- 16/04/2025
Titre original : 'The invisible knife'
Voyez sa version française ici : https://dai.ly/x9hsq0i
Réalisé par Terence Fisher avec Boris Karloff dans le rôle titre, Ewan Roberts et Hubert Gregg.
Voyez aussi l'épisode 'La nuit tous les chats sont gris' avec Christopher Lee en version française ici : https://dai.ly/x87gsjj ou sa V.O. sous-titrée là : https://dai.ly/x87kd5m
Voyez sa version française ici : https://dai.ly/x9hsq0i
Réalisé par Terence Fisher avec Boris Karloff dans le rôle titre, Ewan Roberts et Hubert Gregg.
Voyez aussi l'épisode 'La nuit tous les chats sont gris' avec Christopher Lee en version française ici : https://dai.ly/x87gsjj ou sa V.O. sous-titrée là : https://dai.ly/x87kd5m
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00:00The
00:30March! March!
00:56March!
00:57Why, Ames, I never saw you move so quickly.
01:00Are you all right?
01:01Well, this bad weather makes my leg jump a bit, but...
01:05Oh, it's a joke. Another of your blooming monkey tricks.
01:09Temper, Ames, temper.
01:11I thought you really had had it this time, but I never learned.
01:15Well, here you are.
01:16What were they, blanks?
01:17Certainly not.
01:1938-caliber specials. I have a reputation to consider.
01:22Bulletproof, Ames. Said to be very useful.
01:25Useful is hardly the word, Colonel. Indispensable.
01:28No police officer should be without one.
01:30Why, do you know that Captain James P. Monaghan of the Chicago Police wears his to the Opera?
01:35We have no need for bulletproof vests, sir.
01:37Either in Scotland Yard or at the Opera.
01:40The very words uttered by Detective Charles Pellucci.
01:43Age 26.
01:45Just before he was shot 12 times by members of the notorious O'Sullivan mob.
01:49He lived only long enough to regret them.
01:52Detective Charles Pellucci was not Scotland Yard.
01:56Only twelve pounds, four shillings and a half penny?
01:59The what?
02:00Hapenny.
02:01Hapenny.
02:02Buy one, Ames.
02:04You've had some narrow escapes, you know.
02:06No narrower than your own.
02:07You buy one.
02:08Oh, this is D3, Department of Queer Complaints.
02:11The artists of crime, not the riffraff.
02:14Of course, Colonel March would never be seen wearing an artificial aid to protect themselves.
02:18Ah, but it fits like a girdle, only higher up.
02:21No one would ever know you were wearing one, Colonel.
02:24I would know.
02:25Well, if either of you gentlemen should change your mind, here's my card.
02:29You can reach me at the Savoy.
02:31I'll just take this sample here.
02:33We also have this model in a lovely, loud check.
02:36Ames, how can you resist?
02:38You spend your own money.
02:43Well, remember Pellucci.
02:47Oh, excuse me.
02:57Colonel March, at your service.
03:01My name is Penicott.
03:03Basil Penicott.
03:06The Basil Penicott.
03:09Formerly of Singapore, Bombay, Suez, Casablanca, and... Tangier.
03:17Welcome to England.
03:21Oh, I'm so sorry. This is Inspector Ames.
03:24How do you do?
03:25How do you do?
03:26Do sit down.
03:28I came over to open a branch of my business.
03:31Import Export, you know.
03:33Alone or with a partner?
03:36I...
03:37So far, alone.
03:39Basil Penicott.
03:40That's right, Ames.
03:42The murderer.
03:43You must forgive his pardonable enthusiasm.
03:46I'm used to being insulted.
03:48The man's a murderer.
03:49He's got away with murder three, four times.
03:52Five times, to be exact, Ames.
03:55Once in each of the cities that I've mentioned.
03:58Each time the victim was his partner, and each time the result the same.
04:02No proof.
04:04The deaths were officially recorded as accidents.
04:07They were cold-blooded, premeditated murders.
04:10All right, you're in this country now, Penicott.
04:12But you won't get away with it.
04:14I'll watch your every move.
04:16I sincerely hope you will.
04:17That's why I'm here.
04:18I want protection.
04:20Against yourself, I presume.
04:22I'm not interested in your opinion, Inspector.
04:24Merely your services.
04:26Someone is trying to kill me.
04:29Really?
04:30Who?
04:31I have a list of names here.
04:34They're all relatives of my various partners.
