1 00:00:18,642 --> 00:00:22,902 I am William Castle, the director of the motion picture you're about to see. 2 00:00:23,067 --> 00:00:25,392 I feel obligated to warn you... 3 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:30,225 that some of the sensations, some of the physical reactions... 4 00:00:30,433 --> 00:00:33,475 which the actors on the screen will feel... 5 00:00:33,683 --> 00:00:37,558 will also be experienced for the first time in motion picture history... 6 00:00:37,767 --> 00:00:40,433 by certain members of this audience. 7 00:00:40,642 --> 00:00:44,808 I say "certain members" because some people are more sensitive... 8 00:00:45,017 --> 00:00:48,475 to these mysterious electronic impulses than others. 9 00:00:48,850 --> 00:00:52,642 These unfortunate, sensitive people... 10 00:00:53,225 --> 00:00:58,058 will at times feel a strange, tingling sensation. 11 00:00:58,308 --> 00:01:00,433 Others will feel it less strongly. 12 00:01:00,642 --> 00:01:03,350 But don't be alarmed. You could protect yourself. 13 00:01:03,642 --> 00:01:07,267 At any time you are conscious of a tingling sensation... 14 00:01:07,475 --> 00:01:11,725 you may obtain immediate relief by screaming. 15 00:01:11,933 --> 00:01:16,392 Don't be embarrassed about opening your mouth and letting rip with all you got. 16 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,267 Because the person in the seat right next to you... 17 00:01:19,475 --> 00:01:21,725 will probably be screaming too. 18 00:01:21,933 --> 00:01:23,600 And remember this: 19 00:01:24,142 --> 00:01:28,767 A scream at the right time may save your life. 20 00:03:22,850 --> 00:03:24,558 - Who are you? - I'm nobody. 21 00:03:24,767 --> 00:03:27,142 - Unless you got business... - I won't bother you. 22 00:03:27,350 --> 00:03:29,642 You got to have a pass to come in here. 23 00:03:31,267 --> 00:03:32,600 Will this do? 24 00:03:34,142 --> 00:03:36,767 I'm sorry. I didn't know it was a relative. 25 00:03:36,975 --> 00:03:39,767 - It's my wife's brother. - Try not to faint. 26 00:03:39,975 --> 00:03:41,559 I won't faint. 27 00:03:42,184 --> 00:03:46,309 - I understand going to friend's funeral. - We weren't "friends," exactly. 28 00:03:46,517 --> 00:03:49,434 I had a pass to the execution, and I mean... 29 00:03:51,517 --> 00:03:56,142 - Does it always kill them in the chair? - I've never heard of it failing. 30 00:03:56,350 --> 00:03:58,934 Well, in the chair, does it hurt them? 31 00:03:59,309 --> 00:04:02,225 Not if it's done properly. At least, I don't think so. 32 00:04:02,434 --> 00:04:04,392 Even a slight shock hurts. 33 00:04:04,684 --> 00:04:08,142 Try putting an electrode soaked in saline solution on your head... 34 00:04:08,350 --> 00:04:12,267 another strapped to your leg, then slamming 2,000 volts between them. 35 00:04:12,434 --> 00:04:13,809 If it hurts, let me know. 36 00:04:14,350 --> 00:04:16,559 Well, if it works, then why this? 37 00:04:16,975 --> 00:04:19,142 I've never found it to be necessary. 38 00:04:19,350 --> 00:04:21,559 But it happens to be the law. 39 00:04:22,184 --> 00:04:26,184 An autopsy must be performed immediately after the execution. 40 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:29,975 Interesting. 41 00:04:31,267 --> 00:04:35,100 This man's vertebrae are cracked. They're nearly splintered in two. 42 00:04:35,309 --> 00:04:36,767 Two thousand volts! 