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I Bury the Living 1958 Remastered
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00:01:36Welcome, sir. Welcome to the immortal hills.
00:01:51It's all by way of making you feel right at home, Bobby.
00:01:56Mr. Chairman.
00:01:58Come along, sir.
00:02:00After you. This is your place now, you know.
00:02:02Of course.
00:02:03It isn't as if you wasn't a stranger here, Bob.
00:02:05But somehow this place all looks different to me.
00:02:08Like I never saw it before.
00:02:10Well, maybe I never had to.
00:02:12It's cold as an icebox in here.
00:02:14Oh, that thing hasn't worked in years.
00:02:16Cement holes, the wet, you know, makes the air a wee bit crusty.
00:02:20Won't bother you none once you get down to work.
00:02:22I'm not sworn in yet.
00:02:23Oh, that's only for sure, sir.
00:02:25Now, let me see if I got the list of commitment right.
00:02:27All right. First, Chairman Robert Kraft, yourself.
00:02:32Now, Mr. Horniger, treasurer, your Uncle George, secretary, and, of course, Mr. Trowbridge and Mr. Bates, making five in all,
00:02:38right?
00:02:39Right.
00:02:39If you can find me at any time, my dwelling's straight across the boulevard, opposite the gate.
00:02:44Makes it nice living so close to my work.
00:02:47Now, would you like to see the sight, sir?
00:02:49Give the roof a chance to catch the heat.
00:02:51Mm-hmm.
00:02:52If you get to make a tour, it's a bit warmer outside.
00:02:55That's quite a map.
00:02:56Oh, yes, sir.
00:02:57That's a map of the entire cemetery down to the wee speck of dust.
00:03:01Here we are, and here's my shed with the rose stone, and there's the gate you come in.
00:03:06Certainly kept it up to date.
00:03:07There's a new mausoleum on here already.
00:03:10Aye.
00:03:11Oh, yes, sir.
00:03:12This map's going to be a big help to you, Bobby.
00:03:14Suppose you got a customer, and you want to know what ground we can show him.
00:03:18This is where the map comes in.
00:03:19One look and quick as a wink, you know who's where and what's what.
00:03:23It's them pens that makes it so easy.
00:03:25The black ones stand for the ones that is already there,
00:03:28and the white ones for them as has made their arrangements for the future.
00:03:32Now, for example, here's my place.
00:03:35Lovely, isn't you, Bob?
00:03:36There.
00:03:37Sun in the morning, but gets those trees to give shade in the afternoon heat.
00:03:42McKee, you've been on this job now 40 years, right?
00:03:45Aye.
00:03:46Well, I guess the committee's right.
00:03:47It's high time we retired, Joe.
00:03:49Nothing to worry about.
00:03:50Full pension.
00:03:50You draw the same check every month.
00:03:53I'm to be paid for nothing from now on?
00:03:56No, you're to be paid for 40 years of devotion.
00:03:59And that's something.
00:04:00Anyone in mind to replace you?
00:04:02Well, I hadn't given it much thought, sir, but there must be plenty of young and hard muscle tops who
00:04:09would give the right teeth for my shoes.
00:04:11It's a lovely place to work.
00:04:13You're outside near Mother Earth.
00:04:14Well, let me know if you find somebody.
00:04:16Oh, aye.
00:04:17I will.
00:04:20Yes, sir.
00:04:21That's quite a map.
00:04:27Pardon me, sir.
00:04:29I just wanted to show you where we keep this in case of emergencies.
00:04:33No need to worry, though.
00:04:34We haven't had none yet.
00:04:37Oh, you're expecting visitors, sir?
00:04:40No, but that sounds like Stu Drexel.
00:04:42Oh, aye.
00:04:43Drexel.
00:04:44I'm pretty bad fairish.
00:04:46And I heard they was promised.
00:04:47Looks like they're hitched.
00:04:50She finally caught me, Bob.
00:04:53Bethy, many happy returns of the day.
00:04:55Stu, that's a great place you picked for a honeymoon.
00:04:57Oh, marriage has made me conservative.
00:04:59How about it, Mrs. D?
00:05:01Can I carry you over the threshold?
00:05:02I still don't think it's so very funny.
00:05:04I think it's positively awful if you really want to know the truth.
00:05:07Oh, Bethy, don't be that way.
00:05:09What's the trouble?
00:05:10How would you like to get a cemetery plot for a wedding gift?
00:05:13Now, Bethy, you know Pop never meant it for a present.
00:05:15It's just a formal legal sort of thing.
00:05:18You see, Dad left part of my inheritance in trust for when I got married.
00:05:22One of the provisions was that myself and my wife
00:05:24had first-class accommodations here at the Immortal Hills.
00:05:28Doesn't cost us a cent,
00:05:29but we have to buy the plots before the bank will let me have the cash.
00:05:32You know, Dad, he never did consider me much on responsibility.
00:05:36He was a very smart man.
00:05:39Oh, aye, that he was.
00:05:40And though a bony bride should have her thoughts far from doom,
00:05:44it's a lucky girl whose father-in-law provides from the beyond for her future.
00:05:48Isn't he sweet?
00:05:51Thanks, Scotty.
00:05:53Bob, give us a couple near the old man, will you?
00:05:56And call up Owens at the bank in the morning,
00:05:59so I can cash a check.
00:06:01I don't think it's funny at all.
00:06:10From the last administration, sir.
00:06:12Folks get a wee bit rocky when they come out here sometimes.
00:06:15Best to be prepared.
00:06:16Don't match.
00:06:26Oh, over here, that's where the Drexel Bench is.
00:06:31Ah, it'll get so you'll love it out here, Bobi.
00:06:34It's a fine and green and lovely place.
00:06:38A fine place to slip away from the cares of the world.
00:06:41Slip away and love a wee bit.
00:06:43Slip away and love a wee bit.
00:06:56As the retiring chairman of the Immortal Hill Cemetery Management Committee,
00:07:00it is now my very great pleasure to announce the appointment of Robert Kraft,
00:07:05president of Kraft's department.
