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00:00:02The End
00:00:33The End
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00:01:30Come here children
00:01:32Come closer
00:01:33Take a good look
00:01:35It may seem just a little valley
00:01:38With a little stream running through it
00:01:39But no
00:01:40There are songs and stories
00:01:42And lovely legends
00:01:44About this one blessed spot
00:01:46It's Sleepy Hollow
00:01:48And now just because you happen to be
00:01:50The kindergarten class
00:01:51In the very favorite village of Tarrytown
00:01:53You may run and play in Sleepy Hollow
00:01:56Four
00:01:58Exactly, fifteen minutes
00:02:07Look, a kitty
00:02:13So, this will be the shoe
00:02:17I mustn't let Evelyn catch you with it
00:02:19Or you'll be it
00:02:20Ready?
00:02:22Ready?
00:02:23Yes
00:02:23Go
00:02:24Cobbler, cobbler
00:02:26Mend my shoe
00:02:27Get it done by half past two
00:02:30Dorothy!
00:02:31No, I haven't got it
00:02:33Cobbler, cobbler
00:02:34Mend my shoe
00:02:35Get it done by half past two
00:02:38Amy
00:02:39Amy
00:02:41She's dreaming again
00:02:43Amy, you're it
00:02:46Ready, Amy?
00:02:52We never have any fun with Amy
00:02:54She spoils everything
00:02:56I'm sure she doesn't mean to
00:02:58Amy's a nice girl
00:03:00Only a little different
00:03:10Oh, my beautiful
00:03:12You're my friend
00:03:14Come play with me
00:03:19Amy
00:03:22I'll get it for you, Amy
00:03:23I'll get it for you
00:03:25I'll get it
00:03:45Really, Mr. Reed, there isn't anything to worry about
00:03:47After all, it was only a slap
00:03:48That's exactly what I told Mr. Reed
00:03:51But he insisted upon remaining home from business
00:03:53To talk to you, Miss Callahan
00:03:54I know it may seem stupid of me
00:03:56But it's not the slap I'm worried about
00:03:59It's the reason
00:04:00Something to do with a butterfly
00:04:01They were quarreling about it
00:04:03No, Amy slapped Donald
00:04:05Because he hurt the butterfly
00:04:06And it was her friend
00:04:08Well, that seems a harmless fancy
00:04:10Amy has too many fancies
00:04:11And too few friends
00:04:12And it worries me
00:04:13It doesn't seem normal
00:04:15You know these fond fathers
00:04:16With their only chicks
00:04:17I can see that you're worried, Mr. Reed
00:04:19And Amy is a very sensitive
00:04:21And delicately adjusted child
00:04:22But part of the blame for that
00:04:24May lie with you
00:04:25Perhaps you're over-anxious
00:04:26Watch you too closely
00:04:28Worry too much
00:04:29The child's bound to feel it
00:04:32It's late, Mommy
00:04:33You haven't forgotten my birthday party
00:04:35No, darling
00:04:36Your birthday, Amy
00:04:37And I have something for you in my locker
00:04:39A present
00:04:40Mommy's having a party for me
00:04:42And I invited Robert and Lois
00:04:44Amy and I will meet you at the car
00:04:46And Evelyn and Ellie
00:04:47Are here
00:04:48Oh, look at these, Ollie
00:04:52Aren't they cute
00:04:54There must be one of Amy's here
00:04:59Oh, here it is
00:05:01She certainly doesn't seem to have inherited
00:05:03Any artistic abilities from either of us
00:05:05Well, it shows imagination, anyhow
00:05:07I wonder if you don't resent that in her
00:05:10I'm sure I don't, Alice
00:05:11It's something else
00:05:14Something moody
00:05:15Something sickly
00:05:18She could almost be Irena's child
00:05:20But she's not Irena's child
00:05:22There's nothing of Irena in her
00:05:23She's my child
00:05:25All I have to do is look at Amy's eyes
00:05:28Deep blue, like yours
00:05:29I'm not a jealous woman, Oliver
00:05:31I know that
00:05:32That's why I can tell you
00:05:33That you think too much about Irena
00:05:35Blame yourself too much for her death
00:05:37No, it's not that
00:05:39It's because I know what can happen
00:05:41When people begin to lie to themselves
00:05:43Imagine things
00:05:45I love Amy too much
00:05:46To let her lose herself
00:05:47In a dream world
00:05:48Where butterflies become pals
00:05:52I saw what happened to Irena
00:05:53With her cat people
00:05:54I know, dear
00:05:55I understand
00:05:56But try not to worry so much about her
00:05:58Be a little easier in your thinking
00:06:01Especially today
00:06:02Let's forget about it
00:06:03You'd better hurry
00:06:03I left Amy in the car
00:06:05And she's getting impatient
00:06:06She tells me there's something
00:06:07Especially important
00:06:08About a sixth birthday
00:06:09We'll see that she gets there
00:06:10In good time
00:06:10I'm so happy to have met you
00:06:12Miss Callahan
00:06:13You're just as nice as Amy told me you were
00:06:15I do hope you'll come to see us
00:06:17Thank you, I will
00:06:19Goodbye, Mr. Reid
00:06:20Goodbye, Miss Callahan
00:06:29Where is everybody?
00:06:30Oh, it's early yet
00:06:31It's only quarter after four
00:06:33The party's before o'clock, wasn't it?
00:06:35Yes, darling
00:06:36Gosh
00:06:37In my days
00:06:38Kids arrived at birthday parties
00:06:40Before anybody was ready for them
00:06:41Well, when times have changed
00:06:52Ollie, that's for the children to play with
00:06:54No kids yet
00:07:03Something's gone wrong
00:07:04Maybe I should call somebody
00:07:07All right, Ollie, go ahead.
00:07:08Call the Millers and see if their darling Donald has left yet.
