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00:24Good evening.
00:25Tonight, I'm going to tell you another strange and unusual story of the unexplainable
00:33which lies behind the veil.
00:38Under powerful emotional stress, the mind and body are capable of strange, almost unbelievable
00:46feats.
00:49Tonight's story is one such case, taken from a true and documented incident.
00:56Edmond Vallier was not a man who loved lightly.
01:00When he gave his heart, it was with a deep and abiding passion meant to last for all time.
01:17Marie, what would I do without you?
01:22Edmond, dear, I'm very much afraid you'll have to learn to do just that.
01:27Never.
01:28You see, I'm going to be married.
01:34You're joking.
01:35Oh, you are to know me better than that by now.
01:38I have no sense of humor when it comes to love or money.
01:42But I thought you loved me.
01:44Well, of course I did.
01:46But what has that to do with it?
01:49I don't understand.
01:51Edmond, you are sweet and I'm still very fond of you.
01:56But you've become a luxury I simply can't afford.
02:01Who are you going to marry?
02:03Darling, you'll never guess.
02:06Not in a million years.
02:08I shall soon be the wife of your publisher and employer, Charles Moncourt.
02:14Moncourt?
02:14Mais pourquoi?
02:15Darling, you know why.
02:17He is rich.
02:19He can afford to give me all the things I want.
02:22No.
02:23No, that I will not allow.
02:26Please don't be tiresome, darling.
02:28You know I detest the scene.
02:31Besides, I see no reasons why we can't go on being friends.
02:35Friends?
02:36Well, of course.
02:38Si?
02:39I've brought you a...
02:41One might call it a going away present.
02:45Your writers are so symbolic.
02:47I thought you'd appreciate this.
02:49A symbol of the future to commemorate our past.
02:54It's a genuine crystal ball.
02:58Au revoir, Edmond.
02:59Charles will be waiting for me.
03:02Oh, darling, as soon as we are settled, you must come and have dinner with us.
03:15One should not destroy a thing of beauty.
03:19Because one despises the giver.
03:23No, my friend.
03:25We shall find a place for you.
03:46Symbol of the future.
03:49Perhaps he's right.
03:52Perhaps in the future I will learn to love.
03:55Not as well.
03:57But much more wisely.
04:20It's more...
04:22Uncle Andre.
04:25Ah, there you are, my boy.
04:27I knocked and knocked and knocked and no one came, so I walked in myself.
04:32Well, what is this?
04:33A new acquisition?
04:35A gift, Uncle Armory.
04:37A gift?
04:39Do not tell me who it was from.
04:41Let me see if I can guess.
04:43Cannot tell the time by it.
04:45Birds cannot build their nests on it.
04:49Marie.
04:51How did you know that?
04:52Well, it is so like her.
04:54Lovely.
04:55But quite useless.
04:57Oui.
04:58Ah, I see that you still love her.
05:02I don't know, Uncle Armory.
05:04I don't know whether I love her or hate her.
05:07Oh, that is a very bad sign.
05:10Let us go indoors, and I will attend to this matter myself, personally.
05:15Come, come, come.
05:27Let me have Marie's letters.
05:31How do you know I have any?
05:33Oh, mon cher.
05:35As a valier and my nephew, you could not possibly fall in love with a woman who did not write
05:41long, passionate love letters.
05:44And as a writer of sentimental nonsense, undoubtedly, you kept them.
05:48I'll let me have them.
06:03What are you going to do with them, Uncle?
06:09What are you going to do with them, Uncle?
06:19Very, very, very, very sound advice.
06:21And as a well-brought-up young man, you will do me the courtesy of listening.
06:25Very well, monite.
06:26First of all, you must know that a love affair is gay, joyous.
06:32When it is over, it is over.
06:33Finish.
06:34Oh, one does not cling to it as a miser to his gold.
06:39Perhaps you're right.
06:40Perhaps, but it is of a certainty.
06:43This advice I give you is the most valuable.
06:46Furthermore, the only cure for a love affair is still another love affair.
06:51Oh, Uncle Armory.
06:52Ha, ha, ha, in this matter, how lucky you are to have me as your uncle.
06:58You have heard, no doubt, of my little black book.
