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Not Rated | 1h | Drama, Family, Fantasy | Episode aired 11 December 1960
Original Title: "Shirley Temple's Storybook" The House of the Seven Gables
See this adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's supernatural, romantic tale of a New England family and their life in the House of the Seven Gables, a two-hundred-year-old dwelling haunted by the ghosts of past generations.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Irving Gaynor Neiman
Stars: Shirley Temple, Robert Culp and Agnes Moorehead
Original Title: "Shirley Temple's Storybook" The House of the Seven Gables
See this adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's supernatural, romantic tale of a New England family and their life in the House of the Seven Gables, a two-hundred-year-old dwelling haunted by the ghosts of past generations.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Irving Gaynor Neiman
Stars: Shirley Temple, Robert Culp and Agnes Moorehead
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00:00Hello, here we are again on Color Stage 2 at NBC in California, an ordinary stage with
00:21lights and booms and cameras, but a magic stage too, for in a moment, with the wave
00:27of the hand, we'll change this empty room into a haunted place, a place of whistling
00:33winds and whispering memories, an old and awesome place that thrills the heart and threatens.
00:41Nathaniel Hawthorne's Grey and Ghostly, House of the Seven Gables.
00:47You'll know me as Miss Phoebe Pynchon, and with me, you'll enter the house to learn its
00:51terrors.
00:53Miss Agnes Moorhead will be there as my strange and somber cousin, and Robert Culp, Jonathan
00:58Harris, John Abbott, and Martin Landau.
01:02We'll meet them all.
01:03One may be a murderer, and one may be a ghost.
01:07Come, take my hand, and we'll pay our chilling visit to the House of the Seven Gables.
01:22Come, take my hand, and we'll pay our chilling visit to the House of the Seven Gables.
01:52Come, take my hand, and we'll pay our chilling visit to the House of the Seven Gables.
02:22Oh, don't go in that house!
02:52Who's that?
02:53You've come to the wrong place, young miss.
02:54Isn't this Miss Hephzibah Pynchon's house?
02:56Aye, it is that.
02:57Then I've made no mistake.
02:59Wait!
03:00You mustn't set foot in that fearful place.
03:02Do you live there, too?
03:04Aye.
03:05I've never set foot across that threshold, and never will.
03:08Then why do you speak so of this house?
03:10Who are you?
03:11Uncle Venner's what everybody calls me, miss.
03:14Then, Uncle Venner, why do you say this house is fearful?
03:17Look at it.
03:18It's old, it's old and unseen.
03:21It's bewitched, that's what it is.
03:24Come away, this is no place for a fresh young girl.
03:26Wait!
03:27I've come a long way to be with my cousins.
03:29You're one of the Pynchon family.
03:31And I don't intend to be frightened off by your superstition.
03:34You'll be frightened off by that music that you hear.
03:37The music that nobody plays.
03:40Sounds like the music of a harpsichord.
03:43And again like the wind.
03:45You'll be frightened off by that light that you see up there in the gables.
03:49I see no light.
03:51They say he walks by night.
03:53Though he's been dead these many years.
03:56Aren't you ashamed of yourself?
03:58A man of your years trying to frighten a girl.
04:01Wait, Uncle.
04:05Is it Miss Hepzibah Pynchon?
04:07Yes.
04:08I'm your cousin Phoebe.
04:10My mother wrote you I was coming.
04:12May I come in?
04:13Yes, of course you may.
04:15This way.
04:31Come, there's a fire in here. You'll be more comfortable.
04:34Take off your things, for surely you'll spend the night.
04:37The night?
04:38But didn't my mother write that I hope to stay with you for as long as you will have me?
04:42Yes, she wrote that she wanted you to leave home.
04:45Live in the city here.
04:47So that you might benefit yourself.
04:49But I really can't see my way clear to keep you here with me.
04:53Do let's try, cousin.
04:55We may suit each other better than you think.
04:57This house of mine is a melancholy place for a young girl.
05:00And I'm a dismal and lonesome old woman.
05:03I cannot make your life pleasant here.
05:06Then I shall try to make yours more pleasant.
05:09You do not understand, my child.
05:11This is not a wholesome place.
05:13It is haunted.
05:15Haunted?
05:16By old and tragic memories.
05:18Oh, you will hear it said that tormented spirits roam these dusty halls.
05:23Spirits whose lives have been spent here and are ended.
05:27Like this grim gentleman?
05:30Yes, him they say, and others.
05:34That's Colonel Pynchon who founded this family and built this house.
05:39It might have been better if he had done neither.
05:42These dismal thoughts grow out of loneliness.
