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A chilling 1962 psychological horror that delves into the darkness of human obsession. After a surgeon’s experiment goes wrong, a man awakens with hands that seem to possess a sinister will of their own. “The Evil Touch” blends suspense, science, and madness in a haunting tale from the golden age of classic horror cinema.
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00:04:31It can't always work, Gil.
00:04:33There's got to be death for everyone sometime.
00:04:35Why?
00:04:36I've been watching you for over three hours.
00:04:53That's a long time to take.
00:04:54That's a long time to take.
00:04:54When you die, it took nine months on the other end.
00:04:58There's one dedicated man to take.
00:04:59There's one dedicated man to another.
00:05:00There are a few questions I want to ask you.
00:05:02That's right.
00:05:02Local office of bullets and bodies.
00:05:04What can you tell me?
00:05:06Only that a few ounces of lead just destroyed 3,000 years of medical research.
00:05:10Please, doctor.
00:05:11I saw your little outburst of perfectionism in there, and I'm sure you have several million
00:05:15words on the ideals and objectives of medical science.
00:05:18But all I'd like to know is what happened so I can start an accurate report.
00:05:22The body will be in the morgue tomorrow.
00:05:24Why bother me?
00:05:24I find it valuable to get as many details as possible before minds have become colored
00:05:33by the calmness and disimpleness born of time.
00:05:36It's the kind of attitude that's raised me to the lieutenant, made my wife and children
00:05:40very proud of me.
00:05:41There's nothing I can contribute to your next promotion.
00:05:44Oh, come now, doctor.
00:05:45As assistant chief of surgery in a hospital of this size, a man of your age, you must have
00:05:50more than average ability and powers of observation.
00:05:53There were three .38 caliber bullets, weren't there?
00:05:56Yes.
00:05:57What was the specific cause of death?
00:05:59Three bullets.
00:06:01Yes, I see.
00:06:02I shouldn't have put it that way in your present state of mind.
00:06:05Acute hemorrhage complicated by lung and spinal damage.
00:06:10The bullet's shattered ribs entering from the back, penetrating the lung, and exiting just
00:06:15to the right of the sternum, all right?
00:06:17Indicating a tight little pattern of rapid fire at a slight upward angle.
00:06:21Our murderer could have been a short man standing or any kind of man sitting.
00:06:25Would it be your habit to sit on the curb at 8 or 8.30 on a night this cold?
00:06:29Hardly.
00:06:30The fresh tire marks we found do associate, then.
00:06:34I see you pinning on captain's bars already.
00:06:37Anything else?
00:06:38No.
00:06:40Now, if you'll excuse me.
00:06:41Yes?
00:06:51Unusual, considering the extent of damage.
00:06:54But while we were getting ready for surgery, Ken told me they almost had to pry his hands
00:06:57from the lamppost.
00:07:00When I was operating, I noticed them, too.
00:07:03Powerful hands, yet sensitive at the same time.
00:07:06He never relaxed, even when he was still alive and unconscious.
00:07:11Well, that's the type of thing I might never have realized.
00:07:14Could tell us a great deal about him.
00:07:18Hands.
00:07:19Amazing things, when you think about it.
00:07:22A genius device of flesh and bone that can paint a beautiful picture, control a scalpel,
00:07:28press a trigger.
00:07:29And, perhaps, the delicately lined pictures on the tips of those hands themselves may tell
00:07:35me all I want to know.
00:07:36One, please.
00:07:37One, please.
00:07:56One, please.
00:07:57One, please.
00:10:31Cheers.
00:10:32But any minute now, the thundering herd is coming through that door to lift you on their shoulders.
00:10:37I still have to get some details straight with you about the New York concert and recordings before I make that 12.30 play.
00:10:42Just a few minutes, George, to let my ego feed off the crowd.
00:10:46Tina, I want you to go ahead to the party with the others.
00:10:48I'll join you as soon as George and I are through.
00:10:49Hmm, lucky piano.
00:11:01Lucky me.
00:11:03I'm jealous of you both, you know.
00:11:06I want to be so much to this magnificent man.
00:11:09Wouldn't that be a little like playing the same composition over and over?
00:11:12Beautiful, perhaps, but monotonous.
00:11:14You're not only brilliant, you're obscene.
00:11:17I'll forgive you only if you promise to keep me very close to you all of this exciting night.
00:11:21I want you to go ahead to the party with Dina and the others.
00:11:24George and I have business first.
00:11:25Oh, you're hard to love sometimes.
00:11:33Dina, I know all of this makes you very happy, but when does your life begin?
00:11:38When do I trade in my brother and his piano on babies and things?
00:11:42Something like that.
00:11:44When he doesn't need me anymore, I guess.
00:11:46I think it's time.
00:11:48He's old enough, successful enough.
00:11:50He certainly always seems to have plenty of women around him.
00:11:54Implying a scandalous relationship between me and my brother?
00:11:57Well.
00:11:59George, you see those soft gray gloves he always wears before and after he plays?
00:12:05Remember the time you kidded him about them?
00:12:07He said they were a great publicity gimmick and you wished you'd thought of them first.
00:12:11I think that's the only time I ever saw him angry at you.
00:12:15He needs those gloves.
00:12:16They protect his hands from the cold and they help keep his fingers completely flexible when he plays.
00:12:23It may be psychological, but it's a part of his greatness with music.
00:12:27Everything's a part of it.
00:12:29You're his gray gloves of the business world and...
00:12:33And you're his gray gloves against loneliness.
00:12:35For the time being.
00:12:37A great many women love the dramatic concept of Vernon Paris at a Saturday night concert and the parties that go after.
00:12:46It's amazing how few of them are willing to wait and fight through the hours of practice and insecurity that make each Saturday night possible.
00:12:53Dina, I don't think he's that dedicated.
00:12:56Oh, but he is.
00:12:57You should know.
00:12:58He's the most selfish man in the world when it comes to his concept of the creation of beauty.
00:13:03He pours everything into it.
00:13:06It's the source of his greatness and of his loneliness.
00:13:09Hey, you're the guy on the billboard, aren't you?
00:13:16What was that?
00:13:17The poster outside the theater.
00:13:19You're the guy with the piano.
00:13:21That's right.
00:13:22Boy, my kid sure loves music.
00:13:24Really?
00:13:25Yeah, and practices all the time.
00:13:27He'd really like to meet you.
00:13:29Well, bring him around next time I'm here.
00:13:30I'll have some passes for him.
00:13:32You're okay, Mr. Paris.
00:13:33Maybe sometime you could even hear him play.
00:13:36Maybe.
00:13:37How old is he?
00:13:38Ten.
00:13:40Don't think he's a sissy.
00:13:42He's the best shortstop on the school team.
00:13:44I play the piano and I don't think I'm a sissy.
00:13:47You know what I mean.
00:13:49Yes, I know.
00:13:50Ten-year-old boys just don't, usually.
00:13:52It's something his mother always wanted.
00:13:56She died four years ago.
00:14:00Then I found this teacher who'd come give lessons at night.
00:14:04It's a good time for it, too.
00:14:06Night.
00:14:09That's when you can start thinking about a lot of things.
