- 5/25/2025
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00:00:00Let me die. Let me die.
00:00:30Let me die.
00:01:00Let me die.
00:01:30Let me die.
00:01:49I should have known he was as good as dead when they wheeled him in.
00:01:52You did everything possible, everything you could, Dr. Cody.
00:01:55Everything?
00:01:57Everything except save my patient.
00:02:02Everything in the books.
00:02:10Now, Dad, do I have permission to take over and try things my way?
00:02:15The operating room is no place to experiment.
00:02:18He's dead. I can't do any harm.
00:02:22Very well.
00:02:24The corpse is yours.
00:02:26Do what you want to do.
00:02:28All right.
00:02:30Make an opening into the chest cavity.
00:02:33Apply 100 milliamps of current directly to the heart, then massage by hand.
00:02:36I'll handle the brain area.
00:02:39By yourself?
00:02:40By myself.
00:02:56I've got to work fast.
00:03:24If it isn't too late.
00:03:29You talk as if he's still alive.
00:03:32He is.
00:03:34I just picked up a faint pulse beat.
00:03:37Keep massaging the heart.
00:03:38I am. I am.
00:03:41This electric shock should stimulate the motor area enough to innervate the heart again.
00:03:45Then he won't need any external stimuli.
00:03:48Keep away from the motor area.
00:03:50You'll paralyze him for good.
00:03:52Which would you rather be, paralyzed or dead?
00:03:54Keep massaging the heart.
00:03:56You've already lost your patient, Doctor. I'm going to save mine.
00:04:00His pulse is coming back stronger than ever.
00:04:03It's unbelievable.
00:04:05Nothing is unbelievable if you have the nerve to experiment.
00:04:08I've been working on something like this for weeks.
00:04:11In your laboratory?
00:04:14I knew this would work if only I had the opportunity.
00:04:17You don't conduct experiments on people.
00:04:19You should be sure of the results first.
00:04:24I am now.
00:04:26Stop massaging the heart.
00:04:29Let's see if it can take over by itself.
00:04:38Close up the chest.
00:04:41I'm about finished with the cerebral area.
00:04:45How's his pulse?
00:04:46Strong and steady.
00:05:08You did perform a miracle.
00:05:11I may not approve of your methods, but...
00:05:15I am proud of your results.
00:05:45That was an amazing...
00:05:48even an extraordinary operation, son.
00:05:52But it still is too risky, too uncontrolled.
00:05:56Saved his life.
00:05:59The aftereffects?
00:06:01What about them?
00:06:03You've lost the urge to experiment.
00:06:06To explore.
00:06:12You don't explore on people.
00:06:23Before you put a scalpel to one, an operation like this needs testing under every condition.
00:06:27Over and over again.
00:06:30Rabbits, mice, monkeys.
00:06:33Not people.
00:06:35That man who should be dead now won't think so.
00:06:38There's more to surgery than just being a carpenter to patch up walls.
00:06:42Or a plumber to drain pipes.
00:06:45Our bodies are capable of adjusting in ways we've hardly dreamt of.
00:06:50If we can only find the key.
00:06:53I'm so close now, so very close.
00:06:57The key to what?
00:06:59Complete transplantations.
00:07:02To be able to transplant limbs and organs.
00:07:05To be able to replace diseased and damaged parts of the body as easily as we replace eye corneas now.
00:07:11So that the new parts will join together as though they were born there.
00:07:16It can't be done.
00:07:19It can be done.
00:07:25With my new special compound I've created, I'll do it.
00:07:28I know I can do it.
00:07:29Sure, sure, that's what you say.
00:07:30That's what I know.
00:07:32I know I'm close.
00:07:38Darling, I'm so proud of you, I could kiss you.
00:07:41Promises, huh?
00:07:42Always promises.
00:07:44Careful, your father's liable to report us.
00:07:47And stop the floor show?
00:07:49When you two are married it won't be fun to watch anymore.
00:07:52I can promise you one thing.
00:07:53Your grandchildren won't be test tube babies.