05:45Let me stay with you and they will disappear.
05:48Perhaps you shall.
05:50Perhaps they will.
05:52I do not believe the tales they tell in town and yet...
05:55Oh, yes.
05:58Yes, you are a Pynchon.
06:02You remind me of...
06:05How do you like this face?
06:07He is handsome, isn't he?
06:09Who is it, cousin?
06:10Did you ever hear of Clifford Pynchon?
06:12Clifford? I think I heard my mother speak of him.
06:15Isn't he dead?
06:17Well, perhaps he is.
06:20In old houses like this, the dead have been said to come back again.
06:24Oh, my dear cousin, if after all I've said your courage has not failed you...
06:29You may stay with me a while.
06:33May I light a candle?
06:34Yes, please do.
06:36You'll find a candle and matches in the music room near the stairs.
06:55Cousin Hepzibah, isn't this a harpsichord?
06:58Yes, but it's never played.
07:00Yes, but it's never played.
07:02It was forbidden in my lifetime.
07:04Forbidden?
07:18Cousin Hepzibah.
07:20Cousin Hepzibah.
07:21I saw a man.
07:22Good. Come this way.
07:24I saw someone.
07:25It's getting late. I'll show you to your room.
07:27Is there anyone else in these rooms with us?
07:29You've travelled far, Phoebe.
07:31Please go to rest.
07:34I'll show you to your room.
07:59I'll show you to your room.
08:29Cousin Hepzibah.
08:59Cousin Hepzibah.
09:00Cousin Hepzibah.
09:29Cousin Hepzibah.
10:00Good morning.
10:02Good morning, sir.
10:04Forgive me if I startled you.
10:06My name is Holgrave.
10:08Miss Hepzibah allows me lodging in one of her gables.
10:11Oh, yes. My cousin did mention a lodger.
10:14But I thought you'd be...
10:16You thought what?
10:18I thought you'd be a much older man.
10:21I'm sorry to disappoint on such short acquaintance.
10:24I'm not disappointed.
10:26And yet...
10:27And yet...
10:28You thought you saw such a man, perhaps, a much older man.
10:31I thought I did.
10:32But I was tired and could have been mistaken.
10:35Yes, you could have been.
10:37If you live in one of the gables,
10:39it must have been your light that shone last night.
10:42No, not mine.
10:43I've just returned this morning from a short trip.
10:45You saw a light?
10:47I saw no light.
10:48An old and foolish man did, but...
10:51Never mind.
10:52I had an assignment yesterday in Springfield.
10:55I'm a photographer by trade.
10:57Oh?
10:58I'm not sure I like the sort of pictures you photographers take.
11:02They make people look so hard and stern.
11:05The camera only shows what's there.
11:07What would you say of this face? Hard, stern?
11:10I've seen that face before.
11:12It's the same as the man that hangs in the portrait over the fireplace.
11:16But you've made his clothes modern.
11:18No.
11:19No, I've done nothing.
11:21You will probably meet this face.
11:23I hope not.
11:24Then don't stay here, Miss Phoebe. Leave at once.
11:27Am I so unpleasant that everyone I meet wants to send me packing?
11:30Only those who wish you well. The curse of Maul is on this house.
11:33Maul? I've never heard that name.
11:35And you are Pynchon.
11:37Ah, no, you've been in the country.
11:39You wouldn't know the awful history behind this house.
11:41Do you know it?
11:43Yes, it's well known in the town.
11:45It was the first Maul, Matthew,
11:47who cleared the forest from the spot over two centuries ago.
11:50Colonel Pynchon, the gentleman whose portrait hangs inside,
11:53wanted the land, and when Maul wouldn't sell it to him,
11:56he had Maul hanged for witchcraft.
11:58But with the rope around his neck,
12:00Maul pointed at the colonel and shouted,
12:02By heaven, he'll know the curse of blood at his throat.
12:06Surely you don't believe in these silly curses.
12:09Well, I only believe what happened.
12:11The day that the house was to be dedicated,
12:13the colonel had very little joy,
12:15but they found him in the parlor here,
12:17where his portrait hangs now, quite dead.
12:19Sir, I beg you.
12:21He sat in his proud chair with blood in his beard.
12:23I beg you, no more talk of witchcraft and curses.
12:25Forgive me, I don't mean to frighten you,
12:27but you must know this house and leave it.
12:29How very strange you are.
12:31Excuse me, my cousin has a guest.
12:34Again, forgive me for my story.
12:36Perhaps one day you will allow me to show you
12:39that my camera cannot bring out harsh traits
12:41in a perfectly lovely face.