00:14:13Yeah, a lot of things.
00:14:15His piano and all the practicing make it easier.
00:14:18Even the bad notes.
00:14:19Music and people go together.
00:14:22Like kids and dogs.
00:14:24Then be sure you teach him the creation of beauty is something you can never lose.
00:14:27Once achieved, it's with you all your life.
00:14:29I think he knows it already.
00:14:31I only hope it makes him amount to something more than his old man.
00:14:36He's got to fight, too.
00:14:37You tell him most people waste time with meaningless fights.
00:14:40The only real enemies the world has are the enemies of beauty.
00:14:43That's the only thing you'll ever have to fight.
00:14:45I never thought about it like that.
00:14:48Yeah.
00:14:49Hey, I want you to see a picture of my kid.
00:14:51I've got it right here.
00:14:52Look out!
00:15:06I don't see any other way.
00:15:08Get him ready.
00:15:12What are you going to do?
00:15:14You're not supposed to be in here.
00:15:16Regulations be damned.
00:15:16What are you going to do?
00:15:17All right, Mr. Britton.
00:15:18You have a right to know.
00:15:21I'm going to amputate what's left of his hands.
00:15:25You're mad.
00:15:26This man is Vernon Parrish.
00:15:27You can't cut off his hands.
00:15:29He no longer has anything left that resembles hands.
00:15:31You're wrong.
00:15:32You've got to be wrong.
00:15:33I was at the accident.
00:15:34I saw them.
00:15:35They were cut, bleeding, bent.
00:15:37Yes, but my God, they were still hands.
00:15:40You're overlooking a basic fact.
00:15:42His gloves were cut, torn, bloodstained, but still with a semblance of shape.
00:15:46That's what you saw.
00:15:49Gloves.
00:15:54You know, to do this to a man like that, it'd be better just to drive your scalpel through
00:16:00his heart.
00:16:01Simple for you.
00:16:03Same result for him.
00:16:05Without his hands, Vernon Parrish would be dead.
00:16:08Tell me, Doctor.
00:16:09Doctor, what would your reaction be if suddenly you were to find yourself without either one
00:16:15of these?
00:16:17Yes.
00:16:18Now, let's pretend they are your hands.
00:16:20What would you do?
00:16:23Well, there's...
00:16:24Yes.
00:16:27There's only one possibility.
00:16:31The odds against success are almost total.
00:16:33Almost, as opposed to something that's already definite.
00:16:35I wonder if we're thinking the same thing.
00:16:49Couldn't be anything else under the circumstances, could it?
00:16:52You've got to get permission first.
00:16:55There's no time.
00:17:00Perhaps it was lucky for all of us that you were just behind him in the crash.
00:17:03You're going to try something radical.
00:17:07I don't know if you're going to like it.
00:17:10It doesn't matter as long as you save his hands.
00:17:12Nothing will save him.
00:17:14But he'll have hands.
00:17:15Mechanical hands are of no use to this man.
00:17:17Don't you understand that?
00:17:18Perfect.
00:17:19I said hands.
00:17:21Some years ago, people would have called you crazy if you told them that you could take
00:17:25part of one human eye and place it in another.
00:17:28Yet today, a corneal transplant is a standard operation.
00:17:31It gives renewed sight.
00:17:32Yes, I know, but hands are different.
00:17:34A different part of the same human body.
00:17:37Surgical scientists in every country all over the world are dedicated to the future truth.
00:17:42That human life one day might be extended indefinitely.
00:17:45By the replacement of defective or worn out parts.
00:17:48Right now, such a principle is the only one that will save the musical talent of your friend.
00:17:55But muscles, nerves, how do you know them?
00:17:58I've already told you we don't.
00:18:02Now, do we go ahead or not?
00:18:10Know why I want you here?
00:18:12I'm asking you to stick your neck out.
00:18:15Maybe.
00:18:16I've pulled you in on a lot of operations.
00:18:18Made you watch and study.
00:18:20Deliberately made you accept a crash program of training because you have the mind and heart of a great surgeon.
00:18:26I want you to be ready sooner.
00:18:29You'll have even more time to save lives and make others better.
00:18:32I'm grateful, Gil.
00:18:33Don't be grateful.
00:18:34Be good.
00:18:36Pay closer attention tonight than ever.
00:18:39You have five years on both Russ and me.
00:18:43Your lifetime, this type of an impossible in surgery may become a reality.
00:18:47Later, you'll be making the contributions.
00:18:52Stand opposite me at the table.
00:18:55Gil.
00:18:57Yeah?
00:18:57I don't think you're asking me to stick my neck out.
00:19:01No?
00:19:03No.
00:19:05I think you fully expect this to work.
00:19:15Keep them as close to the surface as possible.
00:19:17I want maximum response in the muscles and nerves.
00:19:23And now.
00:19:24and not to be сд astrologers.
00:19:33Yeah?
00:19:35Yeah.
00:19:35Yeah, yeah.
00:19:36No?
00:19:36Yeah, yeah.
00:19:36Yeah.
00:19:41Yeah.
00:19:44Oh, can you anyyear near me?
00:19:46Yeah, yeah.
00:19:47Oh, can you tell me?
00:19:48Yeah, yeah.
00:19:49Oh, can you say me?
00:19:50Go one, yeah.
00:19:51Yeah, yeah.
00:19:51Yeah, yeah.
00:19:52Yeah.
00:19:53Why?
00:20:04My God, why?
00:20:08What right have they got to do a thing like that?
00:20:12Not to Vernon, not his hand.
00:20:14Dina, you've got to understand.
00:20:16I understand you're trying to make me believe a nightmare.
00:20:23I can only tell you that surgically everything went as planned.
00:20:40Surgically, everything went as planned.
00:20:44Dina Paris, Dr. Harding.
00:20:47I'm sorry we have to meet under these circumstances.
00:20:51I'm sorry we have to meet at all.
00:20:54I know how you must feel about his loss.
00:20:56You pretend to understand what a pair of hands means to a man like my brother.
00:21:01I think a surgeon is aware of the importance of the human hand in all its aspects.
00:21:05Well, perhaps there's one you've overlooked.
00:21:09You think you understand the human hand.
00:21:12I'll teach you more than you ever thought you knew about.
00:21:14You're not a doctor.
00:21:17You're a monster.
00:21:18A selfish, crazy monster.
00:21:23I must be having a nightmare.
00:21:26I know I'll wake up.
00:21:27I've got to.
00:21:29I've transplanted other hands, yes.
00:21:32Done in order to save his talent, not destroy it.
00:21:35What I cut from the ends of his arms no longer resembled hands.
00:21:38A lie.
00:21:39It's got to be a lie.
00:21:41You needed some kind of a guinea pig for your insane experiments.
00:21:46Miss Paris, what we did in that operating room just now could end all our careers.
00:21:50If you want vengeance, you can have it very easily because we didn't get your approval.
00:21:54But if you choose that vengeance, you may set off a chain of emotional reaction in your brother
00:21:58that'll guarantee failure.
00:22:00Guarantee that he'll never have hands.
00:22:01You cannot turn my brother into some kind of a freak, two-headed dog just for the sake of science.