00:07:07Now, George, don't shush me.
00:07:08You railroaded me into this.
00:07:09Now, wait a minute, Bob.
00:07:10It's your turn.
00:07:11Last year was his turn.
00:07:13The year before, it was mine.
00:07:14Nobody refuses to take the chairmanship.
00:07:17Pardon us, Henry.
00:07:18President of Kraft's department store.
00:07:22Why?
00:07:23Nobody ever has.
00:07:25It's just not done, son.
00:07:27Well, can you give me one good reason why I should take over the management of a whole big cemetery
00:07:31when I'm up to my neck in my own business?
00:07:35As retirement...
00:07:36Of course I can.
00:07:38Tradition.
00:07:39Particularly for us crafts.
00:07:41You always harp on dignity, honor, prestige.
00:07:44Well, how do you think we got it?
00:07:47Because your great-grandfather, your grandfather and your father served on every community project,
00:07:52board and committee that was ever created.
00:07:54They served for free.
00:07:57But they did it for business.
00:07:59That's what a fine family has to do in this town.
00:08:02And you can't refuse to do it without losing a lot of respect from our customers.
00:08:07And another thing...
00:08:09It's just not done.
00:08:11Well, pass me over till next year.
00:08:13I'm up to my ears.
00:08:14Bob, do you realize you're talking about only a few hours a month at the most?
00:08:19McKee, the caretaker, handles everything.
00:08:21All you do is show up once a week and sign the checks.
00:08:24It's getting late, George.
00:08:25Proceed, Henry.
00:08:27Raise your right hand.
00:08:29Well, what about Bill Honiger?
00:08:31Raise your right hand.
00:08:34Do you, Robert Kraft, swear to discharge the duties and responsibilities of this office,
00:08:39faithfully and completely, to the utmost of your abilities?
00:08:43I do.
00:08:44Congratulations, Bob.
00:08:45Thanks, Mr. Trowbridge.
00:08:47Thank you, Uncle George.
00:08:49Okay, Miss Lane.
00:08:50You can put through his calls now.
00:08:53Thank you, Mr. Watson.
00:08:54I'll ring him for you now.
00:08:58Hello.
00:09:02There's a guy named Watson on the phone.
00:09:05Says it's urgent.
00:09:06Do you know him?
00:09:06Of Olds and Watson?
00:09:08Of Olds and Watson, you know.
00:09:11Well, the Undertaker.
00:09:12Well, thank you very much, Mr. Watson.
00:09:18I'll do the best job I can.
00:09:20Yes, sir.
00:09:25Oh, you're kidding.
00:09:30Well, sir, don't worry about it.
00:09:32I'll take care of it myself.
00:09:34I'll be there within an hour.
00:09:35Yes, sir.
00:09:38Well, what about this ad?
00:09:40Half the weight, I'm sorry.
00:09:41Well, now, call McKee.
00:09:43You don't have to go up there every time.
00:09:45This is different.
00:09:46Somebody prominent?
00:09:48Stu Drexel and his wife.
00:09:50Stu and Betsy.
00:09:53No.
00:10:01Hi.
00:10:02Hi, Joseph.
00:10:04McKee, this is Mr. Jessup with the Milford Herald.
00:10:06Hi, Jessup.
00:10:07Jessup.
00:10:08Oh, the west slope between the Pattersons and the Fenleys.
00:10:11What else is new?
00:10:12You were my big news for the day.
00:10:15Asked about plans for the coming year, Kraft revealed the Immortal Hills will install a drive-in bar to stimulate
00:10:21additional trade.
00:10:24I'm stuck with the obituary detail.
00:10:26Boy, it's cold in here.
00:10:28Okay, let's get that heat on, not later in tomorrow.
00:10:30We better get ready for the interment.
00:10:32Aye, that'll be done, sir.
00:10:33You better change the Drexel pens.
00:10:35Black instead of white.
00:10:36Oh, they already got black pens, sir.
00:10:38Oh, who changed them?
00:10:40Oh, no.
00:10:41The last I remember was the very day they come out here to give you the order.
00:10:44And you stuck in two pens.
00:10:46Yeah, I guess that's right.
00:10:48I must have picked up the wrong color.
00:10:53Nothing, it's just a little weird, that's all.
00:10:55What?
00:10:58Well, the kids came out here right after they tied the knot.
00:11:02They bought a couple of plots.
00:11:04Stu was complying with some technicality in his trust.
00:11:07And it was all very cute.
00:11:08We had a couple of laughs.
00:11:10And afterwards, I jabbed two pens in the map white pens, I thought, just to make it official.
00:11:15Now, here today, they've been killed.
00:11:17And the map's had them on the blacklist all the time.
00:11:21Okay, so what?
00:11:23Nothing, it just made me feel a little eerie, that's all.
00:11:27I think he means he marked the young couple for death, sir.
00:11:33Yeah, I guess that was it.
00:11:35That must have been the feeling I had.
00:11:38Well, that's funny what'll go through a guy's mind, isn't it?
00:11:43Do me a favor, McKee.
00:11:45If he starts fooling out of those pens again, be sure he stays away from the west slope.
00:11:52Between the Pattersons and the Findleys.
00:11:54Indeed I will, sir.
00:11:57Hi, Annie, what are you doing out here?
00:11:59I had a luncheon date, but I was stood up.
00:12:02I know a nice little place down the street.
00:12:04I just might take you up on that.
00:12:06I won't hold my breath.
00:12:10George told me about Beth and Stuart.
00:12:12I just had to see you.
00:12:14Made me think how lucky we are just to be alive and together.
00:12:20Ann, this is Mr. McKee.
00:12:22This is Miss Craig, my fiancée, Andy.
00:12:24How do you do?
00:12:24Mitch, would you be wanting me for anything else, Bobby?
00:12:28No, thanks, Andy.
00:12:32Bob, what's wrong?