00:07:12I think I should.
00:07:133,000 W?
00:07:15That's right.
00:07:26What is it, Ollie?
00:07:27Something's haywire.
00:07:29What do you mean?
00:07:29Neither the Millers nor the Irvings received invitations.
00:07:32They must have.
00:07:33Amy and I made them out together.
00:07:35You mailed them, didn't you, Edward?
00:07:37Well, ma'am, the truth is, I gave them to Amy herself to post.
00:07:40Amy mailed them?
00:07:41She pleaded so to do it.
00:07:47Amy.
00:07:50You remember the party invitations Edward gave you to mail?
00:07:53Yes, Daddy.
00:07:53Did you mail them?
00:07:55Yes, I did.
00:07:56Where did you mail them?
00:07:57I'll show you.
00:08:05Amy, not that old tree.
00:08:07Yes, Daddy.
00:08:09But I told you about that so long ago.
00:08:11You couldn't have been more than free when I told you that tree was a magic mailbox.
00:08:15I didn't forget.
00:08:16But, Amy, that wasn't real.
00:08:19That was just a story.
00:08:22That tree's no mailbox.
00:08:32Well, there they are.
00:08:35Look, Amy.
00:08:37Mother and Daddy keep telling you over and over again.
00:08:39But you go right on dreaming.
00:08:41And then, things like this happen.
00:08:43If the invitations didn't go, then that means nobody will come, doesn't it?
00:08:50There won't be any party.
00:08:53Oh, yes.
00:08:55There is going to be a party.
00:08:57We have one ourselves.
00:08:58You and I and Mother and Edward.
00:09:01Huh?
00:09:04Oh, Amy, look.
00:09:05Isn't that beautiful?
00:09:07Oh, boy, I bet that tastes good.
00:09:09You've got to blow them all out at once, Amy.
00:09:10Amy, make a wish.
00:09:11Wish real hard, then blow out the candles, and your wish will come true.
00:09:15But wishes don't come true.
00:09:17Certain wishes do.
00:09:18But you told me in the garden that the wish about the tree couldn't come true.
00:09:23Well, this is different.
00:09:25Go on, blow.
00:09:30Oh, Amy, you get your wish.
00:09:32You know what I wish, Daddy?
00:09:34I wished I could be a good girl.
00:09:36Oh, it's all ruined.
00:09:38You shouldn't speak your wish.
00:09:39But, Edward, in this kind of a wish, that doesn't matter.
00:09:43I can make this sort of a wish come true.
00:09:46I'll be just like Daddy wants me to be.
00:09:49Play with the other children.
00:09:51Not sit around by myself.
00:09:53Tell the truth.
00:09:55That's right, darling.
00:09:56And you'll make Mommy and Daddy very happy.
00:10:02Good morning, Edward.
00:10:03Good morning, Amy.
00:10:04Good morning.
00:10:06Good morning.
00:10:07Good morning.
00:10:07Good morning.
00:10:21Good morning.
00:10:24Good morning.
00:10:26What comes next?
00:10:28Double knocks, of course.
00:10:34I just seem to stay in double knocks forever.
00:10:36Of course, it's very hard to do anything with somebody breathing down your neck.
00:10:40May I play, too?
00:10:41You might just as well stop being nice to us, Amy Reed.
00:10:45We're mad at you.
00:10:46Why?
00:10:47Because you said you were going to invite us to your birthday party.
00:10:50And you didn't.
00:10:51But I did. I did invite you.
00:10:54Look at the giraffe.
00:10:56Look at the giraffe.
00:11:00We can run back to my party.
00:11:01Run! Run faster!
00:11:04Let's go!
00:11:05I did invite you to my party.
00:11:07I did! I did! I did!
00:11:09We ditched ourselves a right.
00:11:11The old house.
00:11:13It's haunted.
00:11:14There's a witch in it.
00:11:16Count three, count four.
00:11:17Run past the door.
00:11:19That's the best thing to say for witches.
00:11:36Little girl, come into the garden.
00:11:40Pleasant and cool here.
00:11:42Come into the garden.
00:11:44No.
00:12:01You're so real.
00:12:03You're so real.
00:12:04I'm so real.
00:12:07Little girl.
00:12:09Step back away from the house so that I can see you.
00:12:27Give me that.
00:12:44Go away, little girl. Go away.
00:12:51May I have my milk, Edward?
00:12:53Certainly, little miss.
00:13:01You're welcome.
00:13:03Look at my ring.
00:13:05That's a fine-looking ring.
00:13:07A lady threw it to me.
00:13:08Most surely that was a nice lady to give a ring to a little girl.
00:13:12It's a pretty ring.
00:13:13I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it were a true wishing ring.
00:13:17A ring that I can wish on like I wished on the candles?
00:13:20Maybe.
00:13:20If it's a real morning ring like we have in Jamaica,
00:13:23all you've got to do is turn it on your finger,
00:13:26close your eyes and make a wish.
00:13:27If it's a real morning ring, I'm going to think hard
00:13:30for something I want more than anything else in the world before I wish.
00:13:34That's the clever way to do it.
00:13:36You look good and hot and good and tired.
00:13:38Guess you've been playing real hard with your friends.
00:13:40I didn't play, Edward.
00:13:41They wouldn't play with me.
00:13:43Your daddy isn't going to like that.
00:13:45He had his heart all set when you were playing with the other children.
00:13:48I'd better tell him.
00:13:55Daddy.
00:13:58Come over here and take a look at this.
00:14:02Your daddy's so pleased with you that he's built you a model ship for your very own.
00:14:07You see, when you're a good girl and play with the other children,
00:14:11don't go moping and dreaming by yourself.
00:14:13Your daddy wants to do everything he can to make you happy.
00:14:19Now, you run along and find the other children.
00:14:22I wanted to talk to you.
00:14:24I wanted to tell you about the other children.
