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00:00CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents...
00:05Come in.
00:23Welcome. I'm E.G. Marshall.
00:26Welcome to a world we all inhabit too little.
00:31The world of imagination.
00:33Our own.
00:34Yours and mine.
00:36Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a ghost?
00:40Well, one of this Earth's greatest writers did, Oscar Wilde.
00:44And having let his imagination play with the idea,
00:48he set down his findings in a ghost story that ranks with the world's finest.
00:52The classic tale of the Canterville ghost.
00:57And if by chance you should think that a ghost's life is all wine and roses,
01:02why then listen to what went on one night at Canterville Castle.
01:07Blood! I must have blood.
01:10And when I say blood, I do not mean a drop or two.
01:13I mean gallons.
01:16Or am I not called Gibeon, the bloodsucker of Bexley Moore?
01:21Blood!
01:22Oh, give me blood!
01:26Blood, my foot!
01:28What you need is some oil for those rusty chains.
01:31Our mystery drama, The Canterville Ghost,
01:43was especially adapted from the Oscar Wilde classic
01:46for the Mystery Theater by George Lothar
01:49and stars Arnold Moss.
01:52Our story takes place in Canterville Castle,
02:06ancestral home of the DeCanterville family since the 15th century.
02:11You immediately assume, I have no doubt, that the castle is in England.
02:16Well, it isn't.
02:18It was, but it isn't anymore.
02:20For you see, that well-known multi-millionaire Hiram Otis
02:24had it dismantled stone by stone,
02:28transported to the United States,
02:30and re-erected stone by stone
02:32on his own estate in the Midwest.
02:34So it is that one fine afternoon,
02:38we find him, Hiram, and his wife Martha,
02:41and his lovely daughter Virginia,
02:43and Jeffrey de Canterville, her fiancé,
02:46in the newly restored library of the newly erected castle
02:49of the Cantervilles.
02:51Well, Mr. Otis, I hope you're satisfied with the job I've done.
02:55Canterville Castle re-erected, lock, stock, and barrel,
02:58even to the ancestral gardens which surround it.
03:00Well, the castle's okay, but I don't know about the gardens.
03:04The guy I hired to be the general manager
03:06when we opened the place as a tourist resort
03:09says the pool ought to be where you put the pine woods.
03:12But, Daddy, that's the exact area where the pine woods were,
03:16in England.
03:16Well, Ginny, dear, tourists won't know that.
03:18But that was part of the deal,
03:20when Daddy bought the castle from Jeff
03:22and hired him to re-erect it here,
03:24that nothing would be changed.
03:25Well, business is business.
03:27If it'll be more convenient for tourists
03:29to have the pool where the pine woods are...
03:31Now, what's this?
03:34Well, you know what that is, Mr. Otis.
03:35It's the bloodstain.
03:37That's the spot in front of the fireplace
03:39where Sir Simon de Canterville
03:40stabbed his wife to death way back in 1601.
03:44I told you I wanted it removed.
03:46And I told you it can't be removed.
03:49You got any Otis bathroom cleanser around, Jeff?
03:52Yes.
03:53Yes, of course, in the cleaning closets.
03:55You told me to stock it.
03:56Get a can of it.
03:57But, Mr. Otis, really...
03:58Otis bathroom cleanser is guaranteed
04:00to get rid of any stain.
04:02And it'll get rid of this one.
04:04Go on, get me a can of it.
04:06Oh, good heavens, that vase.
04:09Oh, dear, it fell off the mantelpiece.
04:11No, it didn't fall off, Mrs. Otis.
04:13It was knocked off, I'd say,
04:15by Sir Simon de Canterville.
04:16The ghost?
04:17Yes, I'm afraid he doesn't like the idea
04:19of removing that bloodstain.
04:21However, I'll get the cleanser.
04:24Him and his ghost.
04:26What do you think?
04:27I was born yesterday.
04:28Jeff wouldn't lie to you, Daddy.
04:31And if he says the castle's haunted,
04:33then...
04:33Now, look, Ginny.
04:34Just because this fortune hunter fiancé of yours,
04:37Lord Jeffrey Canterville,
04:39believes in ghosts,
04:40doesn't mean I have to.
04:41Daddy, if you call Jeff a fortune hunter
04:43once more, just once more...
04:45Oh, okay, okay, honey.
04:47I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
04:49All I want is your happiness, sweetie.
04:52And if you make you happy,
04:54fine, fine.
04:55Here we are, Mr. Otis,
04:57a fresh can of Otis bathroom cleanser.
05:00All right, let me have it.
05:02Now, watch.
05:04I spray it on the bloodstain.
05:06Will you bring a cloth to wipe it off with?
05:11Oh, no, I'm sorry.
05:12Oh, never mind.
05:13Use my handkerchief.
05:15Now, one wipe, so...
05:17Where's your bloodstain now?
05:20Oh, Hiram, it's gone.
05:22What else?
05:23An Otis guarantee is an Otis guarantee.
05:26It will come back.
05:27Not after an Otis cleanser treatment, it won't.
05:30Oh, what was that?
05:35Oh, what is it?
05:37It's the ghost again, Mrs. Otis.
05:39No, it was the wind or something.
05:42But there isn't any wind.
05:44Well, it was something else, but not a ghost.
05:47I just plain don't believe in ghosts,
05:49and that's the end of that.
05:51Well, if you ask me, Mr. Otis,
05:53it's only the beginning.
05:55Oh, my God.
06:00Eleanor!
06:02Eleanor!
06:02Oh, blast the woman, where is she?
06:04Here, Simon, dear.
06:06Here I am.
06:07Get the paint bucket.
06:08We have to repaint the stain.
06:11Again?
