- 5 weeks ago
A doctor is caught in a revenge plot and his daughter is abducted and buried alive by the kidnapper. He has to track his daughter and save her before she suffocates to death.
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00:00Ladies and gentlemen, for the next hour and fifteen minutes, you will be shown things
00:00:29so terrifying that the management of this theater is deeply concerned for your welfare.
00:00:37Therefore, we request that each of you assume the responsibility of taking care of your
00:00:44neighbor.
00:00:46If anyone near you becomes uncontrollably frightened, will you please notify the management
00:00:52so that medical attention can be rushed to their aid?
00:00:57Please set your watches.
00:00:59It is 6.45 in the evening in a town called Thornton.
00:01:11Broke the lock.
00:01:12Climbed in the window and swiped my best child's coffin.
00:01:14You gonna take fingerprints, Jim?
00:01:17Not right away, Ed.
00:01:19Can't figure out anybody stealing a coffin.
00:01:22Seventy-five bucks worth.
00:01:24Seventy-five bucks is a bereaved.
00:01:26I'm not in business for my health.
00:01:29Do you think you can find out who did it?
00:01:31Oh, I don't know.
00:01:32Maybe.
00:01:33How big was it?
00:01:34What about the size of that coffin?
00:01:35You mean a guy could carry it?
00:01:37Oh, sure.
00:01:38Sure.
00:01:39It was a kid's coffin.
00:01:40Well, and you're gonna use the insurance money to bet on the horses.
00:01:43I told you I quit that.
00:01:44Oh, sure.
00:01:45Like you gave up playing poker.
00:01:46Just penny-ante.
00:01:47Ed, when are you gonna pay off some of those debts?
00:01:50Well, real soon, Jim.
00:01:52You included.
00:01:53Where are you gonna get the money?
00:01:54To charge an old man, Weatherby, a million bucks for burying Nancy tonight?
00:01:58My rates are the same for everybody.
00:02:00Sure.
00:02:01All you can get.
00:02:02You know what Jode Weatherby said to me when his daughter Nancy died at midnight?
00:02:07He said, you know, my daughter Nancy lived in darkness, died in darkness, and will be buried in darkness.
00:02:16It's the strangest thing I ever heard of having a funeral in the middle of the night.
00:02:19Well, you can count on old Jode to do things different from everybody else.
00:02:23Yeah, like having ten million dollars.
00:02:29Yeah, even so, it's tough on the old guy, his two daughters dying so suddenly.
00:02:42You never quite got over Alice, did you, Jim?
00:02:45Even after the doc took her away from you.
00:02:47Even after she died.
00:02:49You talk too much, Ed.
00:02:50Well, I got some work to do.
00:02:51Jim.
00:02:52Jim, what about my stolen coffin?
00:02:53I got it right on my mind, Ed.
00:02:54Hey, doc!
00:02:55How's every little thing?
00:03:08Fine, Tylo.
00:03:09And you?
00:03:10Still taking nourishment.
00:03:11How's your kid?
00:03:12I'll see you in a week or so.
00:03:13Marge is fine, thanks.
00:03:14She was three last week, wasn't she?
00:03:15You've got a good memory.
00:03:16Yeah, I remember the night your wife died better than you.
00:03:17I was sober.
00:03:18I was with her.
00:03:19Let me give you a little friendly advice.
00:03:20Get out of this town.
00:03:21You're out of business.
00:03:26You think so?
00:03:27You think so?
00:03:28Marge is fine, thanks.
00:03:29She was three last week, wasn't she?
00:03:32You know, I just had a childish impulse to take a poke at you.
00:03:35You know, I just had a childish impulse to take a poke at you.
00:03:40I was sober.
00:03:41I was sober.
00:03:42I was with her.
00:03:43Let me give you a little friendly advice.
00:03:44Get out of this town.
00:03:45You're out of business.
00:03:46You think so?
00:03:49They say a good doctor could have saved Nancy the night before last.
00:03:57You know, I just had a childish impulse to take a poke at you.
00:04:01I just had a poke at you.
00:04:31Don't say anything.
00:04:32What are they saying about Nancy Weatherby?
00:04:36I'm sorry.
00:04:52Not as anything.
00:04:53What are they saying about Nancy Weatherby?
00:04:56That a good doctor could have saved her life?
00:04:59Holly, what are they trying to do to me?
00:05:01Run me out of town with gossip.
00:05:03It isn't just gossip, Rob.
00:05:06Phyllis and Nancy had been just ordinary sisters.
00:05:09It might be different.
00:05:10They were the Weatherby sisters.
00:05:13Richest girls in town.
00:05:15Prettiest.
00:05:17In three years, they're both dead.
00:05:19They can't blame me for Alice's death.
00:05:22My own wife.
00:05:24They can't blame you, but where were you the night she died?
00:05:28You say you were with Sylvia Stevenson, drunk.
00:05:31One drink and a doctor's drunk.
00:05:34Now, Nancy.
00:05:37We know that no doctor in the world could have saved her,
00:05:40but you can't make this town believe it.
00:05:42Rod, leave this town.
00:05:45It isn't running away.
00:05:46Just take Marge and go.
00:05:51Take me with you.
00:05:53You suppose Jode Weatherby believes any of it, Pelley?
00:05:57How can he help it, Rod?
00:06:00Jode is a fine, wise old man,
00:06:03but his two daughters are dead now,
00:06:04and the whole town's whispering to him.
00:06:08Rod, don't you see how hopeless it is for you to stay here?
00:06:11I'm not going to give Jim Tyler
00:06:12and the rest the satisfaction of seeing me run.
00:06:16Don't suppose I had any patients today?
00:06:18No, none.
00:06:21Oh, yes.
00:06:23Yes, one.
00:06:24Sylvia brought Marge in for a second polio shot.
