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In this 1958 classic thriller, a cemetery caretaker discovers a mysterious power that causes anyone whose grave he marks on the map to die shortly after. A chilling tale of fate, fear, and suspense — blending the eerie atmosphere of vintage horror with the tension of a psychological mystery.
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00:00:00The Lone Ranger
00:01:30Welcome, sir.
00:01:34Welcome to the immortal hells.
00:01:36It's all by way of making you feel right at home, Bobby.
00:01:50Mr. Chairman.
00:01:52Come along, sir.
00:01:55After you.
00:01:56This is your place now, you know.
00:01:57Of course.
00:01:58It isn't as if you was any stranger here, Bob.
00:02:01But somehow this place all looks different to me.
00:02:03Like I never saw it before.
00:02:05Well, maybe I never had to.
00:02:07Oh, that's cool as an icebox in here.
00:02:09Oh, that thing hasn't worked in years.
00:02:12Cement holds the wet, you know, makes the air a wee bit crispy.
00:02:15Won't bother you none once you get down to work.
00:02:18I'm not sworn in yet.
00:02:19Oh, that's only for sure, sir.
00:02:20Now, let me see if I got the list of committeemen right.
00:02:23First, Chairman Robert Kraft.
00:02:26Yourself.
00:02:27And Mr. Horniger, Treasurer, your Uncle George, Secretary, and, of course, Mr. Trowbridge, and Mr. Bates.
00:02:33Making five in all, right?
00:02:34Right.
00:02:35If you're gonna find me at any time, my dwelling's straight across the boulevard, opposite the gate.
00:02:40Makes it nice, living so close to my work.
00:02:42Now, would you like to see the sight, sir?
00:02:44Give the roof a chance to catch the heat.
00:02:46Mm-hmm.
00:02:47If you get to make a tour, it's a bit warmer outside.
00:02:50Let's warm up.
00:02:52Oh, yes, sir.
00:02:53That's a map of the entire cemetery.
00:02:55Down to the wee speck of dust.
00:02:57Here we are, and here's my shed with the rose stone, and there's the gate you come in.
00:03:02Certainly kept it up to date.
00:03:03There's a new mausoleum on here already.
00:03:05Aye.
00:03:06Oh, yes, sir.
00:03:07This map's gonna be a big health to you, Bobby.
00:03:09Suppose you got a customer, and you want to know what ground we can show him.
00:03:13This is where the map comes in.
00:03:15One look and quick as a wink.
00:03:16You know who's where and what's what.
00:03:18It's them pens that makes it so easy.
00:03:20The black ones stand for the ones that is already there,
00:03:23and the white ones for them as has made their arrangements for the future.
00:03:27Now, for example, here's my place.
00:03:30It's lovely, isn't it, Bob?
00:03:32There.
00:03:33Sun in the morning, but gets those trees to give shade in the afternoon heat.
00:03:37McKee, you've been on this job now 40 years, right?
00:03:40Aye.
00:03:41Well, I guess the committee's right.
00:03:43It's high time we retired, Joe.
00:03:44Nothing to worry about.
00:03:45Full pension.
00:03:45You draw the same check every month.
00:03:48I'm to be paid for nothing from now on.
00:03:51No, you're to be paid for 40 years of devotion.
00:03:54That's something.
00:03:55Anyone in mind to replace you?
00:03:56Oh, aye.
00:03:59I hadn't given it much thought, sir, but, aye.
00:04:02There must be plenty of young and hard-muscled tops
00:04:04who would give the right teeth for my shoes.
00:04:06It's a lovely place to work.
00:04:08You're outside near Mother Earth.
00:04:09Well, let me know if you find somebody.
00:04:12Oh, aye.
00:04:12I will.
00:04:16Yes, sir.
00:04:16That's quite a map.
00:04:17Pardon me, sir.
00:04:24I just wanted to show you where we keep this in case of emergencies.
00:04:28No need to worry, though.
00:04:30We haven't had none yet.
00:04:33Oh, you expecting visitors, sir?
00:04:35No, but that sounds like Stu Drexel.
00:04:37Oh, aye.
00:04:39Drexel.
00:04:39I'm pretty bad, Paris.
00:04:41She definitely was promised.
00:04:43Looks like they're hitched.
00:04:46She finally caught me, Bob.
00:04:49Bethy, many happy returns of the day.
00:04:51Stu, that's a great place you pick for a honeymoon.
00:04:53Oh, marriage has made me conservative.
00:04:55How about it, Mrs. D?
00:04:56Can I carry you over the threshold?
00:04:58I still don't think it's so very funny.
00:05:00I think it's positively awful if you really want to know the truth.
00:05:03Oh, Bethy, don't be that way.
00:05:04What's the trouble?
00:05:05How would you like to get a cemetery plot for a wedding gift?
00:05:09Now, Bethy, you know Pop never meant it for a present.
00:05:11It's just a formal legal sort of thing.
00:05:14You see, Dad left part of my inheritance in trust for when I got married.
00:05:17One of the provisions was that myself and my wife
00:05:19had first-class accommodations here at the Immortal Hills.
00:05:23Doesn't cost us a cent,
00:05:24but we have to buy the plots before the bank will let me have the cash.
