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In a quiet cemetery where the dead should rest in peace, a mysterious caretaker discovers a chilling secret hidden behind marked graves. When names of the living begin appearing among the dead, fear spreads and destiny turns deadly. Graves of the Innocent is a suspenseful classic horror tale filled with paranoia, dark secrets, and a haunting atmosphere that will keep you on edge until the very last scene.
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00:00:23The Lone Ranger
00:01:32Welcome, sir.
00:01:33Welcome to the immortal hells.
00:01:47It's all by way of making you feel right at home, Bobby.
00:01:51Mr. Chairman.
00:01:54Come 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.
00:02:07It's cool as an icebox in here.
00:02:09Oh, that thing hasn't worked in years.
00:02:12Cement holes, the wet you know, makes the air a wee bit crispy.
00:02:15Won't bother you none once you get down to work.
00:02:17I'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 commitment right.
00:02:23First Chairman Robert Kraft, yourself.
00:02:27Now, Mr. Horniger, treasurer, your Uncle George, secretary, and of course, Mr. Trowbridge and Mr. Bates, making five in all,
00:02:33right?
00:02:34Right.
00:02:34If you're going to 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.
00:02:46Hmm.
00:02:47If you get to make a tour, it's a bit warmer outside.
00:02:50That's quite a map.
00:02:52Oh, yes, sir.
00:02:53That's a map of the entire cemetery, down 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 going to be a big help to you, Bobby.
00:03:09Suppose you've 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, you 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, and the white ones for them as has made
00:03:25their arrangements for the future.
00:03:27Now, for example, here's my place.
00:03:30Lovely, isn't you, Bob?
00:03:32There.
00:03:32Sun 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, you 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?
00:03:57Well, I hadn't given it much thought, sir, but there must be plenty of young and hard-muscled tops would
00:04:04give 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.
00:04:12All right.
00:04:12I will.
00:04:16Yes, sir.
00:04:16That's quite a map.
00:04:22Pardon 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're 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 fairies.
00:04:41Today they was promised.
00:04:42Looks like they're hitched.
00:04:46She finally caught me, Bob.
00:04:48I think 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?
00:04:57I still don't think it's so very funny.
00:04:59I 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?
00:05:08Now, 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.
00:05:31He 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.
00:05:49Bob, 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.
00:06:11Don't match.
00:06:21Oh, over here, that's where the Drexel Bench is.
00:06:26Ah, it'll get so you'll love it out here, Bobby.
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.
00:06:51As the retiring chairman of the Immortal Hills 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.
00:07:06Last 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?
00:07:18Nobody ever has.
00:07:20It's just not done, son.
00:07:22Well, can you give me one good reason
00:07:24why I should take over the management of a whole big cemetery
00:07:26when 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 Krafts.
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
00:07:45served on every community project, board, and committee
00:07:48that was ever created.
00:07:50They 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
00:07:59without 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.
00:08:28Do 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, Ms. 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.
00:08:53Hello.
00:08:57There's a guy named Watson on the phone.
00:08:59Says it's urgent.
00:09:00Do you know him?
00:09:01How old's in Watson?
00:09:02How old's in Watson?
00:09:03You 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.
00:09:19Oh, you're kidding.
00:09:24Well, sir, 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?
00:09:34I have to wait.
00:09:35I'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 with the Milford Herald.
00:10:00Hi, Jessup.
00:10:01Oh, 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, Kraft revealed the Immortal Hills will install a drive-in bar to stimulate
00:10:15additional trade.
00:10:18I'm stuck with the obituary detail.
00:10:20Boy, it's cold in here.
00:10:22McKee, let's get that heat on.
00:10:23I'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 got black pins, sir.
00:10:33Oh, who changed them?
00:10:34Oh, no.
00:10:35The last I remember was the very day they come out here to give you the order.
00:10:38And you stuck in two pins.
00:10:40Yeah, I guess that's right.
00:10:42I must have picked up the wrong color.
00:10:44Mm-hmm.
00:10:45Oh?
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 right after they tied the knot.
00:10:56They bought a couple of plots.
00:10:58Stu was complying with some technicality in his trust.
00:11:01And it was all very cute.
00:11:03We had a couple of laughs.