00:06:27She didn't cry a bit.
00:06:29Um...
00:06:32Marge begged me to come over and put her to bed tonight.
00:06:36You think, uh...
00:06:38Let's go.
00:06:39I'm sick of this place.
00:06:41I tell you,
00:06:42let's take Marge out to the lake for supper tonight.
00:06:45Give her everything that Miss Cushions won't let her have.
00:07:06Marge, Marge, I'm home.
00:07:19She's probably hiding somewhere.
00:07:21Margie, Polly's here.
00:07:23Good afternoon, Doctor.
00:07:24Hello, Miss Cushions.
00:07:25Marge around?
00:07:26Yes, she's in her playroom.
00:07:27I'll go get her.
00:07:28Now, let me...
00:07:29Will you please give me just one minute with my daughter alone, Miss Barron,
00:07:33because as soon as she finds out you're here,
00:07:36that'll be the last I'll see of her.
00:07:41How have you been, Miss Cushions?
00:07:43Very well, thank you.
00:07:44You, uh, staying for supper?
00:07:47No, we're going to take Marge out to the lake for supper.
00:07:50Miss Cushions?
00:07:51Yes?
00:07:52I can't find her.
00:07:54Well, she's in there.
00:07:57I know she hasn't come out.
00:08:00Unless she...
00:08:01Must have found the brand-new hiding place.
00:08:03Faint signs of her.
00:08:06When did you see her here last?
00:08:08Well, when Sylvia brought her home.
00:08:10She seemed sleepy, and all she wanted to do was play with her teddy bear.
00:08:14It was such a sunny afternoon, too.
00:08:16She isn't in here now.
00:08:18Uh, were you here all the time?
00:08:19Of course.
00:08:20Oh, I ran over to Mr. Weatherby's, but I looked in on Margie before I left.
00:08:25She was lying right there on the floor, singing to her teddy bear.
00:08:28Well, where is she now?
00:08:32Must be here someplace.
00:08:34Marge!
00:08:35I was only over at Mr. Weatherby's for a minute.
00:08:37Marge!
00:08:38Did you look in on her when you got back, Miss Cushions?
00:08:40I wasn't away that long, Miss Barron.
00:08:42Where is she?
00:08:43Sylvia's.
00:08:44Why Sylvia?
00:08:45They were together all afternoon.
00:08:55She probably found Miss Cushions gone, so she went back to Sylvia's.
00:08:57I'll run over there and pick her up.
00:09:00I'll get some drink, Polly.
00:09:01I'll take a drink, Polly.
00:09:04I'll take a drink, Polly.
00:09:06I'll take a drink.
00:09:07I'll take a drink, Polly.
00:09:09I'll take a drink.
00:09:11I'll run over there and pick her up.
00:09:13Pick yourself a drink, Polly.
00:09:27Where's Marge?
00:09:29I heard you a little early. I said 8.30.
00:09:31Well, isn't Marge with you?
00:09:33Oh, I dropped her at your house hours ago.
00:09:36Has she run away or something?
00:09:39Maybe she feels a little neglected, darling, the way I do.
00:09:42Now, run along. I'll see you at 8.30.
00:09:44Oh, darling, I'm terribly sorry,
00:09:46but I promised to take Marge out to the lake for supper.
00:09:48Anyway, there's Nancy's funeral tonight.
00:09:51Polly going to the lake with you?
00:09:53Marge invited her.
00:09:54Oh.
00:09:55I tried to entertain your daughter all afternoon.
00:09:58Oh, why doesn't she like me, Rod?
00:10:01After all, I am going to be her mother.
00:10:03She just doesn't know you very well, darling.
00:10:05She sees so much more of Polly, naturally.
00:10:09Naturally.
00:10:11Rod, aren't you letting Polly get the wrong impression?
00:10:16Polly seems to forget that she's just the nurse in your office.
00:10:20She acts more as though she were your wife.
00:10:24Okay.
00:10:25Good.
00:10:25Good.
00:10:27If you like this.
00:10:42Peel up now.
00:10:43Good!
00:10:44Dr. Barrett's home.
00:10:47No, he's not here. Who's calling, please?
00:10:52Well, yes, he is.
00:10:59What?
00:11:01What did you say?
00:11:06Oh, wait.
00:11:08Wait, don't hang up. Please.
00:11:11Please.
00:11:14Hello? Hello? Hello?
00:11:22Polly, what happened?
00:11:25Well, the phone rang and she answered it.
00:11:28Well, she said, what, a couple of times and then she fainted.
00:11:31You're all right, Polly. Take it easy.
00:11:34You're all right, Polly. Take it easy.
00:11:37You're all right, Polly.
00:11:39What happened?
00:11:41Well, the phone rang and she answered it.
00:11:42You're all right, Polly. Take it easy.
00:11:44Who was on the phone?
00:11:46Well, how would I know?
00:11:48Now, take it easy. You're all right, Polly.
00:11:50Rot.
00:11:52Rot!
00:11:53Marge?
00:11:55Is she hurt?
00:11:57I don't know.
00:12:01The man on the phone, he...
00:12:02The phone, he...
00:12:03He must be crazy, Rot.
00:12:06Who was he?
00:12:08I don't know. I just can't believe anybody would do a thing like that.
00:12:11No, what has he done, Polly?
00:12:13Tell me. From the beginning.
00:12:17The phone rang.
00:12:19I didn't stop to think who it was.
00:12:21I just answered it like I do at the office.
00:12:23And it was a man's voice.
00:12:28Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
00:12:30Let me remember it exactly the way he said it.
00:12:34All of it.
00:12:36First, he said,
00:12:38Is the doctor here?
00:12:39And I said, No, he's not.
00:12:41And then...
00:12:43Yes, I...
00:12:44I said, Who's calling, please?