00:22:07There's something you have to see.
00:22:09You can't do that.
00:22:11I don't think she'll understand any other way.
00:22:12I don't think she'll understand any other way.
00:22:31I don't think she'll understand any other way.
00:22:37Please.
00:22:37Please.
00:22:37Please.
00:22:37Please.
00:23:01I saw them before the operation.
00:23:08No.
00:23:13The genius that flowed through these hands is no more.
00:23:17But his basic genius remains.
00:23:20The great deal of luck will have made it possible for him to continue.
00:23:24You must have faith.
00:23:26Is it faith, Doctor?
00:23:27Or just ego as far as your particular talents have conferred?
00:23:32Tonight, four people did everything in their power to help your brother.
00:23:36I appreciate your feeling of personal tragedy.
00:23:38But I think you've wallowed in it long enough at my expense.
00:23:40Listen, Doctor, I realize you've been through a great deal tonight, but I don't think you...
00:23:44Well, I do think.
00:23:45From now on, the only thing that's important is the absolute cooperation of everyone involved in this man's life.
00:23:50Cooperation that'll create the proper recovery state of mind for him.
00:23:53Your attitude is a very crude one, Doctor.
00:23:56Maybe we ought to wait until...
00:23:58No, George.
00:23:59The man who's taken such sudden control of Vernon's life.
00:24:02I want to know what he expects to do.
00:24:06And I want to know whose hands he put on my brother's arms.
00:24:11Can you answer that?
00:24:12No, I can't.
00:24:13There's no precedent for what we've done.
00:24:15No published catalog of spare parts to choose from at the local deep freeze.
00:24:19Then you know nothing about the other man at all.
00:24:21Coincidence placed him on that table two hours before your brother's accident.
00:24:24He had powerful hands.
00:24:26That's all we have to know.
00:24:27That's all.
00:24:28If you're concerned with the possibility that he might have been some kind of madman,
00:24:32let me assure you that psychotic tendencies don't transfer themselves mystically to the physical extremities after death.
00:24:37You know that for a fact?
00:24:39No.
00:24:39No, I don't.
00:24:40I don't even know about Mother Goose or the weak people in their gland.
00:24:42You're right.
00:24:53Yes, I was cracking under it.
00:24:57A personal loss for us.
00:24:59A terrible responsibility for you.
00:25:03We will be back in the morning.
00:25:06The man has been fingerprinted.
00:25:08A complete check will be run, I assure you.
00:25:10When can we see him?
00:25:11Not for a week.
00:25:13He's under heavy sedation and additional radiation treatments.
00:25:16It's a critical period for his body's acceptance of the hands.
00:25:20Can't we even see him?
00:25:23Trust me.
00:25:24If you can.
00:25:26And when you do see him,
00:25:28it's vital that he believe he's only had simple emergency surgery.
00:25:32I've got to have at least six weeks before the final bandages come off.
00:25:36How long until we really know?
00:25:38It won't be long before his body gives us the answer.
00:25:42What we do as far as his mind is concerned.
00:25:45Well,
00:25:46he'll need all of us for that.
00:25:49You know,
00:26:10you know,
00:26:12doctor,
00:26:13I'm one of those people who believes that our department renders a definite service to the safety and welfare of the community,
00:26:19just as you do.
00:26:20Now,
00:26:20I'm sure you observe certain regulations that make your work more orderly,
00:26:26more effective,
00:26:26am I at all,
00:26:27correct?
00:26:28Generally.
00:26:29Well,
00:26:30now,
00:26:30so do we.
00:26:31For instance,
00:26:31when we have a homicide to contend with,
00:26:33and we receive a body at the morgue,
00:26:36we feel it's reasonable to expect that we'll receive all of it.
00:26:39Mm-hmm.
00:26:41Don't ask me why,
00:26:42but I hold a feeling of kinship and respect for a man like you.
00:26:47On the other hand,
00:26:48I suspect you of some premeditated diddling on the hillside.
00:26:52Mind you,
00:26:53I've said nothing about this at the department,
00:26:55because I'm sure you have a totally worthy explanation.
00:26:58So,
00:26:59uh,
00:27:00exactly what have you done with those hands?
00:27:09It's nice to know you're sympathetic to my needs,
00:27:11but you know this isn't enough.
00:27:13What if I told you it had to be enough?
00:27:15Enough.
00:27:16Doctor,
00:27:19when I was in college,
00:27:21one of my best friends was a medical student,
00:27:23so,
00:27:23uh,
00:27:24one night he stole into the laboratory
00:27:26and removed part of a cadaver,
00:27:28which he then utilized
00:27:29to produce a therapeutic effect
00:27:31on a timorous young lady at a beer party.
00:27:34Surely you've progressed beyond this.
00:27:37Inspector,
00:27:38let's pretend it's the past.
00:27:40Say,
00:27:40two months prior to the time
00:27:42this technique of identification was established.
00:27:44suppose you came to me
00:27:46and you said that you were on the verge of a discovery
00:27:48that would greatly advance your profession
00:27:50and mankind as a result.
00:27:55Yet for definite reasons,
00:27:56you needed those last two months
00:27:58in order to prove it.
00:28:00Do you expect me to block you
00:28:01or to interfere?
00:28:04Hmm.
00:28:05Very good analogy.
00:28:07I'm sorry you thought of it.
00:28:09Well,
00:28:10it's fortunate for you
00:28:12that I seem to sense
00:28:13a certain quality of honesty
00:28:15and greatness.
00:28:15Otherwise,
00:28:16I'd pull you in right now.
00:28:18Will you go along with me
00:28:18for that long?
00:28:20With the promise you'll be given
00:28:21the complete story
00:28:22the second it's possible.
00:28:24You have enough on this chart
00:28:25for a full preliminary check.
00:28:27You're complicating things for me
00:28:33at the department.
00:28:34I suppose I can create
00:28:36an acceptable story.
00:28:40I suppose I'm as idealistic as you
00:28:42in many ways.
00:28:44I'm sure my wife and children
00:28:45would support me in that
00:28:46up to a point.
00:28:48For everyone's sake,
00:28:51let's hope we don't pass that point.
00:28:53This will be his first moment
00:29:02of true consciousness.
00:29:04Please let me handle explanations.
00:29:07Guard your reactions
00:29:08against any indication
00:29:09of seriousness.
00:29:23Mr. Parris.
00:29:31Do you have visitors?
00:29:33Mr. Parris?
00:29:53My hands.
00:29:55You're going to be perfectly
00:29:56all right.
00:29:57What's happened to my hands?
00:29:59There was a traffic accident.
00:30:01Some of your fingers were broken.
00:30:04You're going to be all right.
00:30:05Cab.
00:30:07That fool driver.
00:30:10Where are my hands like this?
00:30:12We knew who you were,
00:30:13but your hands meant to you.
00:30:15We've immobilized them
00:30:16so the fingers will mend perfectly.
00:30:18I have to be in New York.
00:30:21Concert.
00:30:21Recordings.
00:30:23I've postponed them
00:30:24until you're well again.
00:30:26You will play again, Vernon.
00:30:28You will.
00:30:29Dina, don't lie to me.
