- 5/20/2025
The She-Creature
1956
1956
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00:01:50Now, on this very night, I have called her from the unknown depths of time itself.
00:01:55She is here.
00:01:58And with her coming, the world will never be as it was.
00:02:02Neither man nor animal will be the same.
00:02:05I, Dr. Carlo Lombardi, have brought him to be.
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00:03:06Enjoying your weekend with the idle rich?
00:03:09Pretty heady stuff for professors like it research.
00:03:12You sound a little disapproving.
00:03:14Not at all. I just don't feel I belong in your world of yachts and racing stables.
00:03:19Some of those tycoons in there, including your father, kind of frighten me.
00:03:23Oh, come now. This type of life shouldn't be too hard to get used to.
00:03:26Let's face it. I'm an hourly farm boy with a professorship at the university.
00:03:30But basically, a farm boy. I don't belong in all that.
00:03:35Very well. That will get you away from them for a while.
00:03:38A walk along the ocean will do it.
00:03:40I'd like that.
00:03:42I don't know how your fiancée will react to that idea.
00:03:45Oh, Bob, my ex-fiancée.
00:03:48That makes quite a difference. Come on, Ted.
00:03:52So that horrid blonde finally let you go, eh?
00:03:55Hmm. That horrid blonde represents an investment portfolio. Half a million bucks.
00:04:00Where's Dorothy?
00:04:01She went for a walk with Ted. Oh, I wish she hadn't.
00:04:04Why?
00:04:05Well, Dr. Lombardi said something terrible is going to happen along this part of the coastline.
00:04:10I don't know what it is, but I'm sure she'll be all right.
00:04:13I don't know what it is, but I'm sure she'll be all right.
00:04:16I don't know what it is, but I'm sure she'll be all right.
00:04:19Terrible is going to happen along this part of the coast tonight.
00:04:22Some visitation from the occult world.
00:04:25The occult world.
00:04:26Oh, no, really. Seriously, you must meet him. He's wonderful.
00:04:30Some women keep pets or grow roses for kicks.
00:04:33My wife supports quack cultists.
00:04:36A couple of years ago, it was that spiritualistic medium.
00:04:39Last year, Swami or something or other, and now Dr. Lombardi.
00:04:44Well, so long as it amuses you.
00:04:47No, seriously. He puts this girl into a deep trance and takes her back 300 years.
00:04:54Now, she tells about her life in England. I tell you, it's uncanny.
00:05:01Looks pretty serious between Dorothy and Ted. She's falling for him.
00:05:04I'm afraid it's pretty one-sided so far.
00:05:06Nonsense. If she wants him, she'll get him.
00:05:10What's the market price on professors of psychic research?
00:05:14Not very high, I imagine.
00:05:15Oh, you goose.
00:05:17Mother's a little disappointed in you.
00:05:20She thought you'd liven up the party with some of the tricks of your trade.
00:05:23You know, hypnotism, demonstrations of thought transference.
00:05:27I know. She thought I'd make it an age regression party.
00:05:31I told her that was Dr. Lombardi's field, not mine.
00:06:15He's an amazing man. Do you know him?
00:06:38Quite well.
00:06:39He's challenged me publicly and privately to disprove the authenticity of his experiments.
00:06:45That sounds like Kingsbark.
00:06:47Well, what's the matter with him?
00:07:14Maybe he's jealous of me.
00:07:16You haven't given him cause to be yet.
00:07:23He wants us to follow him.
00:07:45That looked like Dr. Lombardi to me.
00:07:48It was Dr. Lombardi.
00:08:14Well, what is it?
00:08:33Go on home and call the police.
00:08:35The police?
00:08:36I'll wait here for them.
00:08:37Hurry up.
00:08:51Never seen anything like it.
00:08:52Neck's broken in two like a piledriver hit her.
00:08:54The man's too.
00:08:56Well, I owe $600 here.
00:08:59That lets robbery out.
00:09:00Hey.
00:09:02Here's something.
00:09:06Seaweed.
00:09:08All the way to the door.
00:09:11The carpet's wet here.
00:09:13Might be a footprint.
00:09:14Go into the kitchen and see if there's any flour, will you?
00:09:21You willing to sway you saw Lombardi coming out of this house?
00:09:24Of course.
00:09:38What'd make a footprint like that?
00:09:41Clever man could have forged it.
00:09:43You think a human could have done this?
00:09:46Oh, I almost forgot about your firm belief in Lombardi's black magic and occult powers.
00:09:52It's not me.
00:09:53It's my wife.
00:09:54She swears by him.
00:09:55What did he say was coming to roam among us?
00:09:58A creature out of time?
00:10:00The first life form of someone living today.
00:10:03Over a million years old.
00:10:08You see, doctor?
00:10:09That's how civilized we are.
00:10:11Scratch the veneer and what do you find?
00:10:12A whole carload of superstitions waiting to be catered to.
00:10:15Vampires, witchcraft, supernatural creatures being brought back from the past.
00:10:22He's got a lot of people listening to him.
00:10:24It's not me.
00:10:25It's my wife.
00:10:26All right.
00:10:27It's your wife.
00:10:29You willing to identify Lombardi now?
00:10:31Make things a lot simpler.
00:10:32Sure.
00:10:34You wait here for the lab boys.
00:10:35I want pictures.
00:10:36Plenty of them.
00:10:37You're going to leave me alone here?
00:10:38It's not like it was an ordinary stiff.
00:10:40I can take that seven days a week.
00:10:41Come on.
00:10:42But it might come back.
00:10:44Oh, but it's not you that is superstitious.
00:10:46That's your wife who's the gullible one.
00:10:52Tie the wheel of fortune.
00:10:53Ten cents.
00:10:54Ten cents.
00:10:55One-tenth of a dollar.
00:10:56Tie the wheel of fortune.
00:10:57Ten cents.
00:10:58Ten cents.
00:10:59One-tenth of a dollar.
00:11:00Try it.
00:11:01Let it do you good.
00:11:02I'll let it do you good.
00:11:03Break it up.
00:11:04Use it for chalk.
00:11:05Play hopscotch.
00:11:06Come on, folks.
00:11:07Come on.