12:43Perhaps one day.
12:46And I tell you, you must leave it once.
12:48You know I've forbidden you this house.
12:50Now, Hepzibah, you're not being fair.
12:52All I want to do is greet my young cousin.
12:54Now, what's wrong with that?
12:56You know you mustn't let your lonely life
12:58turn you against those who love you.
13:00Is it, Judge Pynchon, that I am indeed your cousin,
13:04and I greet you?
13:06Little Phoebe Pynchon.
13:08It must be, I see it in your face.
13:11Phoebe Pynchon.
13:13It must be, I see it in your face.
13:16How is your dear mother?
13:18Well, thank you.
13:19And now you've come to be with us.
13:21Fine.
13:22This is indeed a family reunion, eh, Hepzibah?
13:33She's a strange and sour woman, isn't she?
13:36I like her very much.
13:38So do we all.
13:39But come, I haven't yet greeted you properly, my dear.
13:42Forgive me.
13:46I like that, Cousin Phoebe.
13:48A pretty young girl must never be too free with her kisses.
13:51I didn't mean to be unkind.
13:53Nor were you, my child.
13:55I know we're going to be great friends.
13:58Together, we may even find the treasure.
14:02The treasure?
14:03The treasure of friendship, of course.
14:08And now I must hurry off.
14:10Asking only that you carry a message to our dear cousin Hepzibah.
14:14Gladly.
14:15Say that Judge Pynchon will be back before long.
14:20To complete the business of which we spoke.
14:24Tell her that.
14:26I will.
14:27You're a good child.
14:29Choose your friends carefully, and no harm will come to you.
14:35And now farewell.
14:41What do you think of my camera now?
14:43Didn't it catch a cold and clever look in that man's face?
14:46He seems agreeable.
14:48He smiles a great deal.
14:49And talks of treasure.
14:51Yes, he did mention treasure.
14:53Wasn't it Shakespeare who said that a man may smile and smile and be a villain?
14:58Yes, I think there is treasure here.
15:02Vast treasure in this gloomy old house.
15:05Pray, Miss Phoebe, it does not bring down upon you the doom of the Pynchons.
15:09And soon.
15:11Cousin Hepzibah, is it true what they say of Colonel Pynchon and Matthew Maul?
15:17So you've already heard.
15:19Yes, it's true.
15:21Every Pynchon since has felt the guilt of that awful deed.
15:24Are there any descendants of Matthew Maul still living in this town?
15:28No, not particularly.
15:30Ah, but the Pynchons have paid for the years for what the Colonel did.
15:34Not because of that silly curse.
15:42Ah, my dear Phoebe, not a century ago,
15:44poor, lovely, young Alice Pynchon mysteriously wasted away and died in this house.
15:50She it was who last played that harpsichord.
15:52And your great uncle Jaffray, my uncle and the judges,
15:55died in this house.
15:57My uncle Jaffray, my uncle and the judges,
16:00died in this very house, as the Colonel did?
16:03With blood at his throat?
16:05Dear cousin, surely you don't...
16:07What's that?
16:09What?
16:10I thought I heard footsteps.
16:12All this talk of witchcraft.
16:14No, it wasn't called witchcraft when my uncle died.
16:17This time they called it murder.
16:19Murder?
16:20There was evidence.
16:21Too much evidence, you might say.
16:23For they found the guilty party right in this very house.
16:26How dreadful.
16:29Was it a servant?
16:31No, not a servant, although we had many at the time.
16:34Do you recall a small picture I showed you when you first came here?
16:39Oh, yes.
16:41That handsome young man with the gentle face.
16:44Not Clifford Pynchon.
16:46A noble and gentle face.
16:48Yet they locked him in prison for 30 years.
16:50From that day he never spoke a word.
16:53Not a word has passed his lips.
16:55Murdered his uncle.
16:57Cousin, I wish you hadn't told me.
16:59Well, it was necessary that you should know, my child.
17:02Then what they say of this house is true.
17:05It is cursed and haunted.
17:07For how else could it...
17:12This is your cousin Clifford, Phoebe.
17:14Murderer.
17:16Clifford.
17:18My poor brother.
17:20He has come home.
17:25The End
17:46Good morning, Uncle Benner.
17:48Good morning, Miss Phoebe.
17:50I thought I heard singing.
17:52It cannot be, for there's no singing to be heard at the house of the Seven Gables.
17:57There's singing wherever there's happiness, Uncle.
17:59Well, there may be happiness in the graveyard on Church Hill,
18:03where they say some men are glad to leave his veil of tears,
18:06but I never heard any singing there.
