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"You must be indulgent with Dr. Werdegast's weakness. He is the unfortunate victim of one of the commoner phobias, but in an extreme form. He has an intense and all-consuming horror of cats."
"Come, Vitus, are we men or are we children? Of what use are all these melodramatic gestures? You say your soul was killed and that you have been dead all these years. And what of me? Did we not both die here in Marmorus fifteen years ago? Are we any the less victims of the war than those whose bodies were torn asunder? Are we not both the living dead? And now you come to me, playing at being an avenging angel — childishly thirsty for my blood. We understand each other too well. We know too much of life. We shall play a little game, Vitus. A game of death, if you like. But under any circumstances, we shall have to wait until these people have gone, until we are alone."
"[to Karen] Oh, it's nothing. Only an accident in the road below. I want you to stay in this room all day tomorrow Karen. You are the very core and meaning of my life. No one shall take you from me. Not even Vitus, not even your father."
"Did you hear that, Vitus? The phone is dead. Even the phone is dead."
"After all, better to be frightened than to be crushed."
"[to Peter, about his stroking Joan's hair while she sleeps] I beg your indulgence my friend. Eighteen years ago, I left a girl so like your lovely wife to go to war...She was my wife. Have you ever heard of Kurgaal? It is a prison below Amsk...Many men have gone there. Few have returned. I have returned. After fifteen years, I have returned."
"It has been a long time Hjalmar. The years have been kind to you."
"[to Poelzig] You sold Marmorus to the Russians. You scurried away in the night and left us to die. Is it to be wondered that you should choose this place to build your house? A masterpiece of construction built upon the ruins of the masterpiece of destruction — a masterpiece of murder. [laughs hideously] The murderer of 10,000 men returns to the place of his crime. Those who died were fortunate. I was taken prisoner at Kurgaal. Kurgaal, where the soul is killed, slowly. Fifteen years I've rotted in the darkness. But not to kill you, but to kill your soul — slowly. Where is my wife, Karen, and my daughter?"
"[to Peter, about Poelzig's house] It is indeed hard to describe. It's hard to describe his life — or death. It may well be an atmosphere of death. This place was built upon the ruins of the same Ft. Marmorus that our unfortunate friend, the driver, described so vividly. Herr Poelzig commanded Marmorus during the last years of the war. He is perhaps sentimental about this spot."
"Superstitious, perhaps... Baloney, perhaps not. There are many things under the sun."
"[to Thamal] We must bide our time until others aren't involved. This place is so undermined with dynamite that the slightest mistake by one of us would cause the destruction of all. Until I tell you different, you are his servant, not mine."
"[to Poelzig] Do you know what I am going to do to you now? No? Did you ever see an animal skinned, Hjalmar? Ha, ha, ha. That's what I'm going to do to you now — fare the skin from your body...slowly...bit by bit!"
"[to Poelzig] How does it feel to hang on your own embalming rack, Hjalmar?"
"It's the red switch, isn't it Hjalmar? The red switch ignites the dynamite. (He activates one of the large switches.) Five minutes and Marmaros, you and I, and your rotten cult will be no more..."
"It has been a good game."
"Bus Driver: All of this country was one of the greatest battlefields of the war. Tens of thousands of men died here. The ravine down there was piled twelve deep with dead and wounded men. The little river below was swollen red, a raging torrent of blood. And that high hill yonder where Engineer Poelzig now lives, was the site of Fort Marmorus. He built his home on its very foundations. Marmorus, the greatest graveyard in the world."
"Peter Allison: [to Werdegast, about Poelzig] Well, I suppose we've got to have architects too. If I wanted to build a nice, cozy, unpretentious insane asylum, he'd be the man for it."
"Newspaper review: In Triple Murder, Mr. Alison's latest mystery thriller, he fulfills the promise shown...We feel, however, that Mr. Alison has, in a sense, overstepped the bounds of the matter of credibility. These things would never, but with a further stretch of the imagination, actually happen. We could wish that Mr. Alison would confine himself to the possible instead of letting his melodramatic imagination run away with him."
"Cum grano salis. Fortis cadere cedere non potest. Humanum est errare. Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem. Magna est veritas et praevalebit. Acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta. Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem. Amissum quod nescitur non amittitur. Brutum fulmen. Cum grano salis. Fortis cadere cedere non potest. Fructu, non foliis arborem aestima. Insanus omnes furere credit ceteros. Quem paenitet peccasse paene est innocens."
"With a grain of salt. A brave man may fall but he cannot yield. To err is human. The wolf may change his skin but not his nature. Truth is mighty and will prevail. External actions show internal secrets. Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. The loss that is not known is no loss at all. Heavy thunder. With a grain of salt. A brave man may fall but he cannot yield. By fruit, not by leaves, judge a tree. A madman believes all others mad. Who repents from sinning is almost innocent."
"Things you never saw before or even dreamed of!"
"Boris Karloff - Hjalmar Poelzig"
"Bela Lugosi - Dr. Vitus Werdegast"
"David Manners - Peter Alison"
"Julie Bishop - Joan Alison"
"Egon Brecher - The Majordomo"
"Harry Cording - Thamal, Werdegast's Servant"
"Lucille Lund - Karen Werdegast Poelzig"
"I worshiped your sister. I worship her still. Without her, life is meaningless. She was that substance of loveliness. [displays a painting of Elizabeth] I tried to capture it, but it was the way she walked and moved - her smile, her voice. She sang like an angel. And she could play the harpsichord as no other woman I've ever known could play."
"Could I have kept that ring without knowing it? Play the harpsichord without knowing it? Destroyed Elizabeth's room all without knowing it? My inner mind - creating evidence of Elizabeth's vengeful return because that mind knows. But I don't know! I will find out."