00:11:08Take a chance here.
00:11:09Won't make you.
00:11:10Break you.
00:11:11Set you up on a farm out west.
00:11:12Ten cents.
00:11:13Lousy night.
00:11:14No business at all.
00:11:15I find it very pleasant.
00:11:17I heard a scream from your place about 15 minutes ago.
00:11:19I thought it was Andrea.
00:11:20I ran over to check up, see if she was in trouble.
00:11:22I told you to keep away from her.
00:11:24I knew it long before you did, Doc.
00:11:26I knew her when she was a carnival follower.
00:11:28Every time we'd hit her town, she'd be there waiting for us.
00:11:32I've asked you to forget that.
00:11:34Well, anyway, I heard the screams.
00:11:36I went over.
00:11:37The back door was open.
00:11:38I went in.
00:11:39She was out cold.
00:11:40Why do you keep her under like that?
00:11:42I thought she was dead.
00:11:43I was going to call the cops.
00:11:44It's so tiresome having to warn you to mind your own business.
00:11:48So very tiresome.
00:11:50Well, I'm naturally curious.
00:11:52Poor kid.
00:11:53She was out cold.
00:11:55What's it all about, Doc?
00:11:56Why do you keep her under like that?
00:11:58I have an idea you'll find out soon.
00:12:12You're in a deep sleep, Andrea.
00:12:42A very deep sleep.
00:12:45Now, I'll touch you and slowly you'll awake.
00:13:11Now, you'll come back to me, Andrea.
00:13:33You'll feel refreshed.
00:13:35You'll remember nothing.
00:13:50What time is it?
00:13:52Shortly after midnight.
00:13:56You've had me in a deep hypnosis for more than an hour.
00:14:00I asked you not to do that.
00:14:02Well, you were tired.
00:14:04You needed the rest.
00:14:06I need to get away from here.
00:14:09Away from you.
00:14:12I hate this place.
00:14:15I hate the sound of the ocean.
00:14:18I hate you.
00:14:32You'll never leave me.
00:14:34You can't.
00:14:36I will.
00:14:37Someday I will.
00:14:39Soon.
00:14:42As long as I'm alive, I'll possess you.
00:14:45There's something beyond yourself that makes you need me.
00:14:49You've taken my soul away from me.
00:14:57The door's open.
00:14:59Come in.
00:15:11I'm Lieutenant James.
00:15:12Oh?
00:15:18Dr. Erickson.
00:15:20Yes?
00:15:21Is this the man you saw coming out of the Jefferson house?
00:15:23Yes.
00:15:24There's no doubt in your mind?
00:15:26No.
00:15:27Well, he knows me quite well.
00:15:29I've been trying to interest him in my work for some time.
00:15:32And you don't deny you were in the Jefferson house approximately 15 minutes after 11?
00:15:36Not at all.
00:15:39I won't need you any longer, doctor, thank you.
00:15:41Nor you, miss.
00:15:56What's it all about?
00:15:59Maybe we can talk about it over a cup of coffee.
00:16:02I'd like that.
00:16:14What's the matter?
00:16:16I can't go with you.
00:16:28You say you knew they were dead the minute you saw the open door.
00:16:32Yes.
00:16:33Pity.
00:16:34Nice young couple.
00:16:36She came out of the ocean just as I said she would.
00:16:39And she'll come again.
00:16:40Look, I'm not a paying customer.
00:16:42I'm a police officer.
00:16:44She comes from the beginning of time, huge and indestructible.
00:16:48And I'm the force that gives her life.
00:16:51All I know, you were seen coming out of that house, leaving two corpses behind you.
00:16:56And the occult world notwithstanding, I think I'll take you downtown and wait till the reports come in.
00:17:01Well, I can tell you what the reports will say.
00:17:04That no living thing killed them.
00:17:06Yeah, I know.
00:17:07It was a materialization of the prehistoric female.
00:17:10The transmigration of the soul of a living woman into her first life body.
00:17:15Save it.
00:17:16Save it for downtown.
00:17:17Now, come on.
00:17:18Let's go.
00:17:24Thank you, old man.
00:17:31Oh, that dog.
00:17:32It gives me the itters.
00:17:34I get a nervous Adam's apple and that makes my tie jump off.
00:17:38Good morning, Mr. Chappell.
00:17:39Morning, Ted.
00:17:40Dorothy will be down in a minute.
00:17:44Certainly not too popular with that man for your family.
00:17:48Take him to the kitchen and get him something to eat.
00:17:50The last time I took him to the kitchen, he need eat up to cook.
00:17:55Come on, dog.
00:18:03An early riser, Ted.
00:18:05Good.
00:18:06I don't see a man get up early.
00:18:07Shows he's aggressive, wants to get ahead.
00:18:10You're giving me too much credit, Mr. Chappell.
00:18:13This Jefferson thing last night, pretty grim.
00:18:17Kept them all buzzing for a while after Dorothy came home.
00:18:21Surprising how many of them think that Lombardi had something to do with it.
00:18:25Whole gang's been down to see his show.
00:18:27Mrs. Chappell tried to bully me into going along.
00:18:33Take a look at that front page.
00:18:44I play a little game every morning.
00:18:45I call it my front page game.
00:18:48I'm getting a little old to play most of the others.
00:18:53I read the front page every morning and see if I can pick out an item or two that will make me a lot of money.
00:18:58Surprising how often it's worked out.
00:19:00Did you ever try it?
00:19:02I can't say I have.
00:19:03No, no.
00:19:05You read about the Jefferson murder.
00:19:07Yes, I...
00:19:09There's a million-dollar idea in that.
00:19:11Last paragraph.
00:19:12Read it.
00:19:17One baffling aspect of the case concerns Dr. Carlo Lombardi,
00:19:20carnival hypnotist and prognosticator.
00:19:23Only last week he predicted that such a murder would take place,
00:19:27describing it with grisly accuracy.
00:19:30A question for the police, but not hell.
00:19:34You see a fortune in that?
00:19:36Yes.
00:19:37Yes.
00:19:38And it's right up your alley.
00:19:40And yours is a wedding present.
00:19:42You're serious, aren't you?
00:19:44Couldn't be more so.