18:10There you go again.
18:11This is just a house like any other house, and nothing to be afraid of.
18:15Perhaps, young miss, perhaps.
18:17There's a man, like any other man,
18:20and I'm afraid of him.
18:22He passes this way every day, and each day at a different hour.
18:28Uncle Banner, you haven't told the judge that Clifford's here, have you?
18:32Not a word, Miss Phoebe, I swear it.
18:34Good. Clifford fears the judge. Why, I don't know.
18:37But until he recovers his strength, his presence here must be our secret.
18:41My lips are sealed.
18:43We all must do what we can to make up for the terrible injustice he's suffered.
18:47Injustice?
18:49I, you know, I can almost believe him innocent to hear you say it.
18:53Believe it? Why, you must.
18:55I still blush to think that I was ever frightened of that gentle, silent man.
19:00He still says nothing?
19:01Not a word.
19:02His years in prison have nearly broken his spirit.
19:05His mind as well, perhaps.
19:07I don't like that at all, Mr. Holgrave.
19:10No, you wouldn't.
19:12You always prefer to believe the best of everyone, Miss Phoebe,
19:15but I warn you to be wary of us all.
19:17Yourself included?
19:19All.
19:23Come on.
19:25It's all right.
19:27Come on, you're right.
19:30His mind hangs in the balance.
19:32You cannot know what it might do. Take care.
19:34I won't listen to any more of this.
19:35Hasn't he suffered enough without your slanders?
19:38A house that has held treasure, mystery, and death may know madness too.
19:42I speak because I value your safety.
19:44Then don't speak to me again until you can learn to value kindness as well.
19:49Miss Phoebe,
19:51lock your bedroom door at night.
20:15Dear Cousin Phoebe, not yet in bed.
20:18I was waiting to hear how Clifford is.
20:20Sleeping peacefully.
20:22So you've been admiring our ancestor?
20:25Not admiring.
20:27Wondering why he ever did that terrible thing.
20:29For greed alone.
20:31The colonel was a wealthy man.
20:33He owned great estates.
20:35He had a lot of money.
20:37He had a lot of money.
20:39He had a lot of money.
20:41He had a lot of money.
20:44He owned great tracts of land in what is now the state of Maine.
20:47Yet he wanted this place too and took it.
20:50I've never heard of pension land in Maine.
20:52After his death, no record of the land was ever found.
20:55The family couldn't prove that he had owned it.
20:59Thus is greed.
21:01Greed.
21:03Come, you mustn't think about it anymore.
21:05That's all over and done with.
21:07Is it? Is it?
21:09I often wonder.
21:12Somehow...
21:14Somehow I feel the colonel's presence here tonight.
21:17My candle.
21:21Good night, dear Phoebe.
21:23Good night.
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25:05Cousin Clifford? Is that you?
25:09Dear cousin, it's only...
25:11Silence, as you value your life!
25:17By upon my word, it's my dear little cousin Phoebe.
25:21You gave me quite a turn, my child.
25:23Cousin Jeffrey, what...
25:25What are you doing here at this hour of the night?
25:28Cousin Hepzibah forbids me to enter her house.
25:31So I have to crawl up here in the dead of night to find what is mine.
25:35Then it was your light.
25:38I'm sorry I disturbed you.
25:40Good night, cousin.
25:42As though a visit from my dear little cousin could ever disturb me.
25:46If you'll excuse me, no.
25:48You called for Clifford.
25:50I wonder why.
25:52Clifford? I can't imagine that I did.
25:54Can it be because he is in this house?
25:56No. That is a...
25:58You're too honest a girl to lie with grace.
26:01Of course he's here.
26:03I've been sure of it ever since his release from prison.
26:07Cousin Jeffrey, it's so cold in this attic.
26:09Please let me go.
26:11Of course. What am I thinking of?
26:14You will show me Clifford's room.
26:16My welcome to a cousin is long overdue.
26:19He cannot receive visitors at this hour of the night.
26:22Can you call me a visitor?
26:25I am his kin and will speak to him.
26:27He does not speak.
26:29Perhaps he may.
26:31Please, he fears you. I beg you.
26:34You try my patience.
26:36I tell you I will speak to him and he to me.
26:38Oh, no, cousin.
26:42We shall go together.
26:44Please don't see Clifford. You'll drive him mad.
26:46Oh, yes.
26:48You'd sooner I leave him in your hands
26:50to coax out his secret with your girlish charm
26:52and have my uncle's treasure for your own.
26:54I know of no treasure, I swear it.
26:56Perhaps not.