00:11:04And afterwards, I jabbed two pins in the map, white pins, I thought, just to make it official.
00:11:09And I hear today they've been killed.
00:11:12And the map's had them on a black list all the time.
00:11:15Okay, so what?
00:11:17Nothing.
00:11:17It just made me feel a little eerie, that's all.
00:11:22I 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.
00:11:39If 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 Finleys.
00:11:49Indeed, 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.
00:12:14Oh, Ann, this is Mr. McKee.
00:12:16This is Miss Craig, my fiancée, Andy.
00:12:18How do you do?
00:12:19Would 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.
00:13:01I 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 can do better than that, I hope.
00:13:10Oh, you did.
00:13:11You said, I want you and I need you and a whole lot of lovely things I'd be embarrassed to
00:13:20repeat.
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.
00:13:43Oh, 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.
00:13:55Mm-hmm.
00:13:57Mm-hmm.
00:14:35I'm sorry, the funeral's been confined to the immediate family.
00:14:40Yeah, all right, Carl, I'll see you later.
00:14:47No, no.
00:14:55Yeah, I'm all right.
00:14:56What?
00:14:58You're right, we are lucky to be alive.
00:15:03Be with each other.
00:15:06Come on.
00:15:06Come on.
00:15:23You're right.
00:16:25Eat nor drink nor money have an un-still a wealth.
00:16:33Hey, Bobby!
00:16:34Be happy, eh-ho.
00:16:40Ah, I picked this Drexel stone for glass.
00:16:44Fine and rich and swirly.
00:16:45I'm a granipan 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.
00:17:13This is what I call getting things done.
00:17:15You should have been an executive.
00:17:24Best 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, if you'll just sign these.
00:17:36Let's get rid of these flowers.
00:17:37Oh, aye, they smell a wee bit sickly.
00:17:40I was hoping to keep them for the burial this afternoon.
00:17:42Oh, you need much help?
00:17:44Oh, no.
00:17:45This is just an average funeral.
00:17:47They don't come like the Drexel doings every day, thank the Lord.
00:17:55The 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.
00:18:16I 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?
00:18:48No, 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?
00:19:03Well, 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.
00:19:39The grass and the quiet
00:19:44and 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,
00:20:04ever 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, 9-2-8-0, gross.
00:20:19Compared to 8-5-0-0 at the same date last year.
00:20:25Basement sportswear.
00:20:27I'm going to call Bates and Honiger and Trill Bridge right now and tell them I'm quitting.
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
00:20:42and I can't remember any man who ever let that place get the better of him.
00:20:46Why, when I was chairman,
00:20:47I'll bet I stuck the wrong colored pins in that thing a dozen times.
00:20:51If I ran out of one color, I used the other.
00:20:54You've only been down there a couple of times.
00:20:58George,
00:21:00I put black pins in the map
00:21:02for the Drexel couple the day they were killed.
00:21:06Now, I didn't think anything of it at the time.
00:21:10And then I took a white pin out of the map quite at random
00:21:13and I put a black pin in its place
00:21:16and today I find out the old man 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.
00:21:32Where's your sense of humor?
00:21:35You don't really believe that stuff you're telling me, do you?
00:21:39No.
00:21:42But I 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.
00:21:55What for?
00:21:57Sounds like it might be fun.
00:21:59After all, I've been trying to find some way
00:22:01to wipe out our competition for years.
00:22:04Good night, George.
00:22:25Want to take my car?
00:22:29All right.
00:22:51It won't be but a moment, sir.
00:22:53Now, 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?
00:23:03We'll see you later, Andy.
00:23:05Well, 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.
00:23:34Well, George, suppose you took Henry Trowbridge's white pin out and put a black one in its place,
00:23:40and 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.
00:23:46Now, it's happened to me three times already.
00:23:48I deal strictly in facts, son.
00:23:50I don't go for this coincidence, Blunk.
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.
00:24:19You 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
00:24:38I was a kid.
00:24:39No reflection on Henry.
00:24:45Go ahead, Bob.
00:25:08You better call Henry and tell him what we did.
00:25:10He'd only think we were kidding.
00:25:12No, 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
00:25:30you.
00:25:31Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:25:39Ha, ha, ha, ha!
