Edgar Allan Poe's Tomb of Ligeia. (1964 film)

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A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride.  Vincent Price - Verden Fell Elizabeth Shepherd - The Lady Rowena Trevanion/The Lady Ligeia John Westbrook - Christopher Gough Derek Francis - Lord Trevanion Oliver Johnston - Kenrick Richard Vernon - Dr. Vivian Frank Thornton - Peperel Ronald Adam - Minister at Graveside Denis Gilmore - Livery Boy Penelope Lee - Lady Rowena's Maidservant Maxwell Craig - Wedding Guest Anthony Lang - Wedding Guest Del Watson - Footman Fred Wood - Wedding Guest

Transcript

00:00:00Music

00:00:28You cannot bury her in consecrated ground.

00:00:31She was not Christian.

00:00:33This is my ground.

00:00:36It is the Lord's ground.

00:00:38Then let the Lord refuse her.

00:00:40She will not rest with Christian dead.

00:00:43She will not rest because she is not dead.

00:00:48To me.

00:00:50And she will not die because she willed not to die.

00:00:54Is her will stronger than the Lord's?

00:01:08These are her words.

00:01:12Man need not kneel before the angels.

00:01:17No lie in death forever, but for the weakness of his feeble will.

00:01:22Blasphemy.

00:01:23My benediction.

00:01:24Now hear mine.

00:01:26She desecrates the earth in which she lies.

00:01:29And her will rots with her bones.

00:01:32Both are as damned and dead as the devil's soul.

00:01:35A nervous contraction.

00:01:52Nothing more.

00:01:55Nothing more.

00:01:57So silent now?

00:02:07Well, why don't you speak?

00:02:10Or you?

00:02:12Or you?

00:02:13Pray speak!

00:02:16Or has the cat got your tongues?

00:02:18One more.

00:02:19Old man.

00:02:22Sometimes the hell has a lie.

00:02:24You must have m'dore all.

00:02:35You must have met in hell!

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00:05:52The fox may go to ground, my lord.

00:05:54Damn the fox! Where's me daughter?

00:05:56Hey, I say, where's me daughter?

00:05:58Hey!

00:06:06Rowena!

00:06:10Rowena!

00:06:12Hello, Christopher.

00:06:22Come on, boy.

00:06:28Rowena! The fox has...

00:06:30Oh, bother the fox. I found something far more intriguing.

00:06:52Come on, boy.

00:07:22Rowena!

00:07:24Oh, boy.

00:07:26Come on, boy.

00:07:28Rowena!

00:07:30Rowena!

00:07:32Rowena!

00:07:34Rowena!

00:07:36Rowena!

00:07:38Rowena!

00:07:40Rowena!

00:07:42Rowena!

00:07:45How about you?

00:07:47Rowena!

00:07:48Rowena!

00:07:50My chair.

00:08:18Now, puss.

00:08:20What do you want?

00:08:42I heard her scream.

00:08:43She was thrown by her mount.

00:08:46I thought it unwise for her to move immediately.

00:08:48In preventing it, I seemed to have frightened her.

00:08:51Yes, quite.

00:08:53I thought the abbey was deserted.

00:08:55It is.

00:08:56Yes, but...

00:08:56Save for myself, a servant, and...

00:09:00Is she all right?

00:09:03Yes, quite all right, Christopher.

00:09:05What do you think of her?

00:09:09Verdon?

00:09:11Good Lord!

00:09:13I never would have...

00:09:17Those glasses.

00:09:18The result of a rather morbid reaction to sunlight.

00:09:22But I thought that...

00:09:24That not hearing from you, I...

00:09:26I mean, after the funeral...

00:09:27Perhaps you had better fetch the lady's horse.

00:09:30Yes.

00:09:32Yes, of course.

00:09:35Rowena.

00:09:37Don't be frightened.

00:09:41He's an old friend.

00:09:44Lady Rowena Trevanion of Tremaine.

00:09:46May I present Mr. Verdon Fell.

00:09:48How do you do?

00:09:49How do you do?

00:09:50How do you do?

00:09:52Terribly sorry to have trampled these lovely asphodelts.

00:09:55They're so bright.

00:09:58The flowers of death.

00:10:01How very appropriate.

00:10:13Yes.

00:10:15Well...

00:10:19Perhaps you'd better take her in while I fetch her father.

00:10:25That won't be necessary.

00:10:31I'm afraid it will.

00:10:49You aren't blind, are you?

00:10:54No.

00:10:56No, I live at night.

00:10:57My vision is painfully acute.

00:10:59You are blind, are you?

00:11:01No.

00:11:03No, I live at night.

00:11:04My vision is painfully acute.

00:11:05Oh, no.

00:11:06No, no, please.

00:11:07Please, that light.

00:11:08I'm sorry.

00:11:09I only thought...

00:11:10No.

00:11:11No, please.

00:11:12I'm sorry.

00:11:13I only thought...

00:11:14No.

00:11:15No, please.

00:11:16I'm sorry.

00:11:17I'm sorry.

00:11:18No.

00:11:19No.

00:11:20No.

00:11:21No, please.

00:11:22Please, that light.

00:11:23I'm sorry.

00:11:24I only thought...

00:11:25No.

00:11:26No, please.

00:11:27I'm sorry.

