps a little.
00:24:12You mean she was lying?
00:24:14You are men of plain judgments, aren't you?
00:24:16No.
00:24:18Quite conceivably, Dominey believes it by now.
00:24:20I think people know
00:24:22when they're lying, don't you?
00:24:24Not always, Mr. Stone.
00:24:26Not when the lie
00:24:28eases the pain of loss.
00:24:30To quote your own poet,
00:24:34Edgar Allan Poe,
00:24:36a great loss
00:24:40brings an iciness,
00:24:42a sinking,
00:24:44a sickening of the heart.
00:24:48To relieve it with a lie
00:24:50is a terrible offense.
00:24:52Do you read Poe, Mr. Stone?
00:24:54No, I don't.
00:24:56It's a most subtle mind.
00:24:58He stayed here once, you know, as a child.
00:25:02I like to think that this house
00:25:04might have given him the ideas
00:25:06for some of his finer stories.
00:25:08The fall of the house of Usher, for instance.
00:25:10No doubt he was told
00:25:12that the foundations of this house
00:25:14have been unstable for centuries.
00:25:16I feel quite sure
00:25:18that he planted the germ
00:25:20of the much more perilously crumbling
00:25:22house of Usher.
00:25:26He's the poet of pain, you know.
00:25:28No, I didn't know.
00:25:32I don't mean he celebrated it.
00:25:34He understood its sorrow.
00:25:36He could forgive anything
00:25:38that people might do to avoid it.
00:25:42Yes, he knew all about
00:25:44the sufferings of the ultra-sensitive.
00:25:48De Béranger has written
00:25:50a preface to Usher.
00:25:52I'll translate it for you.
00:25:54His heart was like
00:25:56a hanging lute.
00:25:58The gentlest touch
00:26:00and it quivered.
00:26:02Reading him can be
00:26:04quite a therapy.
00:26:06I recommended it to Dominique,
00:26:08but instead of soothing the agitation
00:26:10it seemed to increase it.
00:26:12Mr. Lansford, exactly when did my brother
00:26:14leave this village?
00:26:16I...
00:26:18had to go out to London
00:26:20on business for a few days.
00:26:22When I came back
00:26:24he'd gone.
00:26:26What you were saying two nights ago
00:26:28about rats at the manor.
00:26:30Aye, we know all about that.
00:26:32Don't we, Sally,
00:26:34my old girl?
00:26:36We know all...
00:26:38Why, what did I say about them?
00:26:40About one of them still
00:26:42rattling in its chain trap.
00:26:44Did I say that?
00:26:46Yes, you did.
00:26:48Ah.
00:26:50Well, if you was to ask
00:26:52me
00:26:54that might have been
00:26:56no rat.
00:26:58What do you mean?
00:27:00The noise it was making.
00:27:02You said it was just
00:27:04the rattling of the trap.
00:27:06I never did.
00:27:08I never
00:27:10said that it was
00:27:12just
00:27:14a rattling.
00:27:16What else then?
00:27:18There were
00:27:20groans.
00:27:22Weren't there,
00:27:24Sally?
00:27:26Groans.
00:27:28You mean human groans?
00:27:32Well, I certainly do not
00:27:34mean there were rats groans.
00:27:36Do I?
00:27:38Rats groans.
00:27:40What do you think was making them?
00:27:42I don't know. That would be
00:27:44telling.
00:27:46But it's a funny old house,
00:27:48that, no mistake.
00:27:50Did you, did you
00:27:52know that that house
00:27:54it is haunted?
00:27:56Yes, sir.
00:27:58Did I
00:28:00ever tell you
00:28:02that
00:28:04that manor
00:28:06was haunted?
00:28:09You never did.
00:28:14Well, I
00:28:16and that's not a point.
00:28:18What?
00:28:20And that is not
00:28:22the only thing
00:28:24that I
00:28:26could tell you
00:28:28about
00:28:30that house.
00:28:32Looks like you'll be needing
00:28:34that little old rat of his to take him
00:28:36home tonight.
00:28:38He keeps talking about
00:28:40noises from the cellar
00:28:42of the manor house. Groans
00:28:44or something like that.