00:26:11Hello, Miss Trowbridge. This is Bob Kraft. What are you doing up so late?
00:26:16Nothing serious. I just meant to call Henry earlier and it slipped my mind.
00:26:20Put him on, will you?
00:26:22Or if he's watching the movie and enjoying it, ask him to call me back during the commercial.
00:26:27No, no, Bob. Just hold on and I'll get him.
00:26:30He's upstairs reading in bed, but I'm sure he's not asleep.
00:26:33Well, I hate to disturb him.
00:26:35You just hold the wire, Bob.
00:26:36You just hold on and I'll get him.
00:26:39You just hold on and I'll get him.
00:26:46You just hold on and I'll get him.
00:27:16I'll get him, Bob. I've got to call a doctor.
00:27:20I understand. I'll hang up right away.
00:27:26I'm terribly sorry.
00:27:41I'll get him, Bob. I'll get him, Bob. I'll get him.
00:27:57Wait here. This won't take long.
00:28:00Morning.
00:28:01How'd he do, sir?
00:28:06Well, I don't understand it.
00:28:08Jess said he'd be here in 20 minutes.
00:28:12Lieutenant Clayborne.
00:28:14So that's it, huh?
00:28:17Sure big enough.
00:28:19Where are the black pins, eh?
00:28:22We're particularly concerned with these four.
00:28:26Isham 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,
00:28:35people 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.
00:28:46I just want to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:28:54Stewart and Elizabeth Drexel, DOA, emergency receiving hospital,
00:28:58result 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,
00:29:13the matter will be dropped.
00:29:15Investigated and found nothing.
00:29:17Sorry.
00:29:19Yes, sir?
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, Don.
00:29:29What do you make of it, Jess?
00:29:31I keep telling him, it's just coincidence.
00:29:33Yeah.
00:29:35If I were you, Mr. Kraft,
00:29:36I'd take a week or two off.
00:29:38Take it easy.
00:29:38You'll forget all about it.
00:29:42If you're going to use the story,
00:29:43kindly refrain from mentioning my name.
00:29:46I know.
00:29:47Lieutenant Claiborne, with an E on the end.
00:29:55Boy.
00:29:57I 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.
00:30:15On 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.
00:30:30There is anything to this map bit.
00:30:32Don't go blaming it on nameless forces.
00:30:35Maybe somebody's trying to scare you.
00:30:37Could be you got an enemy or two.
00:30:44Somebody using your desk, George.
00:30:46Oh, he came in to keep me company, darling.
00:30:49That was very sweet of him.
00:30:53Oh, darling, you must be dead tired.
00:30:55I'm all right.
00:30:55No sleep.
00:30:56And then to have to go back out there again?
00:30:58I'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.
00:31:07And I took the liberty of making reservations for you.
00:31:11Flight 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,
00:31:35and 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.
00:31:50You 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?
00:32:07Well, because...
00:32:09Well, possibly something real, unreal, I don't know,
00:32:13is 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,
00:32:19the poor man died of a heart attack,
00:32:21heart disease is the country's number one killer.
00:32:24Maybe not in Melford.
00:32:26Oh, Bob, you can't mean that that map is literally killing people.
00:32:32No, Ann, maybe it isn't to Melford.
00:32:34Well...
00:32:34What about the other day?
00:32:36You saw me, you heard me, lunchtime, Annie.
00:32:38I want you, I need you.
00:32:40Bob, I was obviously trying to bring a little,
00:32:42a 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.
00:32:50Bob, I love you.
00:32:52I'm...
00:32:53I'm not in any sort of occult thrall to you.
00:32:57Hey.
00:32:59Can'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.
00:33:22I think we'd better take advantage of...
00:33:26of 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 gonna cry, do it someplace else.
00:33:52Now, Bob, it's real simple.
00:33:54We're willing to play ball with you.
00:33:55If you want to remain chairman of this committee,
00:33:57we 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.
00:34:07Now, all we want before we break this up
00:34:09is a promise from you, Mr. Chairman,
00:34:11that before you turn in tonight,
00:34:13you'll go out to the cemetery.
00:34:14Now, let me finish.
00:34:16You'll go out there
00:34:18and change my white pen to black.
00:34:21Charlie's and George's.