00:12:34Nothing, I'm just a little depressed, that's all.
00:12:37But you'll take care of that.
00:12:39Ann, I kept wishing we could keep our appointment.
00:12:42Oh, rendezvous, if you don't mind.
00:12:44Your gray flannel is showing.
00:12:46Actually, do you know what made me turn around and come here instead of going home?
00:12:51Well, I was driving along, feeling rejected, and then all of a sudden I saw you very clearly
00:12:56in my mind.
00:12:58Bob, it's just that you're too attractive.
00:13:00After all, president of a department store and in charge of the Immortal Hills.
00:13:05Irresistible.
00:13:07I saw you and I heard you.
00:13:09Lunchtime, Annie.
00:13:10That's what you said distinctly.
00:13:12Lunchtime, Annie.
00:13:14Well, I could do better than that, I hope.
00:13:16Oh, you did.
00:13:17You said, I want you, and I need you, and a whole lot of lovely things I'd be embarrassed
00:13:26to repeat.
00:13:28Yeah.
00:13:30You know, just about the time you were seeing me, I had you on my mind.
00:13:35That's amazing.
00:13:36No, I mean it.
00:13:37And I don't blame you for not wanting to repeat what I was thinking.
00:13:44We better go to lunch or get married.
00:13:48Oh, I can just as easily join Jess at that little spot down the road he spoke of.
00:13:54We regret the management does not permit exchanges once the merchandise has been purchased.
00:13:59Then I'll freshen up.
00:14:00Mm-hmm.
00:14:36Immortal Hells Crap.
00:14:38Hi, Carl.
00:14:40No, terrible.
00:14:42No, I'm sorry.
00:14:43The funeral's been confined to the immediate family.
00:14:46Yeah, all right, Carl.
00:14:47I'll see you later.
00:14:53No, no.
00:15:01Well, you're right.
00:15:02What?
00:15:04You're right.
00:15:05We are lucky to be alive.
00:15:09With each other.
00:15:11Come on.
00:15:12Let's go.
00:15:15Come on.
00:16:46Ah, I picked this Drexel stone for glass. Fine and rich and swirly. I'm a granupan myself.
00:16:56Bobby, Bobby, I've got a surprise.
00:16:59Found your replacements.
00:17:01Oh, well, no, no, not yet. But I'm scouting the countryside. This is far sweeter.
00:17:18This is why I call getting things done.
00:17:21Okay, you should have been an executive.
00:17:30Let's take off your coat, Bobby. You'll be getting overheated.
00:17:35Fairly quiet this week. Only one passing. Now, if you'll just sign these.
00:17:42Let's get rid of these flowers.
00:17:43Oh, aye, they smell a wee bit sickly.
00:17:46I was hoping to keep them for the burial this afternoon.
00:17:49We need much help.
00:17:50Oh, no. This is just an average funeral.
00:17:53They don't come like the Drexel doings every day, thank the Lord.
00:18:01The key of this bill for W. Isham. What's it for?
00:18:07Well, he's the lot for this afternoon, Bobby.
00:18:11Oh, no need to look so sad.
00:18:13Willisham was the same age lad as me.
00:18:17Oh, there's something I've been meaning to tell you.
00:18:19Mighty queer it strikes me, Bob.
00:18:21I went to the map just after we got the news to change Willisham's pin to black.
00:18:28It was already black.
00:18:31Looks like there might be something creepy up with that map.
00:18:36Changing pen colors without human assistance, no less.
00:18:39I changed Mr. Isham's pin, Andy.
00:18:43But, Bob, you haven't been here since he died.
00:18:46Yes, sir, please.
00:18:46I know. I changed his pin before he died, not after.
00:18:50Yes, it's Bob Kraft. Can you come over here right away?
00:18:54No, I'm at the cemetery.
00:18:57That map's nothing but an old piece of paper hanging on the wall.
00:19:00All you do when you stick pins in it is to make holes in the paper.
00:19:04White pins, black pins, safety pins. It doesn't make any difference, see?
00:19:09Well, look, it's unfortunate that it worked out this way, but coincidence is a part of everyday life.
00:19:15Some are funny, some are pretty odd, but this one isn't even good enough to make the back page of
00:19:20the shopping news.
00:19:21That's all it is, Bob, coincidence.
00:19:25Yeah.
00:19:27You're right, Jess. Thanks.
00:19:29That's okay.
00:19:31Sometime when I've tied on a real headbender, you can do the same for me.
00:19:36What's your trouble?
00:19:38Well, nothing, but I've been through all this before.
00:19:45The grass, and the quiet, and that sound.
00:19:53I never knew what it was.
00:19:56It's the sound of a name being cut into a headstone.
00:20:00Yeah, I've heard of people who thought they'd been through the same bit before in their dreams.
00:20:05I think it's even happened to me.
00:20:07What would you say if I told you this happens to me regularly, ever since I was a child?
00:20:12Sometimes as often as every other week.
00:20:15I'd say you were sensitive or exaggerating.
00:20:20Third floor sportswear, 9-2-8-0, gross.
00:20:25Compared to 8-5-0-0 at the same date last year.
00:20:31Basement sportswear.
00:20:33I'm going to call Bates and Honiger and Trill Bridge right now and tell them I'm quitting.
00:20:37Don't worry, George. Nothing drastic will happen at the store.
00:20:39My mind's made up.
00:20:42You mean mixed up.
00:20:46I've lived in Milford all my life, and I can't remember any man who ever let that place get the
00:20:51better of him.
00:20:52Why, when I was chairman, I'll bet I stuck the wrong colored pins in that thing a dozen times.
00:20:57If I ran out of one color, I used the other.
00:21:01You've only been down there a couple of times.
00:21:05George, I put black pins in the map for the Drexel couple the day they were killed.
00:21:12Now, I didn't think anything of it at the time.
00:21:16And then I took a white pin out of the map, quite at random,
00:21:19and I put a black pin in its place,
00:21:22and today I find out the old man it belonged to died during the week.
