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An investigative reporter stumbles onto an artist that has made a pact to come back after his death to sculpt a statue of a demon using human blood and clay. Once the demon is awakened he will be granted immortality.
Director
Dan Curtis
Stars
Roy Thinnes, Don Porter, Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins.
Subs: English, Spanish.
Director
Dan Curtis
Stars
Roy Thinnes, Don Porter, Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins.
Subs: English, Spanish.
Category
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00:02:23Good morning, Mr. Evans.
00:02:30Monday morning is never good.
00:02:32Anything important?
00:02:34David Norris on 3.
00:02:38Hello, David.
00:02:39It's been a while.
00:02:40How's the book coming?
00:02:42Sanford, I've got to talk to you.
00:02:43I know.
00:02:44You want to tell me it's only half written?
00:02:46We're going to have to delay.
00:02:47Half written?
00:02:47Hell, I don't have a word on paper.
00:02:50It's been almost a year.
00:02:51I know how long it's been, Sanford.
00:02:55But I, uh...
00:02:58I can't write it.
00:03:01I'm afraid to write it.
00:03:03You're not making sense.
00:03:05We gave you a sizable advance
00:03:07to write a book debunking the supernatural,
00:03:09which was your idea, not ours.
00:03:11But now you tell me a year later
00:03:12you haven't even started it.
00:03:14I'm into the book.
00:03:17Deep into it.
00:03:21But, uh...
00:03:24It's on...
00:03:25on tapes.
00:03:28A series of tapes.
00:03:30When you hear them, you'll understand.
00:03:32What will I understand?
00:03:35How far I've gone.
00:03:39How dangerous this whole thing is.
00:03:44Sanford, I have to talk to you.
00:03:46David.
00:03:48You sound very strange.
00:03:50Uh...
00:03:50You all right?
00:03:52David.
00:03:53Are you all right?
00:03:56Yeah.
00:03:57Okay.
00:03:59Okay.
00:03:59What about the Carnelian room?
00:04:01For lunch tomorrow?
00:04:02It's no good.
00:04:03I have to see you now.
00:04:05Monday, Dave.
00:04:06You know what?
00:04:07Monday's all right.
00:04:08Why not tomorrow?
00:04:12tomorrow.
00:04:13Tomorrow might be too late.
00:04:18How are you, Jessie?
00:04:22Whew, Sam, how are we這樣的?
00:04:39Do you wish to order now, sir?
00:04:40No, just bring me a phone.
00:05:15.
00:05:33That was a week ago.
00:05:35He never showed for lunch.
00:05:37Never phoned to explain why.
00:05:38And I haven't been able to contact him since.
00:05:41Sanford, you should be used to eccentric writers by now.
00:05:45And in my opinion, David Norris is just a bit more eccentric than most.
00:05:50Ed, I'll never get over this view.
00:05:51There is something wrong.
00:05:53I wish you'd check this thing out. Find out where he is.
00:05:56Sanford, I'm his lawyer. You're not his nursemaid.
00:06:00All right, I'll look into it.
00:06:02But I still say you're making too much of a broken lunch date.
00:06:14Sanford! Sanford!
00:06:15Oh, good. I was hoping I'd see you.
00:06:16Yeah, glad I ran into you.
00:06:18Have you got time to catch the cable with me?
00:06:19Where are you going?
00:06:20I'm going up to the club.
00:06:21All right, fine. We'll have a drink.
00:06:22Good, yeah.
00:06:25I, uh...
00:06:25I've been terribly worried.
00:06:27I tried to phone you earlier.
00:06:28Well, I was in a publisher committee.
00:06:30Tied up the whole bloody afternoon.
00:06:32Sanford, I'm sorry.
00:06:33I didn't take you very seriously in the meeting the other day.
00:06:36Well, I...
00:06:37I just thought you were making much too much of it.
00:06:39I hope you have something.
00:06:42What'd you find out?
00:06:43Nobody knows where David is.
00:06:45Nobody's seen him.
00:06:46He's just gone.
00:06:47Are you sure?
00:06:48We've checked every possible source.
00:06:51Everything can see both.
00:06:52It seems incredible to me.
00:07:35David?
00:07:49I don't know.
00:07:50Right.
00:08:06I love it, too.
00:08:08I'm interested in filling thesei...
00:08:08I love it.
00:08:12I love it.
00:08:14I Know how easy to set it up.
00:08:14All right.
00:08:15I love it.
00:08:17I love the choose I will surely be��.
00:09:06Notes for introduction.
00:09:08Today is Thursday, September 25th.
00:09:13And I might as well get started with this thing.
00:09:16Get the book rolling with what I've got so far.
00:09:21God knows it isn't taking the direction I assumed it would.
00:09:24This whole thing began when my natural writer's curiosity
00:09:30was aroused by an article I'd read in a weekly periodical.
00:09:34The article was concerned with the commercial aspects of spiritualism and the occult.
00:09:38My original idea was to expose the phonies who were bilking millions of dollars each year out of their gullible
00:09:45victims.
00:09:46To go after the fake mediums, phony astrologers, the self-proclaimed seers, and trick mystics.
00:09:55I was successful at this for some time.
00:09:58The floating face, which was a dummy's head on a wire.
00:10:02The ghost of a woman's son, who turned out to be the medium's own kid in a weird getup.
00:10:08The fortune teller whose life images in a crystal ball were supplied by a hidden film projector.
00:10:15But then, I got into this business with Ellen Cort.