43 00:04:36,975 --> 00:04:39,225 Electricity had nothing to do with this. 44 00:04:39,559 --> 00:04:43,642 I've seen this phenomenon many times in people who were badly frightened... 45 00:04:43,850 --> 00:04:45,475 just before they died. 46 00:04:46,267 --> 00:04:51,100 There's a force in us that science knows nothing about. The force of fear. 47 00:04:52,100 --> 00:04:56,392 That it's strong enough to shatter the spinal column, we know. 48 00:04:56,767 --> 00:04:58,434 But what it is... 49 00:04:58,725 --> 00:05:02,184 what causes it to appear and disappear, we don't know. 50 00:05:03,434 --> 00:05:05,559 Some day I hope to find out. 51 00:05:05,892 --> 00:05:08,892 Maybe it's what makes your spine tingle when you're scared. 52 00:05:09,434 --> 00:05:10,559 Exactly. 53 00:05:11,684 --> 00:05:12,850 Tingle? 54 00:05:13,267 --> 00:05:15,475 It can do a great deal more than that. 55 00:05:16,350 --> 00:05:19,600 It's odd. I've been experimenting with this force for years. 56 00:05:19,809 --> 00:05:22,059 Never had a name for it until now. 57 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,225 Now I think I'll call it "The Tingler." 58 00:05:26,017 --> 00:05:30,059 - You do all the autopsies out here? - Most of them, and for the county too. 59 00:05:30,267 --> 00:05:33,475 It ties in with my experimental work in fear. 60 00:05:33,767 --> 00:05:37,975 Many people die in fear. I wonder how many die of fear. 61 00:05:38,184 --> 00:05:39,850 You mean, being scared to death? 62 00:05:40,267 --> 00:05:42,309 Not on the death certificate. 63 00:05:42,517 --> 00:05:47,017 Fear causes tremendous tensions in the body. 64 00:05:47,767 --> 00:05:52,059 If you can't relieve them, why can't they become strong enough to kill you? 65 00:05:53,434 --> 00:05:54,809 Never thought of it that way. 66 00:05:56,934 --> 00:05:59,934 I've thought of little else for some years now. 67 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,267 That man's vertebrae are cracked. 68 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:10,225 Sensation of fear alone can't have done that. 69 00:06:11,517 --> 00:06:15,184 Something real and powerful broke those bones. 70 00:06:17,434 --> 00:06:19,392 And on the death certificate... 71 00:06:20,267 --> 00:06:24,142 I'll write down that death was caused by heart failure... 72 00:06:24,350 --> 00:06:27,642 due to electrically induced shock. 73 00:06:31,975 --> 00:06:36,392 I guess he deserved it, killing those two women in cold blood like that. 74 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:37,517 What? 75 00:06:37,725 --> 00:06:41,600 He killed two women. Right down the street from where I live. 76 00:06:41,767 --> 00:06:46,100 Looked for a while, though. They couldn't find a clue, but they did. 77 00:06:47,059 --> 00:06:50,642 I seldom know who they are or what they did. 78 00:06:51,017 --> 00:06:53,517 I suppose because I don't want to know. 79 00:06:53,934 --> 00:06:57,767 Science is sometimes frighteningly impersonal. 80 00:06:58,142 --> 00:07:00,725 Being my wife's brother... 81 00:07:01,142 --> 00:07:03,100 Well, you ready? 82 00:07:04,267 --> 00:07:07,559 You wouldn't be able to give me a ride into town, Doc? 83 00:07:08,184 --> 00:07:10,517 I'm sure I'd be glad to, Mr...? 84 00:07:10,725 --> 00:07:12,642 My name's Oliver Higgins. 