00:05:28You know, Dad, he never did consider me much on responsibility.
00:05:32He was a very smart man.
00:05:34Oh, aye, that he was.
00:05:36And though a bony bride should have her thoughts far from doom,
00:05:39it's a lucky girl whose father-in-law provides from the beyond for her future.
00:05:44Isn't he sweet?
00:05:46Thanks, Scotty.
00:05:48Bob, give us a couple near the old man, will you?
00:05:52And call up Owens at the bank in the morning,
00:05:54so I can cash a check.
00:05:56I don't think it's funny at all.
00:06:05From the last administration, sir.
00:06:07Folks get a wee bit rocky when they come out here sometimes.
00:06:10Best to be prepared.
00:06:12Don't match.
00:06:18Oh, over here.
00:06:23That's where the Drexel bunch is.
00:06:26Ah, it'll get so you'll love it out here, Bobi.
00:06:30It's a fine and green and lovely place.
00:06:33A fine place to slip away from the cares of the world.
00:06:36Slip away and love a wee bit.
00:06:38As a returning chairman of the Immortal Hill Cemetery Management Committee,
00:06:55it is now my very great pleasure to announce the appointment of Robert Kraft,
00:07:00president of Kraft's department.
00:07:02Now, George, don't shush me.
00:07:03You railroaded me into this.
00:07:05Now, wait a minute, Bob.
00:07:06It's your turn.
00:07:07Last year was his turn.
00:07:08The year before, it was mine.
00:07:10Nobody refuses to take the chairmanship.
00:07:12Pardon us, Henry.
00:07:13President of Kraft's department store.
00:07:17Why?
00:07:19Nobody ever has.
00:07:20It's just not done, son.
00:07:22Well, can you give me one good reason why I should take over the management
00:07:25of a whole big cemetery when I'm up to my neck in my own business?
00:07:30As retirement...
00:07:30Hold it.
00:07:31Of course I can.
00:07:33Tradition.
00:07:35Particularly for us crafts.
00:07:36You always harp on dignity, honor, prestige.
00:07:40Well, how do you think we got it?
00:07:42Because your great-grandfather, your grandfather, and your father served on every community project,
00:07:47board, and committee that was ever created.
00:07:49They served for free.
00:07:52But they did it for business.
00:07:54That's what a fine family has to do in this town.
00:07:57And you can't refuse to do it without losing a lot of respect from our customers.
00:08:02And another thing...
00:08:04It's just not done.
00:08:06Well, pass me over till next year.
00:08:08I'm up to my ears.
00:08:09Bob, do you realize you're talking about only a few hours a month at the most?
00:08:14McKee, the caretaker, handles everything.
00:08:17All you do is show up once a week and sign the checks.
00:08:20It's getting late, George.
00:08:21Proceed, Henry.
00:08:22Raise your right hand.
00:08:24Well, what about Bill Honiger?
00:08:26Raise your right hand.
00:08:29Do you, Robert Kraft, swear to discharge the duties and responsibilities of this office
00:08:34faithfully and completely to the utmost of your abilities?
00:08:38I do.
00:08:39Congratulations, Bob.
00:08:40Thanks, Mr. Trowbridge.
00:08:42Thank you, Uncle George.
00:08:44Okay, Miss Lane.
00:08:45You can put through his calls now.
00:08:48Thank you, Mr. Watson.
00:08:49I'll ring him for you now.
00:08:50Hello.
00:08:53Hello.
00:08:57There's a guy named Watson on the phone.
00:08:59Says it's urgent.
00:09:00Do you know him?
00:09:01Of Olsen, Watson?
00:09:02Of Olsen, Watson, you know.
00:09:05Oh, the undertaker's swell.
00:09:08Hello.
00:09:10Well, thank you very much, Mr. Watson.
00:09:12I'll do the best job I can.
00:09:14Yes.
00:09:14Oh, you're kidding.
00:09:24Well, sir, uh, don't worry about it.
00:09:26I'll take care of it myself.
00:09:28I'll be there within an hour.
00:09:30Yes, sir.
00:09:33Well, what about this ad?
00:09:34Half the way, I'm sorry.
00:09:36Well, now, call McKee.
00:09:37You don't have to go up there every time.
00:09:39This is different.
00:09:40Somebody prominent?
00:09:42Stu Drexel and his wife.
00:09:44Stu and Betsy.
00:09:47No.
00:09:55Hi.
00:09:56Hi, Jess.
00:09:58McKee, this is Mr. Jessup at the Milford Herald.
00:10:00Hi, Jessup.
00:10:01Jessup.
00:10:02Oh, the west slope between the Pattersons and the Fenleys.
00:10:05What else is new?
00:10:07You were my big news for the day.
00:10:10As about plans for the coming year,
00:10:12Kraft revealed the Immortal Hills will install a drive-in bar
00:10:15to stimulate additional trade.
00:10:18I'm stuck with the obituary detail.
00:10:20Boy, it's cold in here.
00:10:23McKee, let's get that heat on.
00:10:24I'll let it in tomorrow.
00:10:24We'd better get ready for the interment.
00:10:26Aye, that'll be done, sir.
00:10:27And you better change the Drexel pins.
