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Prepare for a wonderfully macabre cinematic voyage in one of the most celebrated horror classics of the golden era. This high-quality, full movie stars the incomparable Vincent Price as the sinister, silver-tongued ringmaster of a deadly parlor game designed to terrify his guests and outwit his treacherous wife. Brimming with atmospheric shadows, classic skeleton scares, and William Castle's legendary sense of theatrical fun, this quintessential haunted house thriller is now free to watch for all fans of classic cinema who love their frights with a touch of wicked sophistication.
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00:00:47The ghosts are moving tonight, restless, hungry.
00:00:53May I introduce myself?
00:00:55I'm Watson Pritchard.
00:00:58In just a minute, I'll show you the only really haunted house in the world.
00:01:04Since it was built a century ago, seven people, including my brother, have been murdered in it.
00:01:11Since then, I've owned the house.
00:01:15I've only spent one night there, and when they found me in the morning, I was almost dead.
00:01:30I'm Frederick Lauren, and I've rented the house on Haunted Hill tonight so that my wife can give a party.
00:01:38A haunted house party.
00:01:41She's so amusing.
00:01:43There'll be food and drink and ghosts, and perhaps even a few murders.
00:01:49You're all invited.
00:01:52If any of you will spend the next 12 hours in this house, I'll give you each $10,000.
00:01:57Or your next of kin, in case you don't survive.
00:02:02Ah, but here come our other guests.
00:02:07It was my wife's idea to have our guests come in funeral cars.
00:02:13She's so amusing.
00:02:15Her sense of humor is, shall we say, original.
00:02:19I dreamed up the hearse.
00:02:20It's empty now, but after a night in the house on Haunted Hill.
00:02:25Who knows?
00:02:28This is Lance Schroeder, a test pilot.
00:02:31So no doubt a brave man.
00:02:33But don't you think you can be much braver if you're paid for it?
00:02:36And I happen to know that Lance needs the $10,000 I'll give him.
00:02:40If he's brave enough to stay all night.
00:02:44This is Ruth Bridges.
00:02:45You've no doubt read her column in the newspapers.
00:02:48She says her reason for coming to the party is to write a feature article on ghosts.
00:02:53She's also desperate for money.
00:02:56Gambles.
00:02:58You've already met Watson Pritchard.
00:03:01A man living in mortal fear of a house, and yet he is risking his life to spend another night
00:03:06here.
00:03:06I wonder why.
00:03:08He says for money.
00:03:12This is Dr. David Trent, a psychiatrist.
00:03:15He claims that my ghost will help his work on Hysteria, but don't you see a little touch of greed
00:03:22there, around the mouth and eyes?
00:03:28This is Nora Manning.
00:03:29I picked her from the thousands of people who work for me because she needed the $10,000 more than
00:03:34most.
00:03:35Supports her whole family.
00:03:38Isn't she pretty?
00:03:42The party's starting now, and you have until midnight to find the house on Haunted Hill.
00:03:52The party's starting now, and you have to go.
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00:04:24Let's go.
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00:11:13You'd do it again if you thought you could get away with it, wouldn't you?
00:11:16Darling, what makes you think that?
00:11:19Something about you.
00:11:24I hear that hanging is very uncomfortable in case you get any more ideas.
00:11:29Don't let the ghosts and the ghouls disturb you, darling.
00:11:33Darling, the only ghoul in the house is you.
00:11:37And don't sit up all night thinking of ways to get rid of me.
00:11:41It makes wrinkles.
00:11:57This is what she used on my brother and her sister.
00:12:00Hacked them to pieces.
00:12:02We found parts of the bodies all over the house.
00:12:05In places you wouldn't think.
00:12:07The funny thing is the heads have never been found.
00:12:10Hands and feet and things like that.
00:12:13But no heads.
00:12:14The wife, probably in a rage, threatened her husband with a knife and then carried away by hysteria, took a
00:12:20swing at him and simply went on from there.
00:12:21She certainly went on. How many people did she kill, Mr. Pritchard?
00:12:25Only two. Her husband and her sister. No one else was here.
00:12:29So there are two loose heads just floating around in here somewhere?
00:12:33You can hear them at night.
00:12:35They whisper to each other.
00:12:37And then cry.
00:12:39Since our host isn't here, would anyone care to mix me a drink?
00:12:43Certainly. What will you have?
00:12:49Good evening.
00:12:51Good evening.
00:12:52I'm your host, Frederick Lauren.
00:12:55Since we're all strangers to each other, let's get acquainted with a drink, shall we?
00:12:59Mr. Lauren, I advise you to call this party off now.
00:13:04The ghosts are already moving and that's a bad sign.