00:14:26Well, can't you tell me later?
00:14:27I didn't play with them.
00:14:29They wouldn't play with me.
00:14:33What do you mean you didn't play with the other children?
00:14:35They wouldn't play with me on account of the birthday party.
00:14:39Because you didn't ask them.
00:14:40Well, I don't blame them for being angry.
00:14:43Why didn't you explain what happened?
00:14:44They ran away.
00:14:45Why'd you run after them?
00:14:46I did.
00:14:47I came to an old, dark house.
00:14:50And a voice called to me.
00:14:52A lovely, sweet voice.
00:14:54Now, Amy.
00:14:55It's true.
00:14:56Who did the voice belong to?
00:14:58It was just a voice.
00:15:00Now, look.
00:15:01This is the last time you've come to me with any such stories.
00:15:03I'm sick of this sort of thing.
00:15:04But it's true.
00:15:05Well, let me be the judge of that.
00:15:07Old, dark houses and voices.
00:15:09Run out and play with the other children
00:15:10and never let me hear anything of that sort again.
00:15:13Your mother may excuse it as imagination,
00:15:14but I call it just plain lying
00:15:16and I'll have none of it.
00:15:17Understand?
00:15:18My, my.
00:15:19What a coil we're in.
00:15:20What's this all about?
00:15:22Oh, Amy's been lying again.
00:15:24No, I didn't.
00:15:25Voices from an old, dark house.
00:15:27Did you hear the child, Al?
00:15:29Well, it seemed to me that I...
00:15:30You mean you didn't.
00:15:31It seems to me the least you could do.
00:15:33You can't just jump at conclusions that way.
00:15:35I think you're being unfair.
00:15:37I'm never unfair.
00:15:38Ali, you're shouting at me.
00:15:39I'm not shouting at you.
00:15:41But there's no doubt in my mind that you spoiled this child.
00:15:48I'm sorry, darling.
00:15:50Daddy and Mommy are a little upset.
00:15:52You're upset about me.
00:15:54I made you fight.
00:15:57I hate for you to fight.
00:15:59We're not really fighting, darling.
00:16:01We're just having a little discussion.
00:16:04You run out and play and we'll make up.
00:16:06Go on now.
00:16:49I wish for a friend.
00:17:18Well, I wanna go.
00:17:18You're a little fool.
00:17:20It's just a honour of my people.
00:17:22I wish I could done it.
00:17:22He's talking to over girls.
00:17:22It's just making a mistake, Is it alright.
00:17:23Bye!
00:17:23Bye, bye.
00:17:25Bye, I'm a little pockets for about this.
00:17:43Amy looks happy.
00:17:44Looks almost as if you're playing with another child.
00:17:47Like somebody else for running with her and playing.
00:17:54Well, nothing wrong with your appetite, is there?
00:17:57I didn't even have to coax her tonight.
00:17:59Well, that's because she made a promise when she's keeping it, aren't you, darling?
00:18:02Yes.
00:18:02You saw the way she played this afternoon, Edward.
00:18:04Indeed, I did.
00:18:05Up and down the garden she went, laughing and singing to herself.
00:18:08I wasn't singing to myself.
00:18:10Oh, I suppose it was to the wind you sang.
00:18:13Or maybe to the clouds.
00:18:14Or the sun.
00:18:15Or perhaps it was to the flowers in the garden.
00:18:19All finished, darling?
00:18:21Yes, Mommy.
00:18:22All right, come along then.
00:18:24Good night, Daddy.
00:18:25Good night, darling.
00:18:26Pleasant dreams.
00:18:27And you.
00:18:28She'll surely have pleasant dreams tonight.
00:18:30She's been such a good girl all day long.
00:18:34What are you saying, darling?
00:18:36I wasn't saying anything.
00:18:37I was singing.
00:18:38I suppose any note, no matter how sour,
00:18:41sounds like a song if you hold on to it long enough.
00:18:43I thought I'd never forget that song.
00:18:46What song, dear?
00:18:47The song I was trying to hum.
00:18:49The song my friend taught me.
00:18:51Oh, you'll remember it sometime.
00:19:05Mommy.
00:19:06Yes, darling?
00:19:07Did you ever make a wish?
00:19:09Oh, lots of times.
00:19:11Did your wishes ever come true?
00:19:13Hmm?
00:19:13Sometimes.
00:19:14I made a wish today,
00:19:15and it came true,
00:19:17just like Edward said it would.
00:19:19Where did you get this ring?
00:19:20That's what I wished on.
00:19:22Edward says it's a wishing ring,
00:19:24and it is.
00:19:25But where did you get it?
00:19:27At the old house with a voice.
00:19:30Someone gave it to you?
00:19:32But, darling,
00:19:33you shouldn't accept gifts from strangers.
00:19:35Yes, Mommy.
00:19:47Where was this old house?
00:19:49On the back street.
00:19:51A green house.
00:19:53Oh, the Farron house.
00:19:54Do you know the people?
00:19:56No, dear.
00:19:57I don't know them,
00:19:57but I've heard about them.
00:19:58Are they nice?
00:19:59I really don't know,
00:20:01but I do know that you must return the ring.
00:20:02You get Edward to take you up there
00:20:04and give it back to the old lady.
00:20:06Well, the mother or daughter,
00:20:07whichever one gave it to you.
00:20:09But ask Edward to go with you.
00:20:11I'll take it back.
00:20:15I got my wish anyway.
00:20:17You mustn't tell anybody,
00:20:18or it won't come true.
00:20:19But it's already come true.
00:20:21Shh.
00:20:22Then you must keep it true.
00:20:25Good night, darling.
00:20:27Good night.
00:20:28Good night.
00:20:47Little Miss, you're stopping me in my work.
00:20:50I want to talk to you.
00:20:51Mommy says for you to come to the old house with me.