04:38I dare say most of them would like revenge of some sort.
04:41That's no proof of attempted murder.
04:43Since my arrival in this country two weeks ago, I've been shot at.
04:46Nearly blown up in my car.
04:48Almost pushed under a train.
04:50And yesterday, I received in the mail a dead parrot.
04:56Dead parrot?
04:57Well, why would that?
04:59It died, I believe, from some kind of poison intended for me.
05:04So you see, Inspector, there's proof enough.
05:06You'll get your protection when a crime has been committed,
05:09and the law has been violated.
05:11But by then it might be too late.
05:14And that's going to break my heart.
05:18I think I've been away from England too long.
05:21My conception of English justice has become perhaps a little too romantic.
05:28I've been neither accused nor convicted of any crime, Inspector.
05:32And therefore your opinion of me is based not on proof but suspicion.
05:36May I suggest you cast first the moat out of your own eye?
05:46Ecclesiastes 1216.
05:49He's got a nerve.
05:50Protection indeed.
05:51Indeed.
05:53The man's a common murderer.
05:54Not common aims.
05:55He's killed five men and not once has even been brought to trial.
05:58True, true.
05:59Well, what are you going to do about him?
06:03Protect him, of course.
06:06If you'll observe the parrot's beak, you'll notice a slight brown stain.
06:09I believe it to be poison, but of course you can verify that in your laboratory.
06:12But this is the bird that arrived dead?
06:14Yes.
06:15The poison was put on the beak in the hope that it would snap at me, break the skin and kill me.
06:18But it swallowed the poison instead.
06:20Any fool could have predicted that it would.
06:23The method was that of an amateur.
06:25I bow to your superior knowledge.
06:28Won't you sit down?
06:33Have you any idea where the bird came from?
06:36The brother of one of my deceased partners owns a pet shop in the East End.
06:40The address is on that list I left with you.
06:42The name is Hayes.
06:43Ah, yes.
06:44Hayes.
06:46The murder of Edmund Hayes is the one case that I can't understand.
06:51Of course, the others are quite simple.
06:52You made them seem like natural death.
06:55But Edmund's...
06:56Edmund Hayes' death was as simple as the others.
07:00He meddled with forces beyond his control and was killed for it.
07:04I see.
07:06He was rash enough to interfere with you and so you were compelled to...
07:09You misunderstand me, Colonel.
07:10Edmund was a man of violent emotions, superstitions.
07:16He dabbled in black magic.
07:17On the night in question, he was preparing to summon some kind of devil.
07:21He invited me to be present.
07:23I had a gun.
07:24Of course.
07:25Of course.
07:26He summoned his devil at midnight, standing in an eight-sided figure of chalk which he'd drawn on the ground.
07:33And the devil came.
07:35Something came.
07:36I didn't see it.
07:37But suddenly Hayes' eyes widened.
07:40He flung up his hands and screamed.
07:43And then all at once blood began to appear on him as though he were being stabbed by an invisible knife.
07:48I shot the thing, whatever it was.
07:51The bullets were found later in the walls.
07:52But by that time, Edmund was dead.
07:56Most ingenious.
07:57And you made the police believe that.
08:00They had no choice, Colonel.
08:01There was no conceivable weapon, you see, that could have inflicted such wounds.
08:05They searched the room and me thoroughly.
08:06They looked in the desk, the filing cabinet, and they ripped up the chairs.
08:10They searched outside the window.
08:13They even searched the people in the next room who swore that nobody had gone in or out.
08:18Beautifully arranged.
08:21Your partner was stabbed to death by an invisible murderer with an invisible knife.
08:26That's what the report said.
08:28Yes.
08:30Well, I must be getting along.
08:32You'll take the parrot with you, Colonel.
08:34Oh, yes, the parrot.
08:36Yes, I suppose I might.
08:39You know, your office surprises me.
08:42In what way?
08:43By its simplicity.
08:45An office is a place of work.
08:47No distractions.
08:49My place of work is exactly the same wherever I am.
08:52Was it like this the night you murdered Edmund Hayes?
08:56You try my patience, Colonel, much.
08:57This office is identical with the one in which Hayes was, shall we say, killed by unseen forces.
09:05Do you believe in the occult?
09:07I believe in whatever works.
09:09True.
09:11But if the occult works for you, it can also work for me.
09:14Do you think I invoked the devil?
09:17Oh, no.
09:18You are the devil.
09:22After you.
09:27I take it the death of Hayes was not altogether without advantage to you.