00:13:07Let me apologize for my wife. She'll join us later.
00:13:10What will you have?
00:13:10Scott Ammons.
00:13:11Doctor?
00:13:12I'll have the same.
00:13:14Now, before the party begins, let's go over the details.
00:13:19The caretakers will leave at midnight, locking us in here until they come back in the morning.
00:13:25Once the door is locked, there's no way out.
00:13:29The windows have bars that a jail would be proud of.
00:13:32And the only door to the outside locks like a vault.
00:13:36There's no electricity, no phone, no one within miles.
00:13:42So, no way to call for help.
00:13:45Like a coffin.
00:13:49So, if any of you decide not to stay for the party, you must let me know before midnight.
00:13:55Of course, if you leave, I shan't be able to pay you anything.
00:13:59I'm interested in your reasons for this, uh, party.
00:14:04Aside from pleasant company.
00:14:07Ghosts, Doctor.
00:14:09I think everyone wonders what they would do if they saw a ghost.
00:14:16And now my wife has given us all the opportunity to find out.
00:14:19Hm. Amusing.
00:14:21Ghosts, et cetera, being only creations of hysteria, your party should be a success.
00:14:26Yes.
00:14:27Well, Pritchard here promises us genuine ghosts.
00:14:30Seven now.
00:14:32Maybe more before morning.
00:14:35That's cheerful.
00:14:38Four men have been murdered in this house.
00:14:41And three women.
00:14:42You planned your party very well, Mr. Lauren.
00:14:45Four of us are men, three are women.
00:14:48A ghost for everybody.
00:14:51Now, Pritchard, why don't you take us on a tour through the house and let's see what happens, huh?
00:15:05See that stain?
00:15:07Blood.
00:15:10A young girl was killed here.
00:15:13And whatever got her wasn't human.
00:15:15Don't stand there.
00:15:16What do you mean? Where?
00:15:29It's too late. They've marked you.
00:15:31Ridiculous. The roof probably leaks.
00:15:34Well, that must be what it is. Who would rather haunt me?
00:15:37I would say any self-respecting male ghost.
00:15:39I hope it doesn't come back.
00:15:41Well, Mr. Pritchard, you're the life of the party.
00:15:43He hasn't even started yet.
00:15:46Wasn't there a man who threw his wife into a wine vat or something?
00:15:49That was in the cellar.
00:15:51There's been a murder almost every place in this house.
00:16:09All this belonged to a Mr. Norton, who didn't die here. He was electrocuted later.
00:16:19Mr. Norton did a good deal of experimenting with wines.
00:16:24But his wife didn't think it was any good.
00:16:27So he filled the vat with acid and threw her in.
00:16:31She was supposed to stay down.
00:16:35But the bones came up.
00:16:38It's a funny thing.
00:16:40But none of the murders here were just ordinary.
00:16:44Just shooting or stabbing.
00:16:48They've all been sort of wild.
00:16:51Violent and different.
00:16:54Ow!
00:16:56God, she didn't fall in.
00:16:59You mean there's still acid in there?
00:17:24It destroys everything with hair and flesh.
00:17:29It just leaves the bones.
00:17:43My, it's dry and dusty down here.
00:17:47Well, there's a cure for that upstairs.
00:17:51Come on.
00:17:52Come on.
00:17:57Come on.
00:17:59Come on.
00:17:59Come on.
00:18:00Come on.
00:18:00Come on.
00:18:01Come on.
00:18:01Come on.
00:18:01Come on.
00:18:05How did you get invited to this party?
00:18:09Come on.
00:18:11Come.
00:18:11Come on.
00:18:12Come on.
00:18:12I mean, what did he tell you?
00:18:17Mr. Lawrence said everybody would get $10,000.
00:18:21But he didn't say anything about being locked in.
00:18:23No.
00:18:25He just made a deal with me on the phone,
00:18:27but nothing about having to stay.
00:18:30Aren't you going to stay?
00:18:32If I don't, I lose $10,000.
00:18:37I'm going to stay too.
00:18:39$10,000.
00:18:41Yeah.
00:18:43You believe in ghosts?
00:18:46I don't know.
00:18:48Well, I agree with what that doc says.
00:18:50You can spook yourself.
00:18:51I've done it in planes.
00:18:53Seen things that weren't really there.
00:18:55Or were they?
00:18:58What are you going to do with your $10,000?
00:19:00If we get it.
00:19:02What do you mean, if we get it?
00:19:04Won't he pay us if we stay?
00:19:06Ah, sure he will.
00:19:07$10,000 is no more to him than a nickel is to us.