00:30:31I'm not lying, darling.
00:30:33Dr. Harding did a beautiful job.
00:30:36Your hands will be perfect.
00:30:38Doctor.
00:30:40Harding.
00:30:50Perfect, Dr. Harding.
00:30:51In your terms or in mine.
00:30:53In yours.
00:30:55In just a few weeks,
00:30:56you'll have full flexibility again.
00:30:58Full timing.
00:30:59Might have to happen to my hands.
00:31:02Lucky it was only this.
00:31:03Glass was shattered
00:31:04from every window of the cab.
00:31:07You can see to play.
00:31:09And you will.
00:31:11All you need is that belief.
00:31:13And some patience.
00:31:14Not very aesthetic,
00:31:24is it, George?
00:31:27Might make an unusual shot
00:31:28for our next poster.
00:31:31You're going to be all right, Vernon.
00:31:33Does Eileen know about this?
00:31:35I don't know.
00:31:38But she was at the party.
00:31:40Isn't that where they notified you?
00:31:42Yes.
00:31:44Well, it's all right.
00:31:47My little dramatic butterfly
00:31:48wouldn't like it here very much.
00:31:51No bright lights.
00:31:53Mixed oles.
00:31:55You don't serve martinis.
00:31:56Do you, Doctor?
00:31:58Not for the time being.
00:32:00Well, I guess she'll be around again
00:32:02when things aren't so stark and sterile.
00:32:04It'll be a month
00:32:05before we can remove the bandages.
00:32:08You can go home in a week.
00:32:10I think you'll be more comfortable there.
00:32:12Home.
00:32:14Where I can stare at the piano.
00:32:18Wonder how long it's going to be
00:32:20and how good it'll ever be again.
00:32:22So you can stare at it.
00:32:24Remind yourself to be patient.
00:32:27To fight for something that's important.
00:32:30And beautiful.
00:32:37Perfect fusion on both.
00:32:40You're going to kill.
00:32:42Not yet.
00:32:43All we know is that his body's accepted the hands.
00:32:46We don't know how they're going to function.
00:32:47But nobody's even gotten this far before.
00:32:50Do you realize what that means?
00:32:51It only means we've taken a step, Ken.
00:32:53That's not enough.
00:32:54Not enough?
00:32:56Gil, even if the rest fails.
00:32:58If the nerve and muscle connections don't work.
00:33:00It must work.
00:33:02But you can't hope for too much.
00:33:04Why not?
00:33:05It's the only way we have the courage
00:33:06to take the next step.
00:33:08That's the next.
00:33:10Well, when will we know?
00:33:12That's why I've called you in here.
00:33:14I've waited longer than I planned, to be sure.
00:33:15Now, I'm going over to remove the bandages
00:33:20and make the first reflex test.
00:33:23I want you all there because you helped make it possible.
00:33:26Also, I think you'll need all the moral support
00:33:28we can give him.
00:33:31This may not be pleasant,
00:33:32so if any of you don't want to come, say so.
00:33:36Russ?
00:33:39Kenny?
00:33:39Kenny?
00:33:39Kenny?
00:33:39Kenny?
00:33:39Kenny?
00:33:45Holly.
00:33:47Did I ever tell you I couldn't stand the sight of blood?
00:33:52Let's see if our dream is a realistic one.
00:33:55If it's possible to recreate beauty out of chaos.
00:34:13Tina, push the lamp back a little.
00:34:14We don't need that much.
00:34:15I hope you don't mind an audience.
00:34:25Russ, Ken, and Holly all helped the night of the accident.
00:34:29I'm used to audiences.
00:34:31Glad to have one again after so long.
00:34:34These weeks of waiting haven't been easy,
00:34:36but if it ends well, I'll be grateful to all of you.
00:34:40Are you ready?
00:34:41After seven weeks, yes, I'm ready.
00:34:44You must do one thing for me.
00:34:46I ask you not to question it.
00:34:48I want you to close your eyes and keep them closed
00:34:50until I tell you.
00:34:53That shouldn't be so hard.
00:34:54Only a few more minutes after seven weeks.
00:34:59Apparently, dramatics aren't limited to the stage.
00:35:01I'll see you soon.
00:35:04THE END
00:35:34Keep your hands flat on the table.
00:35:52Now, I'm going to touch the fingers of your hand.
00:35:58Each time, when you feel the touch, I want you to move that finger.
00:36:04Now, I'm going to touch the finger.
00:37:04Before you open your eyes, I'm going to tell you one thing.
00:37:27I want you to remember it.
00:37:28It's vital that you do.
00:37:30Are you trying to ease me into acceptance of a failure, Doctor?
00:37:32Doctor, what we've done for you surpasses my hopes.
00:37:36But the success of every surgery depends on two things.
00:37:40Medical skill and acceptance on the part of the patient.
00:37:43Are these your usual terms for such a thing as simple as broken fingers?
00:37:46I don't think so.
00:37:47Keep your eyes closed.
00:37:48The response in your fingers is 80% correct.
00:37:52The rest will return, but it's going to take practice on your part.
00:37:55You were right about one thing.
00:37:58It was more than just broken fingers.
00:38:03But the thing that you've got to believe is that we've been successful.
00:38:06Because we have.
00:38:07During these weeks of waiting, you told me about your absolute belief in music and beauty.
00:38:12You open your eyes, you're going to see something that will demand a great deal of the sensitivity,
00:38:19courage, and creative thinking you have as an artist.
00:38:23Now, open your eyes.
00:38:27The End
00:38:39What have you done to my hands?
00:39:03They were terribly mangled in the accident.
00:39:06We've made it possible...
00:39:07What have you done?
00:39:08We've made it possible for you to have perfectly good hands.
00:39:11These aren't my hands?
00:39:16What have you done?
00:39:17We've given you hands where you had none.
00:39:21When you arrived at the hospital, we were faced with a tragedy.
00:39:24We didn't accept that.
00:39:26We fought to restore the beauty that was so important to you.
00:39:29And we did.
00:39:31They're strong, normal hands.
00:39:34And your bodies accepted them.
00:39:35Now you must accept them.
00:39:37And fight.
00:39:39Why?
00:39:39Why?
00:39:40Because it is.
00:39:41What have you done with my hands?
00:39:43What you brought to the hospital were no longer hands.
00:39:45Stand up.
00:39:47Stand up.
00:40:00Stand up.
00:40:14Take hold of my arm.
00:40:31Take hold of my arm.
00:40:33Both hands.
00:40:34And the second.
00:40:44With my breathing.
00:40:45As hard as you can.