06:12I promise you, however often Mr. Hiram Otis
06:14erases my bloodstain.
06:16My bloodstain, dear.
06:19Oh, all right, all right.
06:21Yours.
06:22But you wouldn't have had it
06:23if it hadn't been for me.
06:26You do forgive me.
06:28Oh, my dear.
06:29I have forgiven you at least once
06:31every hundred years since it happened.
06:34I should not be here otherwise.
06:36And the least I can do is to see
06:38that your stay here remains peaceful
06:40by giving that barbarous American
06:43his comeuppance.
06:45Fear not, my dearest love.
06:47It is Sir Simon de Canterville,
06:50me, against Mr. Hiram Otis,
06:53him,
06:53but I truly believe
06:54there's little doubt
06:55as to the outcome
06:57of the battle.
07:05A blue bloodstain?
07:08What do you mean,
07:08a blue bloodstain?
07:09Uh, just what I say,
07:11Mr. Otis.
07:11The stains reappeared,
07:13and this time it's blue, Daddy.
07:15Now, look,
07:16I don't know what you two are up to.
07:18Up to?
07:19For your information,
07:20the boss painter
07:20who's redecorating
07:21the upstairs bedrooms
07:23complained that somebody's
07:24stealing his paints.
07:25And you think that we,
07:27that Jeff and I would...
07:28Who else?
07:28But why would you think that?
07:30Because the way I see it...
07:32Yes?
07:33How do you see it?
07:36Well, I don't know how I see it.
07:39All I know is
07:40it doesn't make sense.
07:42Now, we better start
07:43making some sense around here
07:44because we open in a week.
07:47Now, get rid of that stain.
07:48Once and for all,
07:50get rid of it!
07:51Do you realize
07:59that I have repainted
08:00that bloodstain
08:01by the fireplace
08:02four separate times
08:04and each time
08:05that meddling American
08:06has had it removed?
08:08I should think
08:08you'd want to forget it.
08:10After all,
08:11it's a reminder
08:12of why you are doomed
08:13to haunt Canterville Castle.
08:15Oh, dear,
08:16and I with you.
08:17But you are not.
08:19You can leave
08:20any time you wish, Eleanor.
08:22Oh, Simon,
08:24not without you.
08:26Oh, my dear.
08:29Was ever a man
08:29so loved by a woman
08:30as I by you?
08:32Or I by you.
08:34Ah, and yet
08:36I killed you.
08:38Because you loved me.
08:41Well, however you put it,
08:42I condemned us both
08:43to eternal misery.
08:45Well, it shall be
08:46misery in peace
08:49for nearly 400 years.
08:51I've haunted
08:51Canterville Castle
08:52without hindrance.
08:55Yet what that vile
08:56upstart has put us
08:57through in the past
08:58three years,
09:00tearing down the castle
09:01around our heads,
09:03building it up again
09:04around our heads,
09:05and oh,
09:06the noise,
09:09the noise.
09:11And now he means
09:12to turn it,
09:13my castle,
09:14into what they call
09:15a tourist attraction.
09:17Never!
09:18My dearest,
09:19what can you do?
09:21That beastly American
09:22must be driven out.
09:24And his family with him.
09:26I know.
09:28Let me see what I have
09:29in the way of
09:30grizzly costumes.
09:33Ah, yes, yes, yes.
09:35I think this should do
09:37the trick quite neatly.
09:39What do you think?
09:40Gaunt Gibeon,
09:41the bloodsucker
09:43of Bexley Moore.
09:44Oh, that's smashing.
09:53Jeff,
09:54I won't let you
09:56get married
09:56till you get a job.
09:58But Daddy,
09:59Jeff doesn't need a job.
10:01He has all the money
10:02you paid him
10:03for Canterville Castle.
10:04Have you?
10:05Have you, Jeff?
10:06You know I haven't,
10:08Mr. Otis.
10:09But obviously
10:10Ginny doesn't.
10:11You didn't tell her.
10:12Tell her what, Otis?
10:13Yes, what?
10:14Now, tell her.
10:16Ginny,
10:17I'm afraid that
10:18just about every cent
10:19your father paid
10:20for Canterville
10:21went to pay off
10:22back taxes,
10:23liens, mortgages,
10:24interest payments,
10:25and the Lord
10:25only knows what.
10:26Oh, Jeff.
10:27Well, don't you see,
10:28that's why I sold
10:29Canterville in the first place.
10:30I had to.
10:31I couldn't keep it up anymore.
10:33I had no choice.
10:34It was sell
10:35or lose everything.
10:36So you see,
10:38he's broke.
10:39Flat busted.
10:39Now, just a moment.
10:40I have the promise
10:41of a job, Mr. Otis,
10:43a top flight
10:44architectural firm
10:45in New York.
10:45The promise
10:46of a job?
10:47Now, look, Jeff,
10:48there'll be no marriage
10:49until...
10:50What's that?
10:52I don't know.
10:54I'm afraid I do.
10:55It's...
10:56It's the Canterville ghost.
10:58The ghost?
10:59Come on, Jeff.
11:01Come on now.
11:02Aren't these tricks of yours
11:04getting just a little childish?
11:06Now, Mr. Otis,
11:06believe me,
11:07this is no act.
11:08It's the real thing.
11:09Whenever the ghost
11:10moans like this,
11:11it means he's going
11:11to put in an appearance.
11:13And I've seen
11:13some of those appearances.
11:15Now, Mrs. Otis,
11:16Ginny,
11:17you'd, uh,
11:17you'd better come with me.
11:18Oh, where to?
11:19Well, anywhere but here.
11:20I'm not afraid
11:21of the ghost myself.