00:19:11We were in an automobile accident.
00:19:13Now I'm the only one in the family who can make any money.
00:19:17Boy, I've never seen so many doors.
00:19:26Closet.
00:19:38Bottles.
00:19:43No.
00:19:46I'm not aія.
00:19:47No.
00:19:47No.
00:19:56No.
00:19:58I'm not a nightmare.
00:19:58Yes.
00:19:59No.
00:20:00Lance!
00:20:03Lance!
00:20:30Lance!
00:21:03Lance!
00:21:03Help me! Please!
00:21:04Lance is gone, and there's a ghost!
00:21:06See what I mean?
00:21:07Please! Come on!
00:21:09Did she say Lance is gone?
00:21:11Gone where?
00:21:22We'll have to break it down. It's not.
00:21:25What?
00:21:38You all right?
00:21:40Nothing that money won't cure.
00:21:42I must have bumped my head.
00:21:46The only way you could bump your head in here
00:21:49is to run head on into the wall.
00:21:52You didn't do that, did you?
00:21:56Let's get a bandage on that.
00:22:06I wonder why they didn't kill him.
00:22:09Who?
00:22:11He didn't bump his head.
00:22:13They hit him.
00:22:15They?
00:22:16They have disconnected Gay.
00:22:35Nora.
00:22:37When you came in, you said something about a ghost.
00:22:40There was something.
00:22:41What did it look like?
00:22:43Well, it was wearing a black thing that went all the way to the floor.
00:22:48Weren't you a little frightened at the time?
00:22:51Well, yes.
00:22:53That, Mr. Lauren, is hysteria.
00:22:56Then, Doctor, how do you explain what happened to Lance?
00:22:59Was that hysteria, too?
00:23:04You'd better get that checked in a day or so.
00:23:06Thanks, Doc.
00:23:15Wait for me in the hall.
00:23:22The ghosts are coming closer, Mr. Lauren.
00:23:25You really believe in your pet ghost, don't you, Pritchard?
00:23:28Before the night's over, you will, too.
00:23:31Wouldn't you like a drink, Lance?
00:23:33No, thanks.
00:23:33I'd like one.
00:23:35It's got your hand.
00:23:43Mr. Lauren, are you really going to pay anyone who stays all night?
00:23:47Certainly.
00:23:48$10,000.
00:23:49Will there be much red tape or delay?
00:23:52In a hurry, dear?
00:23:54Frankly, yes.
00:23:56Or frantically.
00:24:00There you are, my dear.
00:24:22Someone or something was in here when I came in.
00:24:25But where?
00:24:28And if the door was locked, how did it get out?
00:24:32What you saw might have been a ghost, Nora, but what was in here with me was no ghost.
00:24:36I don't know.
00:24:37I was so scared.
00:24:51Does that sound different to you?
00:24:53Yes.
00:24:54Yes.
00:25:06Three, six, nine, twelve.
00:25:11Twelve feet.
00:25:20Three, six.
00:25:22I'm going to knock on the other wall.
00:25:23When you hear me, you knock on this wall.
00:25:34Tap, lower down.
00:25:37Tap, lower down.
00:25:42No!
00:25:47No!
00:25:49No!
00:25:51No!
00:25:52No!
00:25:53No!
00:25:53No!
00:25:54No!
00:25:55No!
00:25:56I fought again!
00:26:08Where'd it come from?
00:26:09From in here.
00:26:17What if it ran out of here? I'd have seen it.
00:26:20Lance, it doesn't run. It just floats.
00:26:24Yeah, but, uh, why didn't I see it?
00:26:27You don't believe me.
00:26:29How can I?
00:26:51I'm Annabelle Lauren.
00:26:56You must be Miss Manning.
00:26:58I realize this is a very unusual
00:27:00and I'm afraid very dull party.
00:27:03Wouldn't you like to freshen up?
00:27:15This is your room.
00:27:18Depressing, isn't it?
00:27:21I doubt if I'll spend much time here.
00:27:23It's going to rain.
00:27:25Perfect atmosphere for my husband's party.
00:27:31Why did you come here?
00:27:32He said he'd give me $10,000.
00:27:36Why did he pick you?
00:27:37I don't know.
00:27:39My supervisor just came and said I'd been invited.
00:27:45How long have you known my husband?
00:27:48I just met him tonight.
00:27:50So?
00:27:53Why you?
00:27:53Why you?
00:27:59What were you doing wandering around by yourself?
00:28:02Well, I was in the cellar with Lance.
00:28:04Mr. Schroeder.
00:28:06I just left, that's all.
00:28:10Don't do it again.
00:28:12Don't go anywhere in this house by yourself.