"I will tell you where you are. You are about to enter hell, Bartholomew. Hell! The Netherworld. The infernal region. The abode of the damned. The place of torment. Pandemonium. "Abbadon, "Tophet", "Gehenna". "Naraka", the pit! And the pendulum."
"Harlot! You will die in agony! Die!"
"The razor edge of destiny. That's the condition of man. Bound on an island from which he can never hope to escape - surrounded by the waiting pit of hell. Subject to the inexorable pendulum of fate - which must destroy him finally."
"Elizabeth was quite dead. I would stick my reputation on that fact."
"She does not haunt you, Nicholas. Can you not see that? It is you punishing yourself."
"This groundless dread must finally be put to rest. We will exhume Elizabeth."
"Buying and selling. Living and dying. The weave of life."
"Vincent Price — Nicholas/Sebastian Medina"
"John Kerr — Francis Barnard"
"Barbara Steele — Elizabeth"
"Luana Anders — Catherine Medina"
"Antony Carbone — Doctor Leon"
"Until now no one has dared to film this ...... the most diabolical classic of all time!"
"The Greatest Terror Tale Ever Told!"
"Edgar Allan Poe's diabolic classic"
"She was enslaved by evil in a terror haunted castle."
"Betrayal cuts both ways!"
"This is the beat of a human heart. Sit very still and listen. Is your heart beating in this same rhythm? You are experiencing the heartbeat of a dying man. And it is with death and dying that we concern ourselves. What happens at the point of death? What happens afterwards? What happens after death to someone who does not choose to stay dead, someone like Morella?"
"And what is it that happens just before death which leads inexorably to that death? Our second tale provides one roguish answer to that question in the story of a man who hated a cat. The Black Cat."
"What exactly is it that occurs within the moment of death, especially to a man within that moment who is not permitted to die, as in the case of Mr. Valdemar?"
"Pardon me, ladies, but could you spare a coin for a moral cripple?"
"Why don't you watch where I'm going, huh?"
"Haven't I convinced you of my sincerity yet? I'm genuinely dedicated to your destruction."
"Vincent Price — Fortunato/Valdemar/Locke"
"Maggie Pierce — Lenora Locke"
"Mary Leona Gage — Morella Locke"
"Edmund Cobb — Driver"
"Debra Paget — Helene Valdemar"
"David Frankham — Valdermar's physician"
"Peter Lorre — Montresor Herringbone"
"Joyce Jameson — Annabel Herringbone"
"Basil Rathbone — Mr. Carmichael"
"A Trilogy of Shock and Horror!"
"Can you possibly conceive it. The unendurable oppression of the lungs, the stifling fumes of the Earth, the rigid embrace of the coffin, the blackness of absolute night and the silence, like an overwhelming sea."
"Within the Coffin Lies a Man...Yet ALIVE!"
"Within the Coffin I Lie...ALIVE!"
"Ray Milland — Guy Carrell"
"Heather Angel — Kate Carrell"
"Hazel Court — Emily Gault"
"Alan Napier — Dr. Gideon Gault"
"For the first time... the classic tale of the restless dead and their unspeakable hungers!"
"Edgar Allan Poe's Classic Tale Of The Living Dead!"
"Edgar Allan Poe's Horror Classic!"
"Some things are better left buried."
"Vincent Price — Julian"
"Christopher Lee — Dr. Newhartt"
"Rupert Davies — Kemp"
"Uta Levka — Heidi"
"Sally Geeson — Sally"
"Alister Williamson — Edward"
"Peter Arne — Trench"
"Hilary Dwyer — Elizabeth"
"Maxwell Shaw — Hackett"
"Carl Rigg — Norton"
"Harry Baird — N'Galo"
"Godfrey James — Weller"
"John Barrie — Franklin"
"Ivor Dean — Hawthorne"
"Mad passions, madder deeds in the Edgar Allan Poe chiller!"
"Karl Malden — Dr. Marais"
"Claude Dauphin — Insp. Bonnard"
"Patricia Medina — Jeanette"
"Steve Forrest — Prof. Paul Dupin"
"Allyn Ann McLerie — Yvonne"
"Anthony Caruso — Jacques the One-Eyed"
"Veola Vonn — Arlette"
"Dolores Dorn — Camille"
"Merv Griffin — Georges Brevert"
"Paul Richards — Rene the Knife-thrower"
"Rolfe Sedan — LeBon"
"Erin O'Brien-Moore — Wardrobe Woman"
"Charles Gemora — Sultan, The Gorilla"
"The Flying Zacchinis — Themselves"
"Thrill to the mystery-master's most amazing story! Steel-clawed terror ravaging a shuddering city."
"Beautiful beast! Maddening...with her soft caress! Murdering...with steel-clawed terror!"
"The Mystery-master's spine-clutching classic of the Phantom Mangler of Paris!"
"Patric Knowles — Paul Dupin"
"Maria Montez — Marie Roget"
"Maria Ouspenskaya — Cecile Roget"
"John Litel — Henri Beauvais"
"Edward Norris — Marcel Vigneaux"
"Lloyd Corrigan — Gobelin"
"Nell O'Day — Camille Roget"
"Frank Reicher — Magistrate"
"Paul E. Burns — Gardener"
"Charles Middleton — Zoo Curator"
"William Ruhl — Detective"
"Reed Hadley — Naval Officer"
"When the black cat cries...someone dies!"
"When You Hear This Cat Breathing Down Your Neck...Start Praying!!!"
"Patrick Magee — Prof. Robert Miles"
"Mimsy Farmer — Jill Trevers"
"David Warbeck — Inspector Gorley"
"Al Cliver — Sgt. Wilson"
"Dagmar Lassander — Lillian Grayson"