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00:00:30The Screaming Skull is a motion picture that reaches its climax in shocking horror.
00:00:56Its impact is so terrifying that it may have an unforeseen effect.
00:01:02It may kill you.
00:01:06Therefore, its producers feel they must assure free burial services to anyone who dies of fright,
00:01:12while seeing The Screaming Skull.
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00:03:10Welcome, Mrs. Whitlock.
00:03:38It's lovely, Harry.
00:03:40You look disappointed for a moment.
00:03:42It did not. It's really lovely.
00:03:45Oh, look!
00:03:59I bet that's the den there.
00:04:01That's right.
00:04:02Is that a bedroom?
00:04:05Yes, it is.
00:04:07Is it yours?
00:04:08You'll need some fixing first.
00:04:11It was her room, right?
00:04:13Yes.
00:04:14Come on along.
00:04:14I'll share the rest of the house.
00:04:32It's rather forbidding now, I suppose, empty like this.
00:04:44But it was usually this way.
00:04:46Shortly after Marion and I were married, she removed all the furniture her parents had left.
00:04:51This is our home, she used to say.
00:04:54And we must choose everything carefully.
00:04:58Well, we didn't get very far before she died.
00:05:01But now that you're here, it's going to be lovely again.
00:05:04I'll get the things out of storage tomorrow.
00:05:08We're all the town at the warehouse.
00:05:15And I'll take care of that, too.
00:05:18You have candles?
00:05:20Sure.
00:05:21And I'll be twice as romantic.
00:05:24Speaking of being romantic.
00:05:31I forgot to carry over the threshold.
00:05:36I love you.
00:05:39I love you.
00:05:41Oh, Jenny.
00:05:43I thought life had died out for me.
00:05:51What's that up there?
00:06:05Oh, that's where Mickey keeps his gardening things.
00:06:07Who's Mickey?
00:06:08The gardener.
00:06:10He's kept it up the two years I've been away.
00:06:13By himself?
00:06:14That's right.
00:06:16He must work awfully hard.
00:06:17Oh, he and Marianne would spend hours on end working here in the gardens.
00:06:22And up in the greenhouse, back there.
00:06:24See, he loved her very much.
00:06:27Sometimes I used to wonder who she was.
00:06:29My wife or Mickey's nursemaid.
00:06:32You know, I don't think he quite believes she's gone.
00:06:35I think he expects her to show up one of these mornings and scold her for neglecting the gardens.
00:06:41You still love her, don't you?
00:06:47No, I'm not jealous.
00:06:50I'm grateful to her.
00:06:53I think to have loved once, really loved, to learn how to love always.
00:06:59Learning it from her, you give again to me.
00:07:03I wish there was some way to thank her.
00:07:11Who's that?
00:07:13I don't know.
00:07:15They're driving around the back.
00:07:16Come on, come on along.
00:07:24Eric!
00:07:24I see Eric.
00:07:26Will you stop by to meet your new wife?
00:07:29Oh, Eric, this is a wonderful surprise.
00:07:31It's been a long time.
00:07:33It has.
00:07:33Reverend?
00:07:34Good to see you, Eric.
00:07:35Jenny?
00:07:36This is Mrs. Snow.
00:07:38I'm very happy to meet you.
00:07:39Jenny, this is a lovely surprise.
00:07:42And the Reverend Mr. Snow.
00:07:44Hello, my dear.
00:07:45Oh, she's sweet, Eric.
00:07:47I know.
00:07:48I happened to be going into town.
00:07:49I ran into Mr. Maurer.
00:07:50He told me you were getting back today.
00:07:52And we thought we'd just drop by and bring you something for your dinner.
00:07:55Oh, nice.
00:07:56And that'll save you all the bother of shopping while you're trying to get settled.
00:07:59Then why don't you stay for dinner?
00:08:01Oh, no, not tonight.
00:08:03Oh, no, no, we wouldn't think of that.
00:08:04Oh, no, please say yes.
00:08:06Good luck for you, sir.
00:08:07It would be like old times.
00:08:09All right, on the condition that I do the cooking.
00:08:11You don't have to.
00:08:13You know, I know that, but I'd love to.
00:08:17Well, there's Mickey.
00:08:19Excuse me, honey.
00:08:20Mickey!
00:08:20Oh, poor Mickey.