00:28:16Now fix your face and I'll come by for you in a few minutes.
00:28:20But I...
00:28:20You're in danger.
00:28:22We all are.
00:28:25But who?
00:28:26I hope for your sake you never find her.
00:28:44I'm Annabelle Lauren.
00:28:45Were you looking for something?
00:28:47Not exactly.
00:28:47Are you the doctor?
00:28:49No.
00:28:49No, I'm Lance Schroeder.
00:28:50The pilot.
00:28:51You've hurt yourself.
00:28:52Oh, it's just a bump on the head.
00:28:57Which is my room?
00:28:58I believe this is it.
00:29:01Thank you, Mrs. Lauren.
00:29:04Annabelle Lance.
00:29:16You were with the young girl in the cellar.
00:29:18Why was she so upset?
00:29:20Was she?
00:29:21And you don't look like the type to around bumping his head.
00:29:24What really happened, Lance?
00:29:26Well, Nora thought she saw a ghost, but I didn't see anything.
00:29:30She was just frightened then.
00:29:32Ann mad at me, I think.
00:29:33I kidded her about it.
00:29:36I wouldn't joke about anything else that happens here tonight.
00:29:39Now, don't tell me you're taking all this seriously.
00:29:43Aren't you?
00:29:44Well, I'd like to find out what hit me.
00:29:48Lance.
00:29:51If I need help, may I count on you?
00:29:55Yeah, sure, I guess so.
00:29:59Look, what's going on here, anyway?
00:30:01I mean, what is with this party bit?
00:30:02This is no party.
00:30:04He's planning something.
00:30:05Your husband?
00:30:06I wish I knew what it was.
00:30:09Must be pretty big if he's going to lay out 50,000.
00:30:11The money doesn't mean anything.
00:30:13He has a reason for getting us all up here to this dreadful old house.
00:30:17Well, what for?
00:30:18He doesn't even know us.
00:30:20Maybe that's exactly why you're here.
00:30:23Well, what can he get away with?
00:30:25Oh, he thinks that big money like his can get away with anything.
00:30:29You know, of course, that I'm his fourth wife.
00:30:32The first simply disappeared.
00:30:34The other two died.
00:30:38Lance, I don't want to join them.
00:30:42You mean he, uh...
00:30:44Oh, his doctor said they died of heart attacks.
00:30:47Two girls in their 20s.
00:30:51Well, what can he do?
00:30:53My husband is sometimes insane with jealousy.
00:30:55Nothing matters to him then.
00:30:58Please be careful.
00:31:00Would he hurt you?
00:31:03He would kill me if he could.
00:31:27Annabelle, you're missing all the fun.
00:31:30Nora Manning was almost killed by a falling chandelier.
00:31:33The pilot bashed his head in.
00:31:35Is he badly hurt?
00:31:36The Saturnine psychiatrist bandaged him up.
00:31:39Don't you want to go and console him?
00:31:41As you do most men in your fashion.
00:31:46You're so clever, Frederick.
00:31:48Yes, I lie awake nights wondering why I married you.
00:31:51It was rather a mistake.
00:31:53You didn't marry me, dear. I married you.
00:31:55Unpleasant, but no mistake.
00:31:58Well, hurry up.
00:31:59Frederick, for the last time, I'm not going to your party.
00:32:03And for the last time, it's not my party, but yours.
00:32:07And you are going.
00:32:11I am not.
00:32:12Are you ready, dear?
00:32:14No.
00:32:15Are you ready, dear?
00:32:17Yes. Damn you.
00:32:19Would you adore me as much if I were poor?
00:32:21No.
00:32:22No.
00:32:23All you want to be is a lovely widow.
00:32:27It's almost time to lock up the house.
00:32:30Then your party will really begin.
00:32:34I wonder how it'll end.
00:32:55It's close to midnight, Lance.
00:32:58Okay.
00:32:59I'll be down in a minute.
00:33:07Who is it?
00:33:08Your host, my dear.
00:33:11It's almost midnight, Nora.
00:33:13We're all going to get together down in the living room.
00:33:15All right, Mr. Lloyd.
00:33:16I'll be right down.
00:33:40I'll be right down.
00:33:41I'll be right down.
00:33:41I'll be right down.
00:33:43Let's go.
00:34:16Come with us.
00:34:17Come with us before he kills you.
00:34:20Come with us before he kills you.
00:34:21Come with us.
00:34:32Where's Nora?
00:34:33Miss Manning?
00:34:40I don't want to stay here.
00:34:43Nora, what happened?
00:34:55That's Jonas Slides and his wife.
00:34:58They've been caretakers here for years.