11:22He's never done me any harm,
11:24but his appearance
11:24can be positively ghastly.
11:27And you'd better not see it,
11:28either of you.
11:29No.
11:30I'm staying here.
11:31What?
11:31What?
11:32I've been hoping
11:33to see him, Jeff.
11:35Hoping to see the ghost?
11:36Yes, Mother.
11:37Oh, somehow,
11:38I have a feeling
11:39I won't be afraid of him.
11:42Don't ask me why.
11:43I can't explain the feeling.
11:45I just know I won't be.
11:49Of course you won't.
11:51Jeff lets you in
11:51on his little gag.
11:53But I suppose
11:53I'm to be scared to death,
11:56huh?
11:56Oh, but Daddy,
11:57there is a ghost.
11:58You've got to believe it.
11:59Oh!
12:01Look!
12:03Oh, my heaven!
12:05Blood!
12:05I must have blood!
12:10He's got to be kidding.
12:11When I say blood,
12:12I do not mean
12:13a drop or two.
12:14I mean gallons.
12:16For am I not gaunt,
12:18Gibeon,
12:18the bloodsucker
12:20of Bexley Moore?
12:22Blood!
12:23Blood my foot!
12:27What you need
12:27is some oil
12:28for those rusty chains.
12:30And I just happen
12:31to have a can of Otis
12:32all-purpose
12:33here in this desk drawer.
12:35Screams!
12:36Lowny!
12:37Grovel!
12:38Inabject fear
12:39before me!
12:41Ah, ah,
12:42here's that can
12:43of Otis oil.
12:45Oh!
12:46Oh, knock off
12:47the screaming.
12:48You got nothing
12:49to scream about
12:50because believe me,
12:51this oil will do
12:52the trick
12:52for those chains
12:53of yours.
12:54Leave him!
12:55I'm ruining my chains!
12:57Daddy, stop it!
12:58Leave him alone!
12:59And another squirt
13:00right here!
13:00Oh, Daddy, stop it!
13:01Give me that can!
13:02Here now!
13:03Leave him alone!
13:04Can't you see
13:05how unhappy he is?
13:08Oh, now, look,
13:09Jenny,
13:09any guy tries
13:10to pull a gag
13:10on me like that...
13:11No gag, no trick.
13:12This is misery.
13:15Oh, look at his face.
13:17Look into his eyes.
13:19He's in agony.
13:20I've never felt
13:21so sorry
13:22for anyone
13:22in my life.
13:24You...
13:24You feel sorry
13:26for me?
13:28Oh, yes.
13:30Oh, yes.
13:32No one has felt
13:33sorry for me
13:34in over
13:35370 years.
13:38I do.
13:39But you...
13:40You frighten me.
13:46Oh, no, you can't be.
13:49You couldn't be.
13:50No, no.
13:51Not the golden girl.
13:54Oh, come on, you two.
13:56Stop it!
13:58Nice little act
14:00but just a little
14:01creaky in spots.
14:03You clod!
14:04You lout!
14:05You pulchroon!
14:07Is it thus you'd
14:08haunt a noble lord
14:09of Caterpill?
14:11Hear me then.
14:13I sought but to warn you
14:14hence by harrowing
14:16up your soul.
14:17But there's another way
14:18to be rid of you.
14:20Death!
14:21No!
14:22I...
14:22Oh!
14:23I...
14:23No, no.
14:25Please, no, please.
14:26I beg you.
14:27Don't kill him.
14:28Don't!
14:28For thine own sake
14:34then, child.
14:35Be warned
14:36and get thee hence.
14:39I am Simon
14:40of Caterpill
14:41and easy
14:43wrought into
14:43murderous rage.
14:45So be gone.
14:47Be gone!
14:48Be gone!
14:52Do you believe now
14:53that he's a real ghost?
14:57I sure do.
14:58I...
14:59I guess we'd better
15:00do what he wants us to do.
15:01Oh, let's leave the castle.
15:03Oh, no.
15:05Are you saying
15:05that you won't...
15:06You bet I am.
15:08I paid a fortune
15:09for this joint.
15:10I'd rather die
15:12than see that money
15:13go down the drain.
15:14Oh, no!
15:15I'll tear this damn castle
15:17down again
15:18stone by stone
15:19before he gets
15:20the satisfaction
15:21of seeing me run.
15:23You hear that, Buster?
15:25Stone by stone.
15:34It certainly appears
15:36that for once,
15:37for the first time
15:38in nearly 400 years,
15:40the ghost
15:41of Sir Simon de Caterpill
15:43has met his match.
15:45What happens,
15:46you may ask,
15:47when ancient English ghost
15:49meets eyeball to eyeball
15:51with modern American
15:52business tycoon?
15:54We'll learn more
15:55when I return shortly
15:57with Act Two.
16:08Now, really, you know,
16:10Sir Simon de Caterpill,
16:11or rather, I should say,
16:12the ghost of Sir Simon de Caterpill,
16:15can't be blamed
16:16for threatening
16:16to kill Hiram Otis.
16:18After all,
16:19it is his castle,
16:20or it was,
16:21and, well,
16:23how would you feel
16:24if you'd lived somewhere
16:25for nearly 400 years
16:26only to have someone
16:28you'd never seen before
16:29threaten to tear
16:30the place down
16:31stone by stone?
16:33Now,
16:33you really can't blame him
16:34for being in a towering rage.
16:37Eleanor,
16:38I shall rend him
16:40limb from limb.
16:41Oh, Simon,
16:43perhaps we ought to leave
16:44the Americans in peace.
16:45Oh, no, no.
16:46Oh, darling, please.
16:48I say no.
16:49Oh, Simon, please.
16:51Don't make me speak
16:52severely to you.