00:10:29Black instead of white.
00:10:30Oh, they're already good, black pins, sir.
00:10:33Oh, who changed them?
00:10:33Well, no, the last I remember was the very day
00:10:37they come out here to give you the order.
00:10:38And you stuck in two pens.
00:10:40Yeah, I guess that's right.
00:10:42Must have picked up the wrong color.
00:10:44Mm-hmm.
00:10:47Nothing.
00:10:47It's just a little weird, that's all.
00:10:49What?
00:10:52Well, the kids came out here
00:10:54right after they tied the knot.
00:10:56They bought a couple of plots.
00:10:58Stu was complying with some technicality in his trust.
00:11:00And it was all very cute.
00:11:03We had a couple of laughs.
00:11:05And afterwards, I jabbed two pins
00:11:06and the map white pins, I thought,
00:11:07just to make it official.
00:11:09And I hear today they've been killed.
00:11:12And the map's had them on a blacklist all the time.
00:11:15Okay, so what?
00:11:17Nothing.
00:11:17It just made me feel a little eerie, that's all.
00:11:21I think he means he marked the young couple for death, sir.
00:11:27Yeah, I guess that was it.
00:11:29That must have been the feeling I had.
00:11:32Well, that's funny.
00:11:33Well, it'll go through a guy's mind, doesn't it?
00:11:37Do me a favor, McKee.
00:11:40If he starts fooling out of those pins again,
00:11:43be sure he stays away from the west slope,
00:11:46between the Pattersons and the Findleys.
00:11:48Indeed, I will, sir.
00:11:52Hi, Annie.
00:11:52What are you doing out here?
00:11:54I had a luncheon date, but I was stood up.
00:11:56I know a nice little place down the street.
00:11:58I just might take you up on that.
00:12:00I won't hold my breath.
00:12:04George told me about Beth and Stuart.
00:12:07I just had to see you.
00:12:09Made me think how lucky we are just to be alive and together.
00:12:12Ann, this is Mr. McKee.
00:12:16This is Miss Craig, my fiancée, Andy.
00:12:18How do you do?
00:12:18Would you be wanting me for anything else, Bobby?
00:12:22No, thanks, Andy.
00:12:25Bob.
00:12:26Hmm?
00:12:27What's wrong?
00:12:28Nothing.
00:12:29I'm just a little depressed, that's all.
00:12:31But you'll take care of that.
00:12:34Ann, I kept wishing we could keep our appointment.
00:12:36Oh, rendezvous, if you don't mind.
00:12:38Your gray flannel is showing.
00:12:40Actually, do you know what made me turn around and come here instead of going home?
00:12:44Mm-hmm.
00:12:45Well, I was driving along, feeling rejected.
00:12:47Mm-hmm.
00:12:48And then all of a sudden I saw you very clearly in my mind.
00:12:52Bob, it's just that you're too attractive.
00:12:55After all, president of a department store and in charge of the Immortal Hills.
00:12:59Irresistible.
00:13:00I saw you and I heard you.
00:13:03Lunchtime, Annie.
00:13:04That's what you said distinctly.
00:13:07Lunchtime, Annie.
00:13:08Well, I could do better than that, I hope.
00:13:10Oh, you did.
00:13:12You said, I want you.
00:13:15And I need you.
00:13:16And a whole lot of lovely things I'd be embarrassed to repeat.
00:13:22Yeah.
00:13:24You know, just about the time you were seeing me, I had you on my mind.
00:13:29That's amazing.
00:13:30No, I mean it.
00:13:31And I don't blame you for I'm not wanting to repeat what I was thinking.
00:13:38We better go to lunch or get married.
00:13:43Or I can just as easily join Jess at that little spot down the road he spoke of.
00:13:48If you regret, the management does not permit exchanges once the merchandise has been purchased.
00:13:53Then I'll freshen up.
00:13:54Mm-hmm.
00:14:09Immortal Hell's craft.
00:14:33Hi, Carl.
00:14:34No, terrible.
00:14:35No, I'm sorry.
00:14:37The funeral's been confined to the immediate family.
00:14:41Yeah, all right, Carl.
00:14:41I'll see you later.
00:14:47No, no.
00:14:55You're right.
00:14:57What?
00:14:58You're right.
00:14:59We are lucky to be alive.
00:15:03With each other.
00:15:05Come on.
00:15:06Come on.
00:15:06Come on.
00:16:38Eh-ho.
00:16:40Ah, I picked this Drexel stone for glass.
00:16:44Fine and rich and swirly.
00:16:46I'm a gran upon myself.
00:16:50Bobby!
00:16:51Bobby!
00:16:52I've got a surprise...
00:16:53Found your replacement.
00:16:55Oh, well, no, no, not yet.
00:16:57But I'm scouting the countryside.
00:16:58This is far sweeter.
00:16:59This is what I call getting things done.
00:17:15You should have been an executive.
00:17:17Hey, best take off your coat, Bobby.
00:17:26You'll be getting overheated.
00:17:29Fairly quiet this week.
00:17:31Only one passing.
00:17:33There's it, if you'll just sign these.
00:17:36Let's get rid of these flowers.
00:17:38Oh, aye, they smell a wee bit sickly.