00:12:46He didn't answer me. He just laughed.
00:12:50That voice, that horrible laughter.
00:12:53And then what?
00:12:56He stopped laughing after a while.
00:12:59He said,
00:13:01I guess the dog's out looking for his little girl.
00:13:05Rot, I was so concerned about Marge, I didn't stop to think.
00:13:09I was just sure he was gonna tell me where she was.
00:13:12Was I wrong, Rot?
00:13:13I said, Yes, you were.
00:13:15Well, I was.
00:13:17Go on.
00:13:19And then he started laughing again.
00:13:22Go on.
00:13:24And then he said,
00:13:26Tell the dog that Marge's funeral has just taken place.
00:13:32And now she's with the dead.
00:13:34Funeral?
00:13:37What do you mean, Polly?
00:13:39That's what he said, Rot.
00:13:40Then Marge's funeral had just taken place.
00:13:43And she was with the dead.
00:13:45Then...
00:13:47Marge...
00:13:49Dead?
00:13:51No, no way.
00:13:53Then he said...
00:13:55Dead.
00:13:57Tell the dog that she's not dead.
00:13:59Not yet.
00:14:00That she's...
00:14:03In a good...
00:14:05Big coffin for her.
00:14:07So there might still be time enough to find her.
00:14:10Four or five hours.
00:14:12Five hours.
00:14:20Buried alive.
00:14:22In a coffin.
00:14:24Not my little lamb.
00:14:26Oh, nobody could do that to my dear, sweet darling.
00:14:29Nobody.
00:14:31What are you gonna do, Miss Cushions?
00:14:33I'm going to call the police.
00:14:34No.
00:14:35Rod, we better call him.
00:14:36No!
00:14:38You forget about Jim Tyler, Polly?
00:14:40He'd do anything to hurt me.
00:14:41Even let Marge die.
00:14:44Do something, Rod.
00:14:48Well, are you just gonna stand there and do nothing while my own little lamb...
00:14:53Her funeral has just taken place.
00:14:56With the dead.
00:14:58We're wasting a lot of time, Rod. There isn't much left.
00:15:01We need help, Polly.
00:15:02We need a whole town full of people to help us search everywhere.
00:15:05I don't know a single man or woman in this town that I could trust except Sylvia.
00:15:10I'll have to do it by myself.
00:15:12You trust Sylvia, not me?
00:15:14I'm sorry you said that, Polly.
00:15:16I'll get some shovels.
00:15:18There's a flashlight up in my room.
00:15:20Another in the car.
00:15:24Miss Cushions.
00:15:26I'm going out to the graveyard now.
00:15:29To look for Marge.
00:15:30If anybody finds out where I am, they might try to stop me.
00:15:34I don't want you to tell anybody anything, Miss Cushions.
00:15:37Do you think for one minute I would do anything that could harm my Marge?
00:15:41Oh.
00:15:44Miss Cushions.
00:15:46That includes Marge's grandfather.
00:15:49You're not to run over there or telephone. You understand?
00:15:52But Mr. Weatherby should know about this.
00:15:55After all, he'll want to find her as much as you do.
00:15:57Miss Cushions, you know his heart condition.
00:16:00Do you want to kill Mr. Weatherby?
00:16:03Then I advise you not to tell him what has happened to Marge.
00:16:08Marge's teddy bear.
00:16:12That wasn't here when I came back from Sylvia's.
00:16:15Somebody put it there.
00:16:17It's got dirt on it.
00:16:18This isn't topsoil.
00:16:19It's clay.
00:16:20From deep down.
00:16:21The grave is deep.
00:16:26Oh, what?
00:16:27It's too hard.
00:16:29Don't you want to kill me?
00:16:30It was too hard.
00:16:31I don't know.
00:16:32I didn't want to kill you.
00:16:33I was where I was.
00:16:34I was.
00:16:35I didn't know.
00:16:36You know, I was here when I came back from Sylvia's?
00:16:38Somebody put it there.
00:16:40It's got dirt on it.
00:16:41The grave is deep.
00:17:11The grave is deep.
00:17:41Mr. Weatherby?
00:17:50Mr. Weatherby?
00:17:54Mr. Weatherby?
00:18:04I ask not to be disturbed until time for the funeral, Miss Cushings.
00:18:11Well, I know, sir, but I had to see you.
00:18:15Marge has been buried alive in a coffin.
00:18:18Marge?
00:18:19Marge?
00:18:20Marge?
00:18:21Marge?
00:18:22Marge?
00:18:23Marge?
00:18:25Marge?
00:18:26Oh.
00:18:28Marge?
00:18:28First Alice.
00:18:32Then Nancy.
00:18:33And now Marge?
00:18:37Now, Marge.
00:19:07Bring the placer.
00:19:15It's locked.
00:19:17It's locked.
00:19:19Shall we separate and both look?
00:19:21We'll stay together. Both at one place will make it go faster.
00:19:37Let's go.
00:20:05Where do we begin?
00:20:07Where do we begin?
00:20:13There are so many, Polly.
00:20:15She could be anywhere, in any one of them.
00:20:17He really has buried her.
00:20:21He couldn't do it without leaving a trace.
00:20:23Let's look for a grave that's been tampered with.
00:20:27Fresh dirt. Mount.
00:20:29Fresh dirt. Mount.
00:20:31He found it.
00:20:43He found it.
00:20:55We just walked right through it. Found it.
00:20:57This is fresh dirt. I'd like to play on Marge's teddy bear.
00:20:59It isn't here.
00:21:03Shh.
00:21:05What's the matter?
00:21:09I heard something.
00:21:15Hear it now?
00:21:17What's the matter?
00:21:19I heard something.
00:21:21Hear it now?
00:21:23Run.
00:21:29We've got to think like the man who did this.