00:11:28No.

00:11:30No, please.

00:11:32I'm sorry.

00:11:33I'm sorry.

00:11:52Kenrick.

00:11:58Cherry and some linen bandages.

00:12:03The same cat?

00:12:26Is it broken?

00:12:27Doesn't appear to be.

00:12:28It needs binding, however.

00:12:33It's broken.

00:12:38Ma'am?

00:12:39Oh.

00:12:47You do that rather well.

00:12:50Where did you learn?

00:12:54I see.

00:12:56Do you suppose I could make you smile?

00:12:58Or do you ever laugh, Mr. Bell?

00:13:00Only at myself.

00:13:03I see.

00:13:05Do you?

00:13:07You keep saying, I see.

00:13:09But I think your vision is even more limited than mine.

00:13:13Rowena!

00:13:15Rowena!

00:13:16Dear Father.

00:13:17Oh.

00:13:19Hey, you all right?

00:13:20Lord Trevelyan.

00:13:21May I present...

00:13:22Oh, Doctor here already.

00:13:23Splendid.

00:13:24No, Father.

00:13:25Mr. Bell.

00:13:26Splendid, now.

00:13:27Are you sure you're all right?

00:13:28I'll show you this.

00:13:29Damnedest fox you ever saw.

00:13:31Must be a freak.

00:13:33The markings are so damn queer.

00:13:34I've never seen anything like it.

00:13:35Oh, Father.

00:13:36Please.

00:13:37Lord Trevelyan.

00:13:38Mr. Fell.

00:13:39Fell?

00:13:40Oh, of course, the Doctor.

00:13:41Terribly rude of me.

00:13:42Father, he is not...

00:13:43Here, Doctor.

00:13:44Have a look at this fox.

00:13:45What do you think of it, eh?

00:13:46Now, of course, I suppose foxes aren't much in your line.

00:13:49It belongs to the species Vulpes palido.

00:13:52Peculiar to Upper Egypt in the Nubian desert.

00:13:56In Egyptian art, it is found at the feet of Astophet.

00:14:00Goddess of ill-omened marriages.

00:14:05As her pet.

00:14:06Oh.

00:14:07Really?

00:14:08Well, I mean, if it belongs in Egypt, what's she doing here?

00:14:11It was once kept here by the Lady Ligia.

00:14:13As your pet?

00:14:14A fox?

00:14:15Who on earth would do a thing like that?

00:14:16My wife.

00:14:17I think we ought to be going now. Christopher, help me on with my boot.

00:14:18Yeah, I know you're...

00:14:19I'm fine now, Father.

00:14:20As long as I said something.

00:14:21Of course not.

00:14:22It's all right, Father.

00:14:23Hey, fox!

00:14:24I don't know if you're working.

00:14:25You're working with me, Lord.

00:14:26No, it's not.

00:14:27You're working with me, Lord?

00:14:28No, it's not.

00:14:29Beg your pardon, my lord.

00:14:30I said it's not.

00:14:31You're working with me.

00:14:32You've got to do something like that.

00:14:33What?

00:14:34It's not like that.

00:14:35Right, why?

00:14:36I think we ought to be going now.

00:14:37Christopher, help me on with my boot.

00:14:38I know you're...

00:14:39I'm fine now, Father.

00:14:40I'm fine now, Father.

00:14:42You've only said something.

00:14:43Of course not.

00:14:44It's all right, Father.

00:14:46Hey, fox!

00:14:47You're the wick of me, Lord.

00:14:49No, it's not.

00:14:51Beg your pardon, my lord?

00:14:53I said, it's not.

00:15:01Well, where could it?

00:15:02I mean, how could it?

00:15:04Well, perhaps you can tell me.

00:15:15Through here.

00:15:17But the fox was dead.

00:15:20The cat was not.

00:15:23It appears that the cat is made off with the fox.

00:15:26But is that possible?

00:15:29I mean, were it not possible, the fox would still be here.

00:15:34I trust that your anchor will give you no further trouble.

00:15:37Oh, yeah.

00:15:38I'm afraid this is a bit awkward.

00:15:40Do you mind if I send your fee by messenger, Doctor?

00:15:44That won't be necessary.

00:15:50Goodbye, then.

00:15:53Well?

00:16:06Has Legia's death changed him greatly?

00:16:08Well, he certainly changed, but I never knew her.

00:16:13Well, he certainly changed, but I never knew her.

00:16:16Was he always so gross?

00:16:18A bit mysterious, perhaps.

00:16:22Do you like him?

00:16:24I don't think so.

00:16:26But what has that to do with it?

00:16:28To do with what?

00:16:30With whom one is drawn to, whom one loves, even whom one marries.

00:16:34Marry? Marry who?

00:16:36The doctor, father.

00:16:37Now you stay here, Margell.

00:16:38Willful little bitch, ain't she?

00:16:43Held to be married to us, you think.

00:16:46Her mother certainly was, God rest her soul.

00:16:50I'm told that Lygia, too, was not without willfulness.

00:16:58Pepperol! Pepperol!

00:17:02Where's the devil?

00:17:02Behind you, be lord.

00:17:04Ah.

00:17:05Oh, damn me if I have a drink with Squire Daniels again.