00:08:30He keeps this place up like a shrine.
00:08:36Eric told me how he loved Marion.
00:08:38Mickey's father was a gardener here when Marion's mother was alive.
00:08:42Mickey and Marion grew up together here.
00:08:45Jenny, this is Mickey.
00:08:47How do you do, Mickey?
00:08:51I hope we'll be good friends.
00:08:54Well, Mickey.
00:09:01Thank you, Mickey.
00:09:03Well, shall we all go inside?
00:09:05That's a good idea.
00:09:06Mickey, remember you promised me some of those rose cuttings.
00:09:09Nice seeing you again, Mickey.
00:09:11I'm going to have to get you down to the barber shop one day very soon.
00:09:14Excuse us, Mickey.
00:09:17All right, let's go.
00:09:45All right, let's go.
00:09:46All right, that's done.
00:09:56Oh, now, please, please.
00:09:59Oh, Edward, now, don't break your neck.
00:10:01You do agree, Robert, don't worry.
00:10:03Good heavens, honestly, the two of them are just like children.
00:10:06That doesn't look too bad, Eric.
00:10:08Jenny, I hope you have more luck in getting your husband to mine
00:10:11than I've had with mine.
00:10:13You know, you've got to admit, it does make the room look better.
00:10:16Very well, Tarzan.
00:10:17For penance, you can come and help me with dinner.
00:10:20Now, come on.
00:10:21Edward, you keep Jenny company?
00:10:22Yes, dear.
00:10:39No, Mary, no.
00:10:43Send them away.
00:10:46Oh, she's so very nice, Eric.
00:10:55Jenny?
00:10:56Yes.
00:10:56Isn't she wonderful?
00:10:57Yes, she's not at all like Mary, and I think that's for the best.
00:11:01You know, so many men, when they lose a wife,
00:11:03they try so hard to deny the loss they marry someone exactly like the first wife.
00:11:08It hardly seems fair using the living to bring back the dead, does it?
00:11:11No, I suppose it doesn't.
00:11:13We make a prison for ourselves out of the past, at least our sentimental wished-for pasts.
00:11:19Mrs. Snow.
00:11:20Yes, dear.
00:11:21There's something I must tell you and the Reverend.
00:11:23Well, of course, Eric.
00:11:24What is it?
00:11:26You see, Jenny has not had a very happy past.
00:11:28Oh?
00:11:29And talking about it, or about something that might strongly remind her of it, she's very impressionable.
00:11:35Is there something wrong, Eric?
00:11:37No, not really.
00:11:38You see, she lost her parents many years ago in a very tragic way.
00:11:45And talking about unhappy pasts, only she's very impressionable.
00:11:51See, I want her to be happy, Mrs. Snow.
00:11:52Of course you do, and so do we all.
00:11:55Now, how did she lose them?
00:11:59Well, look, I'm not prying, dear.
00:12:01It's just that Mr. Snow and I can help better if we know something about it.
00:12:04They drowned in an accident.
00:12:08Jenny saw it all.
00:12:12Who's Mr. Mauer?
00:12:14Mr. Mauer?
00:12:15Why, he's a lawyer in town.
00:12:17I thought no one knew we were coming.
00:12:19You said you heard from Mr. Mauer?
00:12:20Well, Eric wrote him.
00:12:22He takes care of the estate, or what's left of it.
00:12:25Oh, that's right.
00:12:25Eric has to see him tomorrow.
00:12:28Well, Eric's co-executor of the estate, along with Mr. Mauer.
00:12:31You see, Marion's death was so sudden that, well, all that was left to Eric was the house and these grounds.
00:12:38Mr. Mauer told me that Eric had found someone very sweet and very kind,
00:12:42and with whom he was very much in love.
00:12:44He didn't say enough.
00:12:50How did Marion die?
00:12:54Didn't Eric tell you?
00:12:57I think the subject's rather painful to him.
00:12:59I'd like to make him talk about it.
00:13:04Would you mind telling me?
00:13:05I'd like to know.
00:13:08It was a rainy day.
00:13:11She and Mickey had been working up there in the greenhouse.
00:13:14She left him to go back to the house for a few minutes.
00:13:16The way we pieced it together after the accident is that
00:13:23while she was coming down this path,
00:13:27apparently it began to rain very hard.
00:13:30She must have run along here.