00:21:32Bob, that's terrible.
00:21:34For heaven's sake, Bob, everybody loves a ghost story.
00:21:38Where's your sense of humor?
00:21:41You don't really believe that stuff you're telling me, do you?
00:21:45No.
00:21:48But I still think I may be learning something about myself.
00:21:57Where are you going?
00:21:58Oh, I think I'll just take a run out of the cemetery.
00:22:01What for?
00:22:03Sounds like it might be fun.
00:22:05After all, I've been trying to find some way to wipe out our competition for years.
00:22:10Good night, George.
00:22:32You want to take my car?
00:22:35All right.
00:22:57Won't be but a moment, Sheriff.
00:22:59Now, don't bother, McKee.
00:23:00I think I've got it.
00:23:06Oh, that'll be all, McKee.
00:23:08Is everything right, Dolby?
00:23:10We'll see you later, Andy.
00:23:12Well, the place hasn't changed a bit since I was chairman.
00:23:16A few more pins on the map.
00:23:18Black ones.
00:23:19White ones, too.
00:23:21Sit down and relax, Bob.
00:23:25I think I can get this whole thing cleared up for you.
00:23:28What are you going to do?
00:23:29I'm going to convince you that there's nothing out here for you to worry about.
00:23:34George, let's forget this.
00:23:35Bob, I said I'm just going to convince you.
00:23:40Well, George, suppose you took Henry Trowbridge's white pin out and put a black one in its place, and tomorrow
00:23:46morning he turned up dead.
00:23:47It's not a chance.
00:23:49Well, I know not a chance.
00:23:50But suppose by some weird coincidence it happened.
00:23:52Now, it's happened to me three times already.
00:23:54I deal strictly in fact, son.
00:23:56I don't go for this coincidence, punk.
00:23:58But if Henry Trowbridge even looks a little peaky tomorrow, you can resign and I'll back you up.
00:24:06Now, Henry Trowbridge, let me see if I remember.
00:24:09George, I just mentioned Henry as an example.
00:24:12Now, you're not going to use him.
00:24:14Well, Henry's as good a choice as anybody, considering he directly preceded you as committee chairman.
00:24:21Wait a minute, George.
00:24:25You better let me put the pin in.
00:24:28If you do the honors and nothing happens, it won't be quite as conclusive.
00:24:33By all means, let's not diverge from the established pattern.
00:24:39But I'll have you know I was no slouch when it came to pinning the tail on the docket when
00:24:44I was a kid.
00:24:44No reflection on Henry.
00:24:51Go ahead, Bob.
00:25:14You better call Henry and tell him what we did.
00:25:17He'd only think we were kidding.
00:25:18No, he'd believe you.
00:25:20Then he'd call my physician and he'd reserve a nice quiet room for me at Providence Hospital.
00:25:26Let's keep this quiet, my boy.
00:25:29Henry can't complain.
00:25:31After all, if his term had run a week or so longer, he might be having the willies instead of
00:25:36you.
00:25:37Ha, ha, ha.
00:25:45Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:26:17Hello, Miss Trollbridge.
00:26:18This is Bob Craft.
00:26:19What are you doing up so late?
00:26:21Uh, nothing serious.
00:26:23Uh, I just meant to call Henry earlier and it slipped my mind.
00:26:26Uh, put him on, will you?
00:26:28Or if he's watching the movie and enjoying it, uh, ask him to call me back during the commercial.
00:26:33No, no, Bob.
00:26:34Just hold on and I'll get him.
00:26:36He's upstairs reading in bed, but I'm sure he's not asleep.
00:26:39Well, I hate to disturb him.
00:26:41You just hold the wire, Bob.
00:27:04I don't know.
00:27:05Oh, man.
00:27:10Bye.
00:27:13Literally.
00:27:14Hello.
00:27:14Henry?
00:27:21He's not breathing, Bob.
00:27:23I've got to call the doctor.
00:27:26I understand.
00:27:27I'll hang up right away.
00:27:32I'm terribly sorry.
00:27:46Hey-ho, nobody home.
00:27:51Keep up and call me.
00:28:02Wait here. This won't take long.
00:28:06Morning.
00:28:07How do you do, sir?
00:28:12Well, I don't understand it.
00:28:14Jess said he'd be here in 20 minutes.
00:28:18Lieutenant Claiborne.
00:28:21So that's it, huh?
00:28:23Sure big enough.
00:28:25There are the black pins, huh?
00:28:28We're particularly concerned with these four.
00:28:31Isham, the Drexel couple, and now Trowbridge.
00:28:35Let me get this straight, Mr. Kraft.
00:28:38You say that every time you stick a black pin in the map,
00:28:41people turn up dead?
00:28:43That's right.
00:28:47Well, go ahead, Lieutenant.
00:28:50You think I'm a crackpot, and I hope you're right.
00:28:53I just want to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:29:00Stuart and Elizabeth Drexel.
00:29:01DoA, emergency receiving hospital, result of highway collision.
00:29:07William Isham, cause of death, cerebral hemorrhage.
00:29:11Henry Trowbridge, coronary thrombosis.
00:29:14Well, the rule is this.
00:29:15Where no evidence of homicide exists on initial investigation,
00:29:19the matter will be dropped.
00:29:21Investigated?
00:29:21Found nothing.
00:29:23Sorry.
00:29:25Jessup?
00:29:26What's new, or should I say real?
00:29:29Nothing like murder, if that's what you're after.
00:29:32I'm sorry Bob saw fit to disturb you, Lieutenant.
00:29:34No harm done.
00:29:35What do you make of it, Jess?
00:29:37I keep telling him, it's just coincidence.
00:29:39Yeah.
00:29:41If I were you, Mr. Kraft, I'd take a week or two off.
00:29:44Take it easy.
00:29:44You'll forget all about it.
00:29:48If you're gonna use the story, kindly refrain from mentioning my name.
00:29:52I know.