85 00:07:12,850 --> 00:07:14,892 Everybody calls me just Ollie. 86 00:07:18,809 --> 00:07:19,892 Where do you live? 87 00:07:41,975 --> 00:07:44,225 There aren't many theaters like this left. 88 00:07:44,434 --> 00:07:47,100 You'd be surprised how many come to see these old pictures. 89 00:07:47,309 --> 00:07:49,309 - Not just to make fun, either. - Yours? 90 00:07:49,517 --> 00:07:51,184 It belongs to my wife. 91 00:07:51,392 --> 00:07:53,225 We run it together, though. 92 00:07:53,434 --> 00:07:57,350 - Would you like a beer or coffee, Doc? - Coffee'd be fine. 93 00:07:57,559 --> 00:08:01,559 Good, I live right up there. I'll check with the wife first. 94 00:08:07,975 --> 00:08:10,934 I'm going upstairs and make some coffee. 95 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,225 I'll open up later. 96 00:08:22,017 --> 00:08:23,600 Well, shall we go, Doc? 97 00:08:48,267 --> 00:08:51,934 It's kind of old-fashioned, but she likes it this way. 98 00:08:54,684 --> 00:08:57,642 - You like cream and sugar? - No. Black, please. 99 00:08:57,850 --> 00:09:00,350 Just the two of you run the whole show? 100 00:09:02,475 --> 00:09:04,725 You'd be surprised how much work it takes. 101 00:09:04,934 --> 00:09:06,934 Just the cleaning up alone. 102 00:09:08,267 --> 00:09:12,142 Mopping, sweeping, vacuuming the seats and the runners. 103 00:09:12,434 --> 00:09:15,767 Once a week, we go over everything. We even do the ceiling. 104 00:09:15,975 --> 00:09:18,809 We even do behind the screens and under the seats. 105 00:09:19,184 --> 00:09:22,350 - I tell you, it takes a lot of work. - It sounds like it. 106 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,017 You know, you ought to come sometime, Doc. 107 00:09:25,225 --> 00:09:28,642 Some of the silents are just as good as the movies they make nowadays. 108 00:09:28,850 --> 00:09:33,392 Even with the sound and the color, and the screens a block wide. 109 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,850 I'd like to see some of the old Charlie Chaplin films again. 110 00:09:37,059 --> 00:09:40,225 We show them once a year. I'll let you know. 111 00:09:42,142 --> 00:09:44,267 That's my wife. 112 00:09:44,517 --> 00:09:46,725 Never mind. She'll come in here. 113 00:10:02,309 --> 00:10:04,600 She has to wash her hands first. 114 00:10:08,850 --> 00:10:09,850 Martha? 115 00:10:12,225 --> 00:10:14,809 This is Doctor Warren Chapin. 116 00:10:21,517 --> 00:10:23,934 She says she just finished washing her hands. 117 00:10:24,142 --> 00:10:28,600 She's deaf and dumb. She can read lips if you talk straight to her. 118 00:10:28,767 --> 00:10:30,684 How do you do, Mrs. Higgins? 119 00:10:40,767 --> 00:10:43,392 She says to excuse her, but she never shakes hands. 120 00:10:43,601 --> 00:10:45,559 People's hands have germs, she says. 121 00:10:45,892 --> 00:10:47,892 Tell her she's so right. 122 00:10:48,517 --> 00:10:50,934 She can't make a sound or hear a sound. 123 00:10:51,142 --> 00:10:53,101 - No vocal cords? - None. 124 00:10:58,351 --> 00:11:00,559 She's a bug in this washing up. 125 00:11:00,767 --> 00:11:04,226 Our bill for towels is five bucks a week. 126 00:11:05,434 --> 00:11:07,059 There you are, Doc. 127 00:11:07,934 --> 00:11:09,059 Thank you. 128 00:11:17,767 --> 00:11:18,809 I'm sorry. 