00:07:56You better hurry if you want to catch that plane to Denver, Dad.
00:07:59You know that medical convention can't start without you.
00:08:03Jan, you'd better check about my reservations.
00:08:06Oh yes, I'll call the airport.
00:08:07I'll be right back.
00:08:12Bill, the line between scientific genius and obsessive fanaticism is a thin one.
00:08:18I want you on the right side of it.
00:08:20If I don't experiment, how can I hope to perform operations like the one you almost messed up?
00:08:25But I can't cover up for you anymore.
00:08:28The lieutenant had a doubt with me.
00:08:30He thinks it's you who's been stealing those limbs from the amputee operations.
00:08:34So what if it is?
00:08:36I've got to have limbs for my transplant experiments.
00:08:39Well, you said test and experiment.
00:08:40Test and experiment.
00:08:41Yes, but limbs and organs taken from people.
00:08:45I've got to have them to work with.
00:08:48Sure, I've made a few mistakes.
00:08:51But I've learned from them.
00:08:52I've learned.
00:08:57Your reservations are all set.
00:08:593.30 takeoff.
00:09:02Bill, what have you two planned for the weekend?
00:09:05Oh, nothing much.
00:09:07It's a quiet weekend.
00:09:09Are you sure you're not going after the country house?
00:09:12You're always sneaking off up there.
00:09:15The place gives me the creeps.
00:09:16I should have sold it when your mother died.
00:09:18You can't sell that place.
00:09:20Well, I mean it's nice to get away from the city.
00:09:22I can work without anyone snooping around.
00:09:23You spend too much time up there.
00:09:26All right, I'll see you both in a few days.
00:09:29I've got to clean up and get out of here.
00:09:34Fine operation or not, Bill.
00:09:36You're walking on thin ice.
00:09:39Don't go too far.
00:09:47Oh, every time you touch me, I go out of my mind.
00:09:51I want to kiss you.
00:09:54Bill, I want to get married.
00:09:55I can't stand not having you.
00:09:58You've been wonderful.
00:09:59I'd rather be a bride.
00:10:02In a few more weeks.
00:10:04And nothing will keep us apart.
00:10:07We'll be together.
00:10:21Dr. Kortner.
00:10:28I'm so glad you're here.
00:10:29I was afraid you'd gotten away.
00:10:31There was a very important phone message that came to you.
00:10:33It sounded quite urgent.
00:10:34I've been looking everywhere.
00:10:36It was from a man called Kurt.
00:10:38He called from the country place,
00:10:40and he said something terrible had happened.
00:10:42He wanted you to come right out.
00:10:50Well, you've always wanted to know what's kept me away from you so many weekends.
00:10:54Have you got the keys to your car?
00:11:07Why haven't you ever taken me up here before?
00:11:10Because the things I'm working on don't need an audience.
00:11:12That telephone call.
00:11:14What about it?
00:11:15All right, all right.
00:11:16Hold off the questions.
00:11:18Why the mystery, Dale?
00:11:20What's this all about?
00:11:22We'll be there soon enough.
00:11:24You'll see.
00:11:26I've got to hurry.
00:11:56Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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00:12:56Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:13:26Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:13:56Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:14:26Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:14:56Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:15:26Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:15:56Alright, alright we are going to see out door, I'm coming, What's the matter, What's happened
00:16:19to you, It's terrible accident, Got to save her, got to save her, What is it?
00:16:23What have you got there?
00:16:24Kurt, please, sterilize the tubes and instruments quickly.
00:16:27What are you going to do?
00:16:28Aren't you going to have a look in the closet first?
00:16:29No, I can't now. This is more important.
00:16:31But you don't understand.
00:16:32Kurt, this is urgent.
00:16:33Do as I tell you before it's too late. I can't waste precious time arguing with you.
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00:18:31Nihilus, I saw them move.
00:18:51It can't be.
00:18:58My eyes are deceiving me.
00:19:01What you see is real.
00:19:03What's done is done, and what I've done is right.
00:19:07It's the work of science.
00:19:08I remember fire.
00:19:09Burning.