00:13:33We don't know, of course, what happened then.
00:13:37Perhaps she slipped on a leaf.
00:13:40The base of her skull was smashed.
00:13:42It was thought that she
00:13:48hit her head on the edge of the cement wall where we're sitting.
00:13:52And she fell in there.
00:13:55She died in the water.
00:13:57That's where Eric found her ten minutes later.
00:14:04Marion.
00:14:06Marion.
00:14:09Marion.
00:14:10You said,
00:14:12you said,
00:14:13Mickey, wait here.
00:14:16I'm going down to the house
00:14:18for just a minute.
00:14:21Wait here, Mickey, you said.
00:14:24And then you went away in the rain.
00:14:27And you didn't come back to play.
00:14:30Marion.
00:14:31What?
00:14:33What is it, Mickey?
00:14:36And don't forget that you and Eric are coming for lunch
00:14:39the day after tomorrow.
00:14:40We'll do better than that.
00:14:41We'll come to church on Sunday as well.
00:14:43Oh, getting Eric to church is like moving a mountain.
00:14:47He'll come.
00:14:48Come along, my dear.
00:14:48It's getting late.
00:14:51Eric, thank you very much for bringing Jenny into our lives.
00:14:55Thank you for the dinner.
00:14:57It was a pleasure.
00:14:58Good night.
00:14:59Good night.
00:15:00Good night.
00:15:02Edward, did you know that Jenny's very wealthy?
00:15:04Oh, yes.
00:15:06Mr. Mao told me in town today.
00:15:07Well, she's not at all like Marion.
00:15:09You know, she's so gentle and timid,
00:15:10as if she were afraid of something.
00:15:16I knew you'd like my friends, dear.
00:15:20What's this?
00:15:22Huh?
00:15:23Just happy, that's all.
00:15:25Oh, Charlie.
00:15:26So happy.
00:15:27Mom.
00:15:28Come on.
00:15:28Come on.
00:15:54How are the cots?
00:15:55What are you reading?
00:16:05Something Mrs. Snow sent over.
00:16:08Interesting.
00:16:12It's called Beast in the Jungle.
00:16:18It's all about a man who waited all of his life for something great,
00:16:23wonderful to happen to him.
00:16:26He had only one good friend.
00:16:30It's a woman.
00:16:32Whom he confided.
00:16:35And she died.
00:16:38At her grave, he suddenly realized that she was the great and wonderful thing
00:16:43that he'd waited for all of his life.
00:16:47But it's too late then.
00:16:48And there's memories like a beast in the jungle rising up out of the past.
00:17:00Overwhelm him.
00:17:02Oh, poor fellow.
00:17:07He doesn't know what he missed.
00:17:08He doesn't know what he missed.
00:17:15And.
00:17:19He didn't know what he'll do.
00:17:21That was the death.
00:17:21Eric?
00:17:51Eric?
00:17:53Eric?
00:18:21Eric?
00:18:22Eric?
00:18:23Eric?
00:18:51Eric?
00:19:12Eric?
00:19:13Eric?
00:19:14Eric?
00:19:15Eric?
00:19:16Eric?
00:19:17Eric?
00:19:18Eric?
00:19:19What are you doing here?
00:19:20A fire and someone moving about.
00:19:28What is it?
00:19:31Is there water?
00:19:35A lily pad?
00:19:47I don't think Mickey looks for her in the pond.
00:19:50Jenny, stop it.
00:19:53I can't help it, Eric.
00:19:55That bad feeling has come back.
00:19:57I forbid you to talk about it.
00:19:59She looked like that, Eric.
00:20:01My mother looked like that.
00:20:03Jenny, Jenny.
00:20:05I can't help it, Eric.
00:20:07You're talking about those old fears.
00:20:11I have to talk about it, Eric.
00:20:13I forbid you to talk about it.
00:20:15What?
00:20:17It's just that with you beside me, I'm alive again.
00:20:19I don't want to be sick anymore.
00:20:21Honey, look.
00:20:23You mustn't go on thinking like this.
00:20:26Besides, how could a poorly done self-portrait upset you so much?
00:20:31I know it's only my own fear.
00:20:42It's my own guilt that I can't get away from.
00:20:46Eric, I'm sorry.
00:20:48I want you to listen to me.
00:20:54I want you to believe me.
00:21:02You were sick once.