00:19:45We'll take this two-bit local sideshow man and build him into the biggest thing in the country.
00:19:50Build him up until his name's on everyone's lips.
00:19:53Lombardi books, syndicated columns, lectures, television shows.
00:19:59This prediction of his is worth a million dollars, and you and I can do it.
00:20:02Where do I fit in?
00:20:04Can't you see?
00:20:06You can give him the stamp of authenticity.
00:20:08Dr. Erickson, psychic research specialist, says Lombardi experiment's amazing.
00:20:13Open new avenues in the understanding of the subconscious.
00:20:19They'll swallow it.
00:20:20They'll swallow it whole and love it.
00:20:23This is the sort of escape stuff the world's crying for.
00:20:26Look at my wife and her friends.
00:20:28It's a natural.
00:20:30It'll be a lock for me and money for you and Dorothy.
00:20:34I've been trained to fight stupidity and ignorance, not get rich on them.
00:20:38Men like Lombardi put hypnosis back 25 years.
00:20:43They've taken a modern tool of science and made a plaything out of it.
00:20:47Worse than that, a weapon.
00:20:48And in the hands of quacks like Lombardi, a dangerous weapon.
00:20:53And you want me to help sell him to the public?
00:20:58Wait until that loot starts rolling in.
00:21:00That'll take care of your scruples.
00:21:02I'll go and talk to him tonight.
00:21:03What do you say?
00:21:04Forget it.
00:21:06I don't need that kind of money.
00:21:11Ten cents.
00:21:12Try your luck.
00:21:14Ten cents.
00:21:15One-tenth of a dollar.
00:21:16Yes, sirree.
00:21:17Try your luck.
00:21:18Ten cents.
00:21:19One-tenth of a dollar.
00:21:20Where's Lombardi's place?
00:21:21Lombardi's closed, been having trouble with the police.
00:21:23Yeah, I read about it in the papers.
00:21:24You want to get in, just jingle a couple of coins.
00:21:26The door's open automatically.
00:21:32By the way, a fortune.
00:21:33Ten cents.
00:21:34Ten cents.
00:21:35One-tenth of a dollar.
00:21:36Good evening, Mr. Chapel.
00:21:38I've been expecting you.
00:21:40How the devil did you know I was trapped?
00:21:42What do you mean, you were expecting me?
00:21:43I was communicating with your thoughts before you left your home.
00:21:48Communicating with my thoughts, huh?
00:21:50I suppose you can tell me what I'm doing here, too.
00:21:52Certainly.
00:21:53You've come down here to discuss a business matter with me.
00:21:57Good guess, Lombardi.
00:21:59Remarkable guess.
00:22:01I'm a remarkable man.
00:22:04Would you come in, Mr. Chapel?
00:22:10Let's get to the point.
00:22:11How would you like to be a rich man as well as a remarkable one?
00:22:14Well, naturally, I...
00:22:15I have to get you out of this crazy place.
00:22:18You've got something to sell.
00:22:20How can you expect to get your price in here?
00:22:23The fact's about reincarnation.
00:22:25Thirty-five cents.
00:22:27I'll get you three-fifty for that.
00:22:28Well, I'd be most grateful, sir.
00:22:30We'll make them pay real money to see your act.
00:22:32I have no act.
00:22:34I have knowledge.
00:22:37That's the boy.
00:22:38That's the boy.
00:22:39Keep a straight face and hit him hard.
00:22:41I'm a businessman, Lombardi.
00:22:43I can see money in this.
00:22:44Big money.
00:22:46Fifty-fifty.
00:22:47Well, I'm... I'm overwhelmed, sir.
00:22:49Okay, our deal starts as of now.
00:22:51Come over to my house tomorrow night.
00:22:53I'm having some people come over that might do us some good.
00:22:56Newspaper man, a book publisher,
00:22:58a doctor of psychic research,
00:23:00a Dr. Erickson.
00:23:02Oh, yes, I know him.
00:23:04One of my most outspoken critics.
00:23:06Mm-hmm.
00:23:07And get him involved, too, if you can,
00:23:08even if it's only to call you crazy.
00:23:10Make good publicity.
00:23:11That's what we need, publicity.
00:23:13And play it up big.
00:23:14Give them everything you've got.
00:23:16Some more of this she-creature stuff.
00:23:19Some more predictions.
00:23:21Murder next month, maybe.
00:23:23Unfortunately, it may happen sooner than that.
00:23:26Very much sooner.
00:23:29I feel her presence even now.
00:23:32She'll come out of the ocean tonight.
00:23:34That's the stuff.
00:23:35That's the stuff.
00:23:36The big lie.
00:23:37That's what sells.
00:23:39I'll see you tomorrow night.
00:23:40And remember, play it up big.
00:23:42We've got to shake them.
00:23:44We'll shake them.
00:23:45See you tomorrow night.
00:24:07You will go into a much deeper sleep.
00:24:11Very deep.
00:24:15You will go back in time.
00:24:20I command you, leave your body.
00:24:45I command you, leave your body.
00:25:16I command you, leave your body.
00:25:20I command you, leave your body.
00:25:45Who's that?
00:26:16Oh, hello, Lieutenant.
00:26:18Homebody.
00:26:21You killed Johnny.
00:26:22Oh, did I?
00:26:23Well, prove that, and I'll have to face a murder charge.
00:26:26Can you prove you were in here when it happened?
00:26:28I can, but I don't see what difference it makes.
00:26:31I warned you she'd come again, and you laughed at me.
00:26:34Not as hard as you're laughing at me right now.
00:26:37I'm going to book you.
00:26:38Well, on what charge?
00:26:40For being in communication with a world that you say doesn't exist?
00:26:43You're a murderer, and I'm going to prove it.
00:26:45Lieutenant, I urge you to keep the beaches clear.
00:26:49It's my civic duty.
00:26:51Take it easy, will you?
00:27:05What's Chappell's interest in this maniac?
00:27:07I wouldn't know.
00:27:08I'm only his lawyer.
00:27:09Maybe he just hates to see me.
00:27:11I'm only his lawyer.
00:27:12Maybe he just hates to see injustice done.
00:27:14I'll bet.