00:19:10Let me die.
00:19:20Let me die.
00:19:34I've had success with transplants.
00:19:44Now I can do it for her.
00:19:45Transplant her?
00:19:46To what?
00:19:47I brought her back.
00:19:48She'll live and I'll get her another body.
00:19:58I can make her complete again.
00:20:01Only a madman can believe that she could ever be like before.
00:20:05Don't argue with me.
00:20:07I love her too much to let her stay like this.
00:20:10I'll restore her as before.
00:20:12You'll see.
00:20:14Can't you realize?
00:20:16Can't you see?
00:20:18There's a pattern to all that lives.
00:20:20An order, an arrangement.
00:20:22She had a heart, and a brain, and a spirit was in both, not in one or the other.
00:20:28No.
00:20:30I'll give her a brain and a heart.
00:20:32Yes, and what of her soul?
00:20:36Say you love her and you can remember her love for you.
00:20:41Then how can you make of her an experiment of horror?
00:20:46All the skill and science I possess was meant for this.
00:20:50Life has a pattern.
00:20:52The whole pattern of my life is shaping itself to save her now.
00:20:57Then you intend to go through with it?
00:20:59Yes.
00:21:03Sleep, my darling.
00:21:06Rest and grow stronger.
00:21:22How long do you think we can keep her alive under these conditions?
00:21:25Forty-eight.
00:21:27Fifty hours at the most.
00:21:29Yes.
00:21:31And you really believe you can work a transplant on her?
00:21:36Successfully?
00:21:37Yes.
00:21:41Like my arm.
00:21:43Withered and deformed.
00:21:46Yours was an early experiment that failed.
00:21:49With her I'm using my new adrenoserum.
00:21:53Must work.
00:21:57I've got to go now.
00:22:00If the police or anyone call,
00:22:04tell them you don't know anything about it.
00:22:07I don't think anyone will trace us here because her body was burned in the wreckage.
00:22:11Yes, of course, of course.
00:22:13Look, Bill, before you go, do have a look in that closet.
00:22:17It's the reason why I called you up here.
00:22:52Keep it locked.
00:23:10Keep it locked.
00:23:12Last night it got so violent it almost broke out.
00:23:14Oh.
00:23:16Not through that thickness. Keep it closed.
00:23:23I've got to think about her now.
00:23:28I've got to find her a body.
00:23:30How are you going to go about getting one?
00:23:36Bill, how will you do it?
00:23:39There are ways.
00:23:44There are ways.
00:23:52There are ways.
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00:26:38You.
00:26:41Inside the closet.
00:26:45What has he done to you?
00:26:49I don't know.
00:26:54I know there's someone there.
00:27:01Knock once if you hear me.
00:27:18Knock twice if you hear me.
00:27:29Then I'm not the first.
00:27:32Knock twice if I'm not the first.
00:27:44He should have let me die.
00:27:49I hate him for what he's done to me.
00:27:54If he only knew what it's like being like this.
00:28:01Do you know what it's like?
00:28:10Together we could have revenge.
00:28:15You want revenge?
00:28:18Yes.
00:28:36Yes.
00:28:39You think inside of me a thing or two.
00:28:44My brain's still untouched.
00:28:47What's keeping me alive has given me a power he didn't count on.
00:28:53A power that you can feel.
00:28:56Across this room and through that door.
00:29:00Can't you?
00:29:17No.
00:29:24Together we're both more than things.
00:29:28We're a power as hideous as our deformities.
00:29:32Together we'll wreak our revenge.
00:29:36I shall create power and you will enforce it.
00:29:43You're the thing inside.
00:29:47I'll be the thing out here.
00:31:17What's that?
00:31:35What's locked behind that door?
00:31:39Horror.
00:31:41No normal mind can imagine.
00:31:43Something even more terrible than you.
00:31:46No, my deformed friend.
00:31:49Like all quantities, horror has its ultimate.
00:31:53And I'm that.
00:31:55No.
00:31:56There is a horror beyond yours.
00:31:59And it's in there.
00:32:01Locked behind that door.