16:54Severely?
16:55Well,
16:56truthfully,
16:58it's quite possible
16:59you've lost your ability
17:00to frighten people.
17:03Lost
17:03my ability
17:04to
17:05frighten people?
17:06Yes, dear.
17:07You are
17:08but a ghost
17:09of your former self.
17:11Just what do you mean?
17:12Well,
17:12I very much fear
17:13that you're growing stale
17:15and in the parlance
17:16of the day,
17:18why,
17:18you simply
17:19can't hack it anymore.
17:22Hack it?
17:23Not able
17:23to hack it?
17:25Me?
17:25Oh,
17:26Simon,
17:27come now.
17:28Were you not reduced
17:29to using brute force?
17:30You,
17:31who through
17:31all these centuries
17:33have prided yourself
17:34on the artistry
17:35of your hideous
17:36disguises.
17:38you failed
17:40to frighten
17:41a mere mortal.
17:43And Simon,
17:44an American
17:45at that.
17:46Well,
17:47he's a clod,
17:48altogether too stupid
17:49to have even
17:50a semblance
17:51of nerves.
17:54Is that thunder?
17:56I think so.
17:58It just occurs
17:59to me
18:00I've always
18:01been at my best
18:03during
18:03a thunderstorm.
18:05True enough.
18:06And tonight
18:07to judge
18:08from that sky
18:08out there
18:09will be a night
18:10of elemental
18:12fury,
18:13a perfect
18:14background
18:15for haunting.
18:16I shall outdo
18:17myself this night.
18:19I shall employ
18:19a disguise
18:20so horrible,
18:23so fiendish,
18:25something guaranteed
18:26to drive the churl
18:28out of his skull.
18:30What?
18:31Yes,
18:31yes,
18:32yes,
18:32that is the question.
18:33What,
18:33what,
18:33what,
18:34what,
18:34and it?
18:35I have
18:36every confidence
18:37that you,
18:39my sweet,
18:39my sweet,
18:40will create
18:40a costume
18:41that every ghost
18:42in England
18:43in the world
18:44would give
18:45his winding sheet
18:46to possess.
18:47Oh,
18:48you are too kind,
18:49altogether too kind.
18:51But let me think,
18:52let,
18:54aha.
18:55Oh,
18:56you,
18:57you have it?
18:57Yes,
18:58yes,
18:59you,
18:59my darling,
19:00have given me
19:00a thought.
19:01Winding sheets,
19:03that is the ticket.
19:05A winding sheet?
19:06Of course,
19:07I have an excellent one,
19:08very old,
19:09very moldy,
19:10the one with the frilled cuffs
19:12and neck.
19:13But of course,
19:14of course,
19:14do go up.
19:15I will wear that
19:16and take with me
19:18my rusty dagger.
19:21I shall approach the room
19:22moaning and groaning
19:23in a most gruesome fashion.
19:26When I enter it,
19:26I shall stand over them
19:28in the form of a green,
19:29icy,
19:30cold corpse
19:31till they're all but paralyzed
19:33with fear.
19:35And then,
19:36and then I shall cast off
19:37the winding sheet
19:38and crawl around the room
19:40with white,
19:41bleached bones
19:42and one rolling eyeball.
19:46Oh,
19:47Simon,
19:48dear,
19:48you have outdone yourself.
19:51I dare say
19:53even you will agree
19:54I can still
19:55cut the mustard,
19:57my dear.
19:58Oh,
19:58you can,
19:59you have.
20:00what of the girl?
20:03The American's daughter?
20:04Oh,
20:04she,
20:05she must go in peace,
20:06I touch her not.
20:08Why so?
20:08Because,
20:11well,
20:11my dear,
20:12you will scarcely believe this,
20:13but not only did I fail
20:14to frighten her,
20:16but she said,
20:18well,
20:18she said she
20:19felt sorry for me.
20:23She said that?
20:24Yes,
20:25yes,
20:25and she looked at me
20:26when she said it with eyes,
20:27where Eleanor,
20:29her eyes were filled
20:31with sympathy
20:32and pity
20:33and,
20:34yes,
20:36love.
20:38Oh,
20:39Simon,
20:40could she be
20:42the golden girl?
20:46I should like to think so,
20:48but
20:48I fear not,
20:51my love.
20:51it's too much
20:53to ask,
20:54much too much.
20:57But I must
20:58do work.
20:59The night
21:00approaches
21:00and the storm.
21:02I promise you,
21:03oh,
21:03I promise you,
21:05that within a few
21:06short hours,
21:07I shall reduce
21:08the cold-blooded
21:09Hiram Otis
21:11to a mindless
21:13mess.
21:19Why have you
21:19brought me here,
21:20Jeff?
21:21I've never seen
21:22this part of the castle
21:23before.
21:24It's a hidden passage,
21:25or it once was.
21:26As to why I brought you here,
21:27well,
21:27it seems to me
21:28every time I want
21:29to be alone with you,
21:29your father shows up
21:31or your mother
21:32and,
21:33oh,
21:33Ginny,
21:33I do want to talk to you.
21:36Yes?
21:37Ginny,
21:39marry me.
21:40But,
21:41Jeff,
21:41dear,
21:41I'm going to.
21:42You know that?
21:43No,
21:43I mean now.
21:44Tonight.
21:44Tonight?
21:45Yes,
21:45let's get in my car,
21:46drive to town,
21:47find a justice of the peace
21:49and get married.
21:49But,
21:50darling,
21:50we don't have a license.
21:51Oh,
21:52we'll get one.
21:52How?
21:53I don't know,
21:53but we will.
21:54I'll,
21:55I'll manage it somehow.
21:56Jeff,
21:56this is the United States,
21:58not England.