00:20:54I've got to take back this ring.
00:20:56You just wait until I finish air.
00:20:58I've got to dust these ships off for your dad.
00:21:00Will you come soon?
00:21:01Soon as I finish.
00:21:13Now, Little Miss?
00:21:14You're going to be busy all day long, Edward.
00:21:17I do suppose so.
00:21:18But since you were there yesterday,
00:21:20guess you can get there today.
00:21:21That means I can go along?
00:21:32Hello, Amy.
00:21:33Hello.
00:21:35Were you coming to see us, Miss Callahan?
00:21:37No, darling.
00:21:38I hadn't intended to.
00:21:39I live right here.
00:21:41Well, maybe I'll drop in and see your mommy.
00:21:43Goodbye, Miss Callahan.
00:21:45Goodbye, Amy.
00:21:46Goodbye, Amy.
00:22:05I like to see a home like this.
00:22:07A home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.
00:22:11This is some of all of us' handiwork.
00:22:13Good, too.
00:22:15It was fun getting this room together.
00:22:17I should think so.
00:22:21It doesn't fit, does it?
00:22:23Yet it's a part of our lives, too.
00:22:25A part of our past.
00:22:27I've often thought of getting rid of it, but Oliver wouldn't stand for it.
00:22:31You see, it was his first wife's favorite picture.
00:22:33She was an artist.
00:22:34I didn't know that Mr. Reed had been married before.
00:22:36Yes, he was.
00:22:38As a matter of fact, I was on the point of telling you about it yesterday.
00:22:41It was a tragic, terrible experience.
00:22:44Oliver's never really gotten over it.
00:23:05What is it?
00:23:06My mother told me to give back the ring to the lady who gave it to me.
00:23:14You're not the lady.
00:23:18Sit over there.
00:23:49Sit over there.
00:23:53Sit over there.
00:23:59Sit over there.
00:24:45The End
00:25:15I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.
00:25:27Come along. Here we go.
00:25:34Sit down, my child.
00:25:37I've been watching you. You couldn't see me, but I could see you.
00:25:42It was like peeking through the slit in the curtain before the play began.
00:25:47You'd be a very good audience. I can see that.
00:25:51If you were the lady who gave me a ring, my mother says I have to give it back to
00:25:55you.
00:25:55Return it to me. Indeed you may not. I gave it to you as a present.
00:25:59But my mother says I mustn't accept gifts from strangers.
00:26:02Stranger? Julia Farrin, a stranger?
00:26:06Why, I've played every theater from Boston to San Francisco.
00:26:09I've played London, Paris.
00:26:12Oh, those days.
00:26:15Those beautiful, shining, golden days.
00:26:18But I only came to give back the ring.
00:26:21The ring? We'll have no more nonsense about the ring.
00:26:25Let's have some tea, shall we?
00:26:27The tea will be good and strong and red now.
00:26:30The way I like it.
00:26:46She's always spying on me.
00:26:50She creeps into the room.
00:26:53She lives here.
00:26:54Who is she?
00:26:56That woman is an imposter.
00:26:58She's a liar and a cheat.
00:27:02How do you like your tea?
00:27:04Well, sometimes I get a spoonful of tea and a cup of hot milk.
00:27:09Good.
00:27:11It's almost as if there were a curse on us.
00:27:13I wouldn't care if it were on me, but it seems to be directed against Amy.
00:27:18I sometimes think Irina haunts this house.
00:27:21Why, Edward.
00:27:23I thought you'd gone with Amy.
00:27:25No, she went running off to some old house she was talking about yesterday.
00:27:28But that's the Farron house.
00:27:30Is that where she got the ring, Mrs. Reed?
00:27:32She shouldn't be a player.
00:27:34But I told her to go with you.
00:27:36She said something about that, but she didn't tell me it was a Farron house.
00:27:39I'll go right over.
00:27:41Child.
00:27:43Have you ever seen a play?
00:27:46I like stories.
00:27:48Then I'll tell you a story.
00:27:49A lovely story.
00:27:51Do you know the story of Rapunzel?
00:27:54My mommy read it to me.
00:27:56Oh.
00:27:56Do you know the story of the Headless Horseman?
00:27:59You live right here in Tarrytown and don't know the legend of Sleepy Hollow?
00:28:03Oh, then you must hear it.
00:28:06I shall tell it to you.
00:28:13There.
00:28:14Now, you sit there.
00:28:24Now, we'll pretend this is the stage.
00:28:32The Headless Horseman.
00:28:33Why hasn't he got a head?
00:28:35Oh, it was shot off long ago in the great battles that were fought here.
00:28:39With the British on one side and the Americans on the other.
00:28:43There's a knocking at the south entry.
00:28:45Knock, knock.
00:28:47Never at quiet.
00:28:49Wake Duncan with thy knocking.
00:28:53It's my little miss here.
00:28:55A little girl with hair by the color of yours, ma'am.
00:29:03About time for you to come home, Amy.
00:29:05But Mrs. Farron just started to tell me a story.
00:29:08Please.
00:29:09Let the child stay.
00:29:11Now, I don't know, Amy.
00:29:14He'll let me stay, Mrs. Farron.
00:29:15He'll let me stay.
00:29:17Good.
00:29:17Now, Amy, I didn't say.
00:29:18On the dark nights, on the stormy nights, you can hear him.
00:29:24He passes like the wind and the flapping and fluttering of his great cloak beating like gaunt wings.
00:29:32And the thunder of his horse's hooves is loud and loud and louder.
00:29:39At the midnight hour, down the road that leads to Sleepy Hollow, across the bridge, he goes galloping, galloping, galloping.
00:29:49Always searching, always seeking, and if you stand on the bridge at the wrong hour, the hour when he rides
00:29:59by, his great cloak sweeps around you, he swings you to his saddlebow, and then forever you must ride.