00:29:53Lieutenant Claiborne, with an E on the end.
00:30:02Boy.
00:30:03I don't think four deaths could appear so flimsy to a policeman.
00:30:10You never should have called the police.
00:30:13Claiborne's one of the best.
00:30:14Any other guy might have looked for a big heavy book to throw at you.
00:30:17Yeah.
00:30:18Maybe you're right.
00:30:21On the other hand, maybe that thing's dangerous.
00:30:24Really dangerous.
00:30:25Or maybe the element of danger is in a man.
00:30:28In me.
00:30:30Bob.
00:30:31Is there something different about me, Jess?
00:30:33I'm really beginning to wonder.
00:30:35Hey, buddy.
00:30:36If there is anything to this map bit, don't go blaming it on nameless forces.
00:30:41Maybe somebody's trying to scare you.
00:30:43Could be you got an enemy or two.
00:30:50Somebody using your desk, George.
00:30:53He came in to keep me company, darling.
00:30:55That was very sweet of him.
00:30:59Oh, darling, you must be dead tired.
00:31:01I'm all right.
00:31:01No sleep.
00:31:02And then to have to go back outside again?
00:31:05There's no crime in needing a good rest.
00:31:08George, I've got some correspondence to take care of.
00:31:11I've already taken care of your mail.
00:31:13And I took the liberty of making reservations for you.
00:31:17Flight 33, leaving for Miami at 545.
00:31:21My pal Sanford owns one of the finest hotels on the beach.
00:31:24George.
00:31:25Thanks, anyway.
00:31:27There's nothing I'd rather do, but I can't possibly go now.
00:31:31Bob.
00:31:33I gave you my word.
00:31:35If anything happened to Henry, you could resign.
00:31:38I talked to Charlie and Bill Holninger, and they understand completely.
00:31:44It's all fixed, son.
00:31:45The situation's changed.
00:31:47Until this thing's cleared up, I'm not about to resign.
00:31:50Oh.
00:31:50When you tell the others, ask them to meet me here in my office at 7.30 tonight.
00:31:55It's all for short notice.
00:31:57You really can't just ignore what's happened.
00:32:00I guess you're right.
00:32:04Darling.
00:32:05Ann, I'm sorry.
00:32:06I didn't mean to snap with you.
00:32:08Now, why can't you resign?
00:32:13Well, because...
00:32:15Well, possibly something real, unreal, I don't know, is waiting to kill one of us every time I jab a
00:32:21black pin into that map.
00:32:22Bob, if you're talking about Henry Trowbridge, the poor man died of a heart attack.
00:32:27Heart disease is the country's number one killer.
00:32:30Maybe not in Milford.
00:32:32Oh, Bob, you can't mean that that map is literally killing people?
00:32:38No, Ann, maybe it isn't a map.
00:32:40Well...
00:32:41What about the other day?
00:32:42You saw me, you heard me, lunchtime, Annie, I want you, I need you.
00:32:46Bob, I was obviously trying to bring a little, a little romance into our very dull and dismal lives.
00:32:51No, Ann, don't try to deny it.
00:32:53I do deny it.
00:32:57Bob, I love you, I'm...
00:32:59I'm not in any sort of occult thrall to you.
00:33:05Can't you take a joke?
00:33:12All right, then I was lying too.
00:33:15Does that bring you back to reality again?
00:33:27Bob, I think we'd better take advantage of, of those plane tickets.
00:33:34George's Mr. Sanford's could be best man.
00:33:39The offer's awfully attractive.
00:33:41I love you too.
00:33:41I love you so much.
00:33:45Ann, if you're gonna cry, do it someplace else.
00:33:58Now, Bob, it's real simple.
00:34:00We're willing to play ball with you.
00:34:02If you want to remain chairman of this committee, we wouldn't think of trying to dissuade you.
00:34:05Because we have confidence in you.
00:34:07Full confidence.
00:34:09All the confidence in the world, Bob.
00:34:13Now, all we want before we break this up is a promise from you, Mr. Chairman.
00:34:17That before you turn in tonight, you'll go out to the cemetery.
00:34:20Now, let me finish.
00:34:22You'll go out there and change my white pen to black.
00:34:27Charlie's and George's.
00:34:28Just as simple as that.
00:34:30And then go home and go right to bed.
00:34:34No, sir.
00:34:36You're not the committee, Bob.
00:34:38You're only our chairman.
00:34:39With the duty to carry out the will of the majority.
00:34:42We feel that you should do as Bill said.
00:34:47Because it'll put an end to this business once and for all.
00:34:50Otherwise, we'll do the resigning right here and now.
00:34:53Well, let me sleep on it.
00:34:56Let's all sleep on it.
00:34:57I don't think you people realize what might be involved here.
00:35:00Motion defeated.
00:35:01Tonight.
00:35:03Well, your devotion to the principle of majority rule moves me deeply.
00:35:12Okay.
00:35:16And good night.
00:35:45All right, Charlie.
00:35:55All right, Charlie.
00:36:02Here goes nothing.
00:36:03Uncle George.
00:36:17Who is it?
00:36:19It's me, Bobby.
00:36:19Open up.
00:36:26I seen your car lights from my window.
00:36:29Driving through the gates.
00:36:30I come running.
00:36:30You needn't a bonded McKee.
00:36:31You put in a full day already now.
00:36:33I'll see you tomorrow.
00:36:33No, no, no.
00:36:34Bobby, please.
00:36:36Bobby, listen.
00:36:37When you locked and bolted this place, I said to myself,
00:36:41now there's a man who knows his business.
00:36:44That's what I said.
00:36:45He may not know everything, what's behind it,
00:36:47but he knows when a thing's to be fooled with
00:36:49and when it's to be left alone.
00:36:52There's nothing to fear with a man like Bobby Kraft at the dealer.
00:36:54That's what I said.
00:36:55Well, that's fine now.
00:36:56You run along home and don't worry about a thing.