07:01Oh, you should have.
07:03It is well known in Paris.
07:05Ha, ha, ha.
07:06Perhaps as famous as the act that three orphaned the Champs-Elysees.
07:10Uncle Andre.
07:11I have an engagement this evening with a most enchanting creature,
07:15a dancer at the Moulin Rouge.
07:19You will die with us, and we will see if she has it for it.
07:23Uncle Andre.
07:25I know that you're trying to be helpful, and I thank you.
07:28But I must try to get some work done.
07:31It goes hard, eh?
07:32Ah.
07:33It does not go at all.
07:35Ah, well, perhaps work may be the answer.
07:39But I doubt it.
07:40But remember, in any case, your Uncle Andre has the right solution.
07:45I will remember.
07:46I go now.
07:47My engagement begins at eight o'clock.
07:50I will drop in to see you again, and I hope to see an entirely different attitude.
07:55Au revoir, Monong.
07:59Au revoir, Monong.
08:45My dear Edmond, my presses cannot remain idle while I wait for my writers to write, you know.
08:51I've tried, Charles.
08:52If he doesn't come, he doesn't come.
08:54Nonsense.
08:55You have written many love stories before and written them well.
08:59Surely you must have been in love.
09:00Of course he was.
09:02Edmond was in love with me.
09:06You see, Edmond, what man has not envied me?
09:12I am sure you must have been in love with Marie, but she not with you.
09:16That is the great difference.
09:19Every man would like to believe that he has one for himself, the one woman that every other
09:23man would be proud to call his wife.
09:26See, there is a subject for another great love story.
09:29It is so simple.
09:31I'll try, Charles.
09:33Good.
09:34Tomorrow morning I leave for London and then Amsterdam.
09:37There shall be English and Dutch editions of your last two books.
09:40And while I am gone, you will visit Marie.
09:43But I...
09:44Don't you wish to visit me, Edmond?
09:46Oh, I do.
09:47But there's my new book.
09:49You have always been entertaining for our Marie.
09:52She is fond of you and I don't want her to be lonesome.
09:55It will be such fun having you over for tea, Edmond.
09:58You will visit Marie.
10:00That also is part of our agreement.
10:02Edmond is a very sensible and agreeable young man.
10:05He will do exactly as he has told.
10:08Splendid.
10:09Two weeks and I shall return with contracts.
10:13Money, Edmond.
10:14Money.
10:17Madame.
10:37Hilary.
10:37Fire.
10:50Yes, of course, Jacob.
10:51Yes, of course.
10:53Hey.
10:56You show me.
10:56You show me.
10:56Yes, of course, Jacob.
10:57You show me.
10:57Yes.
10:57Do you know when I am a dancer?
11:02No, nobody.
11:03Oh, no, no, no, no.
11:31Shall we lie here tonight, or is the gay life for you?
11:35The gay life, always.
11:39But tomorrow, Philippe?
11:41Why not tonight?
11:43You tire of me if I make my visits too long.
11:47Besides, you know I have to be at home.
11:50I'll never tire of you, Marie.
11:54What's wrong?
11:56I have a strange feeling, as if someone were staring at me.
12:01I'm staring at you.
12:03You're very beautiful, Marie.
12:06I'm serious, Philippe.
12:08So am I.
12:10There is nothing to fear, my darling,
12:12except the swiftness of time until he returns.
12:16May that day never come.
12:41Edmund, my boy.
12:43But you look terrible.
12:45I presume this means you have been working.
12:48I've been trying to work, if that means anything.
12:51And what have you accomplished?
12:53Frankly, very little.
12:56Ah.
12:58I see you have not forgotten her.
13:01I think about her, uncle.
13:03In fact, I've been ordered to think about her.
13:07Moncourt's gone out of town on business.
13:10He asks me.
13:11Me, mind you.
13:12If I wouldn't mind dropping in on her occasionally, so she would not be lonesome.
13:18That fool!
13:20He knows I was once in love with Marie.
13:23Ah, then he is not a fool.
13:25On the contrary, he is very intelligent.
13:28Well, if I can find the time, I'll drop by.
13:32I disapprove.