09:36No, we'd insured each other heavily.
09:39But then I believe most partners do.
09:41You profited from the death of all your partners, didn't you?
09:44As they would have from mine.
09:46Of course, of course.
09:48Well, I'll have the bird examined and let you see the report.
09:52You'll be in tomorrow?
09:54I'm always in to you, Colonel.
09:56Very wise.
10:00Goodbye.
10:04Look out!
10:05Look out!
10:13Will you believe me now?
10:15That was intended for me.
10:17Someone who knew I was due to leave by that door.
10:19Yes.
10:21That was uncommonly good of you to save my life.
10:24Perhaps now you'll be interested in saving mine.
10:26I am.
10:28I intend to protect you from everybody.
10:30Except myself.
10:49Excuse me.
10:50I'd like to see Mr. Hayes.
10:54Hayes!
10:55In there.
10:56Ah, thank you.
10:58Mr. Hayes?
10:59Yes, what is it?
11:01Did this bird come from your shop?
11:03You told Pennacott he can't scare me off.
11:04Pennacott, then?
11:05Then the bird did come from your shop.
11:06You can tell him he made a big mistake coming back to this country because I'm going to kill him.
11:07Father!
11:08What do you want here?
11:09I'd like you to help me if you would.
11:10Who are you?
11:11My name's March.
11:12My habitat?
11:13Scotland Yard.
11:14Then he's dead.
11:15That's why you're here.
11:16I hate to disappoint you but he's enjoying the very best of health at the moment except for one small thing.
11:20Well, what's that?
11:21He's convinced that someone is trying to kill him.
11:22Father's upset.
11:23You can understand.
11:24You see, he thinks Mr. Pennacott killed his brother.
11:25He's very upset.
11:26He's very, very upset.
11:27How is he?
11:28He's very upset.
11:29He's very upset.
11:30No, he's not that bad.
11:32It's not that bad.
11:33I'm going to kill him.
11:34I'm going to kill him.
11:35Father!
11:36What do you want here?
11:37I'd like you to help me if you would.
11:38Who are you?
11:39My name's March.
11:40My habitat?
11:41Scotland Yard.
11:42And he's dead.
11:43That's why you're here.
11:44You see, he thinks Mr. Pennacott killed his brother, but he'd never do anything.
11:47Alice, don't try to cover up for me.
11:50Pennacott did kill Edmund, and he deserves to be killed himself.
11:53But legally, it's his right, you know.
11:56He killed my brother.
11:58Shall we start again?
12:01Is this bird yours?
12:03Yes.
12:03Then why did you send it to Pennacott?
12:05I never did.
12:05Well, he says you did.
12:06Then he's a liar.
12:07Well, but you do admit the bird is yours.
12:10Yes.
12:10Then how did he get it?
12:11I sent it to him.
12:14Alice, why?
12:15Why not?
12:17This is a pet shop.
12:18It's our business to sell...
12:19Dead parents?
12:20He claims the bird was dead when it arrived.
12:23That's not true.
12:24A poison on its beak.
12:26If it had bitten him, he would have died.
12:27He did that himself to throw suspicion on us,
12:30because he knows I've sworn to kill him.
12:31As a favor to me, please don't.
12:33Oh, his death would be no loss,
12:35but then we'd have to hang you, and yours would be.
12:39The law's had five chances at Mr. Pennacott.
12:41All I need is one.
12:43I see you're going to be difficult.
12:45Pennacott will be attended to in due course.
12:48I give you my word.
12:49What makes you so sure?
12:51He made one fatal mistake.
12:53What?
12:54He came back to England.
12:56And what does the law have in England
12:57that it didn't have in all the other places?
12:59Modesty forbids me to answer that question.
13:02Lonely?
13:03Oh, well, there's your report from the toxologist.
13:11It was poison on that parrot's beak, all right.
13:26It looks as though Mr. Pennacott really does need protection.
13:29Oh, certainly.
13:30Somebody's trying to kill him, all right.
13:32Then I wish you'd mind your own business.
13:34You know, it's got him worried,
13:36but not for the reason you think.
13:37It interferes with his original plan.
13:40A plan to commit another murder?
13:42Of course.
13:43But who this time?
13:44Nate.
13:45Nate.
14:14He wants to kill him.
15:14Check the records.
15:16Well, if you want me, I should be in Colonel March's office.
15:22Colonel March.
15:35Let me go. Let me go.
15:37Go?