00:17:10Bad breeding only exceedable, but worse whiskey.

00:17:13Promise to fail, sir.

00:17:23Please see this reaches him immediately.

00:17:25As soon as possible.

00:17:26Christopher, I'm riding down to the village.

00:17:28I can easily...

00:17:29That won't be necessary, my dear.

00:17:30Bye.

00:17:31Well, off to the Assizes.

00:17:33The Assizes.

00:17:34I've got an important brief.

00:17:36How a gentleman can continue to practice laws beyond me.

00:17:43My lady, I...

00:17:44Thank you, Pepperol.

00:18:04Oh, my God.

00:18:34Oh, my God.

00:19:04Come here, unannounced.

00:19:06Do you understand?

00:19:08I do not like to be discovered unannounced.

00:19:12Stop that.

00:19:14Stop it.

00:19:18I'll get you something.

00:19:20I can't very well send you off shivering like a frightened kitten.

00:19:26Come along.

00:19:28You're heavy.

00:19:32It makes a shambles of the light.

00:19:36Come along.

00:19:38Come along.

00:19:52And I dare say you've never had tea in the kitchen before.

00:19:58No, I haven't.

00:20:02Here.

00:20:06Does she look like me?

00:20:18Who?

00:20:20The woman you seem so afraid will arrive unannounced.

00:20:26Why did you come here?

00:20:28To deliver Christopher's reply to your note.

00:20:34Really, to see you.

00:20:36Sugar?

00:20:38I have nothing to offer.

00:20:42You make me want to offer you something.

00:20:46Pity prompts you.

00:20:48Well, people won pities without being drawn to them.

00:20:58I suppose I even pity Christopher.

00:21:04He's blinded in his way too, you know.

00:21:08His life being simply law and logic.

00:21:12To be so limited.

00:21:14The beauty of such a life lies in its limitations.

00:21:18And in accepting them.

00:21:20Oh, I know.

00:21:22I suppose I'm spoilt and terribly willful.

00:21:26Willful?

00:21:28You don't even know them.

00:21:32You don't even know the meaning of the word.

00:21:36Now, I think you'd better go.

00:21:46Why?

00:21:54Why must I go?

00:21:56You suppose I might be an anxious?

00:21:58I am expected.

00:22:00I am expected.

00:22:02Pretty good son.

00:22:08You don't understand.

00:22:10I can welcome no one here.

00:22:12Not even in the kitchen of all places.

00:22:14Wait.

00:22:15Let me go.

00:22:16Wait.

00:22:18I'm sorry.

00:22:20Please, let me go.

00:22:22Yes.

00:22:24Yes.

00:22:25Yes.

00:22:26That is, after all, what I want too, isn't it?

00:22:28To be let go.

00:22:30Yes, of course.

00:22:32Of course.

00:22:33I'm...

00:22:34Pale and cold and...

00:22:38And yet so much life.

00:22:42It was her longing for life.

00:22:44It was her longing for life.

00:22:48Only for life.

00:22:50That haunts me.

00:22:52To want life so desperately that when she lost it, her will to live remained alive.

00:23:00My eyes see the shadows gather up her shame.

00:23:06Seeing you...

00:23:08And seeing her.

00:23:10Yet when you thought I was, Lajia...

00:23:14You tried to attack me.

00:23:18I don't remember.

00:23:30Not very fetching, am I?

00:23:33Morose.

00:23:34Moody.

00:23:36I stagger about like some drunken lord in the sun.

00:23:48It seems as though you're always looking after my wounds.

00:24:04Yes.

00:24:05Beg pardon, sir, but Mr. Christopher Gough wishes to be announced.

00:24:09He's in the refractory.

00:24:11Can I be helping, sir?

00:24:13Yes.

00:24:14Yes, Kendrick, please.

00:24:15Take care of this.

00:24:17Forgive me, my dear, but I must see.

00:24:20Christopher, forgive me.

00:24:21Of course.

00:24:22Kendrick, bring the Lady Rowena into the great hall when you've finished.

00:24:27And please, fetch my glasses.

00:24:29I believe you'll find them by the portal.

00:24:31Oh, and Kendrick.

00:24:35I want that animal destroyed.

00:24:47It's wax.

00:25:06It's a reproduction.

00:25:08I managed to make it myself.

00:25:11You see, I am loath to open ancient tombs, rob a nation of its treasure, and call it archeology.

00:25:21It's quite good, really.

00:25:23Twenty-first dynasty?

00:25:25No, twentieth, but a delta dynasty.

00:25:28Little known and less remembered.

00:25:32You can tell by the eyes.

00:25:35The eyes.

00:25:38They confound me.

00:25:41There's a blankness, a mindless sort of malice in some Egyptian eyes.

00:25:50They do not readily yield up the mystery they hold.

00:25:56Verden.

00:25:58Verden!

00:26:00You say?

00:26:01Oh.

00:26:04Oh, yes, yes.

00:26:05Of course.

00:26:07Forgive me.

00:26:09Forgive my reverie.

00:26:12Lately, I...

00:26:14I seem to slip into reveries.

00:26:19The Lady Rowena will join us presently.

00:26:24But I have much to say to you before she does.

00:26:27Christopher.

00:26:30Now, ten minutes ago, I...

00:26:34I tried to kill a stray cat with a cabbage.