00:21:31It's the only way we're going to find Marge.
00:21:33There are four or five upright citizens in this town who hate me enough or are cruel enough or crazy enough to bury a child alive.
00:21:43I can't think like any of them.
00:21:45All we can do is search every inch of this ground for fresh digging.
00:21:49No, I heard something.
00:21:51It's like we're surprised to see a little bit more from our own in the living room.
00:21:55This is not the only way we're going to find Marge.
00:21:57We're going to find Marge.
00:21:58We're going to find Marge.
00:21:59No, I've never heard of any of them.
00:22:01We're going to find Marge.
00:22:03There are four or five upright citizens in this town who hate me enough or are cruel enough or crazy enough to bury a child alive.
00:22:07I can't think like any of them.
00:22:09All we can do is search every inch of this ground for fresh digging.
00:22:12Whispering.
00:22:15I didn't.
00:22:42Let's go on.
00:22:47You look to the right and I look to the left.
00:22:50Keep the beam down.
00:23:07Something. I don't know what it was.
00:23:11It could have been.
00:23:20This is it.
00:23:22Why didn't we think of it before?
00:23:25It hasn't been.
00:23:27It hasn't been.
00:23:29It hasn't been.
00:23:31It hasn't been.
00:23:33It hasn't been.
00:23:35It hasn't been.
00:23:37It hasn't been.
00:23:39It hasn't been opened in years.
00:23:41Someone's following us.
00:23:44He's tricking us.
00:23:46We're doing exactly what he wanted us to do.
00:23:48Just wandering helpless.
00:23:49Perhaps.
00:23:51But if he's dug into this ground or anywhere, we'll find Marge.
00:23:54And in time, too.
00:23:56He's planned it this way.
00:23:58He'll be watching us right now.
00:23:59Just laughing like he did on the phone.
00:24:00Following.
00:24:01Of course he's out here.
00:24:02With a mind twisted enough to bury a child alive.
00:24:03Of course he'd want to see me suffer.
00:24:04See it, not just imagine it.
00:24:06He's got the knife in my back and now he's twisting it.
00:24:09And standing out there laughing.
00:24:11That's part of it.
00:24:13Who is it, Polly?
00:24:15Who is it?
00:24:17Who is it?
00:24:19Did you see that?
00:24:33No.
00:24:35Something weird, Polly.
00:24:39Who is it?
00:24:43Did you see that?
00:24:44No.
00:24:46Something moved out there.
00:24:48Nerves.
00:24:50Seeing things that don't exist.
00:24:52Something moved. This isn't just nerves, Rod.
00:24:54Something moved. I saw it.
00:24:58We're fools.
00:25:00Nancy's funeral tonight.
00:25:02They've been digging a grave,
00:25:04and that's where that dirt on the teddy bear came from.
00:25:06Oh, yes. Come on.
00:25:14Come on.
00:25:24Wait.
00:25:32Turn the light out.
00:25:34Stay in the shadows.
00:25:44Come on.
00:26:00If you looked down into an open grave,
00:26:04and saw nothing,
00:26:08dig a hole in the bottom of the grave,
00:26:11put the little coffin in.
00:26:15Use some of the dirt to cover the coffin,
00:26:17and throw the rest upon them out.
00:26:41There's nothing.
00:26:51Shh.
00:26:57Someone's coming. Let's get out.
00:26:58No. It's too late.
00:27:11No. You should.
00:27:12Yeah, sir.
00:27:13No, it's all.
00:27:14It's too late.
00:27:39Who's that? What are you doing down there?
00:27:42I'm a caretaker.
00:27:44Who's down there?
00:28:09Who's down there?
00:28:39Pally, you stood with me, Pally!
00:28:43What are you doing out here, Jode?
00:28:46Marge, Marge, I'm trying to find that man, the gun.
00:28:50I thought maybe she was down in Nancy's grave.
00:28:53What is happening, Rod?
00:28:55Why must I look for my granddaughter in the grave of my daughter?
00:28:59Why, Rod, why?
00:29:02I blame myself, Rod.
00:29:04I tried, but she was always rushing through her own world of darkness.
00:29:10Rushing everywhere and getting nowhere.
00:29:15Oh, Nancy.
00:29:17Nancy!
00:29:25Faster!
00:29:27Faster!
00:29:29Tell me where we're going a hundred miles an hour.
00:29:32I want to live fast, love fast, and die fast.
00:29:36Take your foot off the gas, Miss Weatherby.
00:29:38There's a cop behind us.
00:29:40Anyway, I can't steer going this fast.
00:30:02Hey, Jimbo.
00:30:03Well, if it isn't my little old blonde built-in headache.
00:30:05When did you get back, Nancy?
00:30:06Yesterday.
00:30:07Would you like to hear me say something in Italian, Spanish, German?
00:30:09Or do you prefer French, Jimbo?
00:30:11Meet anybody interesting over there?
00:30:12Only men.
00:30:13Those foreign docs help you any?
00:30:14Nope.
00:30:15I'll be blind forever and ever.
00:30:17I see you got yourself a new chauffeur.
00:30:18Isn't he darling?
00:30:19Nick, this is Jim Tilo.
00:30:20He'll be arresting us every hour on the hour.
00:30:22Hey, Jim, you know this thing can really travel.
00:30:23Yeah, and it can kill you, too.
00:30:24Is that bad, Jim?
00:30:25Bad for other people.
00:30:26Oh.
00:30:27Oh.
00:30:28They've got the edge.
00:30:29They can see me.
00:30:30Nick, take this heap home.
00:30:31I'm riding with the chief of Blue and the man.
00:30:32I'll be blind forever and ever.
00:30:33I see you got yourself a new chauffeur.
00:30:35Isn't he, darling?
00:30:36Nick, this is Jim Tilo.