15:38You've come to the right place for a sneak thief.
15:41This is Scotland Yard, young lady.
15:43I'm not a thief.
15:45I suppose you just popped in for a phone call, eh?
15:48Believe me, I didn't mean to.
15:50I was only looking for Colonel March.
15:52And you thought you'd find him having a nap among his files.
15:54I had to find out anything I could about the case.
15:57Case?
15:57What case?
15:59Who are you?
16:00I'm Alice Hayes.
16:02Alice?
16:02You sold that parrot to Pinnacott.
16:07Yes.
16:10No.
16:12No, that isn't true. I lied.
16:14That's why I wanted to see Colonel March to tell him.
16:17Where is he?
16:18I don't know.
16:19But if it's a question of time, I advise you to tell me.
16:22It is a question of time.
16:23Of any second.
16:24That's why I'm terrified.
16:26You see, I know my father is determined to kill Pinnacott.
16:30He's been making no secret of that, I understand.
16:32You know how people talk.
16:34When they're angry, they make threats and say crazy things they don't even mean.
16:37But I never dreamed my father was even capable of murder until I...
16:42Until what?
16:46I didn't sell the parrot to Pinnacott.
16:48My father did send it to him.
16:50With the poison?
16:51Oh, I didn't say that.
16:53I mean, I couldn't swear to it.
16:55But Colonel March must stop him.
16:58Only I know how my father's changed since my uncle was killed.
17:02He was once kind and gentle.
17:06Excuse me.
17:09Yes?
17:11Oh, hello, Colonel.
17:13Well, you've had a visitor.
17:16Of sorts.
17:18Alice Hayes.
17:20That's putting it mildly.
17:23All right, Colonel.
17:25Is he coming?
17:26I'll wait.
17:27You'd better go home, young lady.
17:29He's going to try and talk some sense into your father this afternoon.
17:35Now, don't you worry.
17:37Goodbye.
17:39I will not have you taking the law into your own hands.
17:46I told you to leave Pinnacott to me.
17:49He's not fit to live.
17:50Agreed.
17:51And you let a man like that walk the streets.
17:55And Lord knows how many others he's planning to kill.
17:58But that doesn't give you the right to kill him.
18:00It gives me the right to justice.
18:02An eye for an eye.
18:03This is lunacy.
18:04Lunacy.
18:06Lunacy, you say.
18:07If you had seen what I had seen.
18:08My brother lying in a pool of blood.
18:10And that fiend standing over him.
18:12Touching him.
18:13You were there.
18:15In the next room, we were staying with Edmund.
18:17I shall never forget that sight.
18:19Did he say anything before he died?
18:21Anything at all?
18:23He called for water, that was all.
18:26But before I could even get him something, he was dead.
18:29And the monster who killed him, standing there spattered with blood.
18:36He should not live.
18:38Do you hear me?
18:39He should not live.
18:40No, he shouldn't.
18:42Did you find any weapon?
18:43No, we searched.
18:45Pinnacott had a gun, but my brother was stabbed.
18:48There was no evidence at all.
18:50But he won't get away?
18:52No, he won't.
18:54Thank you, Mr. Hayes.
18:55Thank you very much.
18:56Now, please leave Pinnacott to me.
19:00No.
19:01Then I shall have to take other steps.
19:05Do you see that, Constable?
19:07He's there for your protection.
19:09He has orders to put you under arrest if you even go within half a mile of Pinnacott.
19:18Is that you, Pinnacott?
19:19March here.
19:21Oh, hello, Colonel.
19:22What can I do for you?
19:23Oh, I've been thinking about that experiment, you know, in black magic that your ex-partner, Hayes, indulged in.
19:30I think I know how he raised up his devil.
19:33Oh, really?
19:34How interesting.
19:36What about that parrot?
19:38What?
19:38I said, what about that parrot?
19:41Oh, the parrot.
19:42Oh, yes.
19:43That was poison, all right.
19:44Oh, yes.
19:45Now, about that experiment, I'd like to show you how he did it.
19:50Isn't that a trifle dangerous?
19:53I wouldn't bother about that if I were you.
19:56If I could come over this evening...
19:59By all means, I shall wait in for you.
20:02Splendid.
20:02About 11.30, then.
20:04All right.
20:05Good.
20:06Bye.
20:06Bye.
20:08Strictly speaking, this particular devil should be raised in the open air.
20:19The best place, of course, is to churchyard.