00:35:01She's blind, you know.
00:35:03I'm not going to stay here.
00:35:07Well, Doctor, it looks like we have a real case of hysteria on our hands.
00:35:12I think she's just a little upset.
00:35:13Not hysterical.
00:35:21Good evening.
00:35:27Hello, my dear.
00:35:29This is my wife.
00:35:30These are our guests.
00:35:33Ruth Bridges.
00:35:34Dr. Trent.
00:35:36You know Watson Pritchard, of course.
00:35:37Nora Manning.
00:35:38And, uh, this is Lance Schroeder.
00:35:48Get me out of here.
00:35:50What about the $10,000?
00:35:51I don't care.
00:35:52He wants to kill me.
00:35:53Who wants to kill you?
00:35:55Mr. Lawrence.
00:35:58May I have your attention, please?
00:36:00I think you all remember the bargain we made about staying all night.
00:36:04$10,000 apiece.
00:36:06If any of you don't survive, $50,000 will be divided amongst the rest of you.
00:36:12If I should die,
00:36:18you will be paid by my estate.
00:36:21When the door is locked from the outside by the caretakers,
00:36:24we'll all be forced to stay in this house until morning.
00:36:27If any of you decide not to stay,
00:36:28you must leave with the caretakers now.
00:36:30You won't have a chance to change your minds later.
00:36:34Because there'll be no way to get out.
00:36:36I don't want to stay.
00:36:37Wait.
00:37:02It isn't midnight yet.
00:37:03Who told them they could leave?
00:37:04They never leave before midnight.
00:37:06Well, they've gone now.
00:37:08I was going to ask you whether you wanted to stay or not,
00:37:11but it seems that the caretakers have made the decision for you.
00:37:15We're all locked in now.
00:37:17But I don't want to stay.
00:37:18I'm sorry, my dear, but it's too late now.
00:37:22Darling,
00:37:23haven't you had any time to stay?
00:37:24Not enough of the silly game.
00:37:25Get some cars up here for these people and let them go home.
00:37:28But pay them first.
00:37:32This is your party.
00:37:34Remember.
00:37:37In spite of my wife's faith in my ability to do the impossible,
00:37:41we will all have to stay in this house until eight o'clock in the morning.
00:37:45But we have some party favors for you in these little coffins.
00:37:55This is my wife's idea.
00:37:58I must say, I think it's rather dangerous.
00:38:00I suppose you all know how to use one of these things,
00:38:03but in case you don't,
00:38:04you just press down on this lever with your thumb and then pull the trigger.
00:38:13You see, they're loaded.
00:38:18These are no good against the dead, only the living.
00:38:22Doctor?
00:38:26Lance?
00:38:30Nora?
00:38:33Go ahead, take it.
00:38:38Miss Bridges.
00:38:45And here's yours, dear.
00:38:47I don't need it.
00:38:49It was your idea.
00:38:50Who knows, you may want to use it on me before this night is over.
00:38:57Throw these guns away, they won't do you any good.
00:39:00I agree with Pritchard on that point,
00:39:02although not for the same reason.
00:39:04Doctor Trent.
00:39:07Don't you approve of our little party favors?
00:39:12Suppose Nora had had a gun when she mistook the blind woman for a ghost.
00:39:16I don't think anyone else is going to walk around in total darkness.
00:39:21Oh, I'm sure we're not going to go running around the house shooting each other, aren't you?
00:39:25Who knows?
00:39:27Fear makes people do amazing things.
00:39:34Mr. Pritchard, you said your sister-in-law killed a man and a woman here and cut them up?
00:39:41You said they found hands and feet, but they never found any heads.
00:39:45Would you like to see one of those heads?
00:39:47Would you all like to see one of those heads?
00:39:50Well then, just follow me.
00:40:00Darling, I really don't need this.
00:40:19Just go look in my suitcase. Just go look.
00:40:36But it was in there. A woman's head.
00:40:39Nora, I think you're a little upset. Would you care for a sedative?
00:40:43Get out! Get out, all of you! All of you, get out of here and leave me alone!
00:40:49Just get out of here!
00:40:55You think it's all right to leave her by herself, Doctor?
00:40:58I wish she'd taken the sedative.
00:41:00What do you suppose she thought she saw?
00:41:02They're closing in on her.
00:41:03Look, Doc, I think somebody ought to stay with her.
00:41:05There could be a million people around her.
00:41:07But if they wanted her, they'd get her.
00:41:12What if he's right?
00:41:13He's too drunk to know what he's talking about.
00:41:15I wonder.
00:41:17I'll join you in a minute.
00:41:24Do you think it would do any good if you went in and talked to her?