00:27:16Or maybe it's because Lombardi is entertaining at his house tonight.
00:27:23Doctor, are you all right?
00:27:25Yes.
00:27:26The next time this man is pulled in on some trumped-up charge, we'll sue for false arrest.
00:27:33A most interesting experience.
00:27:36I'm quite certain I made a few new converts.
00:27:41Let's go.
00:28:03Since when have you gone into that spook stuff, Chappell?
00:28:06There must be money in it.
00:28:07Oh, no, no.
00:28:08You've got me wrong.
00:28:09Genuine thing.
00:28:10He's made a convert out of me.
00:28:12Now I know there's a buck in it.
00:28:15I'm so excited.
00:28:17Dr. Lombardi here in my very own home.
00:28:20And I thought it was going to be a boring weekend.
00:28:23If what you say is true, I'm certainly going to drop the Ali Ben Ali group.
00:28:27They're becoming quite ordinary.
00:28:29Just about anyone can join.
00:28:40Hey, that fellow Bob, he's as drunk as a lumberjack.
00:28:44Yeah, he drinks like a fish.
00:28:46Yeah, but not the same stuff.
00:28:48Say, my feet's poop just keeping him filled up.
00:28:51Feet's his poop.
00:28:53For 18 years I've tried to teach you how to speak good American.
00:28:57Well, I speak just as good broken American as you do.
00:29:00Feet's his poop.
00:29:01All right, then my foot's his peep.
00:29:04You're a million miles away, Ted.
00:29:06And just when I thought I was beginning to get through to you.
00:29:09Look, Dorothy, I'm out of my element in a place like this.
00:29:12This preoccupation with trivialities.
00:29:14This talk about money.
00:29:16I'm what you might call a square, I guess.
00:29:20I'm real, aren't I?
00:29:22I don't know.
00:29:24Sometimes I think you aren't and I see you as part of this elegant decay.
00:29:31Well, that sounds like a high class brush off.
00:29:34Is that what it is?
00:29:36We got to quit this job.
00:29:38Last night it was the Jefferson place and tonight maybe here.
00:29:42We stay here.
00:29:44But Martha, the cook says it comes out of the ocean.
00:29:47It's tall, tall like a building.
00:29:49And it has got the arms like a pile driver.
00:29:52I am not afraid.
00:29:54For 18 years I'm married to you.
00:29:57Nothing scares me anymore.
00:30:00I don't know why you had to import a hypnotist.
00:30:03Why don't you get him to perform for us, Dorothy?
00:30:06I don't use hypnotism to amuse drunks.
00:30:09What's that?
00:30:10Look, Bob.
00:30:11Why don't you go and drink yourself up a nice parade of pink elephants, huh?
00:30:16Last chance, Dorothy.
00:30:18I'll give you one more chance to marry me.
00:30:21Thanks, Bob.
00:30:23We'll have a honeymoon for three.
00:30:25You, me and a whiskey bottle.
00:30:28It's so thrilling to have you here, doctor.
00:30:31Absolutely thrilling.
00:30:33My pleasure, madame.
00:30:43Beautiful, isn't she?
00:30:45A strange beauty.
00:30:47I don't know what to say.
00:30:49I don't know what to say.
00:30:51I don't know what to say.
00:30:53Beautiful, isn't she?
00:30:55A strange beauty.
00:30:58I met her the other night at Lombardi's.
00:31:01Oh?
00:31:02Evidently she made quite an impression, didn't she?
00:31:08Oh, just a minute, please.
00:31:18Lieutenant James, at the front door.
00:31:21Oh?
00:31:24Police?
00:31:25What can I do for you?
00:31:26I'm very anxious to catch Dr. Lombardi's act.
00:31:29Do you mind?
00:31:31Mind?
00:31:32No, not at all.
00:31:34Hiya, doc.
00:31:35Hello, lieutenant.
00:31:36Excellent idea.
00:31:37Very good.
00:31:38Nice little touch.
00:31:42I see Dr. Lombardi's got himself another follower.
00:31:45I had him in jail once with Chapel's lawyer, Spangler.
00:31:48We didn't have enough evidence.
00:31:50You're going to have to help me on this one, doc.
00:31:52More in your line than mine.
00:31:54You're not going for that supernatural hulk on the fence.
00:31:57I don't really know what I'm going for.
00:31:59I know he's a killer.
00:32:01He doesn't really deny it.
00:32:02He just laughs at me and says, prove it.
00:32:05Keep your eyes peeled, will you, doc?
00:32:08All right, folks.
00:32:09Curtain time.
00:32:10Take your seats, please.
00:32:21Ladies and gentlemen,
00:32:23it has been my good fortune to find in this young lady
00:32:26the perfect hypnotic subject.
00:32:29Through her, I will reveal to you
00:32:31some of the hidden mysteries of life itself.
00:32:34Look at me, Andrea.
00:32:37Are you ready?
00:32:39Yes.
00:32:40I shall touch you, and soon you will be asleep.
00:32:44I'm not going to touch you.
00:32:47I shall touch you, and soon you will be asleep.
00:32:55Good.
00:32:57Now you can hear everything I say.
00:33:00Raise your right arm, please.
00:33:05Lower it.
00:33:07Now the left arm, please.
00:33:11Put it down, please.
00:33:14Take your place by the couch.
00:33:21A little forward, please, Andrea.
00:33:24Good.
00:33:25Now sit down on the couch.
00:33:30Sit down, Andrea.
00:33:32She's trying to fight him off.
00:33:36We are privileged to have with us tonight
00:33:39one of the country's leading exponents of psychic research,
00:33:44Dr. Erickson.
00:33:46Since Dr. Erickson has called me a fraud and a charlatan,
00:33:50I invite him to join me on this platform
00:33:53so that he may expose me,
00:33:55so that he may show you why and how I perpetrate a fraud.
00:34:00So that he may show you why and how I perpetrate a fraud.
00:34:05If you please, doctor.
00:34:07If you don't mind, I'll sit here with the paying customers.
00:34:12You refuse, doctor?
00:34:14Go on, Ted. Get up there and show him up.
00:34:17Come on, Erickson. That'll make two phonies.