00:26:39And all but made love to the Lady Rowena.

00:26:43I succeeded in squashing the cabbage and badly frightening the lady.

00:26:51If only I could lay open my own brain as easily as I did that vegetable.

00:26:56What rat would be freed from its gray leaves?

00:27:05Let's go for a stroll.

00:27:07A stroll?

00:27:08A stroll, a walk.

00:27:10What the devil difference does it make? Come on.

00:27:13What was she, Kendrick?

00:27:16She, ma'am?

00:27:18Lygia.

00:27:20Perhaps none of you took note, but it seems apparent to me she wasn't quite human.

00:27:23So, what was she?

00:27:26Her hair was black, I believe.

00:27:28Do you? Excellent.

00:27:30Black on one of her heads and green on the other, perhaps.

00:27:34Only one head, ma'am.

00:27:37How disappointing.

00:27:39But her eyes, were they gold or silver?

00:27:43How?

00:27:44I don't remember.

00:27:46But she did have eyes, I take it.

00:27:51Oh, never mind, Kendrick.

00:27:53If you don't want to talk about it, I won't cry.

00:27:57I'm sorry, ma'am.

00:28:00Are you?

00:28:02Yes, ma'am.

00:28:04Early this day, I found myself standing once again before Lygia's grave.

00:28:09Allowing me to observe a rather singular circumstance.

00:28:14The date of her death had disappeared from Lygia's tombstone.

00:28:20And yet it was there yesterday when we came upon the Lady Rowena.

00:28:24I don't know which confines me more, the defacing of the grave or the importance you seem to place upon it.

00:28:28Doesn't it seem to be a bit odd to you?

00:28:30Well, yes, it does.

00:28:33It seems grotesque, as a matter of fact.

00:28:35A malicious prank.

00:28:36Who's malicious prank?

00:28:38Good Lord, Verdon, I don't know.

00:28:41What are you trying to tell me?

00:28:43Simply that this occurrence is neither a prank nor malicious.

00:28:48Look at that stone, Christopher.

00:28:51Consider what has been cut from the marble.

00:28:55Not her name.

00:28:56Not the inscription.

00:28:59Only the date of her death.

00:29:03Where's the date of her birth?

00:29:08I never knew her age.

00:29:11And consider, Christopher, how carefully it has been cut.

00:29:15Surely not the work of any malicious prankster.

00:29:19The ancients carved prophecies in their stone tombs.

00:29:23This prank is also a prophecy.

00:29:28Of what?

00:29:29From whom?

00:29:30Verdon.

00:29:31This is surely something that...

00:29:32Of return, Christopher.

00:29:34Of Ligeia's return.

00:29:37Verdon.

00:29:38No.

00:29:40No.

00:29:41Pray hear me out.

00:29:43These words were among the last she ever spoke to me.

00:29:48Nor lie in death forever.

00:29:51Man need not kneel before the angels nor lie in death forever.

00:29:57Save for the weakness of his feeble will.

00:30:01Ligeia's will was as fierce as her.

00:30:05As her body was frail.

00:30:08Outwardly calm, even placid.

00:30:11She nevertheless pitted herself against death with a passion words are impotent to convey.

00:30:17As her body progressively wasted, she seemed to turn to the very stones of the abbey for renewed strength.

00:30:27As if they could sustain that burning desire for life.

00:30:32Only for life that ravaged her as much as the fever of disease.

00:30:39In a sense, Ligeia became the abbey.

00:30:44She never entered or left a room.

00:30:47Never walked down the darkest passageway without somehow illuminating it like a single moving candle.

00:30:54Like a blind man, I could sense her presence when I could not see her.

00:31:01In even the most trivial objects and actions.

00:31:05Her voice in the rustle of draperies.

00:31:08The lightness of her footfall in the fluttering of a moth's wing against a closed window pane.

00:31:17Even at the end, she seemed to have vanquished death.

00:31:20She smiled and said,

00:31:23I will always be your wife.

00:31:27Your only wife.

00:31:30I have willed it.

00:31:50Have you ever tried to recall to memory something forgotten?

00:31:56Been upon the very verge of remembrance?

00:31:58And yet in the end, been unable to,

00:32:00in fact, when someone was at a time in her death,

00:32:02were okay, it meant I couldn't to come?

00:32:04Is it still in this matter?

00:32:05Even through this music family in the thick mud withしか of a variety of strangers.

00:32:07Have you ever tried to recall to memory something forgotten?

00:32:13Been upon the very verge of remembrance,

00:32:16and yet in the end been unable to remember?

00:32:21No.

00:32:23No, if I fear, it's...

00:32:26It's for my mind that I fear.

00:32:30What, after all, is madness but belief in...

00:32:34in what does not exist?

00:32:38I believed in Lygia, in her will,

00:32:43and I believe too well.

00:32:45Consider the skill and the instruments required

00:32:49to cut the date of her death from that stone.

00:32:53And consider my skill with such instruments.

00:32:59And consider my hand guilty with marble.

00:33:05I cut the date from that stone.

00:33:08And you didn't know?

00:33:10No, not until now.

00:33:14So you see, if I fear, it's...

00:33:19It's for my mind.

00:33:21What? Why now?

00:33:23Verdon, you must get away.