26:58But I have reason to know that Clifford holds the secret
27:00in his coward's mind.
27:03Come on.
27:13This his room?
27:15This thing?
27:17I tell you I will have his secret this night.
27:19Which is his room?
27:21Yes, this.
27:23Spoken like a loving cousin.
27:25Good.
27:27You shall visit him now.
27:29Good evening. Judge Pincham.
27:31Mr. Holgrave.
27:35I'm afraid the hour is rather late, Judge.
27:39And that your visit to your cousin is poorly timed.
27:41Ah, yes.
27:43Perhaps so.
27:45Perhaps my love does drive me to extremes.
27:47Perhaps.
27:49Another time will do as well.
27:51Nothing must mar the joy
27:53of our reunion.
27:55Nothing shall, sir.
27:57No, upon my soul.
28:00So,
28:02good night,
28:04dear cousin Phoebe.
28:08Your servant, sir.
28:10Yours, sir.
28:18It is most interesting.
28:20What is, Mr. Holgrave?
28:22Here is the founder Pincham
28:24come to earth again.
28:26The faces,
28:29the spirits are the same.
28:31The Pincham breed
28:33has come full circle round.
28:35The heritage of greed
28:37is greed.
28:39Mr. Holgrave, I'm most grateful to you.
28:41Now, good night, Miss Phoebe.
28:43I trust you will lock your door.
28:59♪
29:19A lovely evening, Miss Phoebe.
29:21Yes, Mr. Holgrave, it is lovely, isn't it?
29:23Your cousin seems much improved.
29:25He's gaining strength every day.
29:28And yet, he seems to brood.
29:30Yeah.
29:32What does he brood about?
29:34I feel that you would be much safer if we knew.
29:36I cannot see his thoughts or yours,
29:38Mr. Holgrave.
29:40No, there are many dark mysteries in this place, I'm afraid.
29:42Mysteries I intend to solve if I can.
29:44That's why I'm leaving tomorrow.
29:46You're leaving us?
29:48Well, just for a few days.
29:50Something tells me, woman's intuition, if you like,
29:52that behind all these mysteries
29:54lies the name of Maul.
29:57I was told that that family no longer exists.
29:59I'm not so sure.
30:01I remember now my mother spoke of knowing them
30:03some years ago.
30:05If anyone has just cause to wish us harm,
30:07the Mauls certainly have.
30:09I'll ask Mother what she remembers.
30:13Well, then I wish you Godspeed, Miss Phoebe.
30:15But not good luck in what I seek?
30:17Oh, well, that too.
30:19Of course, if you wish it.
30:21I frankly say, Mr. Holgrave,
30:23I can't say if you wish my cousins well or ill.
30:26I wish you well.
30:29As for your cousins, I'm a lodger,
30:31a spectator, no more.
30:33How can you see people in distress
30:35without wanting to help and comfort them?
30:37I wish you felt less
30:39a spectator and more a human being.
30:43Perhaps one day
30:45I can explain.
30:47I had no right to say that.
30:49Forgive me.
30:53There's nothing to forgive.
30:56You know, it seems to me
30:58I never watched the coming of so beautiful an evening.
31:00I never felt anything
31:02quite so much like happiness before.
31:04Does that seem strange?
31:06I've been happier than I am now.
31:08And yet,
31:10never quite so content.
31:12Never before?
31:14Never.
31:16I've been frightened here and worried too.
31:18But just now it doesn't seem to matter.
31:20How very strange.
31:23I must go in.
31:25I'll be leaving in the morning.
31:27Well then, good night, little Phoebe.
31:29I shall pray for your safe return.
31:39Sleep through the night
31:41and when you wake
31:43it will be the day of our Phoebe's return.
31:45She's such a dear child.
31:47I've missed her more than I would have believed possible.
31:49Good night, dear brother.
31:52Good night, dear brother.
31:54God grant you pleasant rest.
32:14Cousin Jack!
32:16Good evening, Cousin Hepzibah.
32:18If this can in any sense be considered
32:21Now, dear cousin,
32:23surely you must see
32:25how unkind is your constant bitterness toward me.
32:27Clifford is my cousin
32:29but I love him as though he were my own brother.
32:31Oh, for the love of heaven,
32:33stop this loathsome pretense.
32:35After all you've done,
32:37do not speak of your love for my brother.
32:39I can't stand it.
32:41You sound like a mad woman, Hepzibah.
32:43I intend to see Clifford before I leave this house.
32:45I am his only friend
32:47and an all-powerful one.
32:49His friend?
32:51How do you suppose Clifford obtained his release from prison?
32:53What?