129 00:11:19,017 --> 00:11:21,309 That was a clumsy thing to do. 130 00:11:21,517 --> 00:11:24,934 - It's my fault. - No, it's nothing but a small cut. 131 00:11:45,767 --> 00:11:48,059 Go down and get the bag out of my car. 132 00:11:57,267 --> 00:12:00,309 She always does this. One drop of blood and out she goes. 133 00:12:00,601 --> 00:12:02,892 It affects some people like that. 134 00:12:03,101 --> 00:12:05,684 Did you notice how rigid she became? 135 00:12:05,892 --> 00:12:07,559 She always does. 136 00:12:07,767 --> 00:12:09,309 It's interesting. 137 00:12:09,726 --> 00:12:13,601 Because she has no vocal cords, she can't release fear vocally. 138 00:12:13,767 --> 00:12:17,267 So they continue to mount, until she can't endure it. 139 00:12:17,476 --> 00:12:18,684 So she faints? 140 00:12:19,392 --> 00:12:24,267 It isn't a faint as we know it. It's more of a psychosomatic escape. 141 00:12:24,767 --> 00:12:26,392 I never thought of that. 142 00:13:04,101 --> 00:13:08,351 You go downstairs and open up. I'll come downstairs in a minute. 143 00:13:15,434 --> 00:13:17,392 It's time to open up the box office. 144 00:13:17,601 --> 00:13:21,851 We'd better go down first. She won't leave anybody alone with that safe. 145 00:13:22,059 --> 00:13:26,059 Thanks for asking me up, Ollie. I'm sorry I caused you all that trouble. 146 00:13:26,267 --> 00:13:28,059 That's all right, no harm done. 147 00:13:28,267 --> 00:13:31,101 Thanks for the ride home. I'm sorry about... 148 00:13:31,309 --> 00:13:35,309 Goodbye, Mrs. Higgins. I'm sorry I caused all that trouble. 149 00:13:42,101 --> 00:13:46,017 She says goodbye, and she hopes your cut isn't serious. 150 00:13:46,476 --> 00:13:48,684 No. No, it isn't. 151 00:13:49,684 --> 00:13:51,434 Goodbye. Bye, Mrs. Higgins. 152 00:13:51,726 --> 00:13:54,059 Goodbye, Doc. Good luck with your experiment. 153 00:13:54,309 --> 00:13:55,309 Thanks. 154 00:14:28,934 --> 00:14:31,642 Hi, Lucy. Where's my devoted wife? 155 00:14:31,851 --> 00:14:33,351 Where's David? 156 00:14:34,101 --> 00:14:36,101 Tell me something, Warren. 157 00:14:36,309 --> 00:14:40,601 What happened to those rules I learned about what every young girl should do? 158 00:14:41,351 --> 00:14:45,184 Like, keep your date waiting for at least ten minutes. 159 00:14:45,392 --> 00:14:49,309 And never let him know that she wonders if he's ever going to show at all. 160 00:14:49,517 --> 00:14:51,267 It's all my fault. 161 00:14:52,184 --> 00:14:53,851 I sometimes... 162 00:14:54,059 --> 00:14:57,351 like right now, wish he didn't work for you at all. 163 00:14:57,559 --> 00:15:00,517 - That he was... - A what? A Persian rug merchant? 164 00:15:00,726 --> 00:15:02,684 That's much worse. 165 00:15:03,184 --> 00:15:06,726 Just an ordinary eight-to-fiver with a yen for picket fences. 166 00:15:06,934 --> 00:15:10,059 And waste one of the best minds in pathology? 167 00:15:10,267 --> 00:15:11,684 Not really. 168 00:15:12,726 --> 00:15:14,726 I love David just the way he is. 169 00:15:15,017 --> 00:15:17,184 I don't even want to change him. 170 00:15:18,351 --> 00:15:20,309 Golly, is that abnormal? 171 00:15:21,767 --> 00:15:23,059 Refreshing. 172 00:15:25,976 --> 00:15:28,517 Isabel went out about an hour ago. 173 00:15:36,642 --> 00:15:38,892 What are we going to do about her? 174 00:15:39,517 --> 00:15:42,642 - She's simply ruining her life. - It's not her fault. 