00:32:05The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculation and often lose themselves in error and darkness.
00:32:15Behind that door is the sum total of Dr. Kortner's mistakes.
00:32:24He had no right to bring me back to this.
00:32:29Perhaps not.
00:32:31Who knows?
00:32:33But you should know.
00:32:35That before he injected the serum into that,
00:32:39it was but a mass of grafted tissues.
00:32:42Lifeless.
00:32:44Just lay there, weighted down with its transplants of broken limbs and amputated arms.
00:32:50But with this serum, it began to breathe.
00:32:55It's impossible.
00:32:58Would you have thought possible what he's already done?
00:33:02Take yourself.
00:33:04He's brought you back.
00:33:06You live.
00:33:09Only a few years ago, all transplants were impossible.
00:33:15That's what he's been doing up here where no one could see his work.
00:33:19Yes.
00:33:22Experimenting with transplants on that.
00:33:25And on me.
00:33:28Letting him tear away my flesh time after time.
00:33:32Test after test.
00:33:35My hopes shattering with each grafted arm he fastened to me.
00:33:40Watching it wither and warp.
00:33:45Instead of strengthening.
00:33:50You see, he's learned from his mistakes.
00:33:58And you stayed with him.
00:34:01Helping him in his grotesque work that he claims is for science.
00:34:06Was there a place for me on the outside with this?
00:34:10A world where eyes would look upon me with pity.
00:34:15And people would turn away from me in disgust.
00:34:20No.
00:34:22The alcoholic has his bottle.
00:34:25The dope addict, his needle.
00:34:29I had my research.
00:34:33I used to be a surgeon.
00:34:35It was my life.
00:34:38And one night in the laboratory there.
00:34:41There was an accident.
00:34:44They had to amputate my arm.
00:34:53He has used you to...
00:34:56I had no choice.
00:34:58He was my only hope.
00:35:00A surgeon needs both his arms, not just one.
00:35:04You see, my transplanted grotesqueness stayed.
00:35:08So did I.
00:35:10I live only for the day he can work a successful transplant to my body.
00:35:15That is why I stay.
00:35:18Transplant my head onto another body?
00:35:25Yes.
00:35:26And he's insane with the belief he can do it.
00:35:30But the tissues of my body would reject the tissues of another.
00:35:35Reject it as the foreign substance it is.
00:35:38The transplant would never take. It would never stay in place.
00:35:42My blood's antibodies would attack it as they attack any invading matter.
00:35:47Yes, but his new discovery, this new serum, may change all that.
00:35:53This serum injected into the bloodstream affects the lymphoid tissues.
00:35:59Here in the neck.
00:36:01The lymphoids that provide the antibodies for the blood that attack foreign transplanted matter.
00:36:07It was untested, untried, until we used it on you.
00:36:12So...
00:36:14That liquid in the blood that's being pumped through what's left of me...
00:36:20is what makes me feel that...
00:36:27He may produce results he didn't ask for.
00:36:31Results?
00:36:33You mean...
00:36:35like this?
00:36:38Results more terrible than your arm of relative beauty.
00:36:43Results of power.
00:36:46Of magnitude.
00:36:48Power.
00:36:50What power?
00:36:53Can't you see that you're at the mercy of every element of the universe?
00:36:57How can you speak of power?
00:37:00I have a power.
00:37:02This liquid that he's pumped into me.
00:37:05My brain burns with it.
00:37:08That thing inside and I are in touch.
00:37:12Want me to prove it?
00:37:14You can prove nothing.
00:37:16You are powerless.
00:37:18I'll show you how powerless I am.
00:37:25You.
00:37:27Behind that door.
00:37:37Let me know if you hear me.
00:37:43Whoever...
00:37:45Whatever you are.
00:37:48I command you.
00:37:52You understand me.
00:37:56I'm only a head.
00:37:58And you're whatever you are.
00:38:02Together we're strong.
00:38:05More powerful than any of them.
00:38:15What?
00:38:20Where are you running from? What's wrong with you?
00:38:24It's you.