00:17:40I was hoping to keep them for the burial this afternoon.
00:17:42We need much help?
00:17:43Oh, no, this is just an average funeral.
00:17:47They don't come like the Drexel doings every day, thank the Lord.
00:17:50The key, this is built for W. Isham.
00:17:59What's it for?
00:18:01He's the lot for this afternoon, Bobby.
00:18:05Oh, no need to look so sad.
00:18:07Willisham was the same age lad as me.
00:18:11Oh, there's something I've been meaning to tell you.
00:18:14Mighty queer, it strikes me, Bobby.
00:18:15I went to the map just after we got the news.
00:18:19They changed Willisham's pin to black.
00:18:22It was already black.
00:18:25Looks like there might be something creepy after that map.
00:18:30Changing pen colors without human assistance, no less.
00:18:33I changed Mr. Isham's pin, Andy.
00:18:37But, Bob, you haven't been here since he died.
00:18:40Just a place.
00:18:40I know, I changed his pin before he died, not after.
00:18:44Jess, it's Bob Kraft.
00:18:45Can you come over here right away?
00:18:46No, I'm at the cemetery.
00:18:51That map's nothing but an old piece of paper hanging on the wall.
00:18:54All you do when you stick pins in it is to make holes in the paper.
00:18:58White pins, black pins, safety pins.
00:19:00It doesn't make any difference, see?
00:19:01Well, look, it's unfortunate that it worked out this way, but coincidence is a part of everyday life.
00:19:09Some are funny, some are pretty odd.
00:19:12But this one isn't even good enough to make the back page of the shopping news.
00:19:15That's all it is, Bob, coincidence.
00:19:19Yeah.
00:19:21You're right, Jess.
00:19:22Thanks.
00:19:23That's okay.
00:19:25Sometime when I've tied on a real headbender, you can do the same for me.
00:19:30What's your trouble?
00:19:32Well, nothing, but I've been through all this before.
00:19:37The grass, and the quiet, and that sound.
00:19:47I never knew what it was.
00:19:50It's the sound of a name being cut into a headstone.
00:19:54Yeah, I've heard of people who thought they'd been through the same bit before in their dreams.
00:19:59I think it's even happened to me.
00:20:01What would you say if I told you this happens to me regularly, ever since I was a child?
00:20:06Sometimes as often as every other week.
00:20:09I'd say you were sensitive or exaggerating.
00:20:14Third floor sportswear, 9280, gross.
00:20:19Compared to 8500, always the same date last year.
00:20:24Basement sportswear.
00:20:27I'm going to call Bates and Honiger and Trill Bridge right now and tell them I'm
00:20:30quitting.
00:20:31Don't worry, George.
00:20:32Nothing drastic will happen to the store.
00:20:33My mind's made up.
00:20:36You mean mixed up.
00:20:40I've lived in Milford all my life, and I can't remember any man who ever let that place get
00:20:45the better of him.
00:20:46Why, when I was chairman, I'll bet I stuck the wrong colored pins in that thing a dozen
00:20:50times.
00:20:51If I ran out of one color, I used the other.
00:20:55You've only been down there a couple of times.
00:20:57George, I put black pins in the map for the Drexel couple the day they were killed.
00:21:06Now, I didn't think anything of it at the time, and then I took a white pin out of the
00:21:11map quite at random, and I put a black pin in its place, and today I find out the old
00:21:18man it belonged to died during the week.
00:21:26Bob, that's terrible.
00:21:28For heaven's sake, Bob, everybody loves a ghost story.
00:21:33Where's your sense of humor?
00:21:34You don't really believe that stuff you're telling me, do you?
00:21:39No.
00:21:42I still think I may be learning something about myself.
00:21:51Where are you going?
00:21:52Oh, I think I'll just take a run out of the cemetery.
00:21:56What for?
00:21:56Sounds like it might be fun.
00:21:59After all, I've been trying to find some way to wipe out our competition for years.
00:22:04Good night, George.
00:22:05Want to take my car?
00:22:29All right.
00:22:35Won't be but a moment, sir.
00:22:53No, don't bother, McKee.
00:22:54I think I've got it.
00:23:00Oh, that'll be all, McKee.
00:23:02Is everything right, Bobby?
00:23:04We'll see you later, Andy.
00:23:06Well, the place hasn't changed a bit since I was chairman.
00:23:10A few more pins in the map.
00:23:12Black ones.
00:23:13White ones, too.
00:23:15Sit down and relax, Bob.
00:23:19I think I can get this whole thing cleared up for you.
00:23:22What are you going to do?
00:23:23I'm going to convince you that there's nothing out here for you to worry about.
00:23:28George, let's forget this.
00:23:29Bob, I said I'm just going to convince you.
00:23:33Well, George, suppose you took Henry Trowbridge's white pin out and put a black one in its place, and tomorrow morning he turned up dead.
00:23:41It's not a chance.
00:23:42Well, I know not a chance.
00:23:44But suppose by some weird coincidence it happened.
00:23:46It's happened to me three times already.
00:23:48I deal strictly in facts, son.
00:23:50I don't go for this coincidence, punk.