00:34:22Just 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
00:34:32with 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'll 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.
00:34:49Let's all sleep on it.
00:34:51I don't think you people realize
00:34:52what might be involved here.
00:34:53Motion defeated.
00:34:55Tonight.
00:34:56Well, your devotion
00:34:58to the principle of majority rule
00:35:00moves me deeply.
00:35:05Okay.
00:35:10Then good night.
00:35:12Good night.
00:35:13Good night.
00:35:16Good night.
00:35:18Good night.
00:35:39All right, Charlie.
00:35:56Here goes nothing.
00:35:57I will charge you.
00:36:11Who is it?
00:36:12It's me, Bobby. Open up.
00:36:20I seen your car lights from my window.
00:36:22Driving through the gate, I come running.
00:36:24You needn't have bothered the key.
00:36:25You put in a full day already, and I'll see you tomorrow.
00:36:27No, no, no.
00:36:28Bobby, please.
00:36:29Bobby, listen.
00:36:31When you locked and bolted this place, I said to myself,
00:36:34now, there's a man who knows his business.
00:36:38That's what I said.
00:36:39He may not know everything what's behind it, but he knows when a thing's to be fooled with and when
00:36:43it's to be left alone.
00:36:44And there's nothing to fear with a man like Bobby Kraft at the dealer.
00:36:48That's what I said.
00:36:49Well, that's fine now.
00:36:50You run along home and don't worry about a thing.
00:36:52Nothing's gonna happen to you.
00:36:53No.
00:36:53No.
00:36:54Please.
00:36:55Bobby, lock this door again and send yourself home.
00:36:59Or else?
00:37:00Who can answer for what may happen to the whole miserable lot of us?
00:37:05It'll have to be open sometime.
00:37:07If I don't do it, they'll get somebody who will.
00:37:09Good night, Andy.
00:37:10Good night.
00:37:23Andy, go home.
00:37:44Hello?
00:37:46Is this the Immortal Hill Cemetery?
00:37:48What do you want, Jasper?
00:37:50Bob?
00:37:51Why didn't you answer me? I've been looking all over town for you.
00:37:54I'm calling from your place now.
00:37:56What are you doing at the cottage again? Haven't you had enough for one day?
00:37:59Jess, I think I've done something terribly wrong.
00:38:01What are you talking about?
00:38:03Well, we had a meeting on the cemetery committee after closing tonight.
00:38:08Bill Honiger and Charlie Bates and George, everybody.
00:38:11And they voted to make me come out here to the cemetery
00:38:13and stick black pins in the map for each of them.
00:38:17Just like it was some kid's nightmare.
00:38:20So I did it.
00:38:23Jess, there's a black pin in that map for Charlie Bates and Bill Honiger and George.
00:38:29And if anything happens to them, to any of them, it's my fault. Nobody else's.
00:38:35Nothing's going to happen to them, Bob.
00:38:37As a matter of fact, I think they did you a big favor.
00:38:39I've never heard of a coincidence involving three people dying all at once.
00:38:43By tomorrow at this time, this whole big worry of yours will be nothing but a lot of hot air.
00:38:47Yeah.
00:38:50Well, I hope you're right, Jess.
00:38:53I guess there's nothing for me to do but see this thing through.
00:38:56I think I'll check on it myself and see...
00:38:59Bob?
00:39:03Bob!
00:39:06Bob!
00:39:10Honiger, Bates, and George.
00:39:14Bob!
00:46:30Well, Bob, I see you followed our wishes to the letter.
00:46:39Come on, I'll drive you home before you catch pneumonia.
00:46:44You three men made a terrible contribution to this town tonight, whether you meant to or not.
00:46:49I'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?
00:47:01Charlie and Bill and Henry and Isham and Beth and Stu.
00:47:05Stop looking at the map.
00:47:07You're looking at it. I'm looking at you.
00:47:10We're both waiting, aren't we, Uncle George?
00:47:15Waiting to see if you escape.
00:47:18Escape dying?
00:47:19See? Nobody escapes that, my boy.
00:47:24The only question is how long.
00:47:28The only question is does a man die in his own time or in the maps?
00:47:33So far, everyone's been forced to conform to his schedule.
00:47:38Everyone but you.