00:30:07And always his cold arms around you, clasping you into the cavity of his bowly chest, and then forever you
00:30:19must ride, and ride, and ride with the headless horseman.
00:30:28Come along now.
00:30:37I've had a nice time, but I have to go home now.
00:30:41Goodbye.
00:30:43Goodbye.
00:31:18Little miss, don't you never come here alone.
00:31:21You gave me a fright, you did.
00:31:23But she's such a nice lady.
00:31:26But I don't want you coming here alone.
00:31:28You get me to go with you when you want to come here.
00:31:30You promise?
00:31:33You be sure of your promise.
00:31:42A liar, an imposter, your own daughter.
00:31:47You called me that, yet you're sweet and kind to the little girl.
00:31:51A stranger.
00:31:52Look at me.
00:31:53I'm your daughter.
00:31:55My daughter Barbara died when she was six.
00:32:00That was long ago.
00:32:05You're only the woman who takes care of me.
00:32:09Look at me.
00:32:12You are an imposter.
00:32:37I'm your daughter.
00:32:39You are an imposter.
00:32:56Get out of here.
00:33:02What is it, Alex?
00:33:04I thought I heard Amy calling.
00:33:07I guess not.
00:33:12My friend, I'm frightened, my friend.
00:33:49I'm glad you came, my friend.
00:34:00Sing me that song again, my friend.
00:34:24He's a million miles away.
00:34:26Gathering a few aces, I hope.
00:34:27Ollie.
00:34:28What?
00:34:29It's your play.
00:34:31Oh, I'm sorry.
00:34:33I was somewhere else.
00:34:37Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:34:42You'll follow me again.
00:34:53Good morning, Mommy.
00:34:55Good morning, darling.
00:34:57You ready for breakfast?
00:34:58I had my breakfast while you were still asleep.
00:35:00I haven't had mine.
00:35:01Well, you know where it is.
00:35:03You see the way I'm treated?
00:35:04You're the only one who has any pool around here.
00:35:18Mommy?
00:35:19Who's this?
00:35:24Amy, where did you get this?
00:35:26Right in here.
00:35:27Isn't she pretty?
00:35:28She was very pretty.
00:35:31What's her name?
00:35:32Irena.
00:35:34Irena.
00:35:36Darling, look.
00:35:37The sun's shining.
00:35:38Why don't you run out and play?
00:35:40All right, Mommy.
00:35:46Ollie.
00:35:47Yeah?
00:35:50Don't you think we ought to get rid of this?
00:35:53Where'd you get it?
00:35:54Amy found it in that drawer.
00:35:56Perhaps you'd better go through the whole bunch.
00:35:58There may be others of Irena in there.
00:36:01I hope we never have to tell Amy about her.
00:36:04Well, there's no need to that I can see.
00:36:10Irena.
00:36:12Irena.
00:36:14The当然.
00:36:30The only one who is the one who is here.
00:36:31Are they under the gunpowder?
00:36:35Is it a gunpowder?
00:36:36No, I'm not going with it.
00:36:37No, I'm not going with it.
00:36:41Well, there's nothing.
00:36:41Well, you're making everything.
00:36:42There's nothing you want.
00:36:42I apologize.
00:36:42I'm losing it.
00:36:50Who are you?
00:36:52You called me by my name.
00:36:54Irena, but who are you?
00:36:56I'm your friend.
00:36:59I've wanted a friend.
00:37:00I've wanted a friend too.
00:37:03I've been lonely.
00:37:05But where do you come from?
00:37:08You wouldn't understand.
00:37:10I come from great darkness.
00:37:13And deep peace.
00:37:15But where is that?
00:37:17I cannot tell you.
00:37:20Will you be my friend for always?
00:37:23For as long as you let me.
00:37:26I shall want you for always.
00:37:29For always, then.
00:37:36But you must promise never to tell anyone about me.
00:37:40Not even Daddy or Mommy?
00:37:42No.
00:37:44This must be a friendship that only we shall have.
00:37:49You and I.
00:37:51Amy and her friend.
00:37:53Oh, I like the sound of that.
00:37:56Amy and her friend.
00:38:00Amy and her friend.
00:38:18I love you all.
00:38:31Amy and her friend.
00:38:51One is like a tall princess.
00:38:55A princess?
00:38:57Of course.
00:38:58And two is the prince who kneels before her on one knee.
00:39:05Yes?
00:39:06Yes, the prince.
00:39:07That's right.
00:39:08This is more fun than just numbers.
00:39:11Of course.
00:39:19There's an oak leaf.
00:39:20Add a maple.
00:39:22That one's an elm.
00:39:23Throw seaweeds into the flames and the fire turns blue.
00:39:29I don't think that's much fun.
00:39:31Let's play house instead.
00:39:33You'll be the friend who comes to see me.
00:39:35I'll show you my children.
00:39:37Your children?
00:39:39My dolls.
00:39:40We can pretend.
00:39:41All right, Annie.
00:39:44Button your sweater, darling.
00:39:45It's turning cold.
00:39:47Yes.
00:39:48Winter's coming.
00:39:49I don't like the winter.
00:39:51Oh, for winter's fun.
00:39:54There's the wind and the snow.
00:39:57You would like the warm fire upon the hearth and the long, long nights.
00:40:06All my children are taking their naps.
00:40:09We must be very quiet.
00:40:12This is Lottie.
00:40:14She's very good.
00:40:16This is Marianne.
00:40:18She's good sometime.
00:40:20This is Virginia.
00:40:22She's hardly ever good.
00:40:25She's very good.
00:40:42She's very good.
00:40:44These are all from me.
00:40:45Oh.
00:40:46Why, Amy.
00:40:47Let's see what we have here.
00:40:49Uh, to mother from Amy.
00:40:51Thank you, darling.