00:30:37He'll be arresting us every hour on the hour.
00:30:38Hey, Jim, you know this thing can really travel.
00:30:41Yeah, and it can kill you, too.
00:30:43Is that bad, Jim?
00:30:44Bad for other people.
00:30:45They've got the edge.
00:30:48They can see me.
00:30:53Nick, take this heap home.
00:30:57I'm riding with the chief of police.
00:30:59I'm going to catch up on all the gossip.
00:31:02It's nice having you back, Nancy.
00:31:04Same old Jimbo.
00:31:07How's Rod Barrett?
00:31:09You, uh, gonna stay home a while?
00:31:12Oh, I don't know.
00:31:14Dad says he's fine, but he doesn't sound fine.
00:31:17Alice dying like that hit him pretty hard.
00:31:20Hit you pretty hard too, didn't it, Jim?
00:31:27Go.
00:31:53Hey, this isn't the way home.
00:31:55Well, it's one way.
00:31:59The way I like best.
00:32:14Button, button, who's got my button?
00:32:18Button, button, who's got my button?
00:32:25Button, button, who's got my button?
00:32:29Button, button.
00:32:37Look, Nancy, why don't we get married?
00:32:40Get married, Jim, don't be silly.
00:32:42Why should I get married?
00:32:44All men seem alike in the dark.
00:32:46I'm serious.
00:32:47I'm serious, too.
00:32:49Jim, you're the last man in the world that I've married.
00:32:52Because I don't want leftovers.
00:32:55Listen, honey.
00:32:56Be honest, Jim.
00:32:57You know you love Alice.
00:33:01You loved her even when Rod married her.
00:33:03And you love her now even when she's dead.
00:33:07But I do understand, Jimbo.
00:33:10Come on.
00:33:11Let's blow the siren all the way home.
00:33:13All the way home.
00:33:44We'll go.
00:33:45All the way home is on now.
00:33:47Let's go.
00:33:48Let's go.
00:34:17You call me that one more time, I'll have you fired.
00:34:24What are you doing here?
00:34:26Nothing.
00:34:27You know something, Miss Nancy?
00:34:29One of these times you're going to dive in there,
00:34:31and there isn't going to be any water.
00:34:34Kaboom!
00:34:36Come on in.
00:34:38I've got my clothes on.
00:34:40What difference does that make to me?
00:34:47There's no doubt about it, Nancy.
00:35:04So, what do I do now, Rod?
00:35:06Marry him.
00:35:08Let's say it was person or persons unknown.
00:35:12It's the only solution, Nancy,
00:35:13unless you go away somewhere for a while.
00:35:17You have it born blind the way I've been all my life?
00:35:21Rod, I'm not going to do that.
00:35:23And I'm not just going to marry some man either.
00:35:26I don't want to be a wife,
00:35:28and I won't be a mother.
00:35:31I just want to be what I've been all my life.
00:35:35Nothing.
00:35:35I don't want to be a mother.
00:35:37So?
00:35:41No.
00:35:45What if Dad finds out?
00:35:47What would that do to him?
00:35:49It could be serious.
00:35:51Another heart attack.
00:35:52Exactly.
00:35:54I'm the only thing that Dad has now, Rod.
00:35:57He's proud of me.
00:35:58God knows why.
00:36:00And he loves me.
00:36:02And if he finds out...
00:36:03I'm only a doctor, Nancy.
00:36:04I have no power, no authority
00:36:07to weigh one human life against another.
00:36:12Won't you help me and tell me what to do?
00:36:14How can I, Nancy?
00:36:16I'm a doctor.
00:36:28Dr. Barron.
00:36:31What?
00:36:32How badly?
00:36:36Well, get her to the hospital right away.
00:36:38I'll be there.
00:36:39What?
00:36:40Never mind that now.
00:36:41Quickly, get going.
00:36:48Always rushing through her own world of darkness.
00:36:53Rushing everywhere.
00:36:55Getting nowhere.
00:36:56Nancy.
00:36:56Nancy.
00:36:59Nancy.
00:37:04Alice is gone.
00:37:06Nancy is gone.
00:37:08All I have left, Rod, is Marge.
00:37:11I'll find her, son.
00:37:12We will, Jode.
00:37:14But you shouldn't be out here.
00:37:15Well, I wanted to help if I could.
00:37:18There's nothing you can do.
00:37:19Where do you think she is?
00:37:22Here.
00:37:24Somewhere.
00:37:25Don't let anyone know you're out here.
00:37:28They'll stop you.
00:37:31Fine now, please.
00:37:33You killed him, Jode.
00:37:48This is bad for all of us.
00:37:52Until Marge is safe,
00:37:54no one must know that Hummel is dead.
00:37:55If Jim Tylow finds me...
00:37:57No one.
00:37:59Jode, you can't stay out here now.
00:38:03Polly, take him to my house.
00:38:23Miss Cushions?
00:38:25Oh, Mr. Wetherby.
00:38:31What have they done with my baby?
00:38:34Who was the last person to see the child?
00:38:38Sylvia Stevenson brought her home.
00:38:44Then you were the last, Miss Cushions.
00:38:49Yes, I suppose so.
00:38:52Except whoever took her away.
00:38:54You've taken care of the Wetherbys all your life, haven't you?
00:38:58First Mrs. Wetherby.
00:39:00Then Alice and Nancy.
00:39:02And now it's Marge.
00:39:05A lifetime.
00:39:07But the end is coming, isn't it?
00:39:10When the doctor marries Mrs. Stevenson,
00:39:12there'll be no place near Marge for you.
00:39:15You don't think there is still time, Miss Cushion.
00:39:25Hello?
00:39:27Holly?
00:39:28Have you...
00:39:28No.
00:39:29Now listen.
00:39:30Think back hard.
00:39:31That phone call.