00:10:21I'd better try to get this down exactly the way it happened.
00:10:27Ellen Stern's Cort was recently widowed.
00:10:30Her late husband, James Raymond Cort, was a successful sculptor from a well-to-do family.
00:10:36He worked from a studio on the grounds of his estate in Carmel.
00:10:40When he married, he brought Ellen there to live.
00:10:44The night before she came to see me, she had undergone a very bizarre and frightening experience.
00:10:50Shortly after midnight, she was awakened from a sound sleep by the barking of her dog, Raleigh.
00:11:15What is it, Raleigh?
00:11:17What's the matter, boy?
00:11:18Somebody out there?
00:11:20What?
00:11:21What?
00:11:22What?
00:11:22What?
00:11:22What?
00:11:23What?
00:11:23What?
00:11:23What?
00:11:24What?
00:11:24What?
00:11:25What?
00:11:25Oh, my God.
00:11:54I'll go.
00:11:55Okay, show me.
00:11:57Okay, show me what you want. Okay.
00:12:01Easy. Easy, boy. Easy.
00:12:40Easy. Easy.
00:12:56Easy. Easy.
00:13:09Easy.
00:13:25The following night, Mrs. Cort came to see me.
00:13:29Actually, her sister, Marsha Stearns, an acquaintance of mine, had set up the meeting.
00:13:34Marsha knew about my work in the supernatural.
00:13:37When Ellen called her about the incident, Marsha had Ellen contact me.
00:13:46And the police found only the body of my dog, Raleigh.
00:13:49His neck snapped, ribs broken.
00:13:51They analyzed the bloodstains on the floor, and they were his.
00:13:55All his.
00:13:56Are you sure you hit the man when you fired the shotgun?
00:13:58I'm telling you, I hit him.
00:14:00Well, think about it. You were upset. You saw your dog killed. You could have missed.
00:14:03I've handled guns before. He was right in front of me in my direct line of fire.
00:14:08The charges hit him, smashed him backward, and that's when I ran.
00:14:13But when the police arrived, there wasn't a trace of him.
00:14:16No. He was gone.
00:14:18And when I told them who it was, they wouldn't believe me.
00:14:21Now, that's why I've come to you.
00:14:24Well, Mrs. Cort, why wouldn't the police believe you?
00:14:28Because the man I shot was already dead.
00:14:33It was Jim.
00:14:36My dead husband, James Cort.
00:14:45Ellen Cort seemed convinced that she had encountered the risen form of a recently entombed husband.
00:14:51I asked her to describe the circumstances surrounding Cort's death.
00:14:56Jim had been feeling very bad.
00:14:58We didn't know why, and our family doctor suggested that he undergo a series of tests at the Fraser Clinic.
00:15:05That's when we discovered he was suffering from a terminal disease of the brain called Pick's disease.
00:15:11I've heard of it.
00:15:13There's no cure, there was no treatment, and he, I don't know, Jim just seemed to change almost overnight.
00:15:19He was confined to a wheelchair, no longer work.
00:15:22He even had me board up his studio.
00:15:24He wouldn't even talk about his work.
00:15:27Was he at all involved with the supernatural?
00:15:32Yes, he was.
00:15:35And it started just before his death.
00:15:38Tell me about that.
00:15:41I'd arranged an exhibit of Jim's sculptures at the Langdon Gallery.
00:15:47And he met a woman there named Madame Jekiel.
00:15:51She owns an antique shop here in San Francisco, and part of her business involves the occult.
00:15:56In what way?
00:15:57She deals with objects that are supposed to have occult powers.
00:16:01She even claims to cure the sick, and Jim believed her.
00:16:04Hmm.
00:16:05No doubt asked him for a lot of money, too.
00:16:07No.
00:16:08No, she didn't.
00:16:10As far as I know, Jim never gave her a penny, not even for that ring.
00:16:14What ring?
00:16:15An Egyptian scarab.
00:16:18Something to do with the god Osiris.
00:16:23Osiris is an Egyptian god involved with the doctrine of immortality.
00:16:28Yes.
00:16:29The ring was part of an agreement he made with her.
00:16:33You used the word agreement.
00:16:36What kind of agreement did they have?
00:16:38I wish I could tell you.
00:16:40I can't.
00:16:41All I know is Jim accepted that ring in return for some kind of promise.
00:16:47He refused to discuss it.
00:16:49Where is the ring now?
00:16:50Do you know where it is?
00:16:52Yes.
00:16:55It's in his coffin.
00:16:56His coffin?
00:16:58Jim even specified that he was to be buried with that ring.
00:17:03That it be kept on his hand.
00:17:06And his body is in the crypt in the grounds of the estate.
00:17:11That's where his body should be.
00:17:14But after what I saw last night, I don't know anymore.
00:17:21The next afternoon, I had lunch with Marsha, who was taking a flight to New York.
00:17:26She was quite worried about her sister.
00:17:28But you know I'm not easy to panic.
00:17:31And when Ellen phoned me, I knew she was desperate.
00:17:34I suggested she talk to you.
00:17:37Actually, we haven't been close for over three years since she married that James Court.
00:17:42Why?
00:17:42Did you get along with Court?
00:17:44No, I didn't.
00:17:46And when Ellen married him, it affected our relationship.
00:17:49We just haven't seen very much of each other.
00:17:51But now when she really needs me, I can't be here.
00:17:54How long do you have to be in New York?
00:17:56Well, only a few days.
00:17:57But I felt that we should talk before I left.
00:18:00It's important.