21:59Things are done differently here.
22:01And anyway,
22:02there's,
22:02there's no sense
22:03discussing it
22:04because
22:04I just
22:06can't go against
22:07my father's wishes.
22:09Oh,
22:09you don't have to.
22:09You don't have to be afraid of him.
22:11Afraid?
22:12Oh,
22:12darling,
22:12I'm not afraid of him.
22:13I love him.
22:15I know what you think,
22:17that he's hard
22:17and domineering
22:18and ruthless
22:19and a lot of other things,
22:20but you know,
22:21inside,
22:22he's not that way at all.
22:24Perhaps not.
22:25Unfortunately,
22:26I only know him
22:27from the outside.
22:28But as time goes by,
22:29you'll learn to know him better
22:30and you'll see.
22:31Ginny,
22:31you're not a child.
22:32You're a woman.
22:33I need you,
22:34Ginny.
22:35I want you.
22:36Jeff,
22:37please,
22:37please,
22:38darling.
22:38No.
22:38Ginny,
22:39Ginny,
22:40please.
22:41Jeff.
22:42Oh,
22:43blood.
22:44I must have blood.
22:46Oh,
22:46no,
22:47not tonight,
22:48not now.
22:48And when I say blood,
22:50I don't mean a drop or two of blood.
22:51I mean gallons of blood.
22:55It's him.
22:56It's the ghost.
22:58Who else?
22:59Oh,
22:59to drive that churl,
23:00Hiram Otis,
23:01out of his mind.
23:02Oh,
23:03oh,
23:05oh,
23:05misery.
23:06Oh,
23:07agony.
23:08Oh,
23:08oh,
23:09oh,
23:09oh,
23:09he went right by us.
23:11He never saw us.
23:13Yes,
23:13I know.
23:13Now,
23:13let's follow him
23:14and see what he's up to.
23:15Oh,
23:15horror.
23:16It is horror.
23:17Harky to the horrifying moans
23:20of the vampire monk.
23:23Oh,
23:23my parents' bedroom.
23:27He's gone in there.
23:28Harky to the horrifying moans
23:30of the vampire monk
23:32or the bloodless Benedictine.
23:36Who,
23:36who,
23:36who,
23:37who's there?
23:38The vampire monk.
23:40See,
23:41I bend over you
23:42a green,
23:44icy corks.
23:45Watch as I crawl around the road
23:47room with white bleached bones
23:49and one rolling eyeball.
23:53Oh,
23:53what are you doing on the floor?
23:57Huh?
23:58Oh,
23:59why,
24:00you're the ghost,
24:00aren't you?
24:01Well,
24:02please now,
24:03could you be just a bit more quiet?
24:05My husband has had a very tiring day
24:08and he needs a sleep
24:09and you're certainly going to wake him up
24:11sooner or later
24:12with all that moaning and groaning.
24:14Well,
24:14I am a ghost.
24:16I'm haunting you.
24:17All right,
24:18all right,
24:18all right,
24:19but please do it quietly.
24:20Why,
24:21would you?
24:21Ride and ridicule me,
24:23would you?
24:23Oh,
24:23but please,
24:24you misunderstand.
24:25Pay for it.
24:26I,
24:26woman,
24:27pay with thy heart's blood.
24:29You've seen your daughter
24:29for the last time
24:31on this earth.
24:32For the last time.
24:34Jeff,
24:35Jeff,
24:36he means me.
24:37No,
24:38darling,
24:38he can't.
24:39If he didn't see us following him.
24:40I have seen you.
24:42I saw you there
24:43in the secret passage
24:44but was too busy
24:45with other matters
24:46to be bothered with you.
24:47I saw you following me.
24:49From the back of my head,
24:50I saw you.
24:52Stand aside,
24:53Jeffrey de Canterville.
24:55I take your beloved with me
24:58into the next world.
25:00Oh,
25:00no,
25:00you don't.
25:01I warn you.
25:03You're a Canterville
25:04and I would do you no harm
25:06but stand in my way
25:08and I will place on you
25:09as I already have on them
25:11the Canterville curse.
25:14No.
25:15Oh,
25:15no.
25:16Oh,
25:16yes.
25:17Stand aside,
25:18I say.
25:20Stand aside.
25:21Wait.
25:23Yes?
25:24If you wish to take me
25:26into the next world,
25:28all right,
25:28go ahead
25:29but leave Jeffrey alone.
25:31Leave my parents alone.
25:32Don't harm them.
25:34You
25:35would give your life
25:37for them.
25:41Oh,
25:42Ginny.
25:43Jeffrey.
25:44She's gone,
25:45vanished.
25:47Yes.
25:48What does it mean?
25:49Oh,
25:49good Lord,
25:50what does it mean?
25:51What?
25:52What does what mean?
25:54What's going on here?
25:55Oh,
25:55Hiram,
25:56that ghost,
25:57that ghost,
25:57he's taken Ginny.
25:58He's taken her with him
25:59into the next world.
26:01Oh,
26:01come on now.
26:02It's the truth.
26:04In heaven's name,
26:05Miss Rodis,
26:05wake up to the truth.
26:07The ghost of Simon
26:08to Canterville
26:08has taken Ginny
26:09out of this world
26:10and into his own.
26:11And you'll never
26:12see her again.
26:13And I'll,
26:15and I'll never
26:16see her again.
26:17What the devil
26:19are you talking about?
26:20It's,
26:21it's the curse
26:22of the Cantervilles.
26:24The ghost placed
26:25the curse
26:26on you tonight.
26:27Oh,
26:28what lies ahead
26:30for you,
26:31Mr. Otis?
26:32Yeah?