00:23:53But if Henry Trowbridge even looks a little peaky tomorrow, you can resign and I'll back you up.
00:24:00Now, Henry Trowbridge, let me see if I remember.
00:24:03George, I just mentioned Henry as an example.
00:24:06Now, you're not going to use him.
00:24:07Well, Henry's as good a choice as anybody, considering he directly preceded you as committee chairman.
00:24:15Wait a minute, George.
00:24:16You better let me put the pin in.
00:24:22If you do the honors and nothing happens, it won't be quite as conclusive.
00:24:27By all means, let's not diverge from the established pattern.
00:24:33But I'll have you know I was no slouch when it came to pinning the tail on the docket when I was a kid.
00:24:38But no reflection on Henry.
00:24:45Go ahead, Bob.
00:25:08You better call Henry and tell him what we did.
00:25:11He'd only think we were kidding.
00:25:12Now he'd believe you.
00:25:14Then he'd call my physician and he'd reserve a nice quiet room for me at Providence Hospital.
00:25:20Let's keep this quiet, my boy.
00:25:23Henry can't complain.
00:25:25After all, if his term had run a week or so longer, he might be having the willies instead of you.
00:25:30Oh.
00:25:38Henry can't complain.
00:26:08Hello, Miss Trowbridge.
00:26:12This is Bob Kraft.
00:26:13What are you doing up so late?
00:26:15Uh, nothing serious.
00:26:17Uh, I just meant to call Henry earlier and it slipped my mind.
00:26:20Uh, put him on, will you?
00:26:22Or if he's watching the movie and enjoying it, uh, ask him to call me back during the commercial.
00:26:27No, no, Bob.
00:26:28Just hold on and I'll get him.
00:26:30He's upstairs reading his head, but I'm sure he's not asleep.
00:26:33Well, I hate to disturb him.
00:26:35You just told the wire, Bob.
00:26:38I don't know.
00:26:40Hello, Henry?
00:27:09Oh, he's not breathing, Bob.
00:27:17I've got to call the doctor.
00:27:20I understand.
00:27:22I'll hang up right away.
00:27:26I'm terribly sorry.
00:27:39Hey-ho, nobody home.
00:27:45Eat up and call me.
00:27:57Wait here.
00:27:58This won't take long.
00:28:00Morning.
00:28:01How do you do, sir?
00:28:01Well, I don't understand it.
00:28:07Jess said he'd be here in 20 minutes.
00:28:12Lieutenant Claiborne?
00:28:15So that's it, huh?
00:28:17Sure big enough.
00:28:19There are the black pins, eh?
00:28:22We're particularly concerned with these four.
00:28:25Isham, and the Drexel couple, and now Trowbridge.
00:28:29Let me get this straight, Mr. Kraft.
00:28:32You say that every time you stick a black pin in the map, people turn up dead?
00:28:37That's right.
00:28:41Well, go ahead, Lieutenant.
00:28:44You think I'm a crackpot, and I hope you're right.
00:28:47I just want to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:28:48You think I'm a crackpot, and I'm a crackpot, and I'm a crackpot, and I'm a crackpot, and I'm a crackpot.
00:28:54Stewart and Elizabeth Drexel, DOA, Emergency Receiving Hospital, Result of Highway Collision.
00:29:01William Isham, Cause of Death, Cerebral Hemorrhage.
00:29:04Henry Trowbridge, Coronary Thrombosis.
00:29:08Well, the rule is this.
00:29:09Where no evidence of homicide exists on initial investigation, the matter will be dropped.
00:29:15Investigated?
00:29:15Found nothing.
00:29:17Sorry.
00:29:20Joseph?
00:29:21What's new, or should I say real?
00:29:23Nothing like murder, if that's what you're after.
00:29:26I'm sorry Bob saw fit to disturb you, Lieutenant.
00:29:28No harm done.
00:29:29What do you make of it, Jess?
00:29:31I keep telling him.
00:29:32It's just coincidence.
00:29:33Yeah.
00:29:35If I were you, Mr. Kraft, I'd take a week or two off.
00:29:38Take it easy.
00:29:39You'll forget all about it.
00:29:39If you're going to use the story, kindly refrain from mentioning my name.
00:29:46I know.
00:29:47Lieutenant Claiborne, with an E on the end.
00:29:55Boy.
00:29:56Boy.
00:29:56I don't think four deaths could appear so flimsy to a policeman.
00:30:04You never should have called the police.
00:30:07Claiborne's one of the best.
00:30:08Any other guy might have looked for a big, heavy book to throw at you.
00:30:12Yeah.
00:30:12And you're right.
00:30:13On the other hand, maybe that thing's dangerous.
00:30:18Really dangerous.
00:30:19Or maybe the element of danger is in a man.
00:30:22In me.
00:30:24Bob.
00:30:25Is there something different about me, Jess?
00:30:27I'm really beginning to wonder.
00:30:29Hey, buddy.
00:30:30If there is anything to this map, don't go blaming it on nameless forces.
00:30:35Maybe somebody's trying to scare you.
00:30:37Could be you've got an enemy or two.
00:30:38I don't know.
00:30:43Somebody using your desk, George.
00:30:47He came in to keep me company, darling.