00:18:01If she says that she saw James alive, well, then somehow I...
00:18:05Oh, sure.
00:18:06If I didn't believe she was telling me the truth, that she knows it, I wouldn't be here.
00:18:10I know, but it's just all so fantastic.
00:18:13I mean, how could such a thing be possible?
00:18:16I don't know.
00:18:18But we're certainly going to try to find out.
00:18:22However, before I was able to contact Ellen again, another bizarre incident occurred.
00:18:29That night in Carmel, a sales girl was closing her shop for the day.
00:18:34Millie Parks, pretty, blonde, in her early 20s, was tired after a full day's work.
00:18:42She was anxious to close up, get into her car, and drive the six miles to her home.
00:18:47A small, one-story beach house on the ocean near Big Sur.
00:18:57A small, two-story beach house, a small, one-story beach house.
00:19:02It's a small, two-story beach house-
00:19:09A small, two-story beach house.
00:19:25Can you tell me that she was supposed to be the one-story beach?
00:19:26Come on.
00:19:26Yeah, she's so nice.
00:19:26Oh, my God.
00:19:37Oh, my God.
00:20:06Oh, my God.
00:20:27Oh, my God.
00:20:29Oh, my God.
00:20:59If that outer rig hadn't come along in the opposite direction and give me a blast, I might never have
00:21:04seen it.
00:21:12It's unbelievable.
00:21:14Sheriff, huh?
00:21:15I suppose you'll want to talk to me about it.
00:21:17No?
00:21:18All right.
00:21:27Get a blanket over that fast.
00:21:30Hey, come here.
00:21:31I want to talk to you over here.
00:21:32Gene, Mike, get these spectators out of here.
00:21:36Is that the way you found her?
00:21:37Yeah, but I ain't seen nobody ever look like that after no car crash, Sheriff.
00:21:41She was like some...
00:21:41Never mind what she was.
00:21:43You just keep shut on that part of it.
00:21:45Anybody ask you, you just found her dead in the car.
00:21:48Sheriff, nobody looked like that.
00:21:50I got through telling you, I don't want any more talk about this at all.
00:21:54Now, is that clear?
00:21:55Yeah, it's clear.
00:21:55But let me ask you something.
00:21:57How am I going to forget the color of that face?
00:21:59Help him get on his way, will you?
00:22:00Charlie?
00:22:01Let's go.
00:22:02Charlie.
00:22:09I'm putting a lid on this one.
00:22:11Nobody talks to anybody about the condition of the deceased.
00:22:14Give me the mic.
00:22:16Sheriff Hartley, we have a 946.
00:22:19Let me talk to the coroner.
00:22:37All right, you know where I am if you need me.
00:22:46Oh, can't you ever be on time?
00:22:50What do you look so sour about?
00:22:52What do you think?
00:22:53You know, every time I manage to steal an afternoon, up come the rain clouds.
00:22:57I don't know what you're trying about.
00:22:59It doesn't look so bad to me.
00:23:00Well, if I came from Chicago, it wouldn't look so bad to me, either.
00:23:04Hey, uh, what about the autopsy report?
00:23:07I didn't get it yet.
00:23:08Oh, I'd be ready now.
00:23:10Why don't I call the office and find out?
00:23:13It's going to take a couple of minutes.
00:23:15Why don't you go get changed?
00:23:16Unless you want to play a nose.
00:23:18You're funny.
00:23:19I'll meet you in the first tee.
00:23:27What'd you get, Sid?
00:23:31Extraordinary case.
00:23:32I've never heard of anything like this in my life.
00:23:34Even when I was a lab assistant in Chicago, we never had a case like this.
00:23:37What about this girl?
00:23:39The cause of death was strangulation.
00:23:41But from the depth of the indentation marks in her neck,
00:23:44it seems that the murderer must have possessed exceptional strength.
00:23:47Okay, now I know she was strangled.
00:23:48But what I want to find out is what else was done to her.
00:23:51All right.
00:23:51That's the extraordinary part.
00:23:54The sallow skin cast and the collapsed sack-like appearance of the body
00:23:59was a direct result of a total evacuation of all the main arteries.
00:24:03Oh, Sid, I...
00:24:04Oh, all right.
00:24:05I'll make it simple for you.
00:24:06The girl's body was totally drained of blood.
00:24:09It was...
00:24:10Look, I don't want the media to get a hold of this.
00:24:13That's all I need.
00:24:14A bunch of newspaper men crawling up my back.
00:24:16Now, I can see the headlines now.
00:24:18Vampire killer loose in Monterey.
00:24:20What can you do for me?
00:24:21I'll do the best I can, but I can't guarantee anything.
00:24:23You know that I have to file a report.
00:24:25I cannot falsify the report.
00:24:26You know damn well I don't want you to do anything like that.
00:24:29All I want kept under wraps is the condition of the corpse,
00:24:32not the fact that she was murdered.
00:24:34Look, I gotta have time to work this thing out.
00:24:38Okay, I understand.
00:24:39I'll try and keep it under wraps for you.
00:24:43Okay, that's one favor I owe you.
00:24:52From the looks of that one,
00:24:54I'm gonna have to take two shots aside.
00:24:56Sid, now, you know the only people who give shots are doctors.
00:25:00Tee it up.
00:25:11The morning I drove down from San Francisco,
00:25:14the weather was foul.
00:25:15A curtain of cold rain fell from a gunmetal gray sky.
00:25:20I'd set up a meeting with Sheriff Hartley and Carmel
00:25:23to discuss the Ellen Court situation.