00:21:04Yes.
00:21:05But you were cured.
00:21:07Mickey caused this.
00:21:09You may as well know.
00:21:11He does look for Marion night after night down by that pond.
00:21:13And he probably comes here afterwards.
00:21:16I'm going to speak to Mickey in the morning.
00:21:20Now, don't you see?
00:21:22Simply, it's all explained away.
00:21:25But if I also heard a scream, Eric.
00:21:28Before, when I went to the hospital, I was hearing things.
00:21:31I'm hearing them again.
00:21:33What did you hear?
00:21:35It was a high, strange scream.
00:21:37High, strange scream?
00:21:39Like a peacock's cry?
00:21:41What's that sound like?
00:21:43You see?
00:21:44It's all very, very real.
00:21:46I'm such a fool.
00:21:48Are you feeling better now?
00:21:50Yes.
00:21:51Are you feeling better now?
00:21:52Yes.
00:21:53Yes.
00:21:54Okay.
00:22:00Let's get to see you.
00:22:01You see.
00:22:02It's all very, very real.
00:22:05It's all very, very real.
00:22:07Such a fool.
00:22:09Are you feeling better now?
00:22:10Yes.
00:22:11Yes.
00:22:37Night.
00:22:41We won't be bothered with any of Mickey's nightly visits anymore.
00:22:48I've forbidden him to come into the house.
00:22:50I was just nervous last night. I wish he wouldn't take it out on Mickey.
00:22:53He's a child. He must be disciplined.
00:22:56I'd like him to feel like I'm his friend.
00:22:59Why don't you do some gardening with him while he's in town?
00:23:02If he sees you're interested, you win him quickly enough.
00:23:05Wait a minute.
00:23:11It lists the staples, mostly.
00:23:15Are you sure you don't want to come in with me?
00:23:19You've got more done without him.
00:23:23I've got to see about the lights, the phone, the bank,
00:23:26and the warehouse people about that furniture.
00:23:28You know, that cough just about broken my back.
00:23:30Don't forget to see Mr. Maurer.
00:23:32I have to see him this evening.
00:23:34It's a bore, but I'll have to see him.
00:23:36Will you be home in time for dinner? I'll wait for you.
00:23:38No, if I'm not, don't you worry, darling.
00:23:40Getting out of Maurer's clutches sometimes requires an act of God.
00:23:44I love you.
00:24:02I love you.
00:24:07Hello, Mickey.
00:24:16Oh, no problem.
00:24:17He almost cut him.
00:24:20He's a handsome one, isn't he?
00:24:23So cuddly and warm.
00:24:24When I was a little girl, I used to want to be a caterpillar.
00:24:27He's a very little girl.
00:24:32Here you go.
00:24:36Marion must have loved her gardens.
00:24:40We'll keep them lovely for her always.
00:24:43You know what I'd like to do, Mickey?
00:24:46I'd like to pick some of the nicest flowers and take them to her.
00:24:50Would you like that?
00:24:54Yes.
00:24:55Eric told me she was near here.
00:25:01Would you show me where?
00:25:25Is that all right, Mickey?
00:25:29Yes.
00:25:31I'm sure it was a great loss to all of you, Mickey.
00:25:35She cries.
00:25:37She cries.
00:25:38She cries?
00:25:39In the night.
00:25:40Dead people don't cry, Mickey.
00:25:41I heard her.
00:25:43I heard her.
00:25:45I heard her.
00:25:46I heard her.
00:25:48I heard her.
00:25:50I heard her.
00:25:51Mickey?
00:25:52Mickey?
00:25:53I heard her.
00:25:55Mickey?
00:25:56I heard her.
00:25:57I heard her.
00:26:02I heard her.
00:26:03I heard her.
00:26:05Mickey?
00:26:07I called her.
00:26:16I heard her.
00:26:18I heard her.
00:26:19Oh, my God.
00:26:49Oh, my God.
00:28:19I don't think he quite expects she's gone.
00:28:25She cries.
00:28:27She cries in the night.
00:28:31I think he expects her to show up one of these mornings.
00:28:35She died in the water.
00:28:38The base of her skull was smashed.
00:28:40She didn't want to die.
00:28:44She died in the water.
00:28:44I don't think she's gone.
00:28:50I don't know.
00:28:51I don't know.
00:28:54Oh, my God.
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