20:21But devils like us change with the times and adjust themselves to modern conditions.
20:29There we are.
20:31I thought you said I was the devil.
20:34You are, you are.
20:35But we must observe the amenities.
20:38Ah, there we are, just in time.
20:40Are you expecting somebody?
20:42Oh, just some guests that I invited.
20:44I hope you don't mind.
20:46Not at all.
20:48I'd better let them in.
20:49Yes.
20:49Come in, come in.
21:01You've met before, I'm sure.
21:04Good evening, Mr. Hayes.
21:05It's a long time since you were under my roof.
21:07How are the parents?
21:08Maybe I'm me, Hayes.
21:10May I take your coat, my dear?
21:18Ames, it's good to see you.
21:21This is Mr. Hayes and his daughter, Miss Hayes.
21:24How do you?
21:25Pennacut, of course, you know.
21:28Are you expecting more?
21:30Oh, no, we're all here now, thank you.
21:32Oh, do sit down, please.
21:37What's this all about?
21:39Murder, of course.
21:40Anything that has to do with Mr. Pennacut, of necessity, has to do with murder.
21:45I've invited you here because I'm going to conduct an experiment exactly as it was successfully
21:51performed in the city of Tangier at midnight on June the 21st, 1952.
21:59But that was the night he killed Edmund.
22:02That's a grave accusation, Mr. Hayes.
22:04This is a grave occasion for you, Mr. Pennacut.
22:07What do you expect to prove by all this?
22:09Who knows what will be proved when the devil is properly summoned.
22:12I'm going into that room with Pennacut, exactly as your brother went into a similar room
22:20with him that night.
22:22You ready, Pennacut?
22:24I'm always ready.
22:31After you.
22:37Mark, remember what you told me plans to do?
22:41Be careful.
22:43Why, Ames, I'm touched.
22:55You have a flair for the dramatic, Colonel.
22:59More than your own.
23:01Your coming to see me was theatrical to the point of carelessness.
23:05Not like you, Pennacut.
23:06I wanted protection.
23:09Perhaps.
23:11Even more, I think you wanted me in your trap.
23:14You were the one man in England that I had to fear.
23:18And now, here you are.
23:20Of course, I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
23:24Shall I go on with the expense?
23:27There's really no need.
23:28But you can stay just where you are.
23:30I wouldn't think of moving.
23:32I intend to kill you just as I killed Edmund Hayes.
23:36The Tangier method, I hope, the same.
23:38Ah, but Hayes got his words mixed up.
23:40Some of the wrong devil in Europe here.
23:43But I know the right words.
23:45And I have a spirit that protects me.
23:47Talk, Colonel.
23:48Talk?
23:49Or perhaps scream for help.
23:51I can kill you before you reach that door and still be acquitted.
23:55How?
23:56By my...
23:57invisible knife?
24:00Of course!
24:02A jagged piece of glass hidden in a pitcher of water.
24:07No wonder the police couldn't find it.
24:09When you can look right through it and see nothing.
24:13They thought poor Hayes was calling for water.
24:16He was only trying to tell them where the weapon was hidden.
24:19Turn around.
24:22The situation is exactly the same.
24:24I shall even fire the shots to draw them in here.
24:27But you won't live long enough to say, water.
24:31Careful, Pettacott.
24:32Don't come into the circle.
24:33Remember my spirit.
24:34Yes, for your spirit.
24:46Colonel Larch.
24:47Are you all right?
24:49Did he hit you?
24:50Are you hurt?
24:51No, no.
24:51He missed me, Ames.
24:52He missed me.
24:53What do you mean, mischief?
24:54Those are bullet holes.
24:59Colonel Larch.
25:01You bought one of those waistcoats.
25:03Well, now, Ames.
25:04I needed a little addition to my wardrobe, so...
25:06I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone.
25:10Saucy.
25:13Colonel Larch.
25:16You weren't exactly facing your enemy, were you?
25:18Well, there you have to take care of yourself.
25:22I saw you.
25:23Oh, God.
25:23Well, I didn't.
25:24I thought I was wrong.
25:25Well, I thought I was a big guest.
25:27Well, I thought I was going to drive it out.
25:28Well, I had to say, I can't believe it.
25:29Well, I'm going to go.
25:29Well, I knew that I was fine.
25:30Well, I knew it was fine.
25:31Well, I knew that I knew it was no way to go.
25:31Well, I knew it was a very sweet guy.
25:32Well, I knew it was never about him.
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