175 00:15:42,851 --> 00:15:45,726 A husband who spends all his time in the laboratory. 176 00:15:46,101 --> 00:15:50,851 And hates cocktails and parties, and falls asleep at the opera. 177 00:15:51,101 --> 00:15:53,226 She's out almost every night now. 178 00:15:53,434 --> 00:15:55,809 And with men who aren't very nice. 179 00:15:57,309 --> 00:15:59,309 I'm ashamed of my sister. 180 00:16:00,601 --> 00:16:03,809 Lucy, as soon as David and I finish this experiment... 181 00:16:04,017 --> 00:16:08,226 I'll have more time for her. He'll have more for you. 182 00:16:10,101 --> 00:16:13,142 I'd wait for Dave forever if I have to. 183 00:16:14,892 --> 00:16:17,392 But why do I have to, Warren? 184 00:16:18,226 --> 00:16:21,851 Does being someone's guardian give you the right to rule them? 185 00:16:22,059 --> 00:16:24,517 You've had another battle with Isabel? 186 00:16:24,726 --> 00:16:26,476 No. The same one. 187 00:16:26,684 --> 00:16:29,392 I'm too young. David's too poor. 188 00:16:29,601 --> 00:16:31,892 If I do anything she doesn't approve of... 189 00:16:32,101 --> 00:16:34,059 she won't give me my share of the money. 190 00:16:34,309 --> 00:16:35,809 I'll talk to her. 191 00:16:36,476 --> 00:16:38,101 What good will that do? 192 00:16:38,309 --> 00:16:39,767 Who knows? 193 00:16:42,559 --> 00:16:44,392 - Have you had any dinner? - Not yet. 194 00:16:44,601 --> 00:16:48,142 - I'll fix you something. - No, look. I'm not really hungry. 195 00:16:48,351 --> 00:16:50,267 Warren, you've got to eat. 196 00:17:04,267 --> 00:17:05,892 Cut my head off. 197 00:17:07,059 --> 00:17:08,601 Boil me in oil. 198 00:17:13,601 --> 00:17:14,934 Young man? 199 00:17:15,142 --> 00:17:17,892 What do you mean, keeping this beautiful girl waiting? 200 00:17:18,434 --> 00:17:20,059 You say, "Go get a cat." 201 00:17:20,267 --> 00:17:23,517 You ever chase a cat down an alley? I'm lucky to be alive. 202 00:17:23,851 --> 00:17:24,767 Did you get one? 203 00:17:25,101 --> 00:17:26,476 A big black brute. 204 00:17:26,684 --> 00:17:28,809 Trouble is, I don't think we can scare him. 205 00:17:29,184 --> 00:17:33,726 Well, what are you two up to now? Black cats in dark alleys? 206 00:17:33,934 --> 00:17:36,059 Fear has the same effect on all animals. 207 00:17:36,268 --> 00:17:37,809 You mean I'm an animal? 208 00:17:38,018 --> 00:17:40,643 Better-looking than most, and can't run as fast. 209 00:17:41,559 --> 00:17:42,851 I hope. 210 00:17:43,309 --> 00:17:46,059 - I got that prescription for you. - Good. 211 00:17:46,268 --> 00:17:49,018 From the articles I read, it's a very interesting drug. 212 00:17:49,226 --> 00:17:50,559 So is nitroglycerin. 213 00:17:50,768 --> 00:17:52,893 Where is that all-for-science attitude? 214 00:17:53,101 --> 00:17:56,434 I left it in my other suit. Don't fool with that stuff alone. 215 00:17:56,643 --> 00:17:58,851 It can produce pretty weird effects. 216 00:17:59,059 --> 00:18:02,518 Speaking of which, I saw an interesting reaction this afternoon. 217 00:18:02,726 --> 00:18:06,809 There's this deaf-mute. She can't utter a sound, and she has a blood trauma. 218 00:18:07,018 --> 00:18:11,268 I cut my hand on a broken saucer, and she went into total shock. 219 00:18:11,476 --> 00:18:14,559 I've never seen anyone so terrified... 220 00:18:14,768 --> 00:18:17,268 or so unable to release her fear tensions. 