32:55Did you think his release was a triumph over me?
32:57Not at all.
32:59I had him set free.
33:01I do not believe you.
33:03No matter.
33:05Cousin Hepzibah, long ago Clifford boasted to me
33:07that he held the secret of great wealth.
33:09He just meant to taunt me, I know,
33:11but there was truth in what he said thirty years ago.
33:13But why would he conceal it so long?
33:15He blamed me for his ruin
33:18and for the truth, as a man must.
33:20He would never share his knowledge with me
33:22while he was in prison.
33:24But the time has come
33:26when he must give up his secret.
33:28But surely you know he cannot utter a word.
33:30Cannot!
33:32Or will not.
33:34But what if he should still refuse?
33:36Or if he has no knowledge of treasure?
33:38Dear cousin,
33:40it must surely be obvious to you
33:42that poor Clifford's misfortunes
33:44have affected his mind.
33:47I shall have to remove all information out of hatred
33:49for one he should love.
33:51I shall have to believe him entirely insane.
33:53Oh, Geoffrey, no, no, no.
33:55If he prove himself insane,
33:57it is in my power, for the safety of us all,
33:59to have him shut away in a public asylum
34:01for the rest of his days.
34:03Oh, Geoffrey.
34:05Geoffrey, it's your mind
34:07that's diseased, not Clifford's.
34:09You have riches enough.
34:11Why should you do this monstrous thing?
34:13Talk sense, Hepzibah, for heaven's sake.
34:16I've told you my determination.
34:18Oh, I beg of you, I beg of you.
34:20Do not repeat the crime of our ancestors.
34:22Enough!
34:24Either you call Clifford
34:26and let us settle this as two kinsmen should,
34:28or you drive me to harsher measures.
34:30The responsibility is yours.
34:38Well, you're...
34:40you're stronger than I am.
34:42I believe he knows no secret.
34:45But I shall call him.
35:16Clifford, shall I get him?
35:20Clifford?
35:22Brother?
35:27He's gone!
35:29Clifford!
35:31Clifford, where are you?
35:33Clifford!
35:41Clifford!
35:43Clifford!
35:46Clifford!
35:56Clifford!
35:58Clifford, answer me!
36:00Answer me!
36:02Geoffrey! Geoffrey!
36:04Clifford has gone!
36:06I cannot find him, brother!
36:08Geoffrey, please help me!
36:10Some heart may come to you!
36:13Clifford! Clifford, brother!
36:15Where are you?
36:21See, Epsom, see.
36:23Clifford!
36:25Clifford, you're speaking!
36:27Yes.
36:29Yes.
36:31Let him be silent now.
36:33See, the nightmare's over.
36:36Oh, my God!
36:38What is to become of us?
36:40We must run!
36:42Yes, we're free at last!
37:06Don't go in, Miss Phoebe.
37:08Uncle Fenner, it's good to see you again.
37:10Oh, it's a joy to see you back safely, Miss Phoebe.
37:12Why mustn't I go into the house?
37:14I'm anxious to see my cousins.
37:16Well, maybe, but it's something strange, isn't it?
37:18I don't know.
37:20Oh, I'm afraid so.
37:22Oh, I'm afraid so.
37:24Oh, I'm afraid so.
37:26Oh, I'm afraid so.
37:28Oh, I'm afraid so.
37:30Oh, I'm afraid so.
37:32Oh, I'm afraid so.
37:35There's something strange about this house this morning,
37:37exceeding strange.
37:39I know.
37:41This house is haunted, young miss.
37:43It is old enough for the likes of you.
37:45Bewitched, I say!
37:47You do mock me, Miss Phoebe,
37:49but don't go in.
37:51This morning, when I came to collect scraps of my pig
37:53and knocked on the door,
37:55not a soul stirred an answer.
37:57Perhaps they didn't hear you.
37:59I knocked again and again and louder and louder
38:01and all was so still that my heart misgave me
38:04Suppose we try the garden door.
38:06There's no sense in that.
38:08If you don't mind, I'll just try knocking.
38:10If there's nobody there, nobody can answer, can they?
38:12But by the opposite rule,
38:14if somebody answers,
38:16somebody's there.
38:18Come away, Miss Phoebe, come away.
38:22Cousin Hepzibah?
38:28We meet at an odd moment, Miss Phoebe.
38:30What's wrong?
38:33Why is the house so quiet?
38:35I don't know what to tell you.
38:37Where are my cousins?
38:39Gone. We're alone in the house.
38:41Clifford and Hepzibah gone? But that's impossible.
38:43Phoebe...