00:38:26Something wrong. Something beyond control in that room.
00:38:30There's nothing beyond my control.
00:38:32She's alive and I'll keep her alive until I find her a body.
00:38:36I can't talk anymore. I'm tired. I've got to go to sleep.
00:38:39And you... you didn't find her a body?
00:38:41Well, I've got to be careful.
00:38:43I can't afford to be identified as the last person seen with a girl before she disappears.
00:38:47Do you think you did one?
00:38:53There are many things left for tomorrow.
00:40:13Hey, over. How have you been, Bill?
00:40:15Oh, just fine, Donna. I haven't seen you for quite a while.
00:40:18Too long. I'm still waiting for that call you once promised me.
00:40:21Well, you know how it is with interns. All work.
00:40:24All work and no play even makes for dull doctors.
00:40:27You're going to lose that bedside manner of yours.
00:40:31Say, how about a little side course in anatomy?
00:40:34Yours? Anytime.
00:40:36No, not mine. A body beautiful contest.
00:40:39You know, bathing suit models. Plenty of females on the hook.
00:40:42You guys will have a field day. Interested?
00:40:45Why not? You're just what the doctor ordered.
00:40:48Come on, jump in.
00:40:53On second thought, I just remembered I've got to stop by my place and take care of a few things.
00:40:57It'll only take a minute. You don't mind, do you?
00:40:59I always follow the doctor's orders. Anything you prescribe, I'll take.
00:41:04That's what I like about you, Donna. Always so obliging.
00:41:12Hey, Donna, where are you going? What's the hurry?
00:41:14Hi, Jeannie. We're going to look for some bodies.
00:41:17You're in the contest. Yeah. Got any room for me?
00:41:19Oh, sure. Plenty. Bill, this is Jeannie Reynolds. Jeannie, this is Dr. Bill Cordner.
00:41:23Hi. Hello.
00:41:24Hop in, but first we've got to stop off at his place.
00:41:26Sure.
00:41:37As a matter of fact, I can wait.
00:41:39Now that there's two of you, we'll have to wait.
00:41:41Guess he thinks there's safety in numbers.
00:41:43Well, this time there is.
00:41:45He promised not to hurt you.
00:41:47And I promised not to hurt you.
00:42:01Bill, this...
00:42:02Yeah, looks fine.
00:42:12Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Well, it looks like we're about ready to go.
00:42:15Backstage are five of the girls who have reached the contest finals.
00:42:18And we are here to choose Miss Body Beautiful.
00:42:21Now, we've eliminated everyone except the five finalists,
00:42:24and they will be judged solely by your applause.
00:42:27So let's bring them on.
00:42:28First, Helen Appleton.
00:42:42Betty Robson.
00:43:01Terri Lund.
00:43:11Peggy Howard.
00:43:31She has the second nicest body I've ever seen.
00:43:36Second to you?
00:43:37No, another girl, a figure model.
00:43:39You remember that one in school years ago?
00:43:42The one who had the accident.
00:43:44Oh, yeah, yeah, Doris, uh...
00:43:47Doris Powell.
00:43:48Yeah, is she still around?
00:43:49Few people see her nowadays.
00:43:51She just stays in her studio posing for art classes and camera books.
00:43:57Figure model.
00:43:59Poses for art classes.
00:44:02The nicest body she's ever seen.
00:44:05The nicest body.
00:44:08Maybe this is the one that she's got to be.
00:44:11I can keep Jan alive only for a few more hours.
00:44:15I've got to find her a body.
00:44:20I can keep Jan alive only for a few more hours.
00:44:23I've got to find her a body.
00:44:39He... he intends to kill somebody.
00:44:44To rob them of their body.
00:44:48Do you hear me?
00:44:54Yes, you hear me.
00:44:58You know how Bill's egotism drives him on and on.
00:45:02To infamy upon infamy.
00:45:08He could ever be born of evil.
00:45:13Yet he claims his work is for science.
00:45:18For humanity.
00:45:26To be joined to flesh not your own.
00:45:31What's human in this?