00:33:27You must find something, your work, or someone...

00:33:53And your life!

00:33:56...

00:33:59But you ought not to take a bit of your mouth...

00:34:00How come it?

00:34:02I'm going to make you out for your help.

00:34:03Here, I'll take a bit of this gun over my head.

00:34:04But Jeff, you bring us back to the plunge.

00:34:06Why?

00:34:07o Pony

00:34:08I'm going to make you out for years...

00:34:09a hammer at you...

00:34:10He's gonna be out.

00:34:11He's gonna be out.

00:34:12He's gonna be out.

00:34:13And you get a help.

00:34:14I've got to help.

00:34:15You know what?

00:34:16I've got to help.

00:34:17Go on.

00:34:18He's gonna be out,

00:34:19He's gonna be out.

00:34:20You're safe now, my darling. You're safe with me.

00:34:50When I was a child, we stayed by the sea in a small town.

00:35:20A small house on a hill.

00:35:22I remember very little of my childhood.

00:35:25I lived with my father in the wild country.

00:35:28What was your father like?

00:35:30Oh, he was a strong man.

00:35:33His very manner was formed by the landscape.

00:35:36In his forehead, you could see the line of the hills against the sky.

00:35:41I feel I want to begin again with you.

00:35:44Take me somewhere I've never been before, somewhere new, for us.

00:35:49In Celtic religion, Stonehenge was a temple to the god of healing.

00:35:54It was built more than 3,000 years ago.

00:35:57And do you know why it remains today, Rowena?

00:36:00Because it was built with a sense of purpose.

00:36:03Stone by stone, like the pyramids in Egypt, or like the Aztec towers in Mexico.

00:36:08Like our abbey.

00:36:10Yes, my dear.

00:36:11Yes, like our abbey.

00:36:25Where are we?

00:36:26Won't be long now.

00:36:33Christopher reached me by post when we were in Rome.

00:36:37The papers for the sale of the abbey are almost all in order.

00:36:41Tomorrow, tomorrow we'll have a party to celebrate our return and our leaving.

00:36:47Well, here we are, my dear.

00:36:59Come along.

00:37:04Well, for the moment, this is your home, Rowena.

00:37:07Welcome home, ma'am.

00:37:19Your personal maid, ma'am.

00:37:21Ma'am?

00:37:22Oh, thank you.

00:37:24Oh, thank you.

00:37:25They're simply lovely.

00:37:27Oh, Werden, I...

00:37:29As long as we have to stay here, you will be comfortable.

00:37:59You need to be comfortable, right?

00:38:02Yes, of course.

00:38:04More, let's see.

00:38:05Let's not wait.

00:38:06Come along.

00:38:07Let's go, let's go.

00:38:08Let's go, let's go, let's go.

00:38:09We've got to find some.

00:38:10We'll have to be better.

00:38:11Thank you, Rosie.

00:38:12We'll have to take a look.

00:38:13Let's go, okay.

00:38:14Let's take a look.

00:38:15You can take a look.

00:38:16Let's go...

00:38:17Well, you can take a look.

00:38:18Don't forget you.

00:38:23You can take a look.

00:38:24Well, we'll have to talk to the world.

00:38:27Oh, my God.

00:38:57It's a burden.

00:39:27I tell you, it's not the fox, doctor. It's the hunt. The hunt.

00:39:37It'll pitch your wits and that of a pack of hounds against sheer animal cunning.

00:39:42Oh, it's more than a sport.

00:39:44For the fox, at any rate.

00:39:49Your bride seems in an unusually reflective mood tonight.

00:39:54A journey, no doubt, tighter.

00:39:56Yes, I dare say.

00:39:58What news on the sale of the abbey?

00:40:02Something rather awkward.

00:40:05More difficulty over the estate lying in two counties?

00:40:09No.

00:40:10What then?

00:40:14The deed to the abbey is in Lygia's name.

00:40:17And I can locate no certificate of her death.

00:40:20What can be done?

00:40:22Nothing without that.

00:40:24There never was a certification.

00:40:27But surely, the county authorities would have insisted on ascertaining the cause of her death.

00:40:32The confusion of the two counties again, each assumed that the other had seen to it.

00:40:37It's as simple as that.

00:40:38It's not as simple as that.

00:40:40The abbey, much of the estate is in her name.

00:40:43Should this be discovered, there'll be an inquest. Possibly more.

00:40:48No one, no one will go near Lygia's grave.

00:40:58We all hunt for different things in our lives, Baron.

00:41:01A colleague of mine in Switzerland, a charlatan really,

00:41:05one of France Mesmer claims to have brought to ground some subtle and invisible fluid

00:41:11with miraculous healing powers.

00:41:13Mesmer may be a charlatan doctor,

00:41:15but the power which he calls hypnotism is quite real.

00:41:21You know the man?

00:41:23No.

00:41:24But I knew an interested disciple.

00:41:29One who sought relief from an incurable ill.

00:41:33Were they cured?

00:41:37I say, were they cured?

00:41:39I think not.

00:41:41You don't seem certain.

00:41:43At any rate, hypnotism's effect on memory interests me more than its curative powers.

00:41:50Through it, one is able to call to mind things long forgotten.

00:41:57Or to forget things best not called to mind.