38:45Something's happened. I must go and see.
38:47No, no, there will be time enough for that later.
38:49First, tell me of your trip.
38:51Please, tell me what's happened.
38:57Do you remember
38:59this photograph?
39:01It's Judge Pynchon, of course.
39:03You showed it to me the other day.
39:05What has it got to do with Hepzibah and Clifford?
39:07Here is the same face.
39:09Taken not an hour ago.
39:11I just finished it
39:13when I heard you outside.
39:15But that's death.
39:17Cousin Jeffrey's dead.
39:21As you see him here.
39:23Your cousin now sits
39:25in the chair behind you.
39:27No, don't, don't look.
39:30You didn't. Oh, no, you couldn't.
39:32You suspect me of this.
39:34Why? Why should I?
39:36Because your name is not Holgrave.
39:38My mother remembered well.
39:40There was a son, she said,
39:42just a few years older than myself.
39:44She described you very well indeed.
39:46Your name is not Holgrave.
39:48It's Maul.
39:50Yes.
39:52I should have told you soon.
39:54In any case, I hope you can forgive my deception.
39:56Forgive?
39:59You cannot believe me capable of that.
40:01I don't know.
40:03You are a Maul with reason enough to hate us.
40:05And if not you...
40:07Phoebe, we are going to need our best wits about us
40:09in the coming hours.
40:11Why do you suppose I've stayed here in the house alone with him
40:13instead of calling the police?
40:15I don't know, unless you're...
40:17Clifford is gone.
40:19To the world outside, your cousin is a murderer.
40:21Oh, no.
40:23It will be said that he has struck again
40:25in terror and in madness.
40:28The worst possible coloring on his case.
40:30Don't you see, he and Hepzibah must be found
40:32and brought back here
40:34before another soul hears of the judge's death.
40:36You're right, of course.
40:38Where can they be?
40:40Well, I'd hoped you might know.
40:42No.
40:44Perhaps Uncle Venner.
40:50Uncle Venner?
40:52Uncle Venner?
40:54Uncle Venner, if you're within the sound of my voice,
40:57I'm here.
40:59I'm here, Miss Phoebe.
41:01Good. Uncle Venner.
41:03My spirit tells me you should be many miles away.
41:05Uncle Venner, please find my cousins
41:07and bring them here.
41:09Where shall I look?
41:11You know this town better than anyone else.
41:13Find them quickly and bring them back here to me.
41:15Well, I will ask myself where I might go
41:17if I were running away from some awful catastrophe
41:19within that house.
41:21There I will hope to find them.
41:23Yes, and please hurry, and not a word to anyone.
41:26You say, Miss Phoebe, not a word.
41:28That's done.
41:30Now I'll go the other direction and search as best I can.
41:32No, you had best stay here with me.
41:34You must be here if they return.
41:36We cannot take a chance
41:38that someone may find the judge as he is
41:40before we return.
41:42Can't you go and look for them?
41:44No, I will not leave you alone in the house with him.
41:46I'll be all right.
41:48I'll stay with you.
41:50Very well, Mr. Maul.
41:52We'll wait together.
41:56Mr. Maul.
42:14Mr. Maul, you haven't eaten all day.
42:16May I bring you something?
42:18No, thank you.
42:20I have no appetite for food.
42:22If you'll excuse me.
42:25Mr. Maul.
42:27You've been hiding from me all day.
42:29Do I frighten you so?
42:31It's getting late.
42:33What will we do if Uncle Benner
42:35can't find my cousins?
42:37Phoebe, do I frighten you?
42:39Why did you come to this house, Mr. Maul?
42:41Why did you use another name?
42:45I'll tell you quite frankly.
42:47I came for treasure.
42:49You came to rob my cousins.
42:51No.
42:54There is a treasure hidden in this house
42:56which I believe belongs rightfully to my family.
42:58It is a secret
43:00handed down from the first Elijah Maul
43:02who built the House of the Seven Gables.
43:04I'll know more of this.
43:06You didn't find the treasure.
43:08No, I found much more than treasure.
43:12You see, I do. I frighten you.
43:14You are a Maul. You must hate us.
43:16Is it only fear you feel?
43:18Nothing but fear?
43:20You feel no joy as I do?
43:23How can I think of joy at a time like this?
43:29Look.
43:31The moon is rising.
43:33Do you remember the last time we sat here
43:35and watched the moon?
43:37I haven't forgotten.
43:40Phoebe, this time when we are alone together
43:42may never come again.
43:44I must not let it pass without
43:48saying that I love you.
43:51Mr. Maul.
43:53Can you find it in your heart to love me too?