00:41:28Do you think there really was a head in their suitcase?
00:41:31I don't know.
00:41:33A thing like that would put me right over the edge.
00:41:35But would you sort of stay up here, I mean in case she needs help?
00:41:40All right.
00:41:41I'll be in my room. Just call it.
00:41:45Thanks.
00:41:57Are you sure there are only seven people in this house?
00:42:00Positive. Except for the ghosts.
00:42:02I don't believe in ghosts.
00:42:05Nor in frightening women.
00:42:07In Nora's case, it's gone far enough.
00:42:09Perhaps too far.
00:42:11What do you suggest we do about it, Doctor?
00:42:14Don't frighten her any more.
00:42:39Nora?
00:42:43Nora?
00:42:53Nora?
00:42:55Nora?
00:43:17Nora?
00:43:20Nora?
00:43:33What do you know about this?
00:43:35They've taken her.
00:43:37In a little while, she'll be one of them.
00:43:41Where's Nor...
00:43:43Where is she?
00:43:44It's too late. It's too late.
00:43:46You'll never find her again.
00:43:48Pritchard, if you know where she is,
00:43:49you better tell me now.
00:43:50She's gone. She's gone.
00:43:52There's nothing you can do about it.
00:44:07Laura.
00:44:18Let her down.
00:44:36Let her down.
00:44:36Please.
00:44:56Nora?
00:45:01She's dead, Mr. Lauren.
00:45:04Your wife hanged herself.
00:45:06It's suicide.
00:45:37Please.
00:45:38Nora.
00:45:39Please hide me.
00:45:40Please hide me.
00:45:41What's the matter?
00:45:41Hide me.
00:45:52He tried to kill me.
00:45:54He grabbed me and choked me and put me in that room.
00:45:58And then he went away and left me.
00:46:00Who?
00:46:02He thought I was dead.
00:46:04Who?
00:46:06Mr. Lord.
00:46:09Are you sure about this?
00:46:12I don't know.
00:46:13It was dark, but it must have been him.
00:46:17Has anybody seen you since he left you?
00:46:21I heard some people in that room, but I went by and nobody saw me.
00:46:26Mrs. Lauren is dead.
00:46:29But how?
00:46:35Lauren said she committed suicide, but I think somebody killed her.
00:46:38What?
00:46:39He did it.
00:46:40You were gone.
00:47:01Come on.
00:47:18I'm sure you've come to the same conclusion I have.
00:47:20Yeah, I think so.
00:47:22Let's all have a meeting, discuss what to do.
00:47:25The living room?
00:47:26Okay, in a minute.
00:47:42I've got to go downstairs.
00:47:44Now, you lock yourself in here and don't let anybody know you're here.
00:47:47If he thinks you're dead, he won't come here.
00:47:49And I'll get back as soon as I can.
00:47:52You'll be all right.
00:47:57And if you have to, you use it.
00:48:38You'll be all right.
00:48:53So beautiful.
00:48:57So greedy.
00:48:59So cold.
00:49:06What are you doing in here?
00:49:08Wait.
00:49:09Oh, wait.
00:49:09What do you mean, coming in here?
00:49:12I didn't want them to take her away.
00:49:14You're drunk.
00:49:15They will if you don't watch her.
00:49:16You're drunk.
00:49:17All right, out with it, Bridget.
00:49:18Why did you come into this room?
00:49:19I'm the only one who understands.
00:49:20Understands what?
00:49:22Your wife isn't there anymore.
00:49:25She's already joined them.
00:49:26Look, Bridget, I've had enough of your spook talk.
00:49:29Get out, you sot, and don't come back into this room again.
00:49:33Oh.
00:49:45I'm sorry.
00:49:46Absolutely not.
00:49:48I don't know what you're doing there to talk.
00:49:49Rather, you'll be away with you.
00:49:52Don't go down.
00:49:52I'm sorry.
00:49:52Let's bring him?
00:50:02I'll be right back.
00:50:07Where's, what's her name?
00:50:09Nora.
00:50:11I didn't disturb her since I don't think this concerns her.
00:50:15Oh, you're right.
00:50:17Mr. Loren, isn't there some way we can get out of this house now?
00:50:22No, none at all.
00:50:25We could try breaking out.
00:50:26The only door to the outside is made of steel.
00:50:30The bars of the windows are set in solid stone.
00:50:34We've got to stay.
00:50:38I'm not afraid of your ghosts, Bridget.
00:50:42But I am afraid.
00:50:46When we came here a few hours ago,
00:50:47the only thing we had in common was the $10,000 we'd get.
00:50:51Now, however, we share something else.