00:42:03And, uh, might we see a demonstration?

00:42:12Remember, I can't affect the sale of the abbey until something more is done.

00:42:16You see, legally, Lygia is still alive.

00:42:21Still your wife.

00:42:22I await your pleasure, sir.

00:42:26Christopher, I must talk to you.

00:42:29Since last night, until moments before you arrived,

00:42:31I've not seen burden.

00:42:33And something else, something horrible.

00:42:35Rowena, we mustn't keep our guests waiting.

00:42:38This is a very pleasant surprise.

00:42:40Is Lady Rowena going to assist you?

00:42:42Would you mind, my dear, assisting me?

00:42:47No.

00:42:48Sit down.

00:42:52Kenrick, put out the candles.

00:42:57My lord, I shall need your assistance, too.

00:43:00But...

00:43:01Please.

00:43:05Doctor.

00:43:07Christopher.

00:43:13Now, Rowena, just one thing.

00:43:16What do you remember of your mother?

00:43:20Well, nothing, really.

00:43:21Other than portraits.

00:43:23She died when I was three.

00:43:28Now, my dear...

00:43:29I missed you last night.

00:43:32You happened to come to me.

00:43:33I never left my room.

00:43:37Rowena...

00:43:38You must trust me.

00:43:41Give over your will to mine.

00:43:47No harm.

00:43:49No harm will come to you.

00:43:53Give over your will to mine.

00:44:00Your hands are melting into mine.

00:44:03Soon.

00:44:04Soon.

00:44:05Very soon.

00:44:07They will be one with mine.

00:44:10You will try, but you will not be able to.

00:44:14You will try soon.

00:44:16You will try soon.

00:44:18You will try soon.

00:44:20You will try now.

00:44:22But you will not.

00:44:24You cannot move them.

00:44:26Close your eyes.

00:44:36Rowena.

00:44:38Yes?

00:44:40You may let loose of my hands now.

00:44:45Rowena.

00:44:47You wish to let loose of my hands now.

00:44:50Because when you do, it will make you very happy.

00:44:54Very young.

00:44:56So young.

00:45:00All brightness.

00:45:02And butterflies are a wonder to behold.

00:45:05See them?

00:45:07See them?

00:45:08Yes.

00:45:09There's one resting on a rose bush.

00:45:11One whose wings you can almost touch.

00:45:13There.

00:45:14Reach out, Rowena.

00:45:15Touch those wings.

00:45:16You can almost...

00:45:17No.

00:45:18It flew away.

00:45:20No tears, Rowena.

00:45:23There is no need to weep.

00:45:27Your mother is coming.

00:45:31Can you see her?

00:45:35What is she doing?

00:45:37What does your mother usually do when you are about to cry, Rowena?

00:45:43She sings to me.

00:45:46She sings to you?

00:45:48What does she sing, Rowena?

00:45:50Sing it for us.

00:45:54I have a bonnet trimmed with blue.

00:45:59Do you wear it?

00:46:01Yes, I do.

00:46:03I will wear it when I can.

00:46:07Going to the ball with my young man.

00:46:11Will.

00:46:13Will.

00:46:15Will.

00:46:17Who knoweth the mysteries of the will?

00:46:20The will herein lieth which dieth not.

00:46:21Man need not kneel before the angels, nor lie in death forever, but for the weakness of his feeble will.

00:46:31I will always be your wife.

00:46:32Kenrick.

00:46:33The lights.

00:46:34Is it?

00:46:35Is it?

00:46:36Is it?

00:46:37Who knoweth the mysteries of the will?

00:46:39The will herein lieth which dieth not.

00:46:41Man need not kneel before the angels, nor lie in death forever, but for the weakness of his feeble will.

00:46:46I will always be your wife.

00:46:53Kenrick.

00:46:54The lights.

00:46:56Kenrick.

00:46:57The lights.

00:47:05I'm so sleepy.

00:47:14Should rest more easily now.

00:47:17I confess that I am somewhat confounded by what I have just seen.

00:47:20Yes.

00:47:21Should you require my further service.

00:47:22Yes, thank you doctor.

00:47:24Good night.

00:47:25Good night.

00:47:33Don't go.

00:47:35Please don't leave me tonight.

00:47:40You need rest.

00:47:42But there are things I must ask you.

00:47:45Tell you.

00:47:46Good night, my dear.

00:47:47Tomorrow will be soon enough.

00:47:51Should you need me, I'll be in my room.

00:47:53But Ferdinand...

00:47:54Good night, my dear.

00:47:56Good night.

00:48:16Good night.

00:48:17Good night, will be there.

00:48:18Best night.

00:48:19Good night.

00:48:20Good night.

00:48:21Good night.

00:48:38We will go.

00:48:39We'll be ready.

00:48:40Good night.

00:48:41Good night.

00:48:42Good night.

00:48:43Good night.

00:48:44Let's go.

00:49:14Let's go.

00:49:44Let's go.

00:50:14Let's go.

00:50:44Let's go.

00:51:14Let's go.

00:51:44Let's go.

00:52:14Let's go.

00:52:44Let's go.

00:52:46Let's go.

00:52:50Some things appeared in my room.

00:52:51Dead fox, saucer of milk.

00:52:53Let's go.

00:53:01Let's go.