43:58To trust me in spite of everything.
44:00Put your hand in mine.
44:06The light!
44:08It's Cousin Jaffrey's light.
44:10What?
44:12It was Jaffrey's light that people saw as he searched for treasure.
44:14And they said it was a dead man's ghost.
44:16And you say he's dead.
44:18He is quite dead.
44:20It's still searching.
44:26Get up.
44:50Cousin Jaffrey.
44:52It's gone.
44:54Dear heaven.
44:56Wait here. I'll see if I can find the light upstairs.
44:58No, wait. Wait for me, Mr. Maul.
45:00I don't want to stay alone.
45:02Mr. Maul.
45:18Mr. Maul.
45:20Where are you?
45:24Mr. Maul.
45:32Please.
45:34Come no closer.
45:36Please.
45:44I can't see you.
45:48Mr. Maul.
45:58What is it, brother?
46:00The picture, Hepzibah.
46:04Yes, I remember.
46:08It's as though it once spoke to me long ago.
46:12But what did it say?
46:14My mind will not recall.
46:16The picture.
46:18Did it speak of treasure, Clifford?
46:20Yes, that was it.
46:22It spoke of treasure.
46:26But what did it say?
46:28Cousin Hepzibah, are you all right?
46:30Yes, Phoebe.
46:32We ran away at first.
46:34I feared poor Clifford might have done the deed.
46:36But then I realized how foolish I'd been.
46:38I saw the judge in this chair this morning.
46:40Where is he now?
46:42Whatever his faults.
46:44And he had many.
46:46He was our cousin.
46:48It was my duty to see his body
46:50properly laid out in the guest room above.
46:52Then it was your light in the attic.
46:54I sought a shroud
46:56for my poor departed cousin.
46:58Then if not Clifford, who?
47:00It was not you.
47:02It never could have been.
47:06Thank you, my love.
47:08But your cousins know the truth.
47:10From the time of Colonel Pynchon,
47:12descendants in his line
47:14have died this way several times,
47:16but through no other hand than God's.
47:18It's an illness, much like apoplexy,
47:20passed down from son to son,
47:22and Matthew Moore knew of it
47:24when he called down his curse.
47:26True.
47:28Except when my uncle died,
47:30evidence was added to make it seem
47:32as if I'd killed him.
47:34Added by poor Jaffrey, I'm convinced.
47:36You knew this all along
47:38and never told me.
47:40My love, you thought me a murderer.
47:42I had to have your trust,
47:44beyond reason, beyond logic,
47:46to know that you loved me.
47:48It was unkind, but just.
47:50And now you've looked into my heart.
47:54The picture spoke to me, yes,
47:56but what did it say?
47:58There is a secret handed down
48:00from the First Elijah Mall.
48:02A secret panel built into the wall.
48:04The Colonel's treasure
48:06hidden there for revenge.
48:10Clifford must have found it years ago
48:12by accident, and I've never known
48:14where to search until this moment.
48:16The secret is in the picture.
48:18Yes, I remember. I was just a boy.
48:24What is it?
48:26Is it a will?
48:28A map?
48:30No, neither.
48:34Huh.
48:36The final irony of all.
48:38Ah, a deed.
48:40Quite so.
48:42The long-lost deed
48:44signed by Sagamore Indian chiefs
48:46granting to Colonel Pynchon
48:48those boundless acres up in Maine.
48:50This is what the Pynchon family
48:52needed years ago to prove their claim,
48:54and here it is.
48:56Quite worthless now.
48:58Worthless, worthless.
49:00So this is the end reward of greed.
49:02To scheme, to strike,
49:04to die for what is worthless.
49:06Wait.
49:16Mr. Holgrave, would you tell Miss Phoebe
49:18that her cousins are nowhere to be found?
49:20They've gone from the...
49:22Oh.
49:24There they are.
49:26And did they never run away?
49:28Come in, Uncle Venner.
49:30Come in. It's all right.
49:34Is there nothing, then, to fear
49:36in this house?
49:38No, Uncle Venner.
49:40There's no longer anything to fear
49:42in the House of the Seven Devils.
49:44Well, that was pretty frightening,
49:46but we made it back safe and sound
49:48to our stage two in Burbank, California.
49:50Our thanks to the splendid cast
49:52who helped us bring to television
49:54the House of the Seven Devils.
49:56Our stage is empty now,
49:58but next week it will come alive
50:00with another exciting adventure,
50:02Rudyard Kipling's
50:04Baa Baa Black Sheep.
50:06Until then, this is Shirley Temple
50:08wishing each of you a fond good night.
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