00:25:26I didn't expect much cooperation from him,
00:25:29but it was worth a try.
00:25:30A way to begin.
00:25:32When I pulled up in front of Hartley's office,
00:25:34the sky had begun to clear and the sun was breaking through.
00:25:37I hoped it was a good omen.
00:25:51Mr. Norliss, at the risk of seeming inhospitable,
00:25:56I just don't understand why any of this would interest a man
00:25:59who spends his time, uh,
00:26:05chasing ghosts.
00:26:07I'm sure you find this all very amusing, Sheriff.
00:26:09Mrs. Court swears her husband is alive.
00:26:12She asked me to help her, I agreed to.
00:26:15What do you want from me?
00:26:17Any information that ties in with the man she shot
00:26:19in her husband's studio?
00:26:21Shot at.
00:26:22I was plain she missed him.
00:26:24Nobody can take a shotgun charge and keep walking.
00:26:27Look, she saw an intruder, she went panicky.
00:26:30Could have been anybody.
00:26:31Some bum looking to spend the night indoors.
00:26:33It gets cold out here in these woods at night.
00:26:35Now, I'll bet you that right now your, uh, ghost
00:26:39has hopped a freight and is halfway to Chicago.
00:26:42As for information, I...
00:26:45I don't have any to give.
00:26:48What about that, uh, girl who was murdered
00:26:51in her car the other night?
00:26:52Tonight, Millie Parks.
00:26:55Well, what about her?
00:26:56Well, I stopped in town before I came here
00:26:59and heard a few people talking about it.
00:27:00Well, it's like they say,
00:27:02read all about it in your daily newspaper.
00:27:04I have.
00:27:06Somebody hid in a car, strangled her,
00:27:08or the car hit a tree.
00:27:10Now, that's all there is to it.
00:27:13Mm-hmm.
00:27:13Are you sure that's all there is to it?
00:27:19Mr. Norlis.
00:27:21Now, are you saying there's some connection
00:27:23between that dead girl and Mrs. Cort's ghost?
00:27:26I'm not saying anything.
00:27:27I'm just asking questions.
00:27:29That's what I get paid for.
00:27:31And I'll handle it if it's, uh,
00:27:33if it's all right with you, Mr. Norlis.
00:27:35Sure, sure.
00:27:36If it's all right with me.
00:27:37It just seems that there are a lot of nervous people in town.
00:27:40I think they saw a lot more than they're willing to talk about.
00:27:44Like I said,
00:27:46that's police business.
00:27:49Okay.
00:27:51Thanks for the information.
00:27:57You think maybe he's onto something?
00:27:59Onto what?
00:28:00Now, there's a very simple explanation to this whole thing.
00:28:05All we've got to do is find it.
00:28:07Well, I hope so, Tom.
00:28:08I sure hope so.
00:28:09Oh, wow.
00:28:22As I headed for the court estate
00:28:24along the 17-mile drive,
00:28:26acres of lush cypress and tall pine loomed over me.
00:28:30The ocean below bellowed and roared,
00:28:32smashing into the coastline,
00:28:34spilling white foam along the sand.
00:28:37There's no doubt this rugged peninsula country
00:28:39could give the French Riviera a tough competition.
00:28:42But on this afternoon,
00:28:44my mind really wasn't on the scenery.
00:28:47I kept thinking about the girl
00:28:49who had been murdered the night before,
00:28:52trying to tie what I knew about her
00:28:54into the story Ellen had told me.
00:28:56I had a gut hunch the two were connected.
00:28:59How, I didn't know.
00:29:01I was going to have to try and find out.
00:29:03Good night.
00:29:16Hello, Mrs. Card.
00:29:19I really do appreciate your coming.
00:29:27It's really a beautiful place.
00:29:29It was, but it isn't anymore.
00:29:32Not for me.
00:29:34I let the servants go after Jim's death,
00:29:37and now I'm trying to sell the estate.
00:29:40Would you like some coffee?
00:29:42Sure.
00:29:43So you mean to tell me you're out here all along?
00:29:45I had Mrs. Harrison with me until today.
00:29:48She'd been with the family for years,
00:29:50so I kept her on to look after the place,
00:29:52but that girl's murder frightened her.
00:29:54She turned in her notice this morning.
00:29:57Said she wouldn't stay this far out of town after dark.
00:30:00Well, she makes sense.
00:30:01I think it'd be a good idea if you went back into town with me tonight
00:30:03and stayed at the inn.
00:30:06Well, I guess maybe you're right.
00:30:08I didn't sleep a wink last night.
00:30:10Every time the house creaked, my skin crawled.
00:30:13I kept imagining I heard noises from the woods.
00:30:19Think we could take a look at your husband's studio?
00:30:21Sure. I'll get the keys.
00:30:47You say the dog led you in this direction?
00:30:49Yes. I practically had to run to keep up with him.
00:30:53What time did he wake you up?
00:30:54Just after midnight.
00:30:58There it is, over there.
00:31:13Jim loved this place.
00:31:14Used to be a barn before he converted it into a studio.
00:31:18What the people in town tell me,
00:31:21your husband was something of a reckless.
00:31:23Oh, I suppose that's true, but he liked being alone.
00:31:26After we were married, I had a studio set up in the main house,
00:31:28but he never used it.
00:31:30He'd always come out here to work.
00:31:32Called it his personal hideaway.
00:31:49Is this from the dog?
00:31:51Yes. All of it.