00:47:49That puts me back on a schedule.
00:47:53My own schedule.
00:47:57If it makes you feel any better.
00:48:02I don't know.
00:48:03I don't know.
00:48:12Let me tell you something.
00:48:15From now on, if you want to see me, you're going to have to come down to the store.
00:48:20I won't make another special trip on your account.
00:48:25Next time I see you, George, we'll both be right here.
00:48:45Come on, sir.
00:48:49Homicide.
00:48:50Homicide.
00:48:52This is Robert Kraft out of the Mortal Hills.
00:48:55Hey, Barn, speaking.
00:48:57Lieutenant, my uncle just left here.
00:49:00I think under the circumstances, the least you can do is put a man on to watch over him.
00:49:04No matter how ridiculous the situation seems to you.
00:49:08Thanks 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 of the wire quite some time ago.
00:49:18I do think there's danger.
00:49:21Sergeant, Kraft, George F., driving east on Bunker Hill.
00:49:25The road from the destination, matter of part, let's pick one up.
00:49:29We'll have your uncle safe inside in ten minutes, Mr. Kraft.
00:49:32You'll hear from me.
00:49:55Are you sure your uncle was out there tonight, you didn't just think you saw him?
00:49:59I told you we'd just left here.
00:50:01That was two hours ago, and no sign of him anyplace.
00:50:04We put out on all points after the first hour.
00:50:06He's not on the road, and he's not home.
00:50:10Hold the wire, Lieutenant.
00:50:12He wants to be.
00:50:27He wants to be.
00:50:28He wants to be.
00:50:31Okay.
00:51:33You better come out, Lieutenant.
00:51:36He's still here.
00:52:11Where have you been all the day, Randall, my son?
00:52:16Where have you been all the day?
00:52:18Andy!
00:52:20Someone.
00:52:20I've been out hunting, mother.
00:52:24I've been out hunting, mother.
00:52:28Make my bed soft, mother.
00:52:31Make my bed soon, for I'm sick.
00:52:34Andy!
00:52:39The key, I'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.
00:53:06There.
00:53:08Lights for me, Bobby.
00:53:10Of course, I can't answer for what happens after send-out.
00:53:34Let her wait in the car.
00:54:04Irresistible.
00:54:07Aren't I crazy?
00:54:09Completely.
00:54:11I'll never change, I'm afraid.
00:54:16Annie, 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.
00:54:37I'll see you later.
00:54:52You have a party named Jacob Middle someplace in the map?
00:54:55M-I-T-T-E-L.
00:54:58The importers?
00:55:00Sure.
00:55:00No.
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.
00:55:35How'd he die?
00:55:37He isn't dead.
00:55:38At least not yet.
00:55:46I 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.
00:55:57You see, Jacob Middle's in the prime of life.
00:56:00No previous major illnesses, no record life expectancy, exceptionally good.
00:56:05And 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, the 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.
00:56:44Found nothing.
00:56:46No motive, no opportunity, no suspect, no crime, no weapon.
00:56:52Except, seven 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.
00:57:12But, with me, it isn't impossible for a certain kind of man to be endowed with powers that nobody would
00:57:23ever dream he could have.
00:57:24A lot of scientists claim that.
00:57:27Maps and pins can't kill alone.
00:57:29And the power of a human brain has to be behind him.
00:57:34Like in the Indies, I guess.
00:57:35Those voodoo dolls you hear about.
00:57:37Which doctor sticks pins in the thing until a guy in question is jinxed into dying.
00:57:46Of course, I know you didn't mean to kill anybody.
00:57:55I'll have to get back.
00:57:57You'll hear from me the minute we get word.
00:58:13I think I'd best be running along, too.
00:58:17Bob.
00:58:20I think so.
00:58:37I think so.
00:58:53I think so.
00:59:35I destroyed them.
00:59:40Something in me killed them.
00:59:46Something in me.
00:59:52I, I couldn't refuse the job.
00:59:59Not a man with my reasoning power.
01:00:06Power.
01:00:13If I have the power of death using the black pens,
01:00:22then I must have the power of life using the white ones.
01:00:26Oh, my goodness.
01:11:27There is nothing to fear.
01:12:25Why?
01:16:30I think I can find you.
01:16:32myself.
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