00:34:20Really, Ted, you should.
00:34:23Please, Ted, you've got to.
00:34:31My next experiment is a most interesting one, doctor.
00:34:35I shall prove that life is an endless chain,
00:34:38that we are given the gift of it not for one lifespan,
00:34:41but since the beginning of time.
00:34:43Ladies and gentlemen,
00:34:45I shall give you living proof of reincarnation,
00:34:48of perpetual life itself.
00:35:01Andrea.
00:35:03You'll go into a deep, deep sleep.
00:35:07Very deep.
00:35:10Your eyes are getting heavy, Andrea.
00:35:14You cannot open them.
00:35:23Will you examine her, doctor?
00:35:31She's under hypnosis. Go ahead.
00:35:35Now you are traveling back through time and space.
00:35:40Farther.
00:35:42Farther back.
00:35:45Back.
00:35:50Come forward. Come forward quickly.
00:36:00That's better.
00:36:03Now stop when you want to.
00:36:07Stop when you see something familiar.
00:36:10You want to stop now?
00:36:14Where are you?
00:36:17In the home on Oxnard Road in London.
00:36:21What is your name?
00:36:23Elizabeth Anne Wetherby.
00:36:27You are smiling, Elizabeth.
00:36:30Is something pleasant taking place?
00:36:33I have brought Captain Ernest Blystone to see me farther.
00:36:37He is going to ask for me hand in marriage.
00:36:40Dr. Erickson is going to question you.
00:36:44You will answer him.
00:36:58What year is it, Andrea?
00:37:011618, the year of our Lord.
00:37:06Who is the reigning monarch?
00:37:09James Stuart.
00:37:15Who is Lord Chamberlain of this court?
00:37:18The Earl of Somerset.
00:37:20What's his wife's maiden name?
00:37:22Frances Howard.
00:37:24You will no doubt authenticate this information?
00:37:27I will.
00:37:36Now we are moving forward in time.
00:37:40You are older, much older.
00:37:44You are in your last illness, Elizabeth.
00:37:47You are on your deathbed.
00:37:50My son David is at my side.
00:37:53He said he would do as I ask.
00:37:56Now he sits and waits.
00:37:59What did you ask of him?
00:38:02That I be buried in Caddy's book near me husband.
00:38:06And that Ernest's medallion be buried with mine.
00:38:10What does that medallion look like?
00:38:13It is a symbol of my love for him.
00:38:17What does that medallion look like?
00:38:20It is a gold shield with one ruby set in it.
00:38:26Is there an inscription on it?
00:38:29Yes.
00:38:32To me loyal subject, Ernest Blystone.
00:38:38It is engraved with King Charles' seal.
00:38:41There, there you see.
00:38:45Thank you, Elizabeth.
00:38:48That is enough.
00:38:51You will rest now, sleep.
00:38:54Deep sleep.
00:38:57More.
00:39:00Deeper.
00:39:08You are putting her in a cataleptic state.
00:39:11That is dangerous.
00:39:12She has survived that danger before.
00:39:15Excuse me, please.
00:39:22Where are you now, Elizabeth?
00:39:26In Spice, floating in Spice.
00:39:29Are you alone?
00:39:31There are many others with me.
00:39:34Can I summon you out of the spirit world to be with me?
00:39:38You can summon me. I will come.
00:39:42I call you.
00:39:54I can see you, but I don't believe the others can.
00:39:59Those who believe can see.
00:40:02I see her. I do see her.
00:40:07Make your physical presence known to those who believe only what their eyes can see.
00:40:13Open a window.
00:40:16That one.
00:40:25Now come back here, Elizabeth.
00:40:30Close the drapes around Andrea.
00:40:49King, come here.
00:40:51No, no, leave him.
00:40:54I'll control him.
00:40:59No.
00:41:13Will you take him away, please, Elizabeth?
00:41:22There aren't many who can control an animal by hypnosis, are there, Doctor?
00:41:26No.
00:41:27He did what I told him without a single word.
00:41:31You may return, Elizabeth.
00:41:38Why do you hesitate?
00:41:42What?
00:41:44At this moment, ladies and gentlemen,
00:41:47I regret to say that the creature who has cost so many lives is on his way here among us even now.
00:41:54Oh, she's going to faint.
00:42:02What do you mean? In this house?
00:42:05I don't know, but she's in the ocean now, preparing to come out.
00:42:12Well, Doctor, you're a clever man.
00:42:15I don't know how you did it, but it isn't through science, as I understand.
00:42:18I have a way of proving myself to you, but it's going to be harsh.
00:42:28Now you're going back in time to the very beginning.
00:42:32By the power that is mine, I command you.
00:42:49She barely has a pulse.
00:42:53Take her out of this.
00:42:55She stays as she is.
00:42:57You have no right to leave her like this.
00:42:59I have my own right.
00:43:01If you wish to try to take her out of hypnosis, you may do so.
00:43:04You know I can't do that.
00:43:06You induced this state. You must release her.
00:43:08Then she remains as she is.
00:43:19Did you see which way Lombardi went?
00:43:21Out on the terrace. You're not going out there.
00:43:49LOMBARDI, ITALY
00:44:08Last night taught everything.
00:44:10Lombardi and all that creature talk.
00:44:12He had us in a panic.
00:44:14He did it deliberately. He's aiming for the big circuits.
00:44:17You don't know much about him, do you?
00:44:19All I know is that he's a very clever man.
00:44:22And an evil one.
00:44:24I'm glad your father asked him to stay.
00:44:27I want to talk to his assistant.
00:44:30Professionally?
00:44:32He has a state of complete hypnotic subjugation.
00:44:35A virtual slave to his will.
00:44:38I'm going to try to break that hold on him.
00:44:40Good morning, Miss Chapel.
00:44:42Doctor.
00:44:43I've been thinking about your work, Dr. Lombardi.
00:44:46I think it requires some serious study.
00:44:49Oh, good. I'm delighted.
00:44:51I want to talk to your assistant.
00:44:53Of course. Anytime you wish.
00:44:55Perhaps this morning.
00:44:56Fine. You set it up for me, then.
00:45:03You really brought it on last night, didn't you?