00:50:53The death of Mrs. Loren.
00:50:57So far tonight,
00:50:59one of us was almost killed by a falling chandelier.
00:51:03One of us was mysteriously slugged.
00:51:06One of us has been driven to the brink of absolute hysteria.
00:51:10And one of us is dead.
00:51:13Were these accidents?
00:51:16Suicide?
00:51:17And we must stay here for six more hours.
00:51:20Six hours?
00:51:22Six of us.
00:51:25Time and then.
00:51:27Who'll be next?
00:51:29How will it happen?
00:51:31Let me ask you a question, Doctor.
00:51:34You were the first one to see my wife there.
00:51:37Did you also see anything that she could have climbed up on
00:51:40and then jumped?
00:51:41No.
00:51:43Did any of them?
00:51:48There was nothing.
00:51:50How, then, did she get up there so high?
00:51:54Exactly, Mr. Loren.
00:51:55How?
00:51:56She couldn't have pulled herself up there.
00:51:58She couldn't have dropped from the ceiling.
00:52:00Do you think your wife killed herself?
00:52:03No.
00:52:05She was murdered.
00:52:07By one of you.
00:52:14Or you, Mr. Loren.
00:52:17To deliberately kill someone, you must have a reason.
00:52:20We were all strangers to your wife.
00:52:22Only you had a motive for murder.
00:52:26What husband hasn't at some time wanted to kill his wife?
00:52:29What husband hasn't had a thousand opportunities to do it in such a way so that he'd never be suspected?
00:52:34I'm not such a fool as to hang my wife from a ceiling by a rope.
00:52:39The fact remains that you, or one of us, murdered Mrs. Loren.
00:52:43And that's a matter for the police.
00:52:45So, how do we get the police?
00:52:46That's my point.
00:52:48We can't until morning.
00:52:50What began as a silly party given by an eccentric has now involved us all in murder.
00:52:55For once, Pritchard may be right.
00:52:57If another murder's in the works, let's stop it now.
00:53:00Another murder?
00:53:01Why not?
00:53:02Maybe one of us saw too much.
00:53:07Why should even a millionaire want to give each of us $10,000 to spend one night in a gloomy
00:53:12old house?
00:53:13To see some ghosts?
00:53:14To have a party?
00:53:16No.
00:53:17Have you finished trying me, doctor?
00:53:18And is the verdict guilty of murder?
00:53:21Oh, this isn't getting us anywhere.
00:53:22Somebody killed Mrs. Loren.
00:53:24We know that.
00:53:25One of us is guilty and the rest of us are innocent.
00:53:27Okay.
00:53:28Now, what we have to do for the next six hours is protect ourselves from each other.
00:53:33Do you really think...
00:53:34I don't think anything.
00:53:36I just know that I'm going to my room.
00:53:38And if anybody comes in, I'll shoot him.
00:53:41Or her.
00:53:42And if we all stay in our rooms, we'll be safe.
00:53:45Because the innocent will have no reason to leave his room.
00:53:47And the guilty will admit his guilt if he or she does.
00:53:50And we all have guns.
00:53:51Then we're all agreed.
00:53:54Oh, I wish this night were over.
00:53:59Brooms?
00:54:01Guns?
00:54:03I tell you, it doesn't make any difference.
00:54:06They aren't through with us yet.
00:54:08No.
00:54:21No?
00:54:37I tell you, it's usually good.
00:54:38What's the use of saying good night?
00:54:54Good night.
00:55:15Good night, Doctor.
00:55:48Good night.
00:56:19Good night.
00:56:52Good night.
00:57:17Good night.
00:57:41Good night.
00:57:42Nora, it's me, Lance.
00:57:49You okay?
00:57:51They've all gone to their rooms and locked themselves in.
00:57:54Lance, I've been thinking.
00:57:55It was so dark down there, maybe it wasn't Mr. Lorne.
00:57:59It was him, all right.
00:58:00He tried to kill you, and he did kill his wife.
00:58:04How can you be so sure?
00:58:06She tried to warn me, asked me to help her.
00:58:10The doc thinks he's gonna try and kill one of us.
00:58:14Now, there must be a way out of this place,
00:58:16and I'm gonna find it and get the police before he does.
00:58:18I'm going with you.
00:58:20But if he finds out you're alive...
00:58:23No, Nora, you're safer here than any place else.
00:58:26Now, just lock yourself in and keep quiet.
00:58:34If I find a way out, I'll come back and catch you.
00:59:04Let's go.
00:59:06Come.
00:59:16Come on!
00:59:18Come on!
00:59:25Come on!
00:59:27Come on!
00:59:56Let's go.