00:40:53You can't open them yet.
00:40:54You have to put all of them under the tree until morning.
00:40:57All right, dear.
00:40:58Well, I guess if you can wait, so can we.
00:41:01Let's see, uh, to Daddy from Amy.
00:41:05Here's one from Miss Callahan.
00:41:07And, um, to Edward from Amy.
00:41:10Good heavens.
00:41:11What could you be giving me, little miss?
00:41:13You just wait.
00:41:15This one's for Mrs. Farron.
00:41:17She gave me a ring, so I'm giving her a ring.
00:41:20I paid 25 cents for it, too.
00:41:23Well, this one hasn't got a name on it.
00:41:26Well, Amy, who gets this one?
00:41:29Who's it for, Amy?
00:41:31Do we have to guess?
00:41:32Come on, tell us who it's for.
00:41:33That glorious song of old.
00:41:38From angels bending near the earth
00:41:43To touch their hearts of gold.
00:41:48Peace on the earth, good will to men.
00:41:53From heavens, O gracious King.
00:41:59The world in solemn stillness lay.
00:42:03Oh, yes, the men.
00:42:04To hear the angels sing.
00:42:10Merry Christmas.
00:42:11Merry Christmas.
00:42:11Come on in.
00:42:14Merry Christmas.
00:42:15It's so nice.
00:42:17It's so nice.
00:42:17It's so nice.
00:42:18It's so nice.
00:42:18It's so nice.
00:42:18Where should we put them?
00:42:19Take your things off, girls.
00:42:20Put them down some way.
00:42:21Hold on.
00:42:22Hold on.
00:42:22Hold on.
00:42:23Hold on.
00:42:23Hold on.
00:42:25Hold on.
00:42:25Oh, it's so cold out there.
00:42:28You've no idea how fun.
00:42:29You just nearly died.
00:42:31Oh, thank you so much.
00:42:33Well, there's a big fire in the living room.
00:42:34Everyone's fixing something hot for you all to drink.
00:42:36So bounteous of you.
00:42:37But I always said you were the most bounteous young man.
00:42:40Well, the sentiment's mutual, Miss Plummett.
00:42:41Oh, thank you.
00:42:43Right in there.
00:42:47Oh, my dear Mrs. Reed.
00:42:50Of all the houses we've been in tonight,
00:42:52I do swear that yours has the truest,
00:42:54dyed-in-tradition Christmas spirit.
00:42:55What's that?
00:42:56Plummett ought to have a record made of that.
00:42:58She says the same thing at every house we go to.
00:43:00What did you get for Christmas?
00:43:02I don't know yet.
00:43:03My goodness.
00:43:04Don't you open your presents until Christmas morning?
00:43:07No.
00:43:08We open ours on Christmas Eve.
00:43:10That's considered proper.
00:43:12Well, I guess we're not a very proper family.
00:43:15Hmm.
00:43:15Do we have another carol?
00:43:17Oh, good.
00:43:18Of course you may have another carol.
00:43:20What should it be, good friends?
00:43:21Oh, I know one.
00:43:23Shepherds shake off your drowsy sleep.
00:43:41Rhymes that leave your gentle steam.
00:43:47Ne me pray, don't we pray, don't we pray, don't we pray, don't we pray, don't we pray, don't we
00:43:54pray.
00:43:54Depuis plus de quatre mille ans, nous attendions cette heureux temps.
00:44:02Il est né, le défine enfant.
00:44:06Sonné au bois, résonné musette.
00:44:09Il est né, le défine enfant.
00:44:13Glouement ?
00:44:14Angels from heaven around are singing.
00:44:19Tidings of great joy are bringing.
00:44:26Shepherds of chorus, come and swell.
00:44:33Sing Noël, oh sing Noël.
00:44:41We're all in the night,
00:44:44Depuis plus de quatre mille ans,
00:44:48Nous le promettons les prophètes,
00:44:52Depuis plus de quatre mille ans,
00:44:55Nous attendions cet heureux temps.
00:45:00C'est parti, Amy.
00:45:02C'est parti, Irena.
00:45:03J'ai brought you a present.
00:45:05Oh, thank you, Amy.
00:45:07You can open it now, I guess.
00:45:10Lois Huggins says that's proper.
00:45:22Oh, how beautiful.
00:45:26It reminded me of you, so I bought it.
00:45:29It cost me more than all the others.
00:45:32I should have wear it on my cape.
00:45:37Oh, that is more beautiful than I ever imagined it.
00:45:43I wish I could show you to Mommy and Daddy.
00:45:47I wish you could enjoy Christmas with us.
00:45:51You and I shall enjoy Christmas together.
00:45:56Shall I show you my Christmas gift to you?
00:45:59Oh, please.
00:46:02Look.
00:46:19Amy!
00:46:21Amy, where are you?
00:46:24Amy!
00:46:28Better go in now.
00:46:35Run along, darling.
00:46:38Merry Christmas.
00:46:39Merry Christmas to you, Amy.
00:46:59Oh!
00:47:01Come in, my child.
00:47:03Sit over there.
00:47:11You sit there.
00:47:14I brought you a present.
00:47:16Merry Christmas.
00:47:17Christmas present?
00:47:19It's been so long since I've had a Christmas present.
00:47:23There's a present you haven't opened yet.
00:47:26Oh.
00:47:27That's from her.
00:47:29That woman.
00:47:30Well, let's see what we have here.
00:47:33In my time, I've had a great many presents.
00:47:36Christmas and otherwise.
00:47:37The King of Spain gave me that ring.
00:47:44Oh!
00:47:45A ring.
00:47:47A beautiful ring.
00:47:49See how it shines.
00:47:51Oh.
00:47:53What would I do with the King of Spain's ring
00:47:55when I have this to put in its place?
00:48:00For this,
00:48:01this is a ring given me out of friendship and love.