00:31:53He killed Raleigh as easily as you'd smash a fly,
00:31:56and he was a German Shepherd.
00:31:57A very powerful animal.
00:32:00You say you had to unlock the door to get in.
00:32:03That's right.
00:32:05The question is, how did he get inside?
00:32:09Is this the corner he came from?
00:32:13Yes.
00:32:15He was standing right here.
00:32:19I'll never forget his eyes.
00:32:22They were horrible.
00:32:25Wild, staring at me.
00:32:28How long has it been since you've been out here?
00:32:31I haven't been here since Jim died.
00:32:33I have shaved his head before.
00:32:35Here he's from flathead.
00:32:40Goodbye.
00:32:49It was just sitting there.
00:32:50Even though, is my mother and dear mother...
00:32:56Take her, Judge.
00:33:01She has everything.
00:33:01That's right.
00:33:03The controlling of the sale, noted at me.
00:33:05Now you don't believe me, do you?
00:33:10What do you believe?
00:33:13I don't know.
00:33:18But I'm still confused about the ring.
00:33:20It must be worth a great deal of money.
00:33:22Why'd he say that?
00:33:23Because Charles Langdon phoned me yesterday
00:33:26regarding the purchase of all the studio sculptures.
00:33:29When he mentioned the ring, I told him it wasn't for sale.
00:33:32Well, what did he say?
00:33:33He became quite upset.
00:33:35And that's when I hung up.
00:33:37Maybe I should have a talk with Langdon.
00:33:40Look, while I'm in San Francisco, do me a favor.
00:33:43Find out all you can about that murder the other night.
00:33:46There's something about that girl's death they're trying to hide.
00:33:49Well, then you think there's a connection
00:33:51between what happened to me and the Parks girl?
00:33:54I don't know.
00:33:55That's what I want to find out.
00:33:57I'll call you tonight.
00:34:26Well, may I be of...
00:34:29Yes, you might. You tell Mr. Langdon that David Norliss is here to see him.
00:34:34If you'll be so kind as to follow me.
00:34:57Mr. Langdon, a, uh, Mr. Norliss to see you. May I help you?
00:35:01Uh, David Norliss.
00:35:06Oh, I have a question.
00:35:06I know you. I enjoyed one of your books very much.
00:35:09Really? Which one?
00:35:10I have a terrible memory for titles.
00:35:12It dealt with undersea life and, uh, I believe it was off the coast of Yugoslavia.
00:35:16The man below. I'm glad you liked it.
00:35:19I did.
00:35:19You're the only one who read it.
00:35:20Come. May I show you something here?
00:35:23No, thank you. I would like to ask you some questions.
00:35:26Regarding your association with James Raymond Court.
00:35:29Oh?
00:35:30You see, I'm, uh, looking into his death.
00:35:33Looking into? In what capacity?
00:35:36There's a private investigator working for Mrs. Court.
00:35:38Well, I'd be glad to help Ellen, but, uh, I mean, it seems a little bit on the bizarre side.
00:35:42There was nothing of a mysterious nature about James' death.
00:35:45Well, then you won't mind answering a few questions, will you?
00:35:47Fire ahead.
00:35:50How well did you know him?
00:35:51Well, we were closely associated.
00:35:53You see, our gallery is the main outlet for James' work here in San Francisco for the past several years.
00:35:57I've placed a great number of his works with collectors, and I've arranged for a few special commissions, things of
00:36:03that sort.
00:36:05Hmm.
00:36:06Well, how much do you know about the occult, Mr. Langley?
00:36:09Very little, actually. Doesn't interest me at all.
00:36:12Hmm. What's interesting, because Mrs. Court was saying...
00:36:15Uh, could we talk upstairs?
00:36:18Huh?
00:36:19Please.
00:36:26You see, I somehow got the impression that you were responsible for Mr. Court's fascination with the supernatural.
00:36:32No, it was simply a manifestation of his disease.
00:36:39You do know Madame Jaquil, don't you?
00:36:42In a business sense. I frequently send people to her shop.
00:36:45She has excellent taste. Picks up some really splendid items from time to time.
00:36:50Hmm. See, I was told that he met her here in your gallery.
00:36:54Yes. And we had James' last exhibition.
00:36:57I introduced him, as a matter of fact, and frankly, I wish I hadn't.
00:37:01His obsession with the supernatural began with Madame Jaquil.
00:37:06What about that ring he got from her? You know anything about that?
00:37:10Apparently, it's from Egypt. It's very ancient.
00:37:13Known to collectors of antique jewelry as the Osiris Scarab.
00:37:16Valuable.
00:37:17Well, its true value is difficult to determine.
00:37:22The beetle, as you know, is a symbol of immortality.
00:37:25And there are rumors that the Osiris Scarab is a life ring,
00:37:29capable of granting restorative powers to its wearer.
00:37:32You believe that?
00:37:34Hardly.
00:37:36Myth and nonsense.
00:37:38Why do you want the ring so badly?
00:37:40Apparently, Ellen told you of my interest.
00:37:43Obviously.
00:37:46Ideal in antique art and objects, Mr. Norris.
00:37:49This ring is such an object.
00:37:51It has a fascination for those of us who are connoisseurs.
00:37:54So, certainly, I should like to own the Osiris Scarab.
00:37:57Well, Mrs. Cort told me that you demanded to know why the ring wasn't for sale.
00:38:02Well, naturally, I was disappointed, and I vented my disappointment over the telephone.
00:38:06It was purely an emotion of the moment.