00:40:46the fact that you can even do that proves the muscles work
00:40:54you feel my arm
00:40:57that proves the nerves are functioning muscles and nerves that's all you need
00:41:04these hands are new but your talent isn't what happened to you seven weeks ago was cruel
00:41:10what i'm doing to you now is cruel but what we did in that operating room wasn't
00:41:15now you can accept or you can quit it's up to you
00:41:18get out
00:41:27Vernon all of you
00:41:45patience exercise belief there's every chance in the world
00:41:56every chance that beauty can once more be created by your surgical freak
00:42:05can you're right doctor you were cruel just now but your bluntness has restored reality for me
00:42:14i'm just not sure how long it can remain i suggest you leave now
00:42:20tomorrow we'll talk about that reality
00:42:22i'll be back
00:42:29i'll be back
00:42:33i know george thank you i'll call
00:42:49let him have his anger and torment for now
00:43:06i think he'll be strong enough later to accept the fight
00:43:09his finger reactions weren't even right yes they were
00:43:14but when you touched i touched the fingers on each hand in sequence at first
00:43:17then i deliberately changed the sequence the finger that reacted was the one he thought should react next
00:43:23then i went back and touched the finger and it moved
00:43:26it's simply a matter of mental coordination on his part
00:43:30seems so much to expect
00:43:33dina what we've done has never been done before
00:43:36it's a triumph for us
00:43:38but it's got to be one for him too
00:43:40i think i'd better move in here for a while
00:43:44he'll need you
00:43:46i wonder if there'll ever be a day when he doesn't
00:43:50please leave me alone
00:44:09i know how hard it is for you to accept
00:44:14but do you realize what gill has done for you
00:44:18yes
00:44:21he made them come true
00:44:22those dreams i've had through the years about something happening to my hands
00:44:27gill's genius has made it possible for your talent to continue
00:44:31his genius with a knife and the human body has put on my arms the hands of some man i don't even know
00:44:36is that important if you can play again
00:44:38important
00:44:39it's important my sanity can even accept that these are mine
00:44:43this genius has given me hands to feel with
00:44:46but can he guarantee these stolen chunks of flesh and bone will ever be
00:44:49these are your hands
00:44:52now it's up to you to make them sing in the future as they did in the past
00:44:56it's you who control your hands
00:44:57don't you understand
00:45:00i was my hand they were my life
00:45:03now i'm carrying the life of someone i know nothing about
00:45:06then you must learn again
00:45:07or you will have no life
00:45:10why me
00:45:11why couldn't this have happened to that cab driver who doesn't need his hands so much
00:45:16i only know from gill that the man suffered too
00:45:19his life may not be as delicate or as complex as yours
00:45:25but i'm sure he'll fight to maintain it
00:45:34leave me alone
00:45:35i'm going to stay here for a while
00:45:38i'll be back as soon as i get some things from my apartment
00:45:42please be patient
00:45:48i'll be right back to you
00:45:52a copy of the planet
00:45:55please feel it
00:45:56it's not fun
00:45:57you
00:45:57let's keep going
00:46:00but it's not a thing
00:46:01we'll have no intention of being out
00:46:02so come on
00:46:02i'll be back on
00:46:03i'll be back on
00:46:04but i'll be back on
00:46:04we're back on
00:46:06i'll be back on
00:46:06and i'll see you
00:46:07or the next thing
00:46:08i'll keep on
00:46:09i'll be back on
00:46:09your side
00:46:10or the next thing
00:46:11we'll be back on
00:46:11more
00:46:12however
00:46:12we'll be back on
00:46:13the next thing
00:46:13screen
00:47:46Why, Vernon, what a pleasant surprise.
00:47:48I want to talk to you.
00:47:50I can't right now.
00:47:51It's important.
00:47:53All right, but I only have a few minutes.
00:47:54You always did have a talent for creating the proper visual mood.
00:48:13This is no concern of yours.
00:48:15Obviously, since our relationship is primarily a social one.
00:48:18What does that mean?
00:48:19It must be if you haven't been interested enough to see me during these past weeks.
00:48:22I called the hospital the following day, left my sympathies.
00:48:26Very generous of you.
00:48:27Vernon, I'm very sorry about your accident, but...
00:48:29The pain isn't a desirable substitute for laughter and excitement, is it?
00:48:32Vernon, I've had a great many things to do.
00:48:35I'm also expecting a guest within a half hour.
00:48:36A guest?
00:48:37You don't own me, Vernon.
00:48:39I know.
00:48:39But now I need you.
00:48:50How interesting.
00:48:51Well, there were times when I needed you.
00:48:53Remember your favorite line?
00:48:55That would be too much like playing a great composition over and over.
00:48:59You had to play many in order to live and grow as an artist.
00:49:01There's a difference now.
00:49:02I can't explain everything right away, but my life has changed.
00:49:07You've got to understand.
00:49:08Vernon, if one of your other women has put you in your place,
00:49:10I don't see any reason to come crying to me.
00:49:12That's not it.
00:49:14Yes, there were others.
00:49:15There were others for you, too.
00:49:15I don't think either of us had any illusions about that.
00:49:18But for me, we're always the most important, the loveliest.
00:49:22In the back of my mind, maybe I always thought, someday...
00:49:25Vernon, neither of us ever thought that someday.
00:49:28You were always a very exciting, very desirable man.
00:49:31But this attitude in you now, this heaviness, I don't like it at all.
00:49:34I'll be very happy to see you on the old basis, but right now I'd wish you'd go.
00:49:38What if the old basis has been changed by something I can do nothing about?
00:49:41I don't like you this way, and I don't like riddles.
00:49:43What if there won't be any concerts or parties?
00:49:45What if they'll only be me?
00:49:46Stop it, Vernon.
00:49:46I've never seen you this way, and I don't want you this way.
00:49:48What if there won't only be me?
00:49:49Stop it.
00:49:50Stop it.
00:49:50Answer me.
00:49:51Let me go.
00:49:52Your hands are breaking my arms.
00:49:53Your hands.
00:49:54Yes, my hands.
00:49:55The hands that brought you concerts, parties, glamour, excitement.
00:49:58That's what happened when you called to leave your sympathies.
00:50:01My hands that you knew so well.
00:50:04They don't look like my hands, do they?
00:50:09They're not.
00:50:10My hands were destroyed the night of my greatest concert.
00:50:12But medical science gave me a new pair of hands.
00:50:14Hands from another body so that I can play again.
00:50:16Yes, Eileen, I may play again.
00:50:18But I may not.
00:50:20What if there'll only be me?
00:50:20What will you do if I need your help now more than I need your beauty?
00:50:23Don't touch me.
00:50:24You should take off.
00:50:49You too, Holly.
00:50:51Kenny can handle emergency tonight.
00:50:52Oh, sure.
00:50:53And when do I get a chance to get married?
00:50:55I have a girl who's pretty fed up already.
00:50:56Who ever heard of young doctors getting married?
00:50:59You have to be middle-aged before you can afford to be married.
00:51:02Yeah.
00:51:03I see what you mean.
00:51:04Come on, Junior.
00:51:05I have a new trick I want to show you with a scalpel.
00:51:06You know, I've got a boyfriend who's the greatest guy in the world, but...
00:51:17Holly, never get interested in a dedicated man.
00:51:22He may look good on the surface, but you can always end up second.
00:51:26No matter how much he feels for you.
00:51:29Thanks, Carol, for putting it the nice way.
00:51:33She's a lucky girl.
00:51:34I know this must make me look pretty much like a snoop, but...
00:51:55I'm sure you understand it's part of my job.
00:51:58I also understand we made a bargain.
00:52:00With a time factor that was up a week ago.
00:52:02You see, I'm not without patience.