00:48:05Thank you, my child.
00:48:07It's getting late.
00:48:08We'd better be going on.
00:48:09The family will be waiting.
00:48:11Oh.
00:48:12Such a brief visit.
00:48:16But, dear child,
00:48:18you've made my Christmas a very happy one.
00:48:24Merry Christmas.
00:48:25Merry Christmas.
00:48:45You didn't even open my presents.
00:48:47And I'm your daughter.
00:48:49My daughter died long ago.
00:48:55Mrs.
00:49:08Dismantling a Christmas tree always makes me a little sad.
00:49:11Well, cheer up. It will be on us again before you know it.
00:49:14Amy, here.
00:49:16Take these and put them on the fire.
00:49:21Isn't it fun to hear them crackle, Amy?
00:49:23Uh-huh. I like it.
00:49:24I love the smell of pine.
00:49:26It's one of my clearest memories, Twelfth Night.
00:49:28Burning pine and Mummer's plays.
00:49:30It's been ages since I even thought of a Mummer's play.
00:49:33We used to do them every year in college.
00:49:36St. George and the dragon.
00:49:38All kinds of crazy sword dances.
00:49:40I even have some pictures of myself.
00:49:42All done up in tattered green, waving a wooden sword.
00:49:44They're in here, I think.
00:49:45Here we go again.
00:49:46Quiet.
00:49:49Uh-oh. What did I lose?
00:49:51I'll get it, Mommy.
00:49:57Daddy!
00:49:58Yes, Amy?
00:49:59Why, Daddy, you know my friend, too.
00:50:08You couldn't know this woman.
00:50:10She died before you were born.
00:50:13Why did you call her your friend?
00:50:15Answer me, Amy. Why did you call her your friend?
00:50:18Because she is my friend.
00:50:20Ollie, please, let's not go on with this.
00:50:22The child's trembling.
00:50:23We've got to go on.
00:50:25Amy, all this time you've let your mother and father think that you've forgotten that old dream life of yours.
00:50:30Now we find you've only kept it secret.
00:50:32It isn't a secret.
00:50:34She plays with me.
00:50:35She plays with me in the garden all the time.
00:50:38Right out there in the garden.
00:50:40She does.
00:50:40In the garden.
00:50:43Would she be there now?
00:50:45She's there whenever I call her.
00:50:49She plays with me.
00:50:51She's there.
00:51:06She's there, too.
00:51:09She's there.
00:51:09She's there.
00:51:14She's there.
00:51:37She's there.
00:51:39Where, Amy?
00:51:40Right there under the tree.
00:51:42Amy.
00:51:43There's nothing there.
00:51:44There's no one at all in the garden.
00:51:46But she is there.
00:51:48Listen, darling.
00:51:49I want you to look once more.
00:51:51Take as long as you want.
00:51:52Look very carefully.
00:51:54And then I want you to tell me there's no one there.
00:51:56But she is there.
00:51:58I tell you, there's no one there.
00:52:00If you deny that, if you insist that this woman you call your friend is in the garden,
00:52:06I'm afraid I shall have to punish you.
00:52:08Do you understand?
00:52:08Yes.
00:52:10All right.
00:52:12Now, tell me what you see.
00:52:16I see a rainer.
00:52:44I see a rainer.
00:52:44Amy's never been punished before.
00:52:46Not that way.
00:52:47It's best for you not to interfere.
00:52:49I suppose so.
00:52:52I'm sorry to make such a fool of myself.
00:52:54After all, the first spanking, it's an important occasion.
00:52:58I'll be all right in a minute.
00:52:59I'll duck into the kitchen and see what's happened to Edward and the coffee.
00:53:30When children are playing alone on the green,
00:53:33in comes the playmate that never was seen.
00:53:36What did you say?
00:53:37I was starting a poem, Stevenson's Unseen Playmate.
00:53:41You probably know it.
00:53:43When children are playing alone on the green,
00:53:45in comes the playmate that never was seen.
00:53:47When children are happy and lonely and good,
00:53:50the friend of the children comes out of the wood.
00:53:52I know it.
00:53:53You liked it, didn't you?
00:53:55I like it now.
00:53:56Don't you see it's the same thing?
00:53:58Amy isn't lying to you.
00:54:00It's an unseen companion.
00:54:02Children love to dream things up.
00:54:03This is different.
00:54:04This is worse.
00:54:07It isn't just a childish fancy.
00:54:09It couldn't be anything else.
00:54:11You see, I've lived through something like this before.
00:54:16Look.
00:54:17I was married to the very woman that Amy claims is a friend,
00:54:21whose picture she identified.
00:54:22That's so easy to understand.
00:54:24She'd seen the picture and had liked the face,
00:54:26and made it a part of this companion she imagined for herself.
00:54:29You don't know about this woman.
00:54:32My first wife, Irina.
00:54:36You don't know what happened to her just because she told lies to herself and believed them.
00:54:40I tried to stop it, but everything I did was wrong.
00:54:46In the end, she went completely mad.
00:54:50It was a terrible tragedy.
00:54:52She killed a man, and she killed herself.
00:54:57It must have been terrible for you.
00:54:59But you can't let this stand between you and your child.
00:55:11Amy, do you know why I came to you, Amy?
00:55:16Why I came to be your friend?
00:55:20Because you called to me.
00:55:23Out of your loneliness, you called me and brought me into being.
00:55:29And I came so that your childhood could be bright and full of friendliness.
00:55:38Now, you must send me away.
00:55:41I don't want you to leave.
00:55:47You'll remember me for a while.
00:55:51More and a little.
00:55:53But then you'll forget.
00:55:55And that is as it should be.
00:55:58I'll never forget you.
00:56:01If you leave, I'll follow you.
00:56:12No one can follow me.
00:56:17Don't go. Don't leave me.
00:56:20Goodbye.