00:45:06That she-creature stuff was a stroke of sheer genius.
00:45:10Everyone lit out like the plague was after them.
00:45:12They'll be talking it up today.
00:45:14Yes, I've no doubt of that.
00:45:16And that stuff on the pier the other night, the way you tied in with that.
00:45:19That was a very fortunate coincidence for us.
00:45:22By the way, I shall require more suitable living quarters.
00:45:25Now, shall I stay here till I find them?
00:45:27Thank you very much.
00:45:45What are you doing out here?
00:45:48I thought I could get away from you.
00:45:50For a few minutes, anyway.
00:45:52Not even for a minute.
00:45:56I'd never be free of you.
00:45:59Why did it have to be me?
00:46:02It was meant to be.
00:46:05If you knew how I hated it.
00:46:07Hated you.
00:46:08Come back.
00:46:11You will do as I say.
00:46:15Come here.
00:46:21You are asleep, Andrea.
00:46:25You can hear what I'm saying.
00:46:28You can understand me.
00:46:32You're relaxed, Andrea.
00:46:41Dr. Erickson wishes to talk to you.
00:46:44He's going to try to hypnotize you.
00:46:46You must resist him.
00:46:48You will resist him.
00:46:51He is our enemy.
00:46:53He is trying to destroy us.
00:46:55You understand?
00:46:59Beauty like yours must not be destroyed.
00:47:02It belongs to me.
00:47:06I love you.
00:47:09And you love me too.
00:47:12Say it.
00:47:16Say it.
00:47:18No!
00:47:21I hate you with all my heart.
00:47:25I can make you die.
00:47:28I can turn you into Elizabeth Weatherby.
00:47:31But I can't make you love me.
00:47:34Someday I'm going to kill you.
00:47:37I should kill you, Andrea.
00:47:40But the artist is vain.
00:47:43He can't destroy the beauty he has created.
00:47:57How are you, Doc?
00:47:59How are you, Doc?
00:48:02Hello. Come in.
00:48:04Lombardi told me he was coming here today.
00:48:07He agreed to conduct a demonstration on the clinical conditions.
00:48:10Do you mind if I come in?
00:48:13No.
00:48:14I'd like to set up a tape recorder.
00:48:17I'm Stormy, Doc.
00:48:18The man is a killer and I can't touch him.
00:48:21A statement like that calls for proof.
00:48:24I have none.
00:48:25All I know is that he hates the world and everyone in it.
00:48:30A man kills for love...
00:48:33...hate...
00:48:34...profit.
00:48:36Where do these murders fit in?
00:48:38All three. And don't forget the profit angle.
00:48:40Lombardi has become quite a national figure.
00:48:45I don't know if he's responsible for those murders or not.
00:48:48But I do know he's a very dangerous man.
00:48:52Most of the colleagues...
00:48:54...they're satisfied to make one theory pay off for them.
00:48:57He's lumped them all together.
00:48:59Hypnotism, spiritualism, age regression...
00:49:02...reincarnation and soul transmigration.
00:49:05He's doing quite a selling job.
00:49:08We all have a secret willingness to believe in some of the things he's offering.
00:49:12The passing of the soul into another body after death.
00:49:15That life is eternal.
00:49:16That we can communicate with the dead.
00:49:19And Lombardi fancies himself the miracle man...
00:49:22...who's been granted the power to prove these things right.
00:49:24He's an egomaniac playing God.
00:49:27He claims that the life process is continuous.
00:49:30That he can take it back to a former existence...
00:49:32...and not only communicate with it, but cause it...
00:49:35...to materialize, to become a physical thing.
00:49:38According to Lombardi, the she-creature...
00:49:40...was the primitive life body of somebody living today.
00:49:45What do you make of that?
00:49:47We're still searching for the answer.
00:49:52Some of the details she's given previously...
00:49:54...have been proven remarkably accurate.
00:49:57That was the medallion that was given to her husband...
00:49:59...by King Charles.
00:50:02It was found in a grave near Carrisborough.
00:50:04The headstone read...
00:50:05...Elizabeth Webberley Blystone, 1600 to 1651.
00:50:10And it was planted there.
00:50:11Oh, this is preposterous.
00:50:14Do you hold with this nonsense, Erickson?
00:50:17My mind is open.
00:50:19Go on with your experiment, Mr. Lombardi.
00:50:23Dr. Lombardi, of course.
00:50:25You know, it's quite simple, gentlemen...
00:50:27...to disbelieve anything that shatters your smug concepts.
00:50:31I've taken this girl back to a time in her life...
00:50:33...over 300 years ago.
00:50:36Perhaps I can take her back farther than that.
00:50:39To the time of the pharaohs.
00:50:42Even to the beginning of creation itself.
00:50:46One soul traveling the entire distance.
00:50:49Utter nonsense.
00:50:51I can materialize her in any one of her lives.
00:50:56I can transport her from what she is...
00:51:00...to what she was.
00:51:02Really, Lieutenant, are we supposed to watch this...
00:51:05...this penny arcade drama?
00:51:08Doctor, have I ever been alone in this room?
00:51:11No.
00:51:12Then it would have been impossible for me...
00:51:13...to plant mechanical devices in here to trick you.
00:51:16I don't think so.
00:51:26I'm talking to you, Elizabeth.
00:51:30You're going into a deep sleep.
00:51:33Very deep.
00:51:40She's not responding.
00:51:43Someone in this room is fighting me for her will.
00:51:48Is it you, Doctor?
00:51:52Yes, I'm sorry.
00:51:56A deep sleep, Elizabeth.
00:51:59Very deep.
00:52:03That's better.
00:52:06You are now suspended in time and space.
00:52:11Now I'm going to give you substance.
00:52:14Not form, but substance.
00:52:18You will take back the soul that once was yours.
00:52:22Andrea will give it to you.
00:52:26No.
00:52:27Good.
00:52:30You can express yourself in movement.
00:52:56Will you take Professor Anderson's glasses off, please?
00:53:08Put them back on.
00:53:15That is enough, Elizabeth.
00:53:17I think we've convinced them.
00:53:20Will you return Andrea's soul to her, please?
00:53:33Those who believe can actually see the process of transmigration.