00:30:49That was very sweet of him.
00:30:52Oh, darling, you must be dead tired.
00:30:55I'm all right, ma'am.
00:30:55No sleep.
00:30:56And then to have to go back outside again?
00:30:57I'm all right.
00:30:59There's no crime in needing a good rest.
00:31:02George, I've got some correspondence to take care of.
00:31:05I've already taken care of your mail.
00:31:06And I took the liberty of making reservations for you.
00:31:10Flight 33, leaving for Miami at 545.
00:31:15My pal Sanford owns one of the finest hotels on the beach.
00:31:19Thanks anyway.
00:31:21There's nothing I'd rather do, but I can't possibly go now.
00:31:25Bob.
00:31:27I gave you my word.
00:31:29If anything happened to Henry, you could resign.
00:31:32I talked to Charlie and Bill Honiger, and they understand completely.
00:31:38It's all fixed, son.
00:31:39The situation's changed.
00:31:41Until this thing's cleared up, I'm not about to resign.
00:31:44Oh.
00:31:44I want you to tell the others.
00:31:46Ask them to meet me here in my office, 7.30 tonight.
00:31:49Well, for a short notice.
00:31:51You really can't just ignore what's happened.
00:31:54I guess you're right.
00:31:58Darling.
00:31:59And I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snap.
00:32:01Oh.
00:32:02Now, why can't you resign?
00:32:06Well, because possibly something real, unreal, I don't know, is waiting to kill one of us every time I jab a black pin into that map.
00:32:16Bob.
00:32:17If you're talking about Henry Trowbridge, the poor man died of a heart attack.
00:32:21Heart disease is the country's number one killer.
00:32:24Maybe not in Milford.
00:32:26Oh, Bob, you can't mean that that map is literally killing people?
00:32:30No, Ann, maybe it isn't the map.
00:32:34Well.
00:32:35What about the other day?
00:32:36You saw me, you heard me, lunchtime, Annie, I want you, I need you.
00:32:40Bob, I was obviously trying to bring a little, a little romance into our very dull and dismal lives.
00:32:45No, Ann, don't try to deny it.
00:32:47I do deny it.
00:32:51Bob, I love you.
00:32:52I'm, I'm not in any sort of occult thrall to you.
00:32:56Hey, can't you take a joke?
00:33:06All right, then I was lying too.
00:33:09Does that bring you back to reality again?
00:33:18Bob.
00:33:19I think we'd better take advantage of, of those plane tickets.
00:33:28George's Mr. Sanford's could be best man.
00:33:33The offer's awfully attractive.
00:33:35I love you so much.
00:33:39Ann, if you're going to cry, do it someplace else.
00:33:41Now, Bob, it's real simple.
00:33:54We're willing to play ball with you.
00:33:56If you want to remain chairman of this committee, we wouldn't think of trying to dissuade you.
00:33:59Because we have confidence in you.
00:34:01Full confidence.
00:34:02All we confidence in the world, Bob.
00:34:04Now, all we want before we break this up is a promise from you, Mr. Chairman.
00:34:11That before you turn in tonight, you'll go out to the cemetery.
00:34:15Now, let me finish.
00:34:16You'll go out there and change my white pen to black.
00:34:21Charlie's and George's.
00:34:23Just as simple as that.
00:34:24And then go home and go right to bed.
00:34:28No, sir.
00:34:30You're not the committee, Bob.
00:34:31You're only our chairman with the duty to carry out the will of the majority.
00:34:36We feel that you should do as Bill said.
00:34:40Because it will put an end to this business once and for all.
00:34:44Otherwise, we'll do the resigning right here and now.
00:34:47Well, let me sleep on it.
00:34:50Let's all sleep on it.
00:34:51I don't think you people realize what might be involved here.
00:34:53Motion defeated.
00:34:55Tonight.
00:34:55Well, your devotion to the principle of majority rule moves me deeply.
00:35:06Okay.
00:35:10And good night.
00:35:11Good night.
00:35:11Good night.
00:35:25All right, Charlie.
00:35:40All right, Charlie.
00:35:40Here goes nothing, Uncle George.
00:35:58who is it it's me Bobby open up
00:36:14I seen your car lights from my window driving through the gates I come running you needn't
00:36:25bothered McKee you put in a full day already now I'll see you tomorrow no no no Bobby please
00:36:29Bobby listen when you locked and bolted this place I said to myself now there's a man who knows his
00:36:37business that's what I said he may not know everything what's behind it but he knows when
00:36:42a thing's to be fooled with and when it's to be left alone there's nothing to fear for the man
00:36:47like Bobby crafted that they were that's what I said that's fine now you run along home and don't
00:36:51worry about a thing nothing's gonna happen to you no please Bobby lock this door again and send
00:36:57yourself home or else who can answer for what may happen to the whole miserable lot of us
00:37:04we'll have to be open sometime if I don't do it they'll get somebody who will good night Andy
00:37:10good night Andy go home
00:37:24we want yes Bob why didn't you answer me I've been looking all over town for you
00:37:54I'm calling from your place now what are you doing at the cottage again haven't had enough
00:37:58for one day yes I think I've done something terribly wrong oh we had a meeting a cemetery
00:38:05committee after closing tonight Bill Honiger Charlie Bates and George everybody and they voted to make
00:38:12me come out here to the cemetery and stick black pins in the map for each of them just like it was
00:38:18some kid's nightmare so I did it just as a black pin in that map for Charlie Bates and Bill Honiger and
00:38:27George and if anything happens to them to any of them it's my fault nobody else's
00:38:34nothing's going to happen to them Bob as a matter of fact I think they did you a big favor I've never
00:38:39heard of a coincidence involving three people dying all at once by tomorrow at this time this whole big
00:38:44worry of yours will be nothing but a lot of hot air I hope you're right Jess I guess there's nothing
00:38:54for me to do but see this thing through I think I'll check on it myself and see Bob Bob
00:39:03Honiger Bates and George
00:39:33you
00:40:03BIRDS CHIRP
00:40:33BIRDS CHIRP
00:41:03BIRDS CHIRP
00:41:05BIRDS CHIRP
00:41:15Sergeant, this is Bob Kraft, Kraft's department store.