00:56:23Please don't leave me.
00:56:26Don't go.
00:56:27Please.
00:56:28Come back, Irena.
00:56:30Irena.
00:56:40But you're a teacher, not a parent.
00:56:42You haven't any children.
00:56:43Wait a minute.
00:56:44You design ships.
00:56:45That's your business.
00:56:46You haven't any special qualifications to handle children other than parenthood.
00:56:50I'm a teacher.
00:56:51I've studied children.
00:56:54What do the books tell you about Amy?
00:56:56Just one book.
00:56:57It's called The Inner Life of Childhood.
00:56:59There's a whole chapter devoted to children like Amy.
00:57:02Unhappy and frustrated.
00:57:04Children have only one way of escape.
00:57:07They build companions for themselves.
00:57:09Some children believe they have a dog or a cat.
00:57:12Others create children or grown-ups for their friend.
00:57:15That's an indication of how serious it is for them.
00:57:17You see, you agree with me.
00:57:19I have every right to be worried.
00:57:20I've never argued that.
00:57:22It's just that you're going about it wrong.
00:57:24I still find that hard to believe.
00:57:26Why is it bored?
00:57:36I know.
00:57:38I know.
00:57:38I know.
00:57:39I know.
00:57:39I know.
00:57:46I know.
00:57:49Yeah.
00:57:52Irina.
00:57:55Irina.
00:57:55so that she won't need other friends.
00:57:58You've got to believe what she says.
00:58:00Her friend will vanish the moment her hunger for friendship
00:58:02is satisfied by a real person.
00:58:05You're talking about Amy?
00:58:07Yes.
00:58:08I want to trust her.
00:58:10I want to be a friend.
00:58:12There's no better time than now.
00:58:14She's probably upstairs this minute
00:58:15sobbing out her grief to a friend who doesn't even exist.
00:58:19Ollie, why don't you go up to her?
00:58:22Well, uh...
00:58:25I'll go up and see if she's gotten to bed, all right?
00:58:33Irada!
00:58:36Ollie, what is it?
00:58:37Amy, she's gone.
00:58:47Operator,
00:58:48give me the state police in a hurry.
00:58:53She's gone in the woods.
00:59:17And if you stand on the bridge at the wrong hour,
00:59:21the hour when he rides by,
00:59:23his great cloak sweeps around.
00:59:33The End
01:00:07The End
01:00:51Oh, I hate this storm. I hate it.
01:00:52I don't hate the storm. It blows beyond me.
01:00:58It was on a night like this that Barbara died.
01:01:04But I'm Barbara. I didn't die. Don't you understand?
01:01:08My Barbara was killed.
01:01:12No, no. You were out of your mind. You didn't know anybody. You didn't remember anything.
01:01:19Look at me. Look in my eyes, Mother.
01:01:23Say that I'm Barbara.
01:01:24No, it's not true.
01:01:28Everything you say is a lie.
01:01:31You're a poor, lost woman.
01:01:34You're not my Barbara.
01:01:38You're always worse when that little girl's been here.
01:01:42If that child comes here again, I'll kill her.
01:01:46Yes, I'll kill her.
01:01:47Come on.
01:01:48Come on.
01:01:49Come on.
01:01:50Come on.
01:02:05Come on.
01:02:25What is it, Johnson?
01:02:26Dogs tracked her down to here, sir.
01:02:28Ollie, they'll find her.
01:02:29It's a bad night.
01:02:31If anything happens to her, it's so much my fault.
01:02:33They'll find her, and then you can make it up to her.
01:02:35I'll make it up to her.
01:02:36I'll trust her.
01:02:37I'll believe her.
01:02:38We'll have to leave the car here.
01:02:39She's going across the field.
01:03:24I'll see you next time.
01:03:41Mrs. Ferris.
01:03:44Mrs. Ferris.
01:03:51Oh, little girl.
01:03:53Oh, little girl.
01:04:07Why?
01:04:08I...
01:04:09I have to hide you.
01:04:11I have to hide you.
01:04:18No, we... we can't hide you there.
01:04:23She knows every corner of that room.
01:04:26We can go upstairs.
01:04:29There's a little room under the eaves.
01:04:32I can hide you there.
01:04:34I... I rarely go upstairs anymore.
01:04:38You... you'll have to help me.
01:04:50Oh, my...
01:04:52Oh, my...
01:04:57Oh, my...
01:04:58Oh, my...
01:04:59Yes.
01:04:59Yes.
01:05:00Oh, my...
01:05:06I...
01:05:07I can't do it.
01:05:08I...
01:05:09I can't do it.
01:05:14Oh, my...
01:05:16Oh, my...
01:05:23Mrs. Farron.
01:05:24Mrs. Farron.
01:05:27Mrs. Farron.
01:05:52Mrs. Farron.
01:05:52Mrs. Farron.
01:05:55Mrs. Farron.
01:05:56Hmm.
01:05:57Yeah...
01:06:03Mr. Farron.
01:06:16Mrs. Farron.
01:06:48Even my mother's last moment you've stolen from me.
01:06:53Come here.
01:06:56Daddy.
01:06:57Come here.
01:07:05My friend.
01:07:10My friend.
01:07:38My friend.
01:07:54My friend.
01:07:56My friend.
01:08:23My friend.
01:08:32I thought we'd lost you.
01:08:34I thought I'd never find you again.
01:08:51Amy, from now on, you and I are going to be friends.
01:08:56I'm going to trust you.
01:08:58I'm going to believe in you.
01:08:59You like that, won't you?
01:09:01Yes, Daddy.
01:09:07Is your friend in the garden?
01:09:09Can you see Irina now?
01:09:14Yes, I can see her.
01:09:16I see her too, darling.
01:09:36I see her too, darling.
01:09:47I see her too, darling.
01:09:50I see her too, darling.
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