00:36:58Nothing's gonna happen to you.
00:36:59Now, please, Bobby, lock this door again and send yourself home.
00:37:05Or else, who can answer for what may happen to the whole miserable lot of us?
00:37:11It'll have to be open sometime.
00:37:13If I don't do it, they'll get somebody who will.
00:37:15Good night, Andy.
00:37:16Good night.
00:37:29Andy, go home.
00:37:50Hello?
00:37:52Is this the Immortal Hill Cemetery?
00:37:55What do you want, Jess?
00:37:56Bob?
00:37:57Why didn't you answer me?
00:37:58I've been looking all over town for you.
00:38:00I'm calling from your place now.
00:38:02What are you doing at the cottage again?
00:38:03Haven't you had enough for one day?
00:38:05Jess, I think I've done something terribly wrong.
00:38:07I love it, Pete.
00:38:08What are you talking about?
00:38:10Well, we had a meeting at the cemetery committee
00:38:12after closing tonight.
00:38:14Bill Honiger and Charlie Bates and George, everybody.
00:38:17And they voted to make me come out here to the cemetery
00:38:20and stick black pins in the map for each of them.
00:38:23Just like it was some kid's nightmare.
00:38:26So I did it.
00:38:29Jess, there's a black pin in that map for Charlie Bates
00:38:33and Bill Honiger and George.
00:38:35And if anything happens to them, to any of them,
00:38:38it's my fault.
00:38:40Nobody else's.
00:38:41Nothing's going to happen to them, Bob.
00:38:43As a matter of fact, I think they did you a big favor.
00:38:45I've never heard of a coincidence involving three people dying all at once.
00:38:49By tomorrow at this time, this whole big worry of yours
00:38:51will do nothing but a lot of hot air.
00:38:53Yeah.
00:38:56Well, I hope you're right, Jess.
00:38:59I guess there's nothing for me to do but see this thing through.
00:39:02I think I'll check on it myself and see...
00:39:04Bob?
00:39:09Bob!
00:39:17Honecker, Bates, and George.
00:40:06I'll check your eyes before you.
00:40:07Hi, Bob.
00:40:08I will see you in the house.
00:40:36Let's go.
00:40:39Oh, my God.
00:41:09How about that?
00:41:11This is Homicide, Sergeant Greer.
00:41:17Lieutenant Claiborne, please.
00:41:19Not here. Can I take a message?
00:41:22Sergeant, this is Bob Kraft. Kraft's department store.
00:41:27Oh, sure. One way to see.
00:41:29Wait a second, I'll check.
00:41:32Uh, Mr. Kraft, are they calling you a police matter?
00:41:35Is it just something personal?
00:41:36Well, uh, it's a little bit of both, Sergeant.
00:41:42Driver Adams 1311.
00:41:58Adams 1311.
00:42:18Adams 1311.
00:42:29Adams 1311.
00:42:31Adams 1311.
00:42:32Adams 1311.
00:42:49Oh, honey girl, Adams, one, three, one, one, Adams, one.
00:43:17Give me a homicide.
00:43:19Yes, sir.
00:43:21Homicide.
00:43:23This is Bob Kraft speaking.
00:43:25I can't get through to that Adams number.
00:43:27No.
00:43:28Claiborne's at that number, and it's imperative that I speak to him right now.
00:43:32What, sir?
00:43:33Just a second, sir.
00:43:35I think he's reporting in on the line.
00:43:38They've been trying to get you, but your lines are busy.
00:43:40Hang on, I'll call you back right away.
00:43:42Thanks, sir.
00:43:58Something happened to Bill Honigard.
00:44:00Hello.
00:44:01Hey, Jess, Bob.
00:44:03Jess, I'm expecting a call from Claiborne.
00:44:05Hang up.
00:44:06Call me back in ten minutes.
00:44:07Claiborne's with me.
00:44:11Let me talk to him.
00:44:13He's not here now.
00:44:14He's...
00:44:16What's wrong, Jess?
00:44:18Bill Honigard's dead.
00:44:20As soon as I found out, I routed Claiborne out of the sack and filled him in on the whole
00:44:23wild story.
00:44:23We were over Honigard's in ten minutes with two squad cars detailed to cover Charlie Bates and your uncle.
00:44:30How did Honigard get it?
00:44:32He didn't.
00:44:33That's the trouble.
00:44:36What?
00:44:38Poor guy just dropped dead.
00:44:41Nothing out of the ordinary.
00:44:45Bates?
00:44:46Charlie Bates?
00:44:47They found him in his apartment.
00:44:50Say it.
00:44:51No homicide.
00:44:53He just stopped breathing.
00:44:55George?
00:44:58George, yeah.
00:45:00I called and told him about Honigard before I left for Claiborne's.
00:45:04By the time the police got there, George had already left.
00:45:08They'll find him, Bob.
00:45:09Don't worry.
00:45:11I'll be waiting for a word about George.
00:45:17Let me know.
00:45:18Let me know.
00:45:18Let me know.
00:45:49Let me know.
00:45:50Let me know.
00:45:51Let me know.
00:45:53Let me know.
00:45:58Let me know.
00:45:58Let me know.
00:45:58Let me know.
00:45:59Let me know.
00:45:59Let me know.
00:46:00Let me know.
00:46:14Let me know.
00:46:40I see you followed our wishes to the letter.
00:46:46Come on. I'll drive you home before you catch pneumonia.
00:46:52You three men made a terrible contribution to this town tonight, whether you meant to or not.
00:46:57I'm not going anywhere, Uncle George. I'm staying right here.
00:47:01Well, I've admit that what was Charlie and Bill going so suddenly?
00:47:08Charlie and Bill and Henry and Isham and Beth and Stu.
00:47:13Stop looking at the map.
00:47:15You're looking at it. I'm looking at you.
00:47:18We're both waiting, aren't we, Uncle George?
00:47:23Waiting to see if you escape.
00:47:26Escape dying?
00:47:29Nobody escapes that, my boy.