00:28:46Everybody knows about that.
00:28:48Well, it's the Foundations.
00:28:50They're not safe. They haven't been
00:28:52for years.
00:28:54You know, they keep settling, resettling,
00:28:56complaining like.
00:28:58I see.
00:29:02Come along
00:29:04time gentlemen, please.
00:29:06Come on, Freight. Let's be having
00:29:08those glasses. Come on, Freight. Come on.
00:29:10Come along, time
00:29:12gentlemen, please. Let's be having your glasses,
00:29:14please. Well, I
00:29:16did. I
00:29:18heard groans.
00:29:20I've now
00:29:22met Jonathan Lansford,
00:29:24Dominie's guardian. He seems
00:29:26to be trying to tell me something about
00:29:28Dominie, trying to warn me
00:29:30in some way, but
00:29:32I'm not sure about what.
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00:31:24There's no one there.
00:31:26You're imagining things.
00:31:56It's probably a fox. I set the dogs on it.
00:32:11Tear it to pieces.
00:32:57The rabbits are doing a fierce amount of damage to me this year.
00:33:01It's not the rabbits I'm interested in. It's the foxes.
00:33:04We nearly caught one last night, you know, but it got away.
00:33:07Got a sore foot today, I shouldn't wonder.
00:33:10Still, we're keeping the dogs out all night from now on, and I'll be carrying a gun myself.
00:33:17How do you tackle foxes in America, Mr. Stone?
00:33:21Oh, it's not as easy though, Mr. Whitten.
00:33:25Our foxes shoot back.
00:33:36I must speak to you.
00:33:42You'd better go to my room.
00:33:44What was it you wanted to talk to me about?
00:33:54You must leave. Go away today.
00:33:58Any particular reason?
00:34:00I think I... I think I might get fond of you.
00:34:05That sounds like a good reason for staying.
00:34:10Please, I mustn't... I mustn't want you.
00:34:17It's for your own sake.
00:34:19You're mad bad and dangerous to know, is that it?
00:34:23Don't joke. I've decided I must never want anyone again.
00:34:28It's the only way.
00:34:30The only way to what?
00:34:33Dominie, you're not making sense.
00:34:35Just go, that's all.
00:34:37I'll go when I find out what happened to my brother.
00:34:40I very like your brother.
00:34:42I got quite a jolt when I saw you.
00:34:45I got a jolt when I saw you.
00:34:59Dominie, I've been looking all over for you.
00:35:02If I hadn't seen your horse outside, I would...
00:35:04You've forgotten, haven't you? We're lunching with the Rydells.
00:35:08No, Jonathan, I hadn't forgotten. I'll go back and get changed.
00:35:11Fine.
00:35:12Goodbye, Mr. Stone.
00:35:13Goodbye.
00:35:16What did she come to see you about?
00:35:18That's none of your business.
00:35:19Oh, please.
00:35:21She told me to go away.
00:35:24She said that?
00:35:27The sooner the better, she said.
00:35:30Then I should do as she says.
00:35:35What do you know about man traps, Mr. Lansford?
00:35:39What kind did you have in mind, Mr. Stone?
00:35:44Cheers, then.
00:35:50Fred's late, isn't he?
00:35:52Yes. Yes, he is.
00:35:55Still, the lighter he is, the less it'll cost you in drinks.
00:36:00Well, sir, I was looking forward to another of his tall stories.
00:36:05Yes, well, is there anything I can get you, sir?
00:36:07Oh, yes, of course.
00:36:09Right.
00:36:11Final bidder, Jack.
00:36:12Yes, Mr. Bloom.
00:36:15Evening, pal.
00:36:16Evening.
00:36:20What?
00:36:26You won't tell him?
00:36:28Eh?
00:36:29Will you?
00:36:30Eh?
00:36:34Where does Fred live?
00:36:35Fred?
00:36:36Yes.
00:36:37Well, just down the village by the pond.
00:36:38Sir, you've left your drink.
00:37:29He was a rascal.
00:37:39He was a proper rascal.
00:37:41But you're going to miss him.
00:37:43Yes.
00:37:44Well, you couldn't help liking the old fella, really.