00:45:35Of how you must exist locked behind that door.
00:45:40Locked behind that door.
00:45:44We've got to stop him.
00:46:10We've got to stop him.
00:46:40We've got to stop him.
00:47:11No.
00:47:33Okay, boys, I've had it for tonight.
00:47:35Come on, baby, one more.
00:47:36Just one more, please.
00:47:37Another five minutes, baby.
00:47:38I'm not up anyway.
00:47:39Okay.
00:47:57Say, Doris, would you like to have a drink with me?
00:48:00Just you and me, away from everybody.
00:48:02Some place where nobody will butt in, where you and I can really be alone.
00:48:05No, thank you.
00:48:07How about posing for me?
00:48:09Private-like.
00:48:10I'll pay you real money, real good money.
00:48:12The kind of money they don't throw at you every day.
00:48:14And for doing hardly nothing at all.
00:48:16I do my posing for classes only, Wednesdays and Saturdays, eight to ten.
00:48:21Yeah, I know, but we could...
00:48:22Good night.
00:48:38See it all, mister.
00:48:41The show's over.
00:48:43Next time, bring a camera and buy a ticket.
00:48:46I'm not running a charity.
00:48:49You don't remember me, do you, Doris?
00:48:52Every guy on the make gives me that same tired line.
00:48:57I'm Bill Cortner.
00:49:01Bill Cortner.
00:49:04Long time ago, that fight.
00:49:08He almost tore that wise guy apart for making fun of me.
00:49:12After my accident.
00:49:15Look, can't we go somewhere and talk?
00:49:17No, I don't date men.
00:49:19Because I pose like I do.
00:49:22Your mind works overtime.
00:49:24You get ideas.
00:49:28You're all alike.
00:49:31Oh, not all of us.
00:49:33I'm not on the make for you.
00:49:35Okay, so maybe you're better than most.
00:49:38Maybe not.
00:49:40I still hate all men.
00:49:44I hate them for what one did to me once.
00:49:47Have you forgotten?
00:49:49Well, have you?
00:49:52No, I haven't forgotten.
00:49:54No, I haven't forgotten.
00:49:56Well, neither have I.
00:49:59I carry the memory around with me.
00:50:03But you can't hide yourself away here forever.
00:50:06Posing bare in front of a bunch of neurotics.
00:50:09Listen, Galahad.
00:50:11I trusted a man once.
00:50:13All the way.
00:50:15What did it get me?
00:50:16He gets his head full of jealous lies and I get...
00:50:18You've got to forget what happened.
00:50:19How can I forget?
00:50:21I carry the memory around with me.
00:50:30Am I so appealing to you now?
00:50:34Still so interested?
00:50:39Doesn't it make you sick?
00:50:46You don't even turn away from me.
00:50:49Like everyone else does.
00:50:53To me, you're not ugly.
00:50:55I see only beauty in you.
00:50:57You have a lovely body and a face that can be made beautiful again also.
00:51:01Yeah.
00:51:04I've heard that song before.
00:51:07I'm a doctor, I know.
00:51:09My father's one of the leading plastic surgeons.
00:51:11If anyone can help you, we can.
00:51:12I know I can.
00:51:13I've been to doctors.
00:51:15It's no use.
00:51:17My scar tissue's too deep.
00:51:19No one can help me.
00:51:21That was a few years ago.
00:51:23Today, nothing's hopeless.
00:51:25We can graft scar and skin tissue.
00:51:28We can even freeze areas of the skin.
00:51:32And sand away damaged skin tissues.
00:51:35The way you say that, that look in your eyes.
00:51:39I almost want to believe you.
00:51:42I almost want to believe you.
00:51:45I almost want to believe you.
00:52:15I almost want to believe you.
00:52:18I almost want to believe you.
00:52:21I almost want to believe you.
00:52:24I almost want to believe you.
00:52:27I almost want to believe you.
00:52:30I almost want to believe you.
00:52:33I almost want to believe you.
00:52:36I almost want to believe you.
00:52:40Again.
00:52:42Hit it again.