00:52:05The main point was I'd give you the complete story as soon as it was possible.
00:52:09You implied you'd trust my judgment.
00:52:11Yes, I remember, but there's a problem.
00:52:14I have somewhat of a neurotic respect for perfection in my work.
00:52:17I don't like to see assignments go unsolved.
00:52:20Although I recognize there's no set schedule for the solution.
00:52:24Specifically, the fingerprints you gave me have been thoroughly checked, and they gave me nothing.
00:52:30You think I gave you a false set.
00:52:32You're not that kind of a man.
00:52:34We're in the process of checking them through foreign bureaus, but while we're waiting, I thought there might be something new you could offer to keep my mind at peace.
00:52:44There's nothing I can tell you yet.
00:52:46There's a human factor that's involved that's critical.
00:52:50Trust me a while longer.
00:52:51In the meantime, please remember my wife and children.
00:53:02When I got back last night, he was sitting at the piano dazed.
00:53:09He didn't say a word all night.
00:53:11I don't think he went to sleep either.
00:53:13And then in the morning came the tragic news of the death of a woman who was very important to him.
00:53:19He was more depressed.
00:53:21When did he leave?
00:53:22Late this morning.
00:53:23He said he wanted to be alone.
00:53:24I wanted to go with him, but he was cruel in the way he rejected me.
00:53:31I'm frightened.
00:53:32Don't be frightened.
00:53:34It's natural in the beginning.
00:53:35He's got to feel sorry for himself.
00:53:38Hate everyone and everything that caused this.
00:53:40He'll be back.
00:53:42I hope you're right.
00:53:43In the meantime, I think the separation's good for us.
00:53:47Let's have dinner.
00:53:48We've never done that.
00:53:50I know a little place with violence not far from here.
00:53:53We'll be back early.
00:54:01Is Tony Wilder live here?
00:54:11Yes, sir.
00:54:12Is he in?
00:54:14No, sir, but he'll be back in a little while.
00:54:16He went to get some.
00:54:18Dog, isn't that great?
00:54:20I'm an old friend of his used to ride in his cab all the time.
00:54:23I want to talk to him.
00:54:25I really shouldn't let you in, but...
00:54:29I guess you look okay.
00:54:32You like dogs?
00:54:35And okay, come on in.
00:54:36You ever had a dog?
00:54:50Hey, mister, you ever had a dog?
00:54:53Yes, a long time ago.
00:54:55And you were a kid like me, huh?
00:54:57You had a piano once, too?
00:55:06Were you any good?
00:55:10I'm good, too.
00:55:13Want me to play for you?
00:55:15Well, I'm not bad, honest.
00:55:17I like to play.
00:55:19Dad's never asked to make me.
00:55:24You know a lot about the piano?
00:55:27I'll play a real great tune I just learned.
00:55:33It'll make you feel better, mister.
00:55:36You don't look so hot.
00:55:38No.
00:55:39Not right now.
00:55:41Come on.
00:55:42I like to play for people.
00:55:45Helps me not to be nervous.
00:55:49I'll make you a deal.
00:55:51If you don't like it, I'll quit.
00:55:53Okay?
00:55:57And they were both killed when we were very small.
00:56:02We ended up with relatives who resented the obligation.
00:56:06So more or less, we banded together for emotional survival.
00:56:11We both had a great desire for life, even then.
00:56:13That's important for him now.
00:56:15Perhaps.
00:56:15But I think we became too close as a result, too dependent.
00:56:20I had talent, too, but his was greater.
00:56:23I used my talent to help him.
00:56:26The whole thing was a calculated plan to bring us independence and freedom.
00:56:30And now, just when we were both reaching a point when we could be truly free.
00:56:36Tina, nothing's going to be wasted.
00:56:38Don't you see?
00:56:39By going through this, he can become part of a new and even greater kind of beauty.
00:56:44Maybe that's a lot to imagine right now.
00:56:46But eventually, there could be no such thing as a permanently defective heart.
00:56:50A permanent cripple.
00:56:51A permanent birth malformation.
00:56:53Blindness.
00:56:54Oh, there'll always be accidental deaths.
00:56:57But from these tragedies, science will be able to sustain and recreate joy for the living.
00:57:02And when people know that a worn out or defective part of their body can be replaced,
00:57:07they'll approach life itself with a great deal less fear.
00:57:11Three thousand years of research.
00:57:13Fear.
00:57:14And we're just beginning.
00:57:17This is the next major step, and he's the key part of it.
00:57:20If it had to happen, I thank God we found you.
00:57:27Gil, whose hands are they?
00:57:29We don't know yet, but they're strong, normal hands.
00:57:32They might be hands from someone even more talented than Werner.
00:57:35But they could be from someone.
00:57:37Don't let fear drive you into a pit of superstition.
00:57:40But are we sure the soul really controls the outside?
00:57:44Or is what we call a soul really shaped by our own pleasures or hatreds with the outside?
00:57:50And how they're accepted by the world?
00:57:52If you love beauty, you conquer handicaps so beauty can live.
00:57:57And if you don't?
00:58:01Well, mister, how did you like it?
00:58:03Yes.
00:58:05You played very well.
00:58:06You mean it?
00:58:08You could be good.
00:58:09Very good if you practice.
00:58:11Did you practice a lot when you were a kid?
00:58:13Yes, I practiced a lot when I was like you.
00:58:20But I can't remember many things about being ten years old.
00:58:27Yes.
00:58:29Yes, I can.
00:58:32Are you still any good?
00:58:35I don't know.
00:58:37Come on and try.
00:58:42I want to hear you play now.
00:58:45First, you've got to take your gloves off.
00:58:48You ever heard of playing the piano with their gloves on?
00:58:52I can't take them off.
00:58:53Sure you can.
00:58:54You put them on, didn't you?
00:58:55I can't take them off.
00:58:56I can't take them off.
00:59:16Gee, mister, you've got strong hands.
00:59:21Maybe someday I'll have hands like that.
00:59:23So I can play a lot easier.
00:59:28Come on.
00:59:53Gee, mister, it must have been a long time because you sure can't play now.
01:00:03How can you play the piano if you can't even hit the chords?
01:00:07Don't say that.
01:00:08I can play.
01:00:08I will play again.
01:00:09Music is my life.
01:00:10You must have said I can't play.
01:00:11I will play again.
01:00:12I've never known anything else.
01:00:26That's why I'll play again.
01:00:29I must play again.
01:00:31You see that, don't you?
01:00:38Gee.
01:00:39I'm home, Gee.
01:00:40Easy, boy, easy.
01:01:03I know it's strange.
01:01:04You'll get used to it.
01:01:05Skeet, where are you?
01:01:16Skeet, where are you?
01:01:16I know it's not.
01:01:17We'll be like, friends.
01:01:20Blue, blue, blue.
01:01:24You're welcome.
01:01:25The End
01:01:55This time I don't think we'll have to be as critical
01:02:25You can open
01:02:36It's working, Vernon
01:02:40It's all working
01:02:42Should I say congratulations again, Doctor?