00:39:32Where exactly did he say Marge was?
00:39:35In her coffin.
00:39:37Out here?
00:39:37Well, he didn't say where, but the teddy bear had cemetery dirt on it.
00:39:44That could have been smeared down later.
00:39:47Now try to remember.
00:39:48Did he say that she had been buried?
00:39:51He said that her funeral had just taken place,
00:39:55and that she was with the dead.
00:39:58It's Ron.
00:40:00Funeral?
00:40:01With the dead?
00:40:04Nancy is dead.
00:40:05Oh, Ron, not in the same coffin with Nancy.
00:40:09I'm going to quickly funeral, partner.
00:40:11I'll go with you.
00:40:12No, Polly.
00:40:13Now, I want to.
00:40:14Where are you?
00:40:15Humbles.
00:40:16All right.
00:40:17But not in front.
00:40:19In the alley.
00:40:20Do you think she's with Nancy?
00:40:22I will phone you if anything.
00:40:23Polly.
00:40:23I, I alone, have the right to open Nancy's coffin.
00:40:46Polly, why?
00:40:48Why?
00:40:48If she's with Nancy.
00:40:53Darn.
00:40:54Polly.
00:40:55Let's go.
00:41:25Let's go.
00:41:55Let's go.
00:42:25Let's go.
00:42:26Let's go.
00:42:27Let's go.
00:42:28Let's go.
00:42:29Let's go.
00:42:30Let's go.
00:42:31Let's go.
00:42:32Let's go.
00:42:33Let's go.
00:42:34Let's go.
00:42:35Let's go.
00:42:36Let's go.
00:42:37Let's go.
00:42:38Let's go.
00:42:39Let's go.
00:42:45I can hear her.
00:42:47Where is she?
00:42:48I can hear her!
00:42:51Where is she?
00:43:09Joe Polly!
00:43:18What?
00:43:32Where?
00:43:38Where is she?
00:43:40I can hear her breathing!
00:43:42Wait.
00:43:44Wait!
00:43:45Turn low with it.
00:43:47Tell me.
00:43:52Breathing artificial.
00:43:54Just mechanical pump.
00:43:56Sounds like breathing.
00:44:03See?
00:44:04A motor-driven bellows under the cask.
00:44:09It sounds so lifelike for the bereaved.
00:44:12What have you done with her?
00:44:13Wait, wait.
00:44:15Done with who?
00:44:16What?
00:44:17March!
00:44:18What have you done with her?
00:44:19It's nothing, Doc.
00:44:21It's nothing, Doc.
00:44:23I haven't seen her for weeks.
00:44:27What's happened?
00:44:28You've buried her alive, Quigley.
00:44:31Heredala.
00:44:33Me, Mr. Weatherly?
00:44:35Wait!
00:44:36Wait, Doc.
00:44:37I don't know anything about her.
00:44:42Heredala.
00:44:44Oh, my God.
00:44:45Oh, my God.
00:44:47Why do you think I do a thing like that?
00:44:50Wait.
00:44:52Wait.
00:44:53You're all wrong.
00:44:54I...
00:44:57Honest to God.
00:44:58What?
00:44:59I don't know anything about March.
00:45:06I think he's telling the truth, Rod.
00:45:13Now listen, Quigley.
00:45:14Keep your mouth shut about March, you understand?
00:45:17We're going out to the graveyard now to look.
00:45:19We're all going to the graveyard, Doc.
00:45:25Good evening, Mr. Weatherby.
00:45:27Tyler.
00:45:30Somebody swipe another coffin, Ed?
00:45:32What?
00:45:33What's this about a stolen coffin?
00:45:36Somebody broke in here last night and stole a child's coffin.
00:45:40At least that's what Ed says.
00:45:43Hummel here yet?
00:45:45I haven't seen him.
00:46:00Is that the way you dress for a funeral, Doc?
00:46:02With dirt all over it?
00:46:05Better good change.
00:46:07Jim.
00:46:08Jim, I couldn't get Hummel on the phone.
00:46:10Old man's never been late before.
00:46:12Hummel or no, Hummel, we better get rolling.
00:46:15We'll help you load up.
00:46:24You don't mind helping, do you, Doc?
00:46:40How to do you prepare?
00:46:41You can't make him
00:48:07Time's running out.
00:48:22Where, where?
00:48:24You know that coffin that Jim was talking about?
00:48:27You couldn't walk around town carrying a coffin.
00:48:30She got a car?
00:48:32A truck?
00:48:33Like Hummel's or a hearse?
00:48:35Like Ed's.
00:48:37Who else could drive out to this graveyard with a coffin in broad daylight without everybody in town wondering why?
00:48:43Hummel in a truck or Ed in a hearse?
00:48:45No one would question Jim Tyler, either.
00:48:49Or I'd look.
00:48:54Many people could have done it, but who would do it?
00:48:58Somebody.
00:49:00If they were a little crazy, might think Marge would be better off with her mother.
00:49:06Better off?
00:49:09Then turned over to a woman like Sylvia, who only wanted to use Marge as a stepping stone to her own ambition.
00:49:17Maybe that's why they call them stepmothers.
00:49:19It's enough, Polly.
00:49:28Oh, this isn't it.
00:49:29This is just part of the pattern, putting fresh dirt on graves that make us dig and waste time.
00:49:32All right, Polly.
00:49:38Out with it.
00:49:41The things they said about Alice.
00:49:44Blaming me for her death?
00:49:46Nancy, Cushions, Jim Tyler, everybody.
00:49:51Do you?
00:49:55No, not physically.
00:49:57What do you mean, not physically?
00:50:00Not with your hands.
00:50:02Not with poison.
00:50:05You and Sylvia, when Alice was so sick with Marge and the whole town talking.
00:50:23Alice Weatherby, now your husband's going to blame me for this.