00:52:48I've got to see your hideousness.
00:52:51You've got to see mine.
00:52:54I wonder which of us is more awful.
00:52:58I wonder which of us is more awful.
00:53:02I wonder which of us is more awful.
00:53:06Which of us is more awful?
00:53:11Nothing you can be is more terrible than what I am.
00:53:16A head without a body.
00:53:22A head that should be in its grave.
00:53:27I hate him.
00:53:30I hate him for what he's done to me.
00:53:34Can your hair match mine?
00:53:39Quiet. Someone's coming.
00:53:42Quiet.
00:54:01I have come to feed your friend.
00:54:05While you feed yourself with hate, it prefers food.
00:54:09Your formless, nibbling fear becomes you more.
00:54:13Yeah.
00:54:20What makes you think I'm afraid of what's in there?
00:54:24Or of you?
00:54:26A mere head in search of a body.
00:54:29People fear what they don't understand.
00:54:33And what they can't see.
00:54:36What are you talking about?
00:54:39You're nothing but a freak of life.
00:54:42And a freak of death.
00:54:45Why should I be afraid of a few knocks on a door?
00:54:48But last night you ran.
00:54:51You were afraid of what you imagined lay behind that door.
00:54:54I?
00:54:58Imagined?
00:55:01It was I who helped graft together the bits and pieces that were stolen from the hospital.
00:55:05An amputated arm, a leg, a torso.
00:55:08It was I who helped piece them together like a monstrous jigsaw puzzle.
00:55:12And that same medicine that he's fed to me to activate my lymphoid tissues.
00:55:18Has he fed it to that?
00:55:20No.
00:55:22No, on that he used an earlier formula.
00:55:25It wasn't as successful as the serum he's using on you.
00:55:28But it was enough to allow the transplants to take.
00:55:33If your experiment is successful.
00:55:37Then it'll be my turn.
00:55:40And what else has happened to it?
00:55:44You mean what else?
00:55:48Well, it's...
00:55:51It's mutated some, of course.
00:55:54It's changed considerably.
00:55:58Why don't you open the door?
00:56:01Then we'll both see how it's changed.
00:56:04Listen, you. I warn you.
00:56:06You better stop pestering me, do you hear?
00:56:08I'm getting fed up with you and your insidious talk.
00:56:11He should have cut out your tongue while he was at it.
00:56:14Afraid?
00:56:17Afraid of who?
00:56:19Of you?
00:56:20No.
00:56:22Not anymore.
00:56:24Not of it?
00:56:27Nor of it.
00:56:39He only keeps it locked in there so that...
00:56:42It'll be safe, that's all.
00:56:45Safe?
00:56:47For me?
00:56:51You beast.
00:56:55I hope he prolongs your existence into a lifetime of agony.
00:56:59Then we'll see who's laughing at whom.
00:57:01You miserable fool.
00:57:03Get him.
00:57:06Get him.
00:57:15Get him.
00:57:25Kill him.
00:57:27Even if your father could help me,
00:57:29I couldn't pay him the kind of money it would take.
00:57:32Not money does a lot of work without any charge.
00:57:38Why should you want to do this for me?
00:57:42What's in it for you?
00:57:45I'm going to make your face beautiful again.
00:57:48Cut it off and give your body away.
00:57:56I'm sorry, Bill.
00:58:00I have been knocked around so many times.
00:58:04I've lost count.
00:58:07It's tough living with this.
00:58:10I don't mean to sound ungrateful.
00:58:12Because you've been battered around, don't go sour.
00:58:15You shouldn't lose your trust in people.
00:58:17Not all of us.
00:58:20I believe you. I want to.
00:58:24Do you really think something can be done?
00:58:27Only my father knows.
00:58:29You know, we have a country place just out of town.
00:58:31He's visiting for the weekend.
00:58:33I could take you there now for a consultation.
00:58:35You mean tonight?
00:58:36Well, if you'd rather wait till he comes back.
00:58:38Oh, no, no. I mean, he wouldn't be annoyed being bothered with me so late at night.