00:38:09So, she didn't tell you why she wouldn't sell the ring or where it is?
00:38:13No, she did not.
00:38:16Do you know where it is?
00:38:17Mm-hmm.
00:38:20You see, Mr. Cort's will declared that the ring should be buried with him.
00:38:25It's now on his finger in the family crypt.
00:38:27How curious.
00:38:31How very curious.
00:39:19He was looking for teenagers?
00:39:26How old is everyone coming?
00:39:29I had a private agreement with Mr. Cort.
00:39:31Now, it's no business of yours or anybody else's.
00:39:34I keep private business private.
00:39:37Madam Jaquil,
00:39:39Mrs. Cort thinks her husband is alive.
00:39:42As a matter of fact, she thinks she saw him.
00:39:45In the studio?
00:39:47Well, now, isn't that interesting?
00:39:48How did you know where she saw him?
00:39:51Jim always loved being in the studio.
00:39:54And his presence might linger there.
00:39:56Oh, come on. This was no presence.
00:39:58This was a real man, real enough to kill a dog
00:40:00and take a double shotgun blast in the chest.
00:40:04Why are you telling me this?
00:40:05Look, this has nothing to do with me.
00:40:08Well, I think it has a lot to do with you
00:40:11and the ring you gave to Cort.
00:40:14All part of a puzzle.
00:40:15And I thought you'd help me put the pieces together.
00:40:18There's nothing I can say.
00:40:21What about the studio?
00:40:23I think you know something about the studio,
00:40:24and it's linked with the ring.
00:40:27Look, I'm going to tell you something.
00:40:30You stay away from that place.
00:40:32Stay away from the whole court estate.
00:40:34Why?
00:40:36It's the house of Sargoth.
00:40:59Hello?
00:41:00Helen, it's David. How are you?
00:41:01Okay, but it sure is raining here.
00:41:04Listen, I think I'm into something.
00:41:05I saw Madame Jaquil.
00:41:07She wasn't too talkative,
00:41:08but she did make a slip in reference to James' studio.
00:41:10I think this whole thing ties into the studio.
00:41:14I'm going to be down there in about an hour.
00:41:15I'll pick you up at 11.30.
00:41:17Well, where are we going?
00:41:18Back to the studio.
00:41:19Now, you're familiar with it.
00:41:21I'm not.
00:41:21I wouldn't know what to look for,
00:41:22but I'm convinced something's there.
00:41:24Will you go with me?
00:41:25I'll be ready.
00:41:25Okay.
00:41:38It's almost midnight.
00:41:39I was worried.
00:41:40I thought something might have happened to you.
00:41:42The storm slowed me down.
00:41:42I've been into a lot of heavy traffic.
00:41:44What do you expect to find at the studio?
00:41:46I don't know. I'm not sure.
00:41:47Did you find anything out about the Parks girl?
00:41:49No, only that there seemed to be
00:41:50something strange about the body.
00:41:52Like what?
00:41:54Like she had no blood.
00:42:24They're over here.
00:42:34I hate to put you through this.
00:42:37I'd rather have done it alone.
00:42:38No, I'm glad I can help.
00:42:40Anyway, I was going stir-crazy
00:42:42waiting back at the inn.
00:43:12I'll go to the house.
00:43:23I wish I knew what to look for.
00:43:25Anything odd or abnormal.
00:43:47What's this?
00:43:51I don't know.
00:43:52I've never seen it before.
00:43:54I wasn't here the other day.
00:43:56I know.
00:43:58You sure he didn't start this just before he died?
00:44:00No.
00:44:01This isn't his.
00:44:04It's not like his work.
00:44:07Look at the face.
00:44:18I have this clay.
00:44:21What about it?
00:44:25It's still damp.
00:44:27Someone's still working on this thing.
00:44:30But that's impossible.
00:44:31How could that be?
00:44:40What about it?
00:44:43What about it?
00:45:15We can't!
00:45:23We can't!
00:45:51We can't!
00:45:52We can't!
00:45:53We can't!
00:45:53We can't!
00:46:15We can't!
00:46:15We can't!
00:46:21Okay.
00:46:23This court...
00:46:24Mr. Norlis, you know, it's 2 o'clock in the morning.
00:46:26You've been drinking.
00:46:27Look, I'm not gonna argue with you.
00:46:28I saw a court.
00:46:29He was as close to me as you are.
00:46:31Another one of your ghosts?
00:46:31A ghost doesn't rip off a car door.
00:46:33Take a look out the window.
00:46:41He did that?
00:46:42He did that.
00:46:46Mrs. Court, are you all right?
00:46:53All right, let's go.
00:46:56Get him around in the back there, would you?
00:46:59All right, listen.
00:47:00Check this over here.
00:47:01We're still trying to find a body.
00:47:02He says he hit one and we can't find it.
00:47:05Look out.
00:47:06Get it over there.
00:47:10It seems to me that you must have just raised him with a finger.
00:47:13I'm telling you, I hit him head on.
00:47:15All right.
00:47:15Hey, Frank, search the main house.
00:47:18The rest of you, check the studio and all the grounds.
00:47:20You come with me.
00:47:21Where?
00:47:22I'm gonna see if Mr. Court is at home to friends.
00:47:25Come on with us.
00:47:26Let's go.
00:47:47Someone's taken the body.
00:47:49Did you hear what I said?
00:47:50That's all there is to it.
00:47:51Somebody's taken the body.
00:47:55Well, Hartley, what more do you need?