00:37:46If he hadn't had that one drink too many...
00:37:48I knew he'd end up in that pond one day.
00:37:51He's going to be missed, this old Fred.
00:37:54He's the best rat catcher this old village ever had.
00:38:00Rats.
00:38:23Hmph.
00:38:45Dry.
00:38:48It's never been on the water, has it?
00:38:50Sir, Fred always kept him in his pocket.
00:38:52Always.
00:38:54That's another thing I thought.
00:38:56Anyway, the police should be interested.
00:39:00Don't you think?
00:39:03Use your phone.
00:39:04Yeah.
00:40:04Get that inside you.
00:40:18You know, that was as pretty a piece of driving as I've ever seen.
00:40:22I enjoyed it.
00:40:24You enjoyed it?
00:40:26What the devil were you trying to do?
00:40:28Invite you to a party.
00:40:30What?
00:40:31I called on you here.
00:40:32Heard you'd driven off.
00:40:33Thought I'd catch you off.
00:40:35Then you turned it into a most enjoyable race.
00:40:38Well, I suppose it was my fault, really.
00:40:40A race or any kind of challenge, I can never resist it.
00:40:45Yesterday you were asking me to clear off.
00:40:48Today you're inviting me to a party.
00:40:49Ah, correction.
00:40:50Yesterday Dominique was telling you to go.
00:40:52Today I am asking you to a party.
00:40:55Oh, I do like company.
00:40:57Occasionally.
00:40:58And occasionally you give sudden, impromptu parties.
00:41:01Well, they're always the best, don't you think?
00:41:04And this one promises to be particularly fun.
00:41:07It's fancy dress.
00:41:09And the theme?
00:41:10You guess.
00:41:12Edgar Allan Poe.
00:41:13I don't know anything about him.
00:41:14I told you.
00:41:15Oh.
00:41:16Then come as anything you like.
00:41:19Or you will come, won't you?
00:41:22I'll think about it.
00:41:25Oh.
00:41:28There was a package on the front seat of my car.
00:41:30Is it still there?
00:41:31Oh, I'm afraid the dog ran off with it.
00:41:34I'm sorry.
00:41:35Was it important?
00:41:37Not anymore.
00:41:38Oh, good.
00:41:39I'll see you tonight, then.
00:41:41Nine for 9.30.
00:41:43Or perhaps you could come as one of your wild American heroes.
00:41:46What about that?
00:41:49Bye.
00:41:54Bye.
00:42:10Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier.
00:42:13You got it in one.
00:42:14Now I know why you wanted to borrow that old hat.
00:42:17But there's something missing now, sir.
00:42:19Just come here a minute.
00:42:21Why don't you try that, sir?
00:42:24And try the old gun, too.
00:42:26There.
00:42:27Ah.
00:42:30Well, how do I look?
00:42:33If I was in Apache, sir, I'd run a mile.
00:42:36Hope you have a good time, sir.
00:42:39Columbine Inn.
00:42:40Yes, he's here.
00:42:42It's for you, sir.
00:42:43It's Miss Dominique.
00:42:46Hello?
00:42:48You mustn't come tonight.
00:42:50Why not?
00:42:52I mustn't see you again, ever.
00:43:15Good evening, Mr. Stone.
00:43:45And welcome to the world of Edgar Allan Poe.
00:43:51Much of madness, more of sin, and horror at the soul of his life.
00:43:55I'm afraid Edgar Allan Poe always puts it so much better than anyone else.
00:43:59And you bring a breath of transatlantic fresh air to our revels.
00:44:03The frontiersman, hm?
00:44:05Most appropriate.
00:44:06And what are you supposed to be?
00:44:08Oh, I am Hopfrock.
00:44:10Hopfrock.
00:44:11Oh, sorry, I'd forgotten you're not an aficionado.
00:44:14Hopfrock was the court jester who hoisted the king and his courtiers in an iron net and burned them alive.
00:44:20Ah, here we are.
00:44:24For you.
00:44:28Guess my other guests, I fear, have displayed a most regrettable lack of imagination.
00:44:35They have all decided to come as the mask of the Red Death.
00:44:40Poe's Allegory of the Plague, you remember?