00:53:03Let's go.

00:53:04Let's go.

00:53:11Let's go.

00:53:13Let's go.

00:53:14Let's go.

00:53:23Let's go.

00:53:24Let's go.

00:53:33Let's go.

00:53:34Let's go.

00:53:43Let's go.

00:53:44Let's go.

00:53:45Let's go.

00:53:46Let's go.

00:53:47Let's go.

00:53:48Let's go.

00:53:50Let's go.

00:53:51Let's go.

00:53:52Let's go.

00:53:53Let's go.

00:53:54Let's go.

00:53:55Let's go.

00:53:56Let's go.

00:53:59Let's go.

00:54:00Let's go.

00:54:01Let's go.

00:54:02Let's go.

00:54:05Let's go.

00:54:06Let's go.

00:54:07Let's go.

00:54:08Let's go.

00:54:09Let's go.

00:54:10Let's go.

00:54:11Let's go.

00:54:12I'm removed.

00:54:13I'll join you at breakfast, my dear.

00:54:14In the meanwhile, rest.

00:54:24Ma'am.

00:54:25Please show me what has disturbed you.

00:54:40I won't be able to show you what has disturbed me.

00:54:53Perhaps you could show me.

00:54:56I'm truly sorry.

00:54:59I sleep alone.

00:55:02I eat alone.

00:55:05And that's as it should be. After all, I'm not his wife.

00:55:10Am I?

00:55:12It's a...

00:55:14a legal technicality.

00:55:16Is it now?

00:55:17Along with the fox, the foo, the saucer of milk.

00:55:21My hairbrush filled with black hair with her.

00:55:24Are they just legal technicalities as well?

00:55:27But you said yourself that these objects disappeared when...

00:55:31Someone else beside myself was there.

00:55:34Christopher, did you imagine her words on my lips last night?

00:55:37Words I had never heard before.

00:55:39No.

00:55:41That woman is alive.

00:55:43There.

00:55:44From somewhere in the abbey, she comes to devil me.

00:55:46Destroy me.

00:55:48Somewhere in the abbey, her abbey, she's alive.

00:55:51And with her husband.

00:56:02Let's walk for a bit, my dear.

00:56:03Make me a promise.

00:56:11Don't ask for explanations.

00:56:14We must be in a position to demand them.

00:56:17And by tonight, we will be.

00:56:20Promise.

00:56:20Yes.

00:56:23Hello?

00:56:39See if we can invite you please.

00:56:41I will find you.

00:56:42Or what?

00:56:43Well, it's fine.

00:56:44I will just forgive you.

00:56:45I will just take aange on line.

00:56:45Josef셋a looked forward to it.

00:56:46And invite you to pass and see as me!

00:56:47I know our Danlamis but I'll also give you my potential.

00:56:49¶¶

00:57:19¶¶

00:57:25Ma'am.

00:57:30Is there something else I can fetch you, ma'am?

00:57:34Just my husband, Henry.

00:57:49I'm sorry to come upon you unannounced.

00:57:51Oh, you always did stand on ceremony.

00:57:54Yes.

00:57:56Yes, quite.

00:57:57May I?

00:57:59Oh, don't leave us, please.

00:58:04Henry.

00:58:05Sir?

00:58:07Where is your master?

00:58:09As I've told the Lady Romina, sir,

00:58:12he's working over some ancient treasure.

00:58:16In his study?

00:58:17Splendid.

00:58:18Then send for him.

00:58:19He's not there, sir.

00:58:22Where else might he work?

00:58:27I say, where else might he work?

00:58:30I can't quite say, sir.

00:58:32You can't say or you won't say. Which is it?

00:58:34Now sit.

00:58:40Go on, sit.

00:58:47If, Kenrick,

00:58:49you are unsure of your master's whereabouts,

00:58:52perhaps you can answer another question.

00:58:55Yes, sir.

00:58:57Where is Lygia?

00:59:04I should have thought the answer to that an obvious one.

00:59:07She's lying beneath a white stone

00:59:10and a carpet of pretty red flowers.

00:59:14Isn't that the case, Kenrick?

00:59:16Of course, sir.

00:59:17It was only that...

00:59:19Yes.

00:59:21It was such a strange question to ask.

00:59:24Quite.

00:59:26Yes.

00:59:27Quite.

00:59:33Why do you suppose I should ask so strange a question?

00:59:36I...

00:59:37I...

00:59:38Go on, man. Speak up.

00:59:42Perhaps...

00:59:44Perhaps the Lady Lygia

00:59:47has wearied of her final resting place.

00:59:51Perhaps she prefers the company of Verdon

00:59:53to the dubious comforts of her coffin.

00:59:58Or perhaps...

01:00:00Look at me.

01:00:02Perhaps she has never left his side.

01:00:04No, no. No, sir.

01:00:06No.

01:00:08Perhaps we shall have to look into Lygia's grave.

01:00:11And see.

01:00:13Please, sir.

01:00:14No more, please.

01:00:18I've no wish to torment you.

01:00:20Produce your master.

01:00:22Or point the way for me to find him.

01:00:29Give me leave, sir.

01:00:31You must give me leave.

01:00:32You must give me leave.

01:00:38My dear, go to your room. Lock the door.

01:00:41In no circumstances leave it until I return.