00:47:56Oh, now you look, Mr. Norris.
00:47:58I just don't buy your zombie story.
00:48:00As far as I'm concerned, we got a prowler that looks like Mr. Court,
00:48:04who assaulted you people when you caught him doing his job.
00:48:07Mrs. Court, you're all right.
00:48:08Now, for his own reasons, he removed Mr. Court's body.
00:48:10I'm still in the dark as to why.
00:48:12Maybe it's to follow up the disguise.
00:48:14You can't explain he had normal strength.
00:48:16You think I pulled the door off the car?
00:48:17I don't try to explain anything.
00:48:19If I did, I would say that you snagged the open car door on the garage in your hurry to
00:48:25get out.
00:48:25Now, look, when people panic, they do funny things.
00:48:27What are you gonna do about all this?
00:48:29Assuming that we don't find the prowler on the ground, and I agree that's very unlikely, then I'll have the
00:48:35woods searched.
00:48:36In the meantime, it's late, and I'm tired.
00:48:39I'm gonna take Mrs. Court back to town.
00:48:40You follow us.
00:48:41When you get there, you can sign a complaint.
00:48:44Let's give up on this wild goose chase.
00:48:59Who is this?
00:49:00It's David.
00:49:01You all right?
00:49:03Oh, I suppose so.
00:49:05The, uh, they gave me a sedative.
00:49:08What time is it?
00:49:09It's afternoon.
00:49:10Two o'clock.
00:49:12What?
00:49:12Where are you?
00:49:13I'm at home.
00:49:14I'm trying to reach Charles Langdon.
00:49:16Has he called you?
00:49:17No.
00:49:18No one's called.
00:49:20That, uh, sheriff still won't believe me.
00:49:23He thinks we're both crazy.
00:49:25Did you show him the sculpture we found?
00:49:28No, no.
00:49:28I don't want anyone touching that thing until I can determine what it is, what it means.
00:49:33I'm having the clay analyzed right now.
00:49:35Sheriff Hartley wants me to make a full statement at his office this afternoon.
00:49:41What, what should I tell him?
00:49:42Tell him the truth.
00:49:44Just leave out the sculpture.
00:49:46David?
00:49:48David, I'm still very frightened.
00:49:51He's out there, alive, and you and I know he's out there.
00:49:57Why won't the sheriff believe us?
00:49:59I mean, what's it gonna take to make him believe us?
00:50:08That night, Ellen's sister, Marsha, drove down from San Francisco.
00:50:14She had returned from her trip to New York earlier than expected.
00:50:18And unfortunately, when she tried to reach me, I was out.
00:50:24It was after midnight when she pulled into the deserted court estate.
00:50:29And when she found no one there, she was already too tired to make the half-hour drive to Carmel.
00:50:36And since another storm was building, Marsha decided to seek closer lodgings.
00:50:42By the time she had arrived at the Orange Grove Motel,
00:50:46a small off-the-road scattering of faded cabins,
00:50:49the storm had broken, and the rain had begun to fall.
00:50:54When she found no one, it was the one blind spot.
00:50:57Hello.
00:50:58Oh, my Lord.
00:51:00It's in the sky.
00:51:05Oh, my Lord.
00:51:14Oh, child.
00:51:18This is a pretty wild spot of town.
00:51:20Oh, a little red.
00:51:24Oh, you're in the sky.
00:51:24Oh, my God!
00:51:24Oh, my God!
00:51:25now look lady it's like i said oh please can i come in it's so wet out here i'm freezing
00:51:32to death
00:51:38it's awfully late but i could give you cabin number nine it's our best one
00:51:44new springs and mattress in there just a shower no tub bath is that all right yeah that's fine
00:51:50that's fine really i said we're closed can't turn the girl away mama no harm in giving her nine
00:51:58well give her the key and hurry up about it and come to bed papa now
00:52:06mama she gets a little grouchy after midnight i can handle her though well i hope so i i don't
00:52:13want to cause you any trouble oh no trouble at all now let's see that will be ten dollars
00:52:23thank you oh thank you
00:52:30can i help you with your things no no thank you i can manage
00:52:37pleasant dreams
00:52:52so
00:53:02so
00:54:36Open up!
00:54:37It's the manager!
00:54:41What's going on in here?
00:54:43No, I didn't get a good look at him.
00:54:46He just came whaling out.
00:54:49And he knocked me sideways.
00:54:52And he carried her off into the woods.
00:54:54I knew what she took them to do so good.
00:54:56All right, now tell me what you did.
00:54:58See, was he tall, was he short, was he thin, was he fat?
00:55:02What do you remember?
00:55:03Tall and all wild in the eyes.
00:55:06And he wore dark clothes.
00:55:08All right, now listen to me, Mr. Dobkins, Mrs. Dobkins, and listen very good.
00:55:12I'm going to take you down town so that you can see some mug shots.
00:55:16Now, in the meantime, if word of what happened here gets around, this whole town's going to go into a
00:55:21panic.
00:55:22I don't want the newspapers to find out about it until I have a chance to find the girl.
00:55:27That means that you don't see anybody, you don't talk to anybody about what happened here.
00:55:31Do you understand that?
00:55:32Oh, I won't say a word.
00:55:33You understand that?
00:55:34Oh, I do.
00:55:34I certainly do.
00:55:36Sheriff, there's just one thing I'd like to know.
00:55:38Yeah?
00:55:39What do I do if he comes back?
00:55:45Helen, I just wanted to call to tell you I'll be late getting back there tonight.