00:50:26Oh, shush.
00:50:32Alice.
00:50:44Hello, Polly.
00:50:46You look as though you'd seen a ghost.
00:50:48It's just been such a long time.
00:50:50No, Miss Cushions?
00:50:52Um, the doctor's busy now.
00:50:56I'll tell him you're here.
00:50:57Thanks.
00:51:10Thanks so much, Rod.
00:51:12Your wife is here, doctor.
00:51:14Alice, here?
00:51:15Now, about lunch.
00:51:17I'll do my best, Sylvia.
00:51:18I won't accept that.
00:51:19Come to the pub, one o'clock.
00:51:20Alice, what in the world?
00:51:22Hello, darling.
00:51:23Surprise.
00:51:24Hello, Sylvia.
00:51:26Alice, it's so good to see you up and about.
00:51:28It's been so long.
00:51:29I must rush now.
00:51:31Goodbye, Alice.
00:51:32Bye-bye, Rod.
00:51:35Alice, really?
00:51:37This is very foolish, Miss Cushions.
00:51:39Well, don't blame me.
00:51:40I tried my best to stop her.
00:51:42Oh, I'm just so tired of staying in bed all the time.
00:51:46Nine months, Rod.
00:51:47Alice, when we decided, you knew the danger.
00:51:51This is the worst thing you could do.
00:51:53But I feel much better today.
00:51:55Rod, I want you to take me for a drive in the country,
00:51:58and then we can have lunch somewhere.
00:52:00I even want a cocktail.
00:52:01Darling, the only drive you're going to take is straight back home.
00:52:05Oh, Rod.
00:52:07Oh, please, just a little drive, and then just lunch somewhere.
00:52:12Alice, please.
00:52:14The time is so short now.
00:52:16Just take it easy for a little while longer.
00:52:20Miss Cushions will drive you home now, darling.
00:52:22Couldn't you drive me home and then, oh, just stay long enough for lunch, dear?
00:52:26I'd like to, but I've got appointments all afternoon.
00:52:29All right, off you go, darling.
00:52:33Be very careful on the streets, Miss Cushions.
00:52:35Is Dr. Barrett coming?
00:52:51No, I don't know where he is.
00:52:53Oh, oh!
00:52:56Thanks, Sylvia.
00:53:03I'm worried about Alice.
00:53:05She shouldn't have gotten up today.
00:53:07You've got to relax sometime, Rod.
00:53:09I don't really need this, you know.
00:53:13Just being here with you is enough.
00:53:18These past months have been hard on you, Rod.
00:53:20You've become so tense.
00:53:22It has me worried a lot.
00:53:24You've got to think of yourself a little, Rod.
00:53:27You're simply too good to waste your talents in a town like this.
00:53:30Oh, yes.
00:53:31Excuse me.
00:53:38Hello?
00:53:39Uh, is Dr. Barrett there, Sylvia?
00:53:42No, I'm afraid not.
00:53:44Do you know where he is?
00:53:46No, I'm sorry, I don't.
00:53:50Oh!
00:53:51It's been a terrible time for you and Alice, hasn't it?
00:54:06A friend is a wonderful thing to have.
00:54:10You know, you've just about saved my life this past year.
00:54:13That's what I'm here for, Rod.
00:54:15To help all I can.
00:54:16You know, you can't live continually with sickness.
00:54:27Is Dr. Barrett in?
00:54:34He's not at Sylvia's or his office or the hospital.
00:54:37Well, we can't waste any more time.
00:54:39Where's Rod?
00:54:41Get Rod over me!
00:54:42Please!
00:54:43Please!
00:54:44Oh, no, don't.
00:54:45No, it's Rod.
00:54:45Stop, Rod.
00:54:46It's all right.
00:54:47Oh, get Jim.
00:54:49Jim Tyler, quick.
00:54:51Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:54:52Oh, Rod.
00:54:53Oh, Rod, baby.
00:54:54Rod, where are you?
00:54:55Oh, Dad.
00:54:58Oh, oh.
00:55:13Doc.
00:55:15How'd you get in here?
00:55:17Walk.
00:55:19Something on your mind, Jim?
00:55:21Nothing much.
00:55:22Must be pretty important to keep you up this late.
00:55:25Thought I'd come by and congratulate you, Doc.
00:55:28Me? What about?
00:55:30You're the father of a seven-pound daughter.
00:55:37Alice.
00:55:40Yeah.
00:55:43She's dead.
00:55:45This is only the beginning of what you're gonna pay, Doc.
00:55:56There's gonna be lots more.
00:56:10Sylvia, when Alice was so sick with Marge,
00:56:13the whole town talking.
00:56:19I think you're a good doctor.
00:56:22But Sylvia has ruined you as a man, just the way she ruined her first husband.
00:56:28And I think she's ruined you as a father.
00:56:31The way you knick back Marge is shameful.
00:56:34You've never been fair about Sylvia.
00:56:36Not even honest with yourself.
00:56:40I wonder.
00:56:42You've watched me suffer now for hours, haven't you?
00:56:45Watch this thing. Take me apart.
00:56:47But it hasn't been enough for you. Not yet.
00:56:49So you'll wait.
00:56:50You'll wait until you're sure I can't take it one minute more.
00:56:55Are you doing it to teach me a lesson?
00:56:57Or to make me so grateful to you for saving my child that I'll forget all about Sylvia? Is that it?
00:57:02The phone call.
00:57:04How do I know there was a phone call?
00:57:16That was a dandy while it lasted.
00:57:21Besides fist fighting, what else are you two doing out here?
00:57:24You forget, Jim. Nancy's funeral, remember?
00:57:28A couple of shovels at the wrong grave.
00:57:31Jim, listen.
00:57:32Holly?