13:35But I am afraid you will find the time.
13:39Edmund, my boy, you must forget this woman.
13:43Let me get rid of this silly thing.
13:45No!
13:47I'm sorry, Uncle Landry.
13:49I didn't mean to shout at you.
13:50It is nothing, my boy.
13:52Here.
13:53Sit down.
13:58Edmund, this is not good.
14:01Never have I seen you in such a state.
14:05Over work, unrequited love.
14:09These reasons are not good enough to explain it.
14:12Now, what is the real reason?
14:16I cannot tell you.
14:18Oh, cannot tell me.
14:20Since when have there been things we cannot tell each other?
14:25You and I.
14:27Out with it, boy.
14:31Uncle Landry.
14:34Uncle Landry, I fear I'm going out of my mind.
14:41Oh.
14:44Evalie may gamble too much drink, too much chase, too many women, if that is possible.
14:50But to go insane?
14:53Never.
14:54Uncle Landry, listen to me.
14:56I see things.
14:59What sort of things?
15:01Where?
15:01In that crystal ball.
15:04I can see Marie, wherever she is.
15:08Do you really think you are going out of your mind?
15:13It's so clear.
15:17I can see wherever she goes.
15:21I can even see whom she is with.
15:24Whom she is with?
15:26Not her husband?
15:28No, he is not back yet.
15:31Oh, Edmund, I am disappointed.
15:35You are jealous.
15:38You sit here, clutching the ashes of a burned-out love, tormenting yourself with this jealousy.
15:44Uncle Andre, it's nothing like that at all.
15:48Then I say to you, the rest of it is nonsense.
15:52Oh, Edmund, I have the solution.
15:57Come with me tonight.
15:59Let the perfume of Paris sweep away these cobwebs from your brain.
16:07Thank you, Uncle Andre, but I cannot.
16:11Ah!
16:12Now I lose my patience.
16:14And why is it you cannot?
16:16I have...
16:17There are so many things to do.
16:20Then do one thing for me, I ask you.
16:22You say you know where Marie is?
16:25Then go there and see if she is there, or go to her house and see if she is not
16:29there.
16:30If you are going out of your mind, at least let us find out in time to do something about
16:35it.
17:01Thank you very much.
17:40Good morning, good morning.
17:41Charles, Edmund.
17:46Well, this time I can see you have truly been working.
17:50Yes, yes, but you've come back early.
17:52Almost a week, and with wonderful news, Edmund.
17:56Contracts in London and Amsterdam were signed, and I have promised them at least two more new books by you.
18:02Thank you, Charles.
18:03You don't sound very enthusiastic.
18:05Oh, I'm very grateful.
18:08Oh, but I stopped here to tell you the good news even before I went home.
18:12I've been working very hard.
18:15No time for frivolity, huh?
18:17No.
18:18But you did have time to visit Marie.
18:19I tried to, but I've been very busy.
18:23Busy?
18:23But too busy for a friend?
18:25You can see for yourself, Charles.
18:27I've hardly had time to leave this study.
18:29Oh, but I asked you to.
18:31I'm sure Marie did not miss my visits.
18:34Now, what do you mean by that?
18:36Nothing.
18:37It's just that I've been working very hard.
18:40Now, you approve of that, don't you?
18:42Yes, but one visit you might have made.
18:44All right, I did.
18:46Then why do you say you did not?
18:48I...
18:49She was not home.
18:51Not home?
18:52Where would she go?
18:53In heaven's name, Moncourt, how do I know what your wife does when she's not home?
18:57I told you.
18:58I stopped by, and she was out.
19:00Oh, for a ride, perhaps.
19:03Perhaps?
19:05Edmund, is there something wrong?
19:07No.
19:08It's just that I've been working very hard.
19:11But you said that before.
19:13There is something on your mind.
19:14What is it?
19:16Nothing, Charles.
19:18Can we discuss London or Amsterdam?
19:20Is there something I ought to know?
19:22I am an old friend, Edmund.
19:24I deserve an answer.
19:26You know all there is, Charles.
19:28No, no.
19:29There is something about Marie that you won't tell me.
19:33She hasn't left you, if that's what you mean.
19:37She's been home every day.