00:44:42Oh, sorry.
00:44:43Oh, sorry, you don't remember.
00:44:45Yes, the plague that invaded finally even the sealed and aesthetic world of Prince Prospero.
00:44:51I suppose if Poe were writing today, he would have substituted television, hm?
00:44:57Or a detective.
00:45:01Yes, or something.
00:45:04Maybe he wouldn't have written it at all today.
00:45:06You can't seal yourself off anymore.
00:45:14Some of my guests you already know, others you don't.
00:45:17Evening, Mr. Stone.
00:45:19Oh, hello.
00:45:21This is the time of masks, you see.
00:45:23They lend mystery to the most prosaic of personalities.
00:45:27Your own, Mr. Stone.
00:45:30That's a rather ineffective disguise in your case, I'm afraid.
00:45:33And that costume?
00:45:35Well, you're quite distinctive.
00:45:37When was the last time you threw one of these parties?
00:45:39Ease your mask, Mr. Stone.
00:45:41I said, when was the last time?
00:45:43Oh, I throw them from time to time when the world gets particularly boring or intrusive.
00:45:51But let's go.
00:45:55Yes, in here you have that miraculous world of the fear that vanishes here.
00:46:02The pit and the pendulum.
00:46:07And the cat.
00:46:11The murderer is in the remorse.
00:46:13A little disappointing, that one, I always thought.
00:46:16An animal can have no conscience.
00:46:18Without conscience, murder is quite flavourless.
00:46:21You're speaking from theory, I take it.
00:46:27And I'm really very sorry we didn't get acquainted sooner.
00:46:31We make an amusing companion.
00:46:33Where's Dominey?
00:46:35Oh, you disappoint me.
00:46:36Now it was understood that lovers could detect each other even through a lead casket.
00:46:40Who said we were lovers?
00:46:42You can't help it with Dominey.
00:46:44Dominey?
00:46:46Dominey!
00:46:50Hello, Mr. Stone.
00:46:52I thought you were Dominey.
00:46:57You enjoying the party, Mr. Stone?
00:46:59Yes, thank you.
00:47:12I told you not to come.
00:47:14The last message I got from my brother was that he was coming to a party at this house.
00:47:20Dominey, the other men who walked out on you, did they do it after a party too?
00:47:25No.
00:47:32We come now, ladies and gentlemen, to the facts in the case of Monsieur Valdemar,
00:47:38who you will all remember was the man whose mind was kept alive by a hypnotist
00:47:43for seven months after his body had died.
00:47:47Monsieur Valdemar, can you explain to us what are your feelings or wishes?
00:47:53For God's sake, put me to sleep or wake me up.
00:47:58Put me to sleep or wake me up.
00:48:02I tell you that I am dead.
00:48:07The hypnotist, you may remember, then made the requisite mesmeric passes
00:48:11to release Monsieur Valdemar from his trance.
00:48:15For what occurred then, however, as Mr. Poe says,
00:48:19it is quite impossible that any human being could have been prepared.
00:48:28Dominey?
00:48:59Help me.
00:49:10Help me.
00:49:29Dominey!
00:49:32We come now to our second tableau, Mr. Stone, before a far smaller audience.
00:49:37Where's Dominey?
00:49:38The title of our second tableau is The Cask of Amontillado,
00:49:42which you have never read either, which is a great pity for you.
00:49:46Your story is boring, Mr. Lange.
00:49:48It's a pity because if you had read it,
00:49:50you would never have allowed yourself to be lured down to the cellars.
00:49:52Nobody lured me.
00:49:53In the story, Fortunato was lured down by its enemy
00:49:55by a request to sample a fine sherry.
00:49:57I don't drink sherry.
00:49:58Naturally, the lure for you was different.
00:50:01You thought Dominey would help you solve the mystery of your brother.
00:50:05I can't quite tell it the way Poe does, of course.
00:50:08But in the story, The Cask of Amontillado,
00:50:11it begins with Fortunato's enemy getting him drunk.
00:50:15There are two big differences.
00:50:16I'm not Fortunato and I'm not drunk.
00:50:18No, you're not.
00:50:19There are two big differences.