26:33What does
26:34lie ahead for me?
26:36I can't even
26:36begin to tell you.
26:38And even if I could,
26:40I wouldn't dare.
26:42Strange a sort
26:51of ghost,
26:52Sir Simon
26:53to Canterville.
26:54At one moment,
26:55he's almost gentle,
26:57tender,
26:58and the next,
26:59in a towering rage.
27:02He acts almost
27:03like us humans,
27:04doesn't he?
27:05And like us humans,
27:06he may have jumped
27:07from the frying pan
27:09into the fire
27:10in abducting
27:11Virginia Otis.
27:12We'll find out
27:13shortly
27:14when I return
27:15with Act Three.
27:16Sure.
27:26I take you now
27:28down a short flight
27:29of wide stone steps
27:31somewhere
27:32in the nether regions
27:33of Canterville Castle.
27:36Steps stained
27:37by centuries
27:38of dampness.
27:40It is a place
27:41where rats
27:41and beetles
27:42might scuttle
27:43about
27:43in and among
27:45the bleached bones
27:46of a skeleton
27:46which lies
27:47on the stone floor.
27:50Poor skeleton.
27:52One of its hands,
27:53manacled,
27:54claws towards
27:54the remains
27:55of a bowl
27:56which once held food.
28:01A door opens.
28:03A light appears
28:04on the steps.
28:05And Sir Simon
28:06to Canterville
28:06sweeps down the steps,
28:08dragging Virginia Otis
28:09after him.
28:10He flings her
28:11to the floor.
28:12Here
28:12lie my bones.
28:15Here soon
28:15shall lie yours.
28:17He whips the dagger
28:18from the case
28:19at his side,
28:20stoops,
28:20grabs her by the hair,
28:22and holding her head back,
28:23makes as if to plunge
28:24the blade
28:25into her throat,
28:26but
28:26he stops short.
28:28How can you look
28:29at me like that?
28:30Are you not afraid?
28:32No.
28:34You face death,
28:35yet you're not afraid.
28:39Do I face death?
28:41Will you kill me?
28:43What is to prevent me?
28:46You killed once
28:47out of passion
28:48and have suffered
28:49nearly four centuries
28:50for it.
28:51Would you dare again?
28:53I would.
28:54I,
28:55I would.
28:56Well then,
28:58if I'm to die,
29:00I suppose I shall.
29:01Being afraid
29:02wouldn't help matters.
29:04But really,
29:05I'm
29:06not afraid.
29:08At least,
29:09not of you.
29:14Eleanor was right.
29:16Eleanor?
29:16My wife.
29:17She says I don't seem
29:18to frighten
29:19anyone anymore
29:20that I can't
29:21hack us
29:23anymore.
29:25Why do you want to?
29:27I'm a ghost.
29:28It's my only reason
29:30for existing.
29:31It's not a very good
29:32reason if you ask me.
29:33It's no reason at all
29:34if it comes to that.
29:36It's simply part
29:37of the punishment
29:37I must bear
29:38for murdering
29:41my wife.
29:42The lady Eleanor?
29:43Yes.
29:44Why did you murder her?
29:46Jealousy?
29:48Unreasoning jealousy.
29:50I thought her
29:51in love
29:51with another man.
29:52I found out later
29:53how wrong I'd been.
29:55But it was too late then.
29:56I assure you
29:58my remorse
29:59was so great
30:00I hardly struggled
30:01at all
30:01when her brothers
30:02chained me
30:03in this dungeon
30:04and starved me
30:06to death.
30:08And that?
30:10That's your skeleton?
30:12Yes.
30:14Poor skeleton.
30:17Poor ghost.
30:19You must be
30:20very tired.
30:22As only a man
30:22who has not slept
30:23for nearly 400 years
30:25can be.
30:27But there'll be
30:27no rest for me
30:28never any rest
30:30until the legend
30:31of Canterville Castle
30:33is fulfilled.
30:34But I didn't know
30:35there was a legend.
30:36Jeff never told me.
30:37Oh yes, yes.
30:39And when it is fulfilled
30:40then
30:41why then
30:42I shall sleep
30:43at last
30:44in the little garden
30:46far beyond
30:47the pine woods.
30:47What garden
30:49do you mean?
30:51The garden
30:51where the grass
30:52grows long
30:53and deep
30:53where the hemlock
30:55flowers are like
30:56great white stars
30:57and the nightingale
30:58sings all night long.
31:00All night long
31:01he sings
31:02and a cold
31:04crystal moon
31:06looks down
31:06and the yew tree
31:08spreads its
31:09giant arms
31:11over the sleepers.
31:12The sleepers?
31:14Do you mean
31:15the garden
31:16of death?
31:16Yes.
31:20Death.
31:22Would you
31:23help me
31:24if you could
31:26if you could
31:27make the legend
31:28come true
31:28would you?
31:31Yes.
31:32What is the legend?
31:35It is this.
31:38When a golden girl
31:40can win prayer
31:41from beyond
31:43the gates of sin
31:44when the barren
31:46almond
31:47bears
31:48and the girl
31:50gives away
31:50her tears
31:51then
31:53shall all
31:54the house
31:54be still
31:55and peace
31:57come
31:58to Canterville.
32:01What?
32:02What does it mean?