00:53:37I saw nothing.
00:53:39Nor I.
00:53:41Trickery.
00:53:42Very clever, Dr. Lombardi.
00:53:45But absolutely meaningless.
00:53:48You can't see because you don't wish to see.
00:53:52I thought I wanted recognition from you.
00:53:55You see, it means nothing to me.
00:54:01Now you will awaken.
00:54:04You will feel refreshed, Andrea.
00:54:07You will open your eyes.
00:54:15You said before you were giving us substance, but not form.
00:54:19What did you mean by that?
00:54:22I could have brought it to you in the flesh.
00:54:25Just as she was 300 years ago.
00:54:27Come now, doctor. We're too old for fairy tales.
00:54:30Do you seriously expect men of science to...
00:54:33I expect nothing.
00:54:35I want nothing.
00:54:39Come, Andrea.
00:54:48Good afternoon, gentlemen.
00:54:51What do you think of it?
00:54:54I don't know.
00:54:56This belongs to the police department.
00:54:58I'd better take it along.
00:55:20THE END
00:55:36Books past a million sales, Mark.
00:55:41Thank you, Olaf.
00:55:43I've closed a deal with the Beale syndicate.
00:55:4695 newspapers are starting to serialize the Weatherby affair next month.
00:55:51How's that for a quick profit, Lombardi?
00:55:53You're a genius, Mr. Chappell.
00:55:59Now that you're in the big chips, you'll be able to find yourself somewhere to stay.
00:56:04You know the way women are.
00:56:06Get yourself something big, something nice.
00:56:08You can afford it.
00:56:10No, I'll stay right here.
00:56:12If I decide to move, I'll let you know.
00:56:14King! King!
00:56:18Where's King? I haven't seen him since early this morning.
00:56:21I hardly see him since Dr. Lombardi took over this place.
00:56:25Unfortunately, Miss Chappell, your dog and I are not compatible.
00:56:34Lombardi warns of more killings.
00:56:38Don't press a luck, Doc.
00:56:40Lay off the predictions for a while.
00:56:42We'll miss and our profits nosedive.
00:56:44I'm certain our good fortune will continue.
00:57:12LONDON
00:57:36Sorry I've made it so difficult for you to follow me.
00:57:38What were you doing down there?
00:57:40Oh, commuting with nature?
00:57:43But now I feel the need of human company.
00:57:47Shall we walk to my house?
00:58:11LONDON
00:58:27I was walking with Lombardi when I heard the scream.
00:58:31But I knew he didn't...
00:58:33He's a murderer.
00:58:35And I can't touch him.
00:58:40LONDON
00:58:46That thing last night, I didn't like it.
00:58:48Unfortunate. Such a nice couple.
00:58:51I feel as though I killed them myself.
00:58:54You push a car over a cliff? Well, hardly.
00:58:59Here are two bankbooks.
00:59:01One in your name, one in Dorothy's.
00:59:03Oh, yes, her dowry.
00:59:05You'll see that each holds a deposit of $250,000.
00:59:09Well, we've done amazingly well.
00:59:11We've only just started.
00:59:13That should keep you in style.
00:59:15Somewhere else?
00:59:17I want you to move out of here.
00:59:19No, it's better that I stay.
00:59:25Oh, no, you can't stare me down.
00:59:27I can look right back at you.
00:59:29I'll tell you what I see.
00:59:31I see a dirty sideshow fortune teller with delusions of grandeur.
00:59:36You're very foolish to say those things to me.
00:59:39You're an ignorant man.
00:59:43I assume our business relations are over.
00:59:46What for?
00:59:48I'm on to a good thing.
00:59:50We'll continue our business affairs at my office.
00:59:53Fine.
00:59:55I'll move out tomorrow.
00:59:57I understand you've invited some people here tonight for a demonstration.
01:00:00Tomorrow will suit me fine.
01:00:02Good.
01:00:06You were expecting someone else, huh?
01:00:11Dr. Erickson, perhaps.
01:00:15Well, no matter.
01:00:18We're leaving the country tomorrow, you and I.
01:00:21I'm not going with you.
01:00:27I love him.
01:00:29You'll be with me on the plane.
01:00:31You'll do as I say.
01:00:34I have found the power to resist you.
01:00:38He has given it to me.
01:00:47No one can take you from me.
01:00:49I live only for you.
01:00:51You're the light that shines out of the darkness.
01:00:56I love him.
01:00:59I love him.
01:01:08He'll never have you.
01:01:12I'll kill him.
01:01:22You'll kill him.
01:01:28This time, you'll do as I say.
01:01:33I haven't seen you and Dorothy together much lately.
01:01:36What's the matter? Lovers quarrel?
01:01:38Hmm.
01:01:40Well, here's something that'll help you patch it up.
01:01:45$250,000, Dorothy's.
01:01:48And yours. You helped to set it up.
01:01:50There's more coming in.
01:01:52Go over and show it to her. She doesn't know anything about it.
01:01:55This'll help you to forget Carlo's little girl, eh?
01:01:58Hmm. I don't think I could forget where the money came from.
01:02:02I told you I was a fool about such things.
01:02:04I'm sure I'll never have another offer like that again.
01:02:06But thanks for giving me the first offer.
01:02:12Hi, Ted.
01:02:14Are you looking for Andrea Elizabeth or Elizabeth Andrea?
01:02:17I saw both of them down near the ocean a while ago.
01:02:19Thanks.
01:02:21Ted, what's she got that I haven't?
01:02:24Money, breeding, social position?
01:02:28Some people have too much of everything.
01:02:32Guess I had that coming.
01:02:34She's a nice girl, Ted.
01:02:48Hi, beautiful.
01:02:50Mom, what are you drinking?
01:02:52That's a scotch, bourbon, gin cocktail.
01:02:55No vodka?
01:02:57You must be tapering off.
01:02:59Let me know when you get down to the scotch and bourbon cocktails.
01:03:05There goes the gin.
01:03:07Now I'm down to a bourbon and scotch cocktail.
01:03:23You taught me how to fight him.
01:03:25His power is gone.
01:03:29We'd better be getting back to the house.
01:03:31He'll be looking for you.