00:50:20I'm not Fortunato and I'm not drunk.
00:50:22No, you're not drunk, Mr. Stone.
00:50:25You're drunk with a refinement of my own.
00:50:30That second glass of champagne.
00:50:50Help me with him.
00:50:52And tell Kroon to get ready.
00:51:20I'm sorry, Miss Dominey.
00:51:22The champagne's run out.
00:51:24I'd have fetched some more, but the cellar door seems to be locked.
00:51:27I'll get you the key.
00:51:49Ah, that's not true. I don't believe a word that you say.
00:51:52Can you see that? Can you see that?
00:51:54Hey, what was that you said about the Dark Lord?
00:51:56You said something about the Dark Lord.
00:52:20In the story, Fortunato pleaded.
00:52:25The chain is measured to perfection.
00:52:28It won't work.
00:52:30Too many people know I'm here.
00:52:32I can't do it.
00:52:34I can't do it.
00:52:36I can't do it.
00:52:38I can't do it.
00:52:40I can't do it.
00:52:42I can't do it.
00:52:44I can't do it.
00:52:45I can't do it.
00:52:47I can't do it.
00:52:50When Kroon puts on your hijacker, the mask,
00:52:53a great many people will see you leave, Mr. Stone.
00:52:57Or did I forget to tell you?
00:52:59To thaw the ends with the victim being raped in.
00:53:02Walled up.
00:53:04Alive.
00:53:05That's how it was done with my brother, was it?
00:53:10There's nothing I've ever prized in my life that isn't finally been taken away from me.
00:53:14A wife.
00:53:17My lovely children.
00:53:19My brother, my exquisite sister.
00:53:24Dominion is a price I can't ever let anyone take away.
00:53:31Cruman and Favishen won't keep their mouths shut forever.
00:53:36I do this to protect myself and my possessions.
00:53:38Cruman and Favishen do it for money.
00:53:42Oh, the candle, by the way.
00:53:46The sun of their assignments.
00:53:49It can either have the light or the air.
00:53:53When it's lit, it's burning up precious oxygen.
00:53:56Put it out, and you're the dark.
00:54:00That much sooner.
00:54:06Goodbye, Mr. Stark.
00:54:11Farewell.
00:54:13Ow!
00:54:16Miss Dominion's bringing the key.
00:54:18Are you sure the door's locked?
00:54:20Well, I thought it was, miss.
00:54:30Ah, just what I was coming for, sir.
00:54:32Your first owed.
00:54:34Spread the good cheer, Woodbridge.
00:54:36This is a celebration.
00:54:38Thank you, sir.
00:54:40What do we ever celebrate, Dominion?
00:54:42I was looking for Robin Stone.
00:54:44He must be around somewhere.
00:55:12Help!
00:55:38Help!
00:55:42Help!
00:55:47Now, the prisoner had managed
00:55:49to smear his bonds with his food.
00:55:51And while the axe swung low and low,
00:55:53the rats in his cell were gnawing away at the robes.
00:55:57He got free in the nick of time.
00:55:59But if his bonds had been of steel...
00:56:05Have you seen Robin Stone?
00:56:07Mr. Stone? Yes.
00:56:09I saw him leave a little while back.
00:56:12There's no mistaking that outfit of his.
00:56:14Where was I?
00:56:16I just believe you was fiddling about in that desk over there.
00:56:41Oh, my God.
00:57:11Fuck.
00:57:41Fuck.
00:58:11Fuck.
00:58:41Fuck.
00:59:11Fuck.
00:59:42Fuck.
00:59:58You know, it's a curiosity.
01:00:00And a distinct feeling.
01:00:02I'd underestimated you.
01:00:12He moves a little to the left, I see.
01:00:14That means a slight correction to the right.
01:00:42Fuck.
01:00:52Look out!
01:00:58Oh!
01:01:00Oh!
01:01:02Oh!
01:01:04Oh!
01:01:06Oh!
01:01:12Oh!
01:01:14Oh!
01:01:16Oh!
01:01:18Oh!
01:01:20Oh!
01:01:32Oh, my God.
01:01:34Jesus.
01:01:36Help him!
01:01:38Help him!
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