00:47:32The only question is how long.
00:47:36The only question is does a man die in his own time or in the maps?
00:47:41So far, everyone's been forced to conform to its schedule.
00:47:46Everyone but you.
00:47:57That puts me back on the schedule.
00:48:01My own schedule.
00:48:05If it makes you feel any better.
00:48:20Let me tell you something.
00:48:23From now on, if you want to see me, you're going to have to come down to the store.
00:48:27I won't make another special trip on your account.
00:48:32The next time I see you, George, we'll both be right here.
00:48:57Homicide.
00:48:58Homicide.
00:49:00Homicide.
00:49:01This is Robert Kraft out of the Mortal Hills.
00:49:03My Lord speaking.
00:49:05Lieutenant, my uncle just left here.
00:49:08I think under the circumstances, the least you can do is put a man on to watch over him.
00:49:12No matter how ridiculous the situation seems to you.
00:49:16Thanks a lot, Mr. Kraft.
00:49:17We'll take care of it right away.
00:49:18He's wearing an overcoat over his robe and pajamas.
00:49:21We put a description of the wire quite some time ago.
00:49:26And you do think there's danger?
00:49:29Sergeant, Kraft, George F. driving east on Plunker Hill.
00:49:33The road from the destination, Mayor of Park, let's pick him up.
00:49:37We'll go to your uncle's side of ten minutes, Mr. Kraft.
00:49:40He'll hear from me.
00:50:03Are you sure your uncle was out there tonight?
00:50:05You didn't just think you saw him?
00:50:07I told you he just left here.
00:50:09That was two hours ago and no sign of him anyplace.
00:50:12We put out on all points after the first hour.
00:50:14He's not on the road and he's not home.
00:50:18Hold the wire, Lieutenant.
00:50:47Hold the wire, let go.
00:51:41You better come out, Lieutenant.
00:51:44He's still here.
00:52:09You better come out.
00:52:19Where have you been all the day, Randall, my son?
00:52:24Where have you been all the day?
00:52:26Andy!
00:52:27Someone.
00:52:28I've been out hunting, mother.
00:52:32I've been out hunting, mother.
00:52:37Make my bed soft, mother.
00:52:39Make my bed soon, for I'm sick.
00:52:42Andy!
00:52:48I'm going to burn that stuff in the greenhouse if this heater doesn't work by tonight.
00:52:52Bobby, it took a whole lifetime of collecting for me to get the whole caboodle here.
00:52:57And see here, you haven't even touched your foot.
00:53:00Man, you've got to eat if you want to keep above the ground.
00:53:03Come on.
00:53:15There.
00:53:17Lights for me, Bobby.
00:53:19Of course, I can't answer for what happens after sundown.
00:53:42Let her wait in the car.
00:53:43Let her wait in the car.
00:54:15Aren't I crazy?
00:54:17Completely.
00:54:19I'll never change, I'm afraid.
00:54:23Andy, I'll see you later.
00:54:26Bob, please.
00:54:27I take it back.
00:54:30What?
00:54:31That day in the car.
00:54:32I did see you, and I did hear you.
00:54:34I really did.
00:54:35I should never have denied it.
00:54:40It's all right, Annie.
00:54:45I'll see you later.
00:55:00You have a party named Jacob Middle someplace in the map.
00:55:03M-I-T-T-E-L.
00:55:06The importers?
00:55:08Sure.
00:55:08You know him?
00:55:13Yeah.
00:55:15We contacted the French designers through Middle.
00:55:19As a matter of fact, he's in Paris now.
00:55:22Better strike him out.
00:55:27Jenny?
00:55:29Go ahead.
00:55:43How did he die?
00:55:45He isn't dead.
00:55:47At least not yet.
00:55:54I know what you're thinking, Mr. Kraft.
00:55:57You're thinking that we tricked you into killing Jacob Middle.
00:56:00Well, you're 100% right, sir.
00:56:01Try to relax, huh?
00:56:03This one's on the police.
00:56:05You see, Jacob Middle's in the prime of life.
00:56:08No previous major illnesses, no record life expectancy.
00:56:12Exceptionally good.
00:56:13And he's in Paris with all that ocean water to protect him from this mess.
00:56:18Up until now, all the deaths have been confined to the local area.
00:56:22If it strikes somebody on another continent, then we've really found something.
00:56:28I knew I should have gotten rid of those pins four days ago.
00:56:32Even the map.
00:56:33The whole thing.
00:56:34Out!
00:56:37What I want to know is, what are you going to tell the district attorney is responsible for these deaths?
00:56:43We gave this case a real full-dress investigation, Mr. Kraft.
00:56:48Questioned you and all the other suspects and witnesses until a point of comedy.
00:56:52Found nothing.
00:56:54No motive, no opportunity, no suspect, no crime, no weapon.
00:57:00Except seven pins went in.
00:57:03And the seven people died.
00:57:05Not one.
00:57:05Seven.
00:57:07Who put in those pins you did.
00:57:09All seven.
00:57:12Other chairmen and so on have been putting pins in that map for years and nothing happened.
00:57:20But with me.
00:57:25It isn't impossible for a certain kind of man to be endowed with powers that nobody would ever dream he
00:57:31could have.
00:57:32But a lot of scientists claim that.
00:57:35Maps and pins can't kill alone.
00:57:38The power of a human brain has to be behind them.
00:57:42Like in the Indies, I guess.
00:57:43Those voodoo dolls you hear about.
00:57:46Which doctor sticks pins in a thing until a guy in question is...
00:57:50jinxed into dying.
00:57:54Of course, I...
00:57:55I know you didn't mean to kill anybody.
00:58:03I have to get back.
00:58:05You'll hear from me the minute we get word.
00:58:11I have to get back.
00:58:22But I think I'd best be running along, too.
00:58:27Well...
00:58:28I think so.
00:58:44I think so.
00:59:00I think so.
00:59:05I think so.