00:55:49Is your sister there?
00:55:50Marsha, no.
00:55:51I thought she was still in New York.
00:55:52No, she tried to call me, got my service, and left a message.
00:55:56Said she was driving down late last night.
00:55:58I haven't seen her.
00:56:00Well, maybe she changed her mind.
00:56:02If she calls again, I'll tell her where you are.
00:56:05Now, look, I'm at the architectural firm who originally designed your place.
00:56:10I found out how Cort got into the studio without unlocking the door.
00:56:15It came up from below.
00:56:17These blueprints I've been looking at show some very curious construction that went on back in the 20s.
00:56:23It seems that people who originally owned the place built a series of underground tunnels.
00:56:27Why would anybody want to build tunnels?
00:56:29Well, during Prohibition, they probably stored guns and liquor.
00:56:33The plans also show several entrances, one of which is in the crypt.
00:56:38Now, I found a connection between Cort and the bloodless condition of the Parks girl.
00:56:44I think the sculpture is being done by Cort.
00:56:47I think he needed the girl.
00:56:49He needed a killer.
00:56:50But why?
00:56:51For the clay in the sculpture.
00:56:53I just got the chemical analysis back.
00:56:55The clay is 40% human blood.
00:57:00Now, look, Alan, stay put.
00:57:02I have a few more things to check on, and I'll be down as soon as I can.
00:57:06Okay?
00:57:08Okay?
00:57:33I'm going to see you next time.
00:58:02I've got to talk to you.
00:58:09Now, do you mind telling me why you have to see David Norliss?
00:58:13I've got to break free.
00:58:17I've got to strike back at them.
00:58:19The powers of darkness.
00:58:22They've controlled me.
00:58:26Twisted me.
00:58:28And I've done their bidding.
00:58:31Listen.
00:58:32When I met your husband, the thing he most wanted in this world
00:58:36was that his crippled body be healed.
00:58:40And so I told him about the Osara Scarab.
00:58:46I tried to convince him about its power over death,
00:58:51of a life beyond death,
00:58:53but that only by the use of his talent could it be purchased.
00:58:56And so we made a pact.
00:58:59After death, the ring would allow him the power
00:59:03to rise from his coffin to work on a figure of Sargoth.
00:59:07Once the sculpture's finished, it'll have a physical form
00:59:10in which to enter our world.
00:59:12And in return for bestowing life to Sargoth,
00:59:15Jim Court will be granted immortality.
00:59:20But we can stop him. That's why I came here.
00:59:22His powers take effect after sundown.
00:59:26If we can reach him by sunset,
00:59:29we can remove the ring from his finger.
00:59:36Mr. Norliss?
00:59:37I have a message for you, sir.
00:59:55When did Mrs. Court leave?
00:59:5815 or 20 minutes ago, I guess.
00:59:59She and the other lady, they left in a big hurry.
01:00:01How long before it gets dark here?
01:00:04About a half hour, I guess.
01:00:14The entrance has got to be here someplace.
01:00:26Over here. I think I found it.
01:00:29Over here. I think I found it.
01:00:46I'll go first.
01:00:48Maybe we should wait.
01:00:49We don't have time. We can't wait.
01:01:01This way.
01:01:03How do we know which one to take?
01:01:04We don't.
01:01:30What if she did you?
01:01:30You take that tunnel, and I'll take this one.
01:01:32What if I find his body?
01:01:33Then you remove the ring.
01:01:35Let's go.
01:02:06Let's go.
01:03:01Ellen, I found him.
01:03:07He's over here.
01:03:10I can't hear that.
01:03:13Hurry.
01:03:27Hurry.
01:03:29Hurry.
01:03:33I can't get in there.
01:03:34Aaaaah!
01:03:37Ah!
01:03:38Ah!
01:03:39Ah!
01:03:43Ah!
01:03:44Ah!
01:03:47Ah!
01:03:49Ah!
01:03:51Ah!
01:03:52Ah!
01:03:52Ah!
01:03:53Ah!
01:04:03Oh, my God.
01:04:30David! David! He killed Machia! And you killed who?
01:04:34Come on. Let's go.
01:04:37I don't know why he let me go. I don't understand.
01:04:41But it's no use. Nothing's any use. Can you get it open?
01:04:52It's been moved.
01:04:57It's almost finished.
01:05:01Everything but the eyes.
01:05:05We can't let him come to life. We've got it! We've got to let him finish!
01:05:10Let me!
01:05:13He's the only thing that can stop him.
01:05:16What are you doing?
01:05:18Making a blood circle.
01:05:20According to medieval alchemy, you can enter a blood circle,
01:05:24but if it's on fire, you can't get out.
01:05:29What's that? Hurry!
01:05:36Hurry!
01:05:39Quick!
01:05:42Quick!
01:05:43Quick!
01:05:53Quick!
01:09:30Sargoth.
01:09:33Strange name.
01:09:37I wonder.
01:09:40I wonder if he was truly destroyed.
01:09:44Or could he be the key to David's disappearance?
01:09:57Well, maybe this will tell me.
01:10:07Chapter 2, December 4th.
01:10:12It was a rainy afternoon when I received the letter.
01:10:16Here we go.
01:10:18Here we go.
01:10:41Here we go.
01:10:49Here we go.
01:10:55Here we go.
01:10:57Here we go.
01:11:03Here we go.
01:11:07Here we go.
01:11:09Here we go.
01:11:13Here we go.
01:11:22Here we go.
01:11:33THE END