01:00:43But if Verdon comes...

01:00:44I can't promise that all will be well.

01:00:47But it will be done with.

01:00:49Soon.

01:01:01Give you another spade.

01:01:02Yes, sir.

01:01:14Oh, dear.

01:01:16Oh, dear.

01:01:17Oh, dear.

01:01:22Oh, dear.

01:01:24Oh, dear.

01:01:26Excuse me, Ben.

01:01:28These want water.

01:01:30Oh, I'll take them.

01:01:35Anything else, sir?

01:01:37No.

01:01:39No, thank you.

01:01:44Let's go.

01:02:14Let's go.

01:02:44Let's go.

01:03:14Let's go.

01:03:44Let's go.

01:04:14Let's go.

01:04:22That'll do.

01:04:23Roger.

01:04:24You've earned your ale tonight.

01:04:30Let's go.

01:04:40Let's go.

01:04:50Let's go.

01:05:00Let's go.

01:05:02Let's go.

01:05:12Let's go.

01:05:14Let's go.

01:05:24Let's go.

01:05:26Let's go.

01:05:36Let's go.

01:05:38Let's go.

01:05:48Let's go.

01:05:50Let's go.

01:05:51Let's go.

01:05:52Let's go.

01:05:53Let's go.

01:05:54Let's go.

01:05:56Let's go.

01:05:58Let's go.

01:05:59Let's go.

01:06:08Let's go.

01:06:10Let's go.

01:06:11Let's go.

01:06:12Let's go.

01:06:13Let's go.

01:06:14Let's go.

01:06:15Let's go.

01:06:16Let's go.

01:06:25Let's go.

01:06:27Let's go.

01:06:28Let's go.

01:06:37Let's go.

01:06:39Let's go.

01:07:03Ferdinand?

01:07:05Ferdinand?

01:07:07Ferdinand?

01:07:33Ferdinand!

01:08:03Ferdinand?

01:08:13It's no use, Rowena.

01:08:15He's beyond any of us now.

01:08:17Beyond any shock.

01:08:19Come with us now, Rowena.

01:08:21He'll come alone when he can.

01:08:23It's not his doing, ma'am.

01:08:25It's hers. Hers.

01:08:27The Lady Lygia's. Her eyes.

01:08:29Before she died, she killed him with her eyes

01:08:31the way he did with you that night.

01:08:33She told him she was not dying.

01:08:35Would never die.

01:08:37But would remain here waiting for him.

01:08:39And that every night, he must come and care for her.

01:08:41Be with her.

01:08:43And that during the day, he must forget the nights.

01:08:45And he would forget.

01:08:47And yet, sometimes, I've seen him struggle to remember.

01:08:51Struggle against her madness.

01:08:53But the night always fell.

01:08:55And with it, her madness always fell upon him.

01:08:59And did you never try to tell him?

01:09:03When I tried, he became still, like now.

01:09:07He wouldn't see, wouldn't listen.

01:09:09He's still held by her word.

01:09:12Only she can release him.

01:09:15And she's dead.

01:09:19Burden?

01:09:29Burden, you must trust me.

01:09:33Give over your will to mine.

01:09:37Soon.

01:09:39Very soon, you will see standing before you, Lygia.

01:09:47Look at me, Burden.

01:09:49I am Lygia.

01:09:51Look at me now.

01:09:53And listen.

01:09:59And remember.

01:10:01Remember everything.

01:10:05Remember all I've ever asked of you.

01:10:07And when you do remember, you will be free.

01:10:11My will fails me, Burden.

01:10:15I am dying, Burden.

01:10:17I am dying.

01:10:27And when I do, you will see me dead.

01:10:35And remember it.

01:10:37All.

01:10:39Oh.

01:10:41Oh.

01:10:45Oh.

01:10:47Oh.

01:11:09It's too late, Christopher.

01:11:19She wants a place to rest.

01:11:39It's too late, Christopher.

01:12:07Please.

01:12:09Leave me alone with my wife.

01:12:39Leave me alone with my wife.

01:12:44Leave me alone with my wife.

01:13:09No, come on!

01:13:39Come on.

01:14:09Oh, my God.

01:14:39Burden, Burden.

01:15:09You killed Rowena, and I killed Ligeia.

01:15:13But that's Rowena's body!

01:15:17It's Rowena!

01:15:19But it was Ligeia!

01:15:21It was Ligeia!

01:15:23Yes, Christopher, take her and leave.

01:15:25Make me mad, make whatever you will,

01:15:27but leave this happy now!

01:15:29No!

01:15:31No!

01:15:33No!

01:15:35No!

01:15:37I know who is responsible.

01:15:39Take Rowena out of here!

01:16:07No!

01:16:09No!

01:16:11No!

01:16:13No!

01:16:15No!

01:16:17No!

01:16:19No!

01:16:21No!

01:16:23No!

01:16:25No!

01:16:28Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee!

01:16:35Whee! Whee!

01:16:58Whee! Whee! Whee!

01:17:28Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Whee! Wh

01:17:58Whoa!

01:18:28Let's go.

01:18:58Let's go.

01:19:28Let's go.

01:19:58Hello, Christopher.

01:20:10Let's go.

01:20:40Let's go.

01:21:10Let's go.

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