01:03:33I don't want to go through with it tonight.
01:03:36You've got to.
01:03:38Resist him publicly and he'll leave you alone.
01:03:42What if I don't?
01:03:46You'll have to.
01:03:48What if I don't?
01:03:52I'll fight him for you.
01:03:55I think I'll win.
01:03:59Just stay here a little longer with me.
01:04:19You can kill him.
01:04:21I command you.
01:04:23I command you.
01:04:47Now get away. He's gone crazy.
01:04:53Get away.
01:05:07That voice didn't come from here.
01:05:12Let's get away from here.
01:05:14Let's go.
01:05:22Can I see you a minute?
01:05:25I've formed a few theories by now and I want to try them out on you.
01:05:28I'm listening.
01:05:30Every time this thing has struck, it's been after one of these demonstrations.
01:05:33That's been the pattern. I've checked it.
01:05:35You think he has some way of signaling his accomplices?
01:05:39If you can call it that.
01:05:41Another thing I've discovered.
01:05:43When you find the footprints coming out of the ocean,
01:05:45they go back to exactly the same spot.
01:05:48You're going on the assumption that Lombardi's creature is the real thing.
01:05:52That's the only thing I can go on. Otherwise, it's the psychopathic war for me.
01:05:56How about you? What do you think?
01:05:58As a scientist, I'm hysterical with laughter.
01:06:01As a man out for a social evening, I'm not so sure.
01:06:04In fact, very unsure.
01:06:06All right, folks. Showtime.
01:06:09House lights out, please.
01:06:12Say, send Olaf out here, will you?
01:06:15Sure.
01:06:21Lieutenant James wants to speak to you.
01:06:23Out on the terrace.
01:06:24Yes, sir.
01:06:27Am I under arrest, I hope?
01:06:29I sure would like to get away from this bookshop.
01:06:32Say, have you got a tape recorder?
01:06:34Mr. Schapp will study.
01:06:36Can you take me there without going through the living room?
01:06:38Oh, yeah, sure. Come right this way.
01:06:42Right here, sir.
01:06:55I will touch you gently, and you'll fall into a deep sleep.
01:07:03Your eyes are getting heavy.
01:07:06They're starting to close now.
01:07:08They're starting to close now.
01:07:17Somebody's backfired.
01:07:22I will count to four, and you will fall into a deep, deep sleep.
01:07:28One.
01:07:30Two.
01:07:32Three.
01:07:34Four.
01:07:39Ladies and gentlemen, my subject is not herself tonight.
01:07:42She is too tense.
01:07:48Will you take your place on the couch, please?
01:08:08You have eyes only for mine.
01:08:11You have ears only for my voice.
01:08:16Now you're going into a deep sleep.
01:08:19Your eyes are heavy.
01:08:21Close your eyes and go into a deep sleep.
01:08:26Deeper.
01:08:28Deeper.
01:08:35She's dead.
01:08:38You said before you were giving her substance, but not form.
01:08:42What did you mean by that?
01:08:44I could have brought her to you in the flesh,
01:08:47just as she was 300 years ago.
01:08:52I'm talking to you, Elizabeth.
01:08:55Where were you born?
01:09:03My subject is disturbed tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
01:09:06Her world is disturbed.
01:09:08I feel a menace to the people in this house.
01:09:11I urge you all to leave here at once.
01:09:13Do as he says, everybody. Let's clear out of here.
01:09:15Let's get her out of here.
01:09:20No one puts me out of my own.
01:09:29Get her out of it.
01:09:30Perhaps you can.
01:09:32Get her out of it.
01:09:33You kill me and you kill her.
01:09:38Telephone for two squad cars.
01:09:39Tell them to bring high-powered rifles.
01:09:41Where will you be, sir?
01:09:42I'll be down on the beach.
01:09:43Yes, sir.
01:09:46Hurry up.
01:09:48Step off the platform. I'll do the best I can.
01:09:50I'll stay here.
01:09:51Then I'll do nothing.
01:09:53I'll show my methods to no one.
01:09:57Father, please.
01:10:06You're going deeper.
01:10:08Deeper.
01:10:11Time is an endless nothing.
01:10:12You're falling through it.
01:10:14Deeper.
01:10:16Deeper.
01:10:23She's in the recovery process now.
01:10:25She'll be all right.
01:10:42She's in the recovery process now.
01:11:12She's in the recovery process now.
01:11:37It'll be coming back this way.
01:11:40Lombardi was right.
01:11:43He did it.
01:11:44He did what?
01:11:46He brought the girl back.
01:11:50The girl?
01:12:12Pete.
01:12:28Pete, you stay here with me. We'll move.
01:12:30The rest of you get some brush and driftwood.
01:12:31Anything that'll burn.
01:12:32What are you going to do with it?
01:12:33Well, Ed said to put a circle around all those prints.
01:12:36And whatever killed them will be back and we'll set fire to it.
01:12:39Bring back some gasoline from the car, will you?
01:12:41Come on.
01:13:11Come on.
01:13:34Now do you believe, Doctor?
01:13:36Kill him.
01:13:41Kill him.
01:14:11Pete.
01:14:41Pete.
01:15:12You couldn't kill the man you loved.
01:15:17I mustn't let you die.
01:15:20Your beauty must live.
01:15:24I will touch you and you will awaken.
01:15:27Young and beautiful.
01:15:29Freed forever from the past.
01:15:33What I have done, no man can ever do.
01:15:37What I have done, no man can ever do.
01:15:56There, fire.
01:15:58I can't see anything.
01:15:59Where I'm pointing at.
01:16:00Hurry up.
01:16:07I can't see anything.
01:16:08Fire.
01:16:14Do you see anything?
01:16:15No.
01:16:17How about you, Doc?
01:16:18Do you still see something?
01:16:21No.
01:16:22I was mistaken.
01:16:32She was here, wasn't she?
01:16:34Yes.
01:16:36She was here.
01:16:44She killed Carlo.
01:16:47He forced her to come out of her world.
01:16:49He should have left her alone.
01:16:51There are a lot of dark corners we weren't meant to pry into, I guess.
01:17:06She won't come back, will she?
01:17:08No.
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