32:05It means
32:05that you must
32:07weep with me
32:08for my sins
32:09because I have
32:11no tears
32:11and pray with me
32:13for my soul
32:14because I have
32:14no faith
32:15and then
32:17and then
32:19if you
32:20have always
32:20been sweet
32:22and good
32:23and gentle
32:24that withered
32:26almond tree
32:27you have
32:28perhaps seen
32:28outside the
32:29library window
32:30the barren
32:31almond tree
32:31yes
32:32that tree
32:33will bloom
32:34again
32:34to show
32:35to show
32:37yes
32:38to show
32:39that the
32:41angel of death
32:42has had
32:44mercy on me
32:45I should like
32:48to do that
32:49for you
32:49I know
32:50but you may
32:53fail
32:53yes
32:55and if you
32:56fail
32:57the tortures
32:58of the damned
32:59will be yours
33:00through all eternity
33:01you must dare
33:02to go beyond
33:03the gates of sin
33:05you will see
33:06fearful shapes
33:07hear wicked voices
33:08if you are
33:10the golden girl
33:12of the legend
33:13you will not
33:14be harmed
33:15but if you're
33:16not the golden
33:17I tremble
33:20for you
33:20well
33:22what is
33:25your answer
33:25I will do it
33:28think
33:28think
33:29be sure
33:30oh do
33:32be sure
33:33I am
33:35sure
33:36then turn
33:38turn
33:40and behold
33:41the gates
33:43of sin
33:44ah
33:50you shrink
33:51back
33:52you are
33:53afraid
33:53the shrieks
33:54the laughter
33:56worse lies
33:57beyond the gates
33:58followers
33:59ah
34:00you are
34:01afraid
34:01you are
34:02afraid
34:02and I
34:03am doomed
34:04no
34:05you will
34:06go
34:06for me
34:07you will
34:08go beyond
34:08the gates
34:09of sin
34:09for you
34:10or any
34:11other soul
34:11and give me
34:13your hand
34:13let me kiss
34:15it
34:15your fingers
34:17so cold as I
34:18oh but your lips
34:20burn like fire
34:22soon perhaps
34:23my lips too
34:24shall be cold
34:25if you are
34:27the golden girl
34:28I pray god
34:31you are
34:32for your sake
34:34more than mine
34:35you must
34:37release my hand
34:39now
34:40if I am to go
34:42beyond the gates
34:43yes
34:44yes I know
34:44own me
34:45let go
34:47let
34:49go
34:50go
34:51no
34:54Virginia
34:55come back
34:57come back
34:58Mr. Otis
35:09there is nothing
35:10that can be
35:10done
35:11Virginia is
35:12gone
35:12forever
35:13it is all
35:15your fault
35:15if we
35:16hadn't ridiculed
35:17the ghost
35:18if we had
35:18just taken
35:19him seriously
35:20all this
35:21would have
35:21been avoided
35:22I got
35:24to admit
35:25you are
35:25right
35:25Martha
35:26but that
35:28doesn't help
35:28matters
35:29all I want
35:31now is to
35:31get Ginny
35:32back
35:32safe and
35:34sound
35:35the girl
35:44where is she
35:45she's gone
35:46gone
35:46I've been a
35:48fool
35:48I thought
35:49she might
35:50be the
35:51golden girl
35:52the girl
35:52of the legend
35:53and I let
35:54her go
35:54beyond
35:55the gates
35:56of sin
35:56oh
35:57no
35:58if that
36:01be so
36:01I am
36:03done with
36:04you
36:04Simon
36:04oh no
36:05no
36:05no
36:05not you
36:06don't touch
36:07me
36:08don't touch
36:08me
36:08you are
36:09revolting
36:09enough
36:09to be
36:10human
36:10I tried
36:11to stop
36:12her at
36:12the last
36:12moment
36:13I tried
36:13but it
36:14was too
36:15late
36:15too late
36:16too late
36:19Simon
36:21the
36:23nightingale
36:24Eleanor
36:25the
36:27nightingale
36:27it sings
36:29it sings
36:30in the
36:30garden of
36:30death
36:31it sings
36:31oh
36:32send the
36:33girl
36:34Virginia
36:35oh she
36:36succeeded
36:37she must
36:38have
36:38Simon
36:39Simon
36:39look
36:40Virginia
36:43Sir Simon
36:45you've
36:46returned
36:46from beyond
36:48the gates
36:48of sin
36:49you've
36:49returned
36:50did you
36:51think I
36:51wouldn't
36:52yes
36:52yes
36:53I
36:53I
36:54thought
36:54that
36:54I
36:55knew I
36:55would
36:55I
36:56would not
36:56have
36:56gone past
36:57those gates
36:58if I
36:58hadn't felt
36:59sure
37:00then
37:00you are
37:02the golden
37:02girl of
37:03the legend
37:04you are
37:05the golden
37:06girl
37:06are you
37:08saved now
37:10oh yes
37:10child
37:11yes
37:11I'm saved
37:13after all
37:14these centuries
37:15released
37:16and you're
37:18the one
37:18who did
37:18it
37:19Eleanor
37:19she is
37:21the one
37:21what can
37:23I do
37:23to thank
37:23her
37:24what
37:25what
37:26oh
37:27Simon
37:27restore
37:29her to
37:29her own
37:30world
37:30what
37:31else
37:32dear
37:32my watch
37:41has stopped
37:42what time
37:44is it
37:44it's
37:45nearly
37:45three in
37:46the morning
37:46three
37:48in the
37:49morning
37:49I've got
37:51a nine
37:52o'clock
37:52committee
37:52breakfast
37:53I
37:53I
37:54oh
37:56what am I
37:57saying
37:57business
37:59business
38:00it becomes
38:00a habit
38:01my little
38:02girl is
38:02gone
38:03but my