00:41:20Oh, sure. I'll wait a second.
00:41:22For a second, I'll check.
00:41:26Uh, Mr. Kraft, are you calling the police matters religious something personal?
00:41:30Well, uh, it's a little bit of both, Sergeant.
00:41:35Drive at Adams at 1311.
00:41:45Adams, one, three.
00:42:10Adams, one, three.
00:42:13Adams, one, three, one, one.
00:42:23Adams, one, three, one, one.
00:42:25Oh, Honiger, Adams, one, three, one, one.
00:42:37Adams, one, three, one, one.
00:42:39Adams, one, three, one, one.
00:42:42Adams, one, three, one, one.
00:42:44Adams, one, three, one, one.
00:42:46Adams, one.
00:42:48Yes.
00:42:50All right.
00:42:51Yes.
00:42:52It's a homicide.
00:42:54Yes, sir.
00:42:56Homicide.
00:42:58Yes, sir.
00:42:59Homicide.
00:43:00This is Bob Kraft speaking. I can't get through to that Adams number.
00:43:20Claiborne's at that number, and it's imperative that I speak to him right now.
00:43:24What, sir? Just a second, sir. I think he's reporting in on the line.
00:43:30I've been trying to get you, but your lines are busy. Hang on, I'll call you back right away.
00:43:34Thanks, Bob.
00:43:50Something happened to Bill Honiger. Hello.
00:43:53Yes, Bob?
00:43:55Jess, I'm expecting a call from Claiborne. Hang up, call me back in ten minutes.
00:43:59Claiborne's with me.
00:44:04Let me talk to him. He's not here now. He's...
00:44:09What's wrong, Tess? Bill Honiger's dead.
00:44:12Soon as I found out, I routed Claiborne out of the sack and filled him in on the whole wild story.
00:44:16We were over at Honiger's in ten minutes with two squad cars detailed to cover Charlie Bates and your uncle.
00:44:23How did Honiger get it? He didn't. That's the trouble.
00:44:28What?
00:44:30The poor guy just dropped dead.
00:44:33Nothing out of the ordinary.
00:44:37Bates? Charlie Bates?
00:44:40They found him in his apartment.
00:44:42Say it.
00:44:43No homicide. He just stopped breathing.
00:44:47George?
00:44:49George, yeah.
00:44:51I called and told him about Honiger before I left for Claiborne's.
00:44:56By the time the police got there, George had already left.
00:44:59They'll find him, Bob. Don't worry.
00:45:02I'll be waiting for a word about George.
00:45:05Let me know.
00:45:35The End
00:46:05The End
00:46:35Come on
00:46:39I'll drive you home before you catch pneumonia
00:46:43You three men made a terrible contribution to this town tonight, whether you meant to or not
00:46:48I'm not going anywhere, Uncle George, I'm staying right here
00:46:53Well, I admit that, uh, what was, uh, Charlie and Bill going so suddenly
00:47:00Charlie and Bill and Henry and Isham and Beth and Stu
00:47:05Stop looking at the map
00:47:07You're looking at it
00:47:08I'm looking at you
00:47:09We're both waiting
00:47:12Aren't we, Uncle George?
00:47:15Waiting to see if you escape
00:47:16Escape dying?
00:47:21Nobody escapes that, my boy
00:47:23The only question is how long
00:47:26The only question is does a man die in his own time or in the maps
00:47:32So far, everyone's been forced to conform to his schedule
00:47:37Everyone but you
00:47:40That puts me back on a schedule
00:47:51My own schedule
00:47:55If it makes you feel any better
00:47:59Let me tell you something
00:48:14From now on, if you want to see me
00:48:17You're going to have to come down to the store
00:48:19I won't make another special trip on your account
00:48:24Next time I see you, George
00:48:27We'll both be right here
00:48:48Yes
00:48:48Homicide
00:48:49Homicide
00:48:51This is Robert Kraft out of the Mortal Hills
00:48:54My Lord speaking
00:48:56Lieutenant, my uncle just left here
00:48:59I think under the circumstances
00:49:01The least you can do is put a man on to watch over him
00:49:04No matter how ridiculous the situation seems to you
00:49:07Thanks a lot, Mr. Kraft
00:49:09We'll take care of it right away
00:49:10He's wearing an overcoat over his robe and pajamas
00:49:13We put a description over the wire quite some time ago
00:49:16I do think there's danger
00:49:19Sergeant
00:49:21Kraft, George F. driving east on Bunker Hill
00:49:24Road, problem, dissipation, matter of work
00:49:27Let's pick one up
00:49:28We'll have your uncle safe inside in ten minutes, Mr. Kraft
00:49:32You'll hear from me
00:49:33Are you sure your uncle was out there tonight, you didn't just think you saw him?