01:02:44To yourself
01:02:45To your patients
01:02:46Every finger response was correct
01:02:48The timing was a little slow
01:02:50But with this much progress this soon
01:02:52There's no reason why full dexterity can't return
01:02:54All you need now is a strong incentive
01:02:57That's something you've had for a long time
01:03:00Yes, Doctor
01:03:03I think I'll enlarge on your exercises
01:03:06To include the piano
01:03:08Congratulations
01:03:09Congratulations
01:03:18It's wonderful, Mr. Parrott
01:03:25Ouch
01:03:26I want you and Dina to have dinner with me tonight
01:03:33Go someplace where we can laugh for a change
01:03:35How about it?
01:03:36It's time to see again
01:03:37What the outside world and smiling faces look like
01:03:40How about it?
01:03:44Dina
01:03:47Ha, ha, ha, ha!
01:03:51Ha, ha, ha!
01:03:53Ha, ha!
01:03:54Ha, ha, ha!
01:03:57The End
01:04:27The End
01:04:57Yes, sir, a beautiful throw, a beautiful throw.
01:05:23Here's a smiling little doll to take home with you to remind you of your shining hour.
01:05:29You take that thing home and you're going to be the one that has to dust it.
01:05:35Test this game of skill. Win yourself a beautiful prize or a tryout with the L.A. Dodgers.
01:05:53Well, a warm-up pitch. Only a warm-up pitch. Even the greatest need that. Try again.
01:06:07Hey, what are you?
01:06:23Some kind of a nut making fun? That'll be 20 bucks, buddy.
01:06:26I'm sorry.
01:06:26Forget the sorry. It said 20 bucks, buddy.
01:06:29And if you don't know how to use your hands, stay away from me, Adam.
01:06:32Thanks.
01:06:36I'm going to call a cop.
01:06:37Okay, wait a minute.
01:06:39Here's more than enough to take care of the damage.
01:06:41All right.
01:06:43But I'm still going to call a cop.
01:06:44That guy is some kind of a nut.
01:06:46Look, here's some more.
01:06:47Please forget it. He's a patient of mine.
01:06:49He's been through quite enough as it is.
01:06:51Give him a break.
01:06:52Okay.
01:06:54Okay.
01:06:56But if you can't handle him, buddy, we've got a place right down the street that specializes in freaks.
01:07:22Vernon, you know how proud I am of you.
01:07:38The new attitude you've had since Gil returned.
01:07:41Are you?
01:07:42Very.
01:07:43Remember the night the three of us went out together?
01:07:45I remember.
01:07:47It started then, didn't it?
01:07:49I think it started a long time before that.
01:07:51Gil's proud of you, too.
01:07:53I told him you've been practicing every day since then.
01:07:56You don't know how important it is to him that he used his skill to bring you a new life.
01:08:00Yes.
01:08:01They all brought me a new life.
01:08:03And for me.
01:08:05I think you know how I've come to feel about Gil.
01:08:09I want you to be happy for that, too.
01:08:13I'm very glad that you've come to mean so much to each other.
01:08:18Why won't you let me stay on nights that you practice?
01:08:21You know me at my best.
01:08:23I want you to hear me that way the next time.
01:08:26Besides, you haven't regretted all the time you've been able to spend with him, have you?
01:08:31All right.
01:08:32I'll wait.
01:08:33What time will you be back tonight?
01:08:35Eleven or twelve.
01:08:36Just dinner and a conversation.
01:08:38Have a good time.
01:08:39Have a good time.
01:08:55Hey, don't you want to marry me?
01:09:19Yeah.
01:09:20Yeah.
01:09:22When?
01:09:22A year or so, maybe.
01:09:28I can't ask you to live on what I'm making now.
01:09:31I can't even live on it.
01:09:32I wouldn't mind working.
01:09:34I've done it before.
01:09:36We might have to if we get married in a year or so.
01:09:39Then why not now?
01:09:43It's just too rough.
01:09:44You're too intent on your work.
01:09:46I admit it.
01:09:49It's the future, Sue,
01:09:50and I've got a chance to be a part of something wonderful.
01:09:55I guess I'm selfish
01:09:57because I want to be the right kind of future.
01:10:01For my work
01:10:02and for us.
01:10:06Don't you understand?
01:10:07You know I do.
01:10:08It's just that I wish there could be more time for us.
01:10:10I'm not going to stop loving you, Ken.
01:10:18It's just that the nights get lonely out.
01:10:20It's just that I don't care.
01:10:32It's just that I'm not going to stop loving you, Ken.
01:10:35That's a good idea, though.
01:10:41But here's what we're going to do.
01:10:46Okay, so here's what we're going to do.
01:10:56And now I'm going to do horseradish.
01:11:31It can't be.
01:11:54Gil?
01:11:54Gil Cannon?
01:11:55It must be records.
01:11:57He never bought any of his own records.
01:11:58He was always afraid of becoming a mechanical copy of himself.
01:12:01I know his style so well.
01:12:04I don't know.
01:12:05Maybe possible.
01:12:06He's really been practicing and exercising the way you said.
01:12:10It's one of his more simple pieces.
01:12:12Gil.
01:12:13Gil, it must be.
01:12:14Oh, Vernon, was that you playing?
01:12:26Oh, I'm sorry you heard.
01:12:27I wanted it to be when I was a little better.
01:12:29Oh, it sounded wonderful.
01:12:31Well, it's the only one I've worked on.
01:12:32It's taken me all these weeks.
01:12:35What does the man who made it all possible have to say?
01:12:37Well, I'm surprised.
01:12:40But I...
01:12:40You told me yourself there was no reason why it shouldn't happen.
01:12:42With exercise, practice.
01:12:44Yes, I know.
01:12:46But I didn't expect this much dexterity this soon.
01:12:49Not even when the incentive, the desire to create beauty is strong enough?
01:12:52You did your work well, Doctor.
01:12:55Now I'm doing mine.
01:12:57If it's true, there's no one outside you two who could be happier than I am.
01:13:01Then smile, Doctor.
01:13:03Get rid of that troubled questioning look.
01:13:05Help us rejoice in the success of our mutual triumph.
01:13:07I know what I have to do now.
01:13:10Please play for us.
01:13:13It's been very hard to get this far.
01:13:14And I think even the doctor will tell you that it's natural to expect fatigue to set in easily.
01:13:19I'll make it soon.
01:13:22It will be.
01:13:24Understand one thing.
01:13:27I want to believe.
01:13:28Then do it, Doctor.
01:13:30Do it because you, too, have the incentive.
01:13:33Gil.
01:13:37Well, I'm sorry.
01:13:57I didn't know he was a close associate of yours.
01:13:59Did you know the girl, too?
01:14:02Tragedies of this kind are always senseless, but...
01:14:06I'm afraid I have to press you about the significance behind it.
01:14:08How can there be any significance to waste?
01:14:11Some time ago, I read a routine report about a death that occurred in the suburbs.
01:14:16A man came home and found his son dead.
01:14:18Apparently as the result of a burglar who was discovered and panicked.
01:14:22The unusual thing was that most of the boy's fingers were broken.
01:14:27Possibly it was the result of a fight.
01:14:28Except that the fingers were all squeezed together as if they'd been crushed.