00:58:43Well, you let me do the worrying, hmm?
00:58:45I'll do anything that'll help me get rid of this face.
00:58:50Well, that's where I come in.
00:58:52Remember the last time I helped you?
00:58:57Where are you going?
00:58:59Who are you calling?
00:59:00My girlfriend. I want to tell her the news.
00:59:03Before you know what the verdict's going to be?
00:59:08You're right. I shouldn't talk until I know what's going to happen.
00:59:12My girlfriend, she's supposed to drop in later. I'll have to leave her a note or something.
00:59:16Well, just tell her you'll see her later.
00:59:18Otherwise, she'll ask a lot of nosy questions. We want to be sure first.
00:59:21Just throw something on, huh?
00:59:23I'll be with you in a minute.
00:59:35Just tell her you'll keep in touch.
00:59:38I'll leave it on the table. She'll see it.
00:59:42Had to go out with old friend Bill Cortner.
00:59:46We'll call you tomorrow.
00:59:49Doris.
00:59:52Here.
00:59:58I'll leave it on the lamp.
01:00:04She'll see it, won't she?
01:00:06That's the first place she'll look.
01:00:08I'll leave the lights on for her.
01:00:17I have waited so long for this.
01:00:20So have I.
01:00:28You and your father live here?
01:00:31Only on weekends when we want to get away from the city.
01:00:34This place certainly is lonely.
01:00:37Well, the further from prying eyes, the better.
01:00:40I mean, it's nice and quiet here. We can get away from the noise and telephones.
01:00:43Oh, I guess it is.
01:00:45Well, sit down. Sit down. I'll fix us a drink, huh?
01:00:47My father should be back soon.
01:00:50You mean he's not here now?
01:00:53Oh, come on now, Doris.
01:00:55Do I look like a maniac who goes around killing girls?
01:00:57You've got to learn to trust people.
01:00:59People like me, really.
01:01:01I'm sorry. I trust you.
01:01:04I trust you with my life.
01:01:07Well, I can't ask for any more than that.
01:01:12I'll be right back.
01:01:17I'll be right back.
01:01:47I'll be right back.
01:02:17I'll be right back.
01:02:47I'll be right back.
01:03:17I'll be right back.
01:03:47I'll be right back.
01:04:03I was beginning to think you'd forgotten about me.
01:04:06Forgotten you?
01:04:07Oh, Doris, you've become very important to me.
01:04:09Very important.
01:04:11I put a little water in it so it wouldn't be too strong for you.
01:04:13Fine. I'm not a very heavy drinker.
01:04:16Nor am I.
01:04:18Well, here's to your future.
01:04:20Whatever it may be.
01:04:23I'll drink to that.
01:04:46I'll drink to that.
01:04:49I'll drink to that.
01:05:13It's getting awfully warm in here.
01:05:19It's getting awfully warm in here.
01:05:39I feel kind of funny.
01:05:50I feel kind of funny.
01:05:56Bill.
01:05:58You put something in my drink.
01:06:02Didn't you?
01:06:19Didn't you?
01:06:40I told you I'd bring you a body.
01:06:44A beautiful one.
01:06:47Soon it will be yours.
01:06:49Bill, you can't.
01:06:51Yes, I can.
01:06:53I want you as a complete woman, not part of one.
01:06:59Is it a crime to want to keep you alive?
01:07:04Is it a crime for science to jump ahead by years?
01:07:09This kind of thing must be done.
01:07:13When it's over, you'll see.
01:07:16I've got to hurry now.
01:07:18The drug will wear off soon and she'll be awake.
01:07:23When she does come to,
01:07:26it will be your head consciously awakening for her.
01:07:46Bill.
01:08:05You must be stopped.
01:08:08You must.
01:08:10And who's going to do it?
01:08:12It's got to be quiet here.
01:08:15You can't stop me.
01:08:18Very well.
01:08:45Bill.
01:09:15Bill.
01:09:46Bill.
01:09:48Bill.
01:10:15Bill.
01:10:45I told you to let me die.
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