01:00:27Let's go.
01:00:51No!
01:01:10Oh, no!
01:01:13Oh, no!
01:01:27Oh, no!
01:02:06Oh, no!
01:02:28Oh, no!
01:02:40Oh, no!
01:02:49Oh, no!
01:02:53Oh, no!
01:02:57Mission of guilt, doctor?
01:02:59Certainly not.
01:03:01There's either somebody else in this house or one of us has left his room.
01:03:04Did you hear anything?
01:03:09Organ music?
01:03:11That.
01:03:11And someone walking.
01:03:15You got yours?
01:03:18Ready?
01:03:19You look downstairs, and I'll look up here.
01:03:22Why not together?
01:03:24There may be only minutes, seconds left of someone's life.
01:03:26Why waste time?
01:04:22It's almost over, darling.
01:04:25Every detail was perfect.
01:04:41What's happening?
01:04:43We've done it.
01:04:44A perfect crime.
01:04:47Beautiful.
01:04:49Has she killed him?
01:04:51Not yet.
01:04:52But she will.
01:04:56Get me out of this hanging harness.
01:05:00What's taking that girl so long?
01:05:02What time is it?
01:05:03At first, I couldn't get Nora to want to protect herself with a gun.
01:05:06After you appeared at the window, everything began to work just as we had planned.
01:05:10You were wonderful.
01:05:11Just the touch that finally drove her into complete hysteria.
01:05:14It'll be worth all of our planning, darling.
01:05:17Where's Nora now?
01:05:19What's happening?
01:05:20On her way to the cellar.
01:05:21So scared she'll shoot the first thing that moves.
01:05:24And Frederick?
01:05:25On his way to the cellar, too.
01:05:29David, are you sure none of them will suspect us?
01:05:31Of what?
01:05:32An hysterical girl accidentally shoots somebody?
01:05:34Who would suspect that we planned it that way, that we drove her to it?
01:05:37What about my suicide?
01:05:39Just a ghost party gag.
01:05:41We'll claim it was a dummy since I'm the only one who touched you.
01:05:43And the caretakers?
01:05:45Well, they had no idea what they were really doing.
01:05:47What about Nora?
01:05:48She's not stupid, you know.
01:05:49Darling, believe me.
01:05:50Everything we planned is working perfectly.
01:05:53Nora is sure Frederick murdered you.
01:05:55She thinks Frederick attacked her in the cellar, not me.
01:05:57And now Nora's almost out of her mind with fear.
01:06:00The heads, the music you're hanging.
01:06:01I tell you, when Frederick walks in there, she'll shoot him.
01:06:04It's taking too long.
01:06:06David, you ought to be there.
01:06:18When you hear the shot, come down to the cellar.
01:06:54lovellan II
01:06:55Of course he's watching.
01:07:14Haven't been here.
01:07:27No, no!
01:08:00No, no!
01:08:14No, no!
01:08:22Eric!
01:08:58David?
01:09:02David?
01:09:03David?
01:09:07David?
01:09:14David?
01:09:47David?
01:10:14David?
01:10:32At last you've got it all.
01:10:35Everything I have.
01:10:37Even my life.
01:10:40But you're not going to live to enjoy it.
01:10:43Come with me, murderess.
01:10:45Come with me.
01:11:15Come with me.
01:11:22Let's go!
01:11:24Come with me!
01:12:11Good night, Doctor.
01:12:16The crime you two planned was indeed perfect.
01:12:20Only the victim is alive and the murderers are not.
01:12:24It's a pity you didn't know when you started your game of murder...
01:12:29that I was playing too.
01:12:37There must be some way to get in here.
01:12:39It's right along here, somewhere.
01:12:44Lance!
01:12:45I've shot Mr. Lorne.
01:12:47He's down in the wine cellar.
01:12:49Alive?
01:12:50I don't think so.
01:13:01It's him! He's alive!
01:13:08You didn't shoot anyone, my dear.
01:13:11I loaded your gun with blanks.
01:13:14I can tell you all now, Trent and my wife were planning to kill me.
01:13:19They failed.
01:13:22Trent tried to throw me in the vat.
01:13:25My wife stumbled and fell.
01:13:29I'm ready for justice to decide if I'm innocent or guilty.
01:13:55Now there are nine.
01:13:58There'll be more, many more.
01:14:04They're coming for me now.
01:14:09And then they'll come for you.
01:14:11Paolaan.
01:14:12...baaah!
01:14:12Yeah!
01:14:13Ha ha!
01:14:14Ha ha ha!
01:14:16Ha ha! Ha
01:14:17ha! Ha
01:14:40ha ha!
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