00:49:58I told you we just left here
00:50:01That was two hours ago and no sign of him anyplace
00:50:03I put out on all points after the first hour
00:50:06He's not on the road and he's not home
00:50:07Hold the wire, Lieutenant
00:50:12Hold the wire, let's go
00:50:30Hey
00:50:32Yeah
00:51:35He's still here.
00:52:35I'm going to burn that stuff in the greenhouse if this heater doesn't work by tonight.
00:52:43Bobby, it took a whole lifetime of collecting for me to get the whole caboodle here.
00:52:48And see here, you haven't even touched your foot.
00:52:51Man, you've got to eat if you want to keep above the ground.
00:53:05There.
00:53:08Lights for me, Bobby.
00:53:11Of course, I can't answer for what happens after sundown.
00:53:13Let her wait in the car.
00:53:35Let her wait in the car.
00:54:05Aren't I crazy?
00:54:10Completely.
00:54:11I'll never change, I'm afraid.
00:54:15Annie, I'll see you later.
00:54:18Bob, please.
00:54:19I take it back.
00:54:22What?
00:54:23That day in the car.
00:54:24I did see you and I did hear you.
00:54:26I really did.
00:54:27I should never have denied it.
00:54:32It's all right, Annie.
00:54:34I'll see you and I'll see you and I'll see you later.
00:54:38You have a party named Jacob Middle someplace in the map?
00:54:56M-I-T-T-E-L.
00:54:58The importers?
00:55:00Sure.
00:55:00No.
00:55:01No.
00:55:05Yeah.
00:55:07We contact the French designers through a middle.
00:55:12As a matter of fact, he's in Paris now.
00:55:14Better strike him out.
00:55:19Jenny.
00:55:21Go ahead.
00:55:22How'd he die?
00:55:37He isn't dead.
00:55:39At least not yet.
00:55:39I know what you're thinking, Mr. Kraft.
00:55:49You're thinking that we tricked you into killing Jacob Middle.
00:55:52Well, you're 100% right, so try to relax, huh?
00:55:55This one's on the police.
00:55:58You see, Jacob Middle's in the prime of life.
00:56:00No previous major illnesses, no record life expectancy.
00:56:04Exceptionally good.
00:56:06And he's in Paris with all that ocean water to protect him from this mess.
00:56:10Up until now, all the deaths have been confined to the local area.
00:56:14If it strikes somebody on another continent, then we've really found something.
00:56:20I knew I should have gotten rid of those pins four days ago.
00:56:24Even the map.
00:56:25The whole thing.
00:56:26Out!
00:56:29What I want to know is, what are you going to tell the district attorney is responsible for these deaths?
00:56:35We gave this case a real full-dress investigation, Mr. Kraft.
00:56:40Questioned you and all the other suspects and witnesses until a point of comedy.
00:56:45Found nothing.
00:56:46No motive, no opportunity, no suspect, no crime, no weapon.
00:56:51Except,
00:56:52Seven pins went in.
00:56:55And the seven people died.
00:56:56Not one.
00:56:57Seven.
00:56:59Who put in those pins you did.
00:57:01All seven.
00:57:04Other chairman and so on have been putting pins in that map for years and nothing happened.
00:57:08But, with me.
00:57:17It isn't impossible for a certain kind of man to be endowed with powers that nobody would ever dream he could have.
00:57:24A lot of scientists claim that.
00:57:27Maps and pins can't kill alone.
00:57:30The power of a human brain has to be behind them.
00:57:34Like in the Indies, I guess.
00:57:35Those voodoo dolls you hear about.
00:57:38Which doctor sticks pins in the thing until a guy in question is...
00:57:41...jinxed into dying.
00:57:43Of course, I...
00:57:47I know you didn't mean to kill anybody.
00:57:55I have to get back.
00:57:57You'll hear from me the minute we get word.
00:57:58I think I'd best be running along, too.
00:58:17Bobo.
00:58:20I think so.
00:58:21Okay.
00:58:28I think so.
00:58:58I think so.
00:59:28I've destroyed them.
00:59:40Something in me killed them.
00:59:46Something in me.
00:59:48I couldn't refuse the job.
00:59:57I'm not a man with my reasoning power.
01:00:02Power.
01:00:06Power.
01:00:11If I have the power of death using the black pens...
01:00:18Then I must have the power of life using the white ones.
01:00:27A man with my sister.
01:00:29I've seen it.
01:00:35I've seen it.
01:00:40Yeah.
01:00:41I've seen it.
01:00:41I've seen it.
01:11:22There is nothing to fear.
01:12:22Why?
01:12:52I know you, Andy.
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