00:59:16THE END
00:59:43I destroyed them
00:59:48Something in me killed them
00:59:54Something in me
01:00:00But I couldn't refuse the job
01:00:07Not a man with my reasoning power
01:00:14Power
01:00:21If I have the power of death
01:00:24Using the black pens
01:00:30Then I must have the power of life
01:00:33Using the white ones
01:00:34And I must have the power of life
01:01:21And I must have the power of life
01:01:21And I must have the power of life
01:01:42The End
01:02:11The End
01:02:41The End
01:03:08The End
01:03:16The End
01:03:25The End
01:03:29The End
01:03:39The End
01:03:44The End
01:03:46The End
01:03:55The End
01:04:14The End
01:04:35The End
01:05:05The End
01:05:28The End
01:06:02The End
01:06:34The End
01:07:08The End
01:07:34The End
01:08:03The End
01:08:09The End
01:08:45The End
01:09:04The End
01:09:12The End
01:09:14He died in Paris, France.
01:09:17God.
01:09:20Jacob W. Middle.
01:09:25Impossible.
01:09:31Impossible he cannot be dead.
01:09:34What?
01:09:36What?
01:09:37You still think that thing's the killer?
01:09:41Or your own puny power, Mr. Chairman?
01:09:45The only power you or that map ever had was me,
01:09:48so far as killing goes.
01:09:50You marked them for death, Mr. Chairman.
01:09:53But who did the deed?
01:09:56Andrew McKee.
01:09:59Oh, Andy.
01:10:01Why?
01:10:03You and your high and mighty committee,
01:10:06turning out a man with forty years of service on the grounds.
01:10:11Forty years?
01:10:13I told you, Andy, a full pension.
01:10:17It is not cash what keeps a man going, lad,
01:10:20what keeps his feet on the ground
01:10:22and keeps him on the job till the Lord makes him quit.
01:10:26The Lord?
01:10:28But nobody else.
01:10:32This is my hills.
01:10:34My lands.
01:10:36My activities.
01:10:41Hey.
01:10:43We come along dark road to put this gun to your head, Bob.
01:10:49Andy, we've never tried to take anything away from you.
01:10:54I...
01:10:54I made sure to that.
01:10:57I snuck up on each one of them in turn,
01:11:00when they was alone,
01:11:01and held them fast like so,
01:11:04until they went.
01:11:06I, even big old George, your uncle,
01:11:10left as easy as a baby.
01:11:13Middle.
01:11:15That doesn't explain what happened to Middle.
01:11:18Middle's dead.
01:11:19When you stop that, confirm the talk man.
01:11:21That map's not better do that.
01:11:23You fool.
01:11:30There is nothing to fear here.
01:11:57That map.
01:11:59I don't know.
01:12:04I don't know.
01:12:05I don't know.
01:12:05Andy, talk about something else quick.
01:12:07It's important.
01:12:08That map.
01:12:08We're finished with talking.
01:12:11Finished you are with maps.
01:12:13and pins black and white.
01:12:15Talk about something else I said.
01:12:17It's important right now.
01:12:19Talk about anything else.
01:12:20Now.
01:12:28Why?
01:12:30Because I caused you to kill those people.
01:12:34Andy, you better get this straight.
01:12:37Right now.
01:12:38You heard that, Lieutenant.
01:12:40Lieutenant, it's possible for some people
01:12:43to have things inside them
01:12:46that make other things happen.
01:12:49Nothing is impossible for a man like that
01:12:52if he thinks about it hard enough.
01:12:55I know you, Andy, you're no killer.
01:12:58I made you do it.
01:13:01You thought me into killing them?
01:13:07Then they could all be back.
01:13:10Andy, I never knew it.
01:13:14Heard you come from that.
01:13:17That noise.
01:13:18Can't you hear it?
01:13:36Andy, Andy, stop.
01:13:38There's nobody.
01:13:46They could all be back.
01:13:48They could all be back.
01:13:51Stop.
01:13:58Don't look at the dickies, sir.
01:14:03Go with it.
01:14:07You should have stuck in.
01:14:09It might have been a sport.
01:14:11But now it's too late.
01:14:13Too late.
01:14:18Go with it.
01:14:19Leave me alone.
01:14:24Only till five.
01:14:25Give me all the five.
01:14:27Not the Andreex.
01:14:28Look up.
01:14:29Go with it.
01:14:30Go with it.
01:14:30Leave me alone.
01:14:31Go with it.
01:14:32Go with it.
01:14:33It's safety, Bobby.
01:14:49He's dead, Lieutenant.
01:14:50All right, forget the normal procedure.
01:14:52Get him out of here.
01:15:06Exhibit A. He really didn't need it.
01:15:08They died of fright first.
01:15:09Just like he did.
01:15:10You're forgetting about those seven trips to the mausoleum, Lieutenant.
01:15:14Seven bodies.
01:15:15Seven trips.
01:15:16They helped.
01:15:19Lieutenant, Jacob Middle died in class.
01:15:21That was a plant, Mr. Kraft.
01:15:23Middle's all right.
01:15:24Sorry we had to put you through this,
01:15:26but it was the best way to make McKee come out in the open.
01:15:29Mrs. Middle stayed up all night at headquarters,
01:15:31waiting for us to call in.
01:15:33Our radio car is posted just outside.
01:15:35We signaled her to phone you and tell you that lie about her husband.
01:15:39Am I getting through to you, Mr. Kraft?
01:15:43Well, not quite yet.
01:15:45We watched him, Bob.
01:15:47He actually managed to unearth all seven of them.
01:15:53I wonder what got into him.
01:15:57It was those white pens.
01:16:06It was.
01:16:21Annie, I've lost my overcoat.
01:16:23Oh, where?
01:16:23Which one?
01:16:24I'll get it.
01:16:24No, never mind.
01:16:33I think I can find it myself.
01:16:35I think I can find it myself.
01:16:59I think I can find it myself.
01:17:00I don't know.
01:17:00So back in my hand.
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