00:57:35Someone has taken Marge and buried her alive in a coffin.
00:57:38Help us to find her, Jim, please.
00:57:40What all?
00:57:41Look, we've looked everywhere out here.
00:57:44A tomb, that's it.
00:57:55Wait a minute.
00:57:57This is my family's tomb.
00:57:59It's locked and it's been locked.
00:58:00You got a key?
00:58:02Hummel keeps it.
00:58:03Nobody can get in.
00:58:24gentlemen.
00:58:27No.
00:58:31Ah!
00:58:32It's washing the fortes.
00:58:33I can't go.
00:58:34It's smoking or » the thing.
00:58:36For the people of the people of my now.
00:58:37I know.
00:58:39It's not an authority, thanks for listening to you.
00:58:41I don't have to cheat, Simon.
00:58:43Whatever they'll say.
00:58:45And in the past, you will just bring it up here.
00:58:48And in the past, he won't forget it.
00:58:51She's not in here, Polly.
00:58:58You know anything about this, Doc?
00:59:02No.
00:59:06Not figures.
00:59:14Time has run out, Polly.
00:59:21Oh, Lord, we beseech thee to grant unto this departed soul the light which was denied to her during her short life upon this earth.
00:59:42We beg thee, O Lord, to let Nancy Weatherby emerge from the utter darkness of her life into the eternal sunshine of your heavenly presence.
00:59:54We pray unto thee that at the time of judgment the burden of blindness, which Nancy Weatherby carried with her all her life, be balanced in the scales against her trespasses.
01:00:07Forgive this child of darkness we beseech thee, O Lord, and hold her blameless, just as throughout her short life she blamed no one for her great affliction.
01:00:20Have mercy upon her, let your light shine upon her, and console this our departed sister.
01:00:30Amen.
01:00:44You too, Doc.
01:00:50Amen.
01:01:20Help me, Jim!
01:01:33It...
01:01:34March!
01:01:40March!
01:01:41March!
01:01:45March!
01:01:46March!
01:01:47March!
01:01:50March!
01:01:51March!
01:01:52March!
01:01:53March!
01:01:54March!
01:01:55March!
01:01:56March!
01:01:57March!
01:01:58March!
01:01:59March!
01:02:00March!
01:02:01March!
01:02:02March!
01:02:03March!
01:02:04March!
01:02:05March!
01:02:06March!
01:02:07March!
01:02:08March!
01:02:09March!
01:02:10March!
01:02:11March!
01:02:12March!
01:02:13March!
01:02:14March!
01:02:15March!
01:02:16March!
01:02:17March!
01:02:18March!
01:02:19March!
01:02:20Mr. Weatherby!
01:02:50Come on, Mr. Weatherby!
01:03:20He's crazy. I didn't do it. Look at his baggots.
01:03:40Take it back.
01:03:43And take it with you, because it's all you'll ever touch again.
01:03:48Why'd you shoot him, Ed?
01:03:50No one stole this coffin. He made me put it here.
01:04:08I made this thing. He brought the dress and hat.
01:04:14Everybody was hounding me about my debts.
01:04:17You, too, Jim.
01:04:21And he promised me all I needed if I'd help Nance.
01:04:32Duck could have saved her.
01:04:35But he let her die.
01:04:37Then he said I was to blame.
01:04:44Then he started in on Joe Dweatherby.
01:04:48Talking him into having Nancey buried at midnight.
01:04:52Then letting him hear that Marge had been buried alive.
01:04:54Doc made me build that breathing thing in my funeral parlor.
01:04:58Doc never let up on the old man.
01:05:01Killing him with one shock after another.
01:05:08George Dweatherby was tougher than you thought, Doc.
01:05:10Took you almost five hours to shock him to death.
01:05:12All you had to do was put heart failure on the death certificate and no one would have questioned it.
01:05:18Help me!
01:05:19Sam, help!
01:05:20All right.
01:05:21We'll take you to the hospital.
01:05:22My office.
01:05:23Go there first.
01:05:24All right.
01:05:25Come on, you two, Red.
01:05:45Let me go alone.
01:05:47Just probably.
01:05:49A minute!
01:05:50Why, Rod, why?
01:06:18Joe's money.
01:06:20I've waited for it so long.
01:06:23All the years with Alice.
01:06:25And three years more.
01:06:26With Nancey in the way.
01:06:30When she died, I knew I could get it all.
01:06:34Only took me five hours, Polly.
01:06:38It was perfect.
01:06:45I guess the Doc's out looking for his little girl.
01:06:50Now, I can leave this down.
01:06:55You take Marge.
01:07:00Tell the Doc to...
01:07:01And leave!
01:07:02Marge is beautiful.
01:07:03Please.
01:07:04Now!
01:07:05Just taking place.
01:07:06Now!
01:07:07And now, she's with the dead.
01:07:14Tell the Doc she's not dead.
01:07:18Not yet.
01:07:19Not yet.
01:07:21Tell the Doc she's in a good, big coffin.
01:07:27For her.
01:07:29So there might be time to find her.
01:07:33For five hours.
01:07:35March.
01:07:41March.
01:07:54March.
01:07:55March.
01:07:59March.
01:08:03March.
01:08:04Ladies and gentlemen, please do not, I repeat, please do not reveal the ending of this picture
01:08:27to your friends, as it will spoil their enjoyment of it.
01:08:57Shhh... Shhh...
01:09:16Shhh...
01:09:31Shhh...
01:09:41Shhh...
01:09:48Shhh...
01:09:53Shhh...
01:09:58Shhh...
01:10:03Shhh...
01:10:08Shhh...
01:10:11Shhh...
01:10:14Shhh...
01:10:15THE END
01:10:45THE END
01:11:15THE END
01:11:17THE END
01:11:21THE END
01:11:23THE END
Be the first to comment