19:40First you say you did not visit her.
19:42Then you say you did.
19:44Now you say you know she is home every day.
19:46How do you know?
19:49Leave me alone, Charles.
19:51Stop asking me questions I cannot answer.
19:54It becomes clearer.
19:56There was time for frivolity.
19:58And what you cannot bring yourself to say
20:00is that Marie has found another man.
20:03And that man is you.
20:04No.
20:05It's not me.
20:07I give you fair warning, Vallier.
20:09I shall ask Marie.
20:10And if what I suspect is true, I will kill you.
20:23Good morning, my love.
20:24I thought you never came here.
20:26Oh.
20:28I'm running out of life to the maid.
20:31Surely no one suspects.
20:33And that feeling of yours.
20:34Does it still haunt you?
20:37Philippe, I don't know.
20:39I just don't know.
20:41After today, I don't think I should see you again.
20:44But, darling, we have an entire week.
20:47Even this morning, on my way from the station,
20:51as if eyes were following me.
20:54Yes, of course.
20:56You are very beautiful, Marie.
20:58Why should not all the eyes of Paris be staring at you?
21:02Darling.
21:03Oh.
21:15Where is she?
21:17I warned you, Vallier.
21:18Where is she?
21:19Charles, she's not here.
21:21You lie.
21:22First you besmirch my name, then you make a fool out of me.
21:24Where is she?
21:32Charles, I have not talked to Marie
21:35since the day you left.
21:37You and I were friends.
21:38Long before either of us ever met Marie.
21:41Will you not take my word
21:43that I am not involved with her?
21:45No, I will not.
21:46You know more than you will admit.
21:48If you were my friend,
21:49you would tell me what you know.
21:51Where does she go?
21:53Very well, Charles.
21:55I would spare you if I could, but...
21:58Every day,
22:00Marie goes to Paris
22:01and meets a man.
22:05Who is this man?
22:07I do not know his name.
22:09I know where he lives.
22:11He's an artist.
22:13A painter of beautiful women.
22:16How do you know all this?
22:18I have watched them
22:19every day since you left.
22:22You are a vicious liar.
22:25I was a fool to think
22:27that I could trust you.
22:28I met your uncle Andre in Paris
22:30and he told me
22:30that you have not left this house in days.
22:33That is true.
22:34Nevertheless,
22:35I have seen them.
22:38You are not even a good liar, Valier.
22:40Do you think I would believe
22:41anything you say?
22:43This has gone far enough.
22:45Charles,
22:46you want proof?
22:47Yes.
22:48Very well.
22:49I'll give you proof.
22:51There.
22:54There what?
22:56Your proof.
23:01What am I supposed to see?
23:02Marie and that painter.
23:04Are you blind?
23:05She has on a grey dress
23:06with a lace at her throat
23:08and on the cups.
23:09Don't you see her?
23:11Edmund,
23:13there is nothing
23:14but a crystal ball.
23:17What is this
23:18another one of your tricks?
23:21Charles,
23:23what is happening to me?
23:25I don't know.
23:28Either you are
23:29a very good actor
23:29or
23:31I don't know.
23:33Very well.
23:35We will find out which.
23:39Where are you going?
23:40To Paris.
23:41Either Marie is with this man
23:42right now
23:43or you'd better
23:44have me committed
23:45to an asylum.
23:50Oh,
23:51forgive us,
23:51mademoiselle.
23:52We've come to the wrong place.
23:54Edmond,
23:54let me take you home.
23:55You are not well.
23:56I should have realized.
24:01They're here.
24:02I know they're here.
24:03I know they're here.
24:14I know you're now.
24:50One final chapter remained after the door closed behind Charles Moncourt.
24:56Based on Edmond Vallier's testimony of what he had seen in the crystal ball,
25:02Moncourt was granted a divorce.
25:04The only time that evidence of this kind has ever been accepted in a court of law.
25:11But although his testimony was accepted,
25:14there has never been an explanation as to how happenings of this kind occur.
25:21Please join me again for another journey into the world of the unexplainable which lies behind the veil.
25:29Good night.
25:32Good night.
25:41Good night.
25:46Good night.
26:09THE END