38:03first
38:03thought
38:04is if
38:05I
38:05oh god
38:07in your
38:07heaven
38:07what kind
38:08of a
38:08man
38:08am I
38:09oh
38:10Hiram
38:10you're a
38:11good man
38:12you just
38:13lost
38:13yourself
38:13in
38:14making
38:15a living
38:16yes
38:17lost
38:19myself
38:19in
38:20making
38:20a
38:20living
38:21yeah
38:23we
38:24spend
38:25too much
38:25of our
38:25lives
38:26making
38:27a
38:27living
38:28we
38:29should
38:29spend
38:30more
38:30of it
38:31living
38:32i
38:35guess
38:35your
38:36ghost
38:37knows
38:37that
38:38jeff
38:38i
38:39don't
38:39know
38:40whether
38:40he
38:40does
38:40or
38:40not
38:41i
38:41do
38:42what
38:42was
38:42that
38:43i
38:44thought
38:44i
38:44heard
38:44what
38:45it
38:46sounded
38:46like
38:47jimmy's
38:47voice
38:47yes
38:48i
38:48thought
38:48i
38:48heard
38:48it
38:48too
38:49you
38:49did
38:49jeff
38:50i'm
38:51back
38:51i'm
38:52here
38:52jimmy
38:53oh
38:53my
38:54god
38:54jimmy
38:54oh
38:55it's
38:55jimmy
38:55oh
38:56my
38:56baby
38:57don't
39:02ask me
39:02that
39:03ever
39:03yes
39:03but
39:03jimmy
39:04i
39:05love
39:05you
39:05but
39:05don't
39:06please
39:07don't
39:07not
39:07ever
39:07try
39:09to
39:09tell
39:09me
39:09what
39:10to
39:10do
39:10with
39:10my
39:11life
39:11my
39:12soul
39:12again
39:13let
39:14me
39:14do
39:15what
39:15i
39:15want
39:15to
39:15do
39:16what
39:17god
39:17put
39:18me
39:18into
39:18the
39:18world
39:19to
39:19do
39:19you
39:20you
39:22sound
39:22strange
39:23no
39:24no
39:24not
39:24strange
39:25truthful
39:27i've
39:28seen
39:29what
39:30what lies
39:32beyond
39:32beyond
39:33this world
39:34beyond
39:35us
39:35and
39:36we
39:37we here
39:38on this
39:39earth
39:39we think
39:41that we're
39:41the end
39:42of everything
39:42and we're
39:43really only
39:44the beginning
39:45daddy
39:46dad
39:49and mom
39:50and you
39:52too
39:52jeff
39:52there's
39:54so much
39:54out there
39:55that we
39:56don't
39:56understand
39:57so
39:59much
40:00jenny
40:01what
40:03did
40:04you
40:04see
40:05what's
40:07that
40:07not a
40:08bird
40:09at this
40:09hour of
40:10the morning
40:10it's a
40:11nightingale
40:12mother
40:12come
40:14come to
40:15the window
40:16i'm sure
40:16we'll see
40:17what i
40:17expect
40:19to see
40:19yes
40:21there
40:22look
40:24at what
40:26jenny
40:27at what
40:30the storm
40:31is over
40:31now
40:32and the moon
40:34a great
40:35white moon
40:37sheds its
40:38light over
40:38the gardens
40:39look
40:41the almond
40:43tree
40:43the barren
40:45almond
40:46tree
40:47why
40:47it's
40:49blossomed
40:49i can see
40:51the flowers
40:51in the
40:52moonlight
40:52and that
40:53tree
40:54it's part
40:55of the
40:56legend
40:56for centuries
40:58it hasn't
40:58bloomed
40:58and legend
41:00said it
41:00never would
41:01until
41:01until peace
41:03came to
41:04canterville
41:04and peace
41:06has come
41:08far away
41:11beyond the
41:13pine wood
41:14there is a
41:15little garden
41:16there the
41:18grass grows
41:19long and
41:19deep
41:19there the
41:21hemlock flowers
41:21are like
41:22great white
41:22stars
41:23and the
41:25nightingale
41:25sings all
41:26night long
41:27all night
41:29long he
41:29sings
41:30and the
41:31cold
41:32crystal moon
41:33looks down
41:34and the
41:35yew tree
41:36spreads its
41:36giant arms
41:38over the
41:39sleepers
41:40jeffrey
41:44yes
41:46jinny
41:46he's at
41:48peace
41:48jeffrey
41:49the
41:51canterville
41:51ghost
41:52is finally
41:53at peace
41:54this story
42:02this beautiful
42:04story
42:04we owe to
42:06a man named
42:07Oscar Wilde
42:08perhaps some
42:09of you know
42:10the tragic
42:10details of the
42:11last years of
42:12his life
42:12well
42:14no matter
42:15what's important
42:16is what he
42:17wrote
42:18almost a
42:19hundred years
42:20ago
42:20wrote what
42:21entertained you
42:22in this past
42:23hour
42:23and perhaps
42:25enlightened you
42:25too
42:26it is better
42:27to live
42:28than to make
42:29a living
42:30I'll be back
42:31shortly
42:32Oscar Wilde is
42:44buried in
42:45Père Lachaise
42:46cemetery
42:46just outside
42:48Paris
42:48I visited
42:50his tomb
42:51a tomb
42:52over which
42:53a sad
42:53angel
42:54with drooping
42:54wings
42:55weeps
42:55and yes
42:57I bowed
42:58my head
42:58not so much
43:00in homage
43:00to the man
43:01as to the
43:02spirit
43:02within him
43:03the spirit
43:04within all
43:05of us
43:05our own
43:06private
43:07very private
43:09canterville
43:10ghost
43:11our cast
43:13included
43:13Arnold Moss
43:14Marion
43:15Seldes
43:15Mildred
43:16Clinton
43:16William Redfield
43:17and Robert
43:18Dryden
43:19the entire
43:20production
43:21was under
43:21the direction
43:22of Hyman
43:23Brown
43:23right
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