01:14:33The man was an ex-cab driver named Wilder.
01:14:37Will you raise the sheet farther this time and look at your friend's hands?
01:14:40I'm done with the bookend.
01:14:55If you're thinking it might have been a burglar, forget it.
01:14:57It was calculated.
01:14:58The bookend was placed in the girl's hand to make it look as if she defended herself against a sex attack.
01:15:03Then you have your answer.
01:15:04That's rather difficult to believe since the girl was choked to death.
01:15:09A series of tragedies with one thing in common.
01:15:11The human hand.
01:15:13The same thing that brought us together, Doctor.
01:15:15It's ridiculous to assume that...
01:15:16Is it?
01:15:17Perhaps.
01:15:18If anybody else but your friend had been involved.
01:15:20This is the kind of coincidence that forces me to become less patient.
01:15:25I think I know now what's happened.
01:15:27If I'm correct...
01:15:29It's an amazing piece of surgery, Doctor.
01:15:34Under the circumstances, I must insist you meet me at my office within a half hour.
01:15:40I, uh...
01:15:41I hope I'm wrong.
01:15:43I hope this is pure coincidence.
01:15:46Otherwise, it means you failed to control an experiment that could have been of great value.
01:15:51Regardless.
01:15:53Both of our objectives are the same.
01:15:58I think you know why I wanted you to be the first hearing play.
01:16:01Vernon, I've never been so happy.
01:16:03You won't mind if it's the same piece?
01:16:05I wouldn't care if it was the scale of C in one octave.
01:16:08Just to know you can play again.
01:16:10Even though I can play, I'm still nervous about...
01:16:13About these hands.
01:16:15It takes all my concentration.
01:16:17Would you mind sitting in the other room just this once?
01:16:19I'd listen to you from the other end of the world if it would help make you great again.
01:16:22Dina.
01:16:23I want you to remember just one thing.
01:16:27Tonight I'll play my greatest concert.
01:16:29I need you to help make it complete.
01:16:32I'll remember.
01:16:33I'll be right back.
01:17:04Destroy the very thing I created?
01:17:05Help him.
01:17:06Any jury will call it insanity.
01:17:08With proper treatment, he can be brought back.
01:17:10And Ken?
01:17:12And I?
01:17:13Bill, I was almost as close to Ken as you were.
01:17:15But even his sacrifice can't stop our work.
01:17:18It mustn't.
01:17:18How stupid I was.
01:17:21What he said about incentive.
01:17:23Oh yes, he had one all right.
01:17:24Vengeance on everyone he thought destroyed his ability to create music.
01:17:30The driver.
01:17:31Ken.
01:17:34I think we can take care of ourselves.
01:17:36Dina.
01:17:37She's with him.
01:17:38He won't hurt her.
01:17:39She's on his side.
01:17:40We're the enemies.
01:17:41With a maniac as shrewd as he's become, I won't take that chance.
01:17:44I'm coming to him.
01:17:45No, you're involved enough.
01:17:46Go home to your security.
01:17:47Try to figure out why it's so hard to find for men like me.
01:17:50And don't make the same mistakes.
01:17:52Are you sure about this?
01:18:12It must be.
01:18:14He made a special point about it.
01:18:15Tonight I'll play my greatest concert.
01:18:19Dina, I...
01:18:20Oh, I don't blame you, Gil.
01:18:22How can you blame anybody for this?
01:18:25I just feel numb for all the loneliness and misery he must be feeling inside.
01:18:52Thank you for remembering what I said, Dina.
01:19:05I was sure I could depend on the audience.
01:19:07Very important part of the concert.
01:19:08Yes, I'm going to play for you, Doctor.
01:19:14I'm used to a great deal of applause after my concerts.
01:19:17And what could be more desirable than applause from the man who made it all possible?
01:19:20There were others almost as much a part of it as you who should be here.
01:19:23But I don't think we'd find their applause very enthusiastic now.
01:19:28I did manage to convince one of them, though.
01:19:30We had a long chat on the way down here.
01:19:41Turns out he was very partial to music and my future ability.
01:19:43The only trouble was he didn't mean it.
01:19:48It was only trying to trick me.
01:19:50Why, Vernon?
01:19:51It was only a matter of time before you would have played again.
01:19:54Time.
01:19:55Time to cut off these hands and give me others.
01:19:57And others if those don't work.
01:19:59Yes, the doctor has all the time he needs in his laboratory.
01:20:01He can do anything.
01:20:03Except give me back my life.
01:20:04He tried to save that life.
01:20:06He failed.
01:20:07How do you know yet?
01:20:09Shall I show you?
01:20:11It's too soon.
01:20:12I said I was going to play for you.
01:20:14I am.
01:20:14Now.
01:20:19I want you beside me, Dina, because you were always there in the past.
01:20:22You can't go out there.
01:20:24He still needs me.
01:20:25It's a trick.
01:20:26I might be able to humor him.
01:20:28Still save him.
01:20:29I've got to.
01:20:30It's too much of a chance.
01:20:31You can't do it.
01:20:31Then take a gun and go out there and shoot him now.
01:20:57Listen.
01:20:58Behold the wonders of medical science and your kind dogs.
01:21:01Doctor.
01:21:13You're trying, Doctor.
01:21:16And now mine.
01:21:25Let her go.
01:21:31Go on back.
01:21:37We'll be all right.
01:21:45The talented Dr. Hardy.
01:21:47Still in charge.
01:21:48You're right about one thing.
01:21:50I'm not responsible for the loss of your hands.
01:21:52But I am for this.
01:21:58Like your friend, you imagine yourself a clever psychologist.
01:22:01It won't work, Doctor.
01:22:03You're interested in nothing but vengeance?
01:22:05Beauty is no longer important to you.
01:22:07On the contrary.
01:22:08Justice is a form of moral beauty.
01:22:10Or is that too unscientific?
01:22:11I did everything I could surgically.
01:22:14And your body's accepted it.
01:22:15Beyond that, I know I failed you.
01:22:21Your mind couldn't accept it.
01:22:23That's very beautiful.
01:22:25What a shame it's only meant to throw me off guard.
01:22:28What do you want?
01:22:30I want you to take another look at your work.
01:22:32Just for this moment, I want to share this triumph with you.
01:22:34I want you to take another look at your work.
01:23:04I want you to take another look at your work.
01:23:34Have you found out whose hands they are?
01:23:49Not yet.
01:23:51Does it make any difference?
01:23:56I think you know we'll have to talk some more.
01:23:58And maybe you'll be able to tell me if we have the right to push ahead so fast.
01:24:05Even when you believe.
01:24:10Men like you, who aren't afraid to grow.
01:24:14They'll always be the right.
01:24:15The end.
01:24:24I think you have to think about it.
01:24:28Well, you know what?
01:24:28You'll be the right to go.
01:24:28I think we'll have to tell you.
01:24:29Even if you haven't seen it.
01:24:29Well, you can see.
01:24:30You'll be the right to go.
01:24:30Tell me if you haven't seen it yet.
01:24:31You'll be the right to go.
01:24:32You'll be the right to go.
01:24:33THE END
01:25:03THE END