221 00:18:17,476 --> 00:18:18,809 What happened? 222 00:18:19,018 --> 00:18:22,184 Her husband thinks she faints, but it isn't a true faint at all. 223 00:18:22,393 --> 00:18:23,893 It's much more serious. 224 00:18:24,101 --> 00:18:27,393 Her unreleased tensions grow so great... 225 00:18:27,601 --> 00:18:30,434 that she goes into psychosomatic blackout. 226 00:18:30,643 --> 00:18:31,809 What if she didn't? 227 00:18:33,059 --> 00:18:34,851 That's an interesting question. 228 00:18:35,059 --> 00:18:38,184 If we get her to a fluoroscope, and show her some blood... 229 00:18:38,393 --> 00:18:39,643 Please! 230 00:18:40,101 --> 00:18:41,726 We're going to dinner! 231 00:18:42,726 --> 00:18:44,226 I'm sorry. 232 00:18:45,184 --> 00:18:47,559 All right, you kids get out of here. 233 00:18:49,184 --> 00:18:51,851 We'll go, if you stay out of the lab tonight. 234 00:18:52,309 --> 00:18:55,643 The further we go, the surer I am that what we're looking for... 235 00:18:55,851 --> 00:18:58,143 is something tangible. Real. 236 00:18:58,601 --> 00:19:01,559 Anything that can exert such tremendous pressure on the spinal column... 237 00:19:01,768 --> 00:19:05,934 must be something you can see, touch, hold in your hand. 238 00:19:06,226 --> 00:19:09,393 It may exist for only a fraction of a second, but... 239 00:19:09,601 --> 00:19:13,976 there's something in every frightened person that's as solid as steel. 240 00:19:14,768 --> 00:19:16,184 And probably stronger. 241 00:19:16,393 --> 00:19:19,893 I think I've found a name for it. The Tingler. You like it? 242 00:19:20,101 --> 00:19:21,684 The Tingler? Why not? 243 00:19:21,893 --> 00:19:25,393 Since we don't know what it is yet, we can't give it a Latin name. 244 00:19:25,601 --> 00:19:26,601 Tingler. 245 00:19:27,393 --> 00:19:29,809 It must cover almost the entire backbone. 246 00:19:30,018 --> 00:19:33,059 The only way we'll ever isolate it is to catch someone... 247 00:19:33,268 --> 00:19:36,809 at the instant of complete terror. Not before, not after. 248 00:19:37,018 --> 00:19:38,018 David. 249 00:19:39,101 --> 00:19:40,643 You'll be too weak. 250 00:19:40,851 --> 00:19:43,768 - Weak? - From starvation. 251 00:19:47,768 --> 00:19:49,309 Have fun. And David... 252 00:19:49,518 --> 00:19:50,976 I know. I know. 253 00:19:51,184 --> 00:19:55,393 Don't keep him out late. He has a hard day in the lab tomorrow. 254 00:19:56,601 --> 00:19:58,643 - Good night, Warren. - Good night. 255 00:21:32,268 --> 00:21:33,559 Good evening. 256 00:21:35,268 --> 00:21:37,684 I wish you wouldn't stand around in the dark. 257 00:21:39,434 --> 00:21:40,476 Feet hurt? 258 00:21:41,809 --> 00:21:43,393 As a matter of fact, they do. 259 00:21:43,726 --> 00:21:45,268 Not from running. 260 00:21:47,101 --> 00:21:49,726 That was a charming little scene out there. 261 00:21:51,934 --> 00:21:53,184 Wasn't it? 262 00:21:53,559 --> 00:21:56,434 - Good night. - Love in bloom, right on the sidewalk. 263 00:21:56,643 --> 00:21:58,726 Rather shopworn, though, isn't it? 264 00:21:59,851 --> 00:22:04,059 Don't tell me you've abandoned corpses for peeping out of windows. 265 00:22:04,268 --> 00:22:08,684 If there was anything honest about your behavior, I might feel differently. 266 00:22:09,101 --> 00:22:11,893 You're just playing the field, and vice versa. 267 00:22:13,268 --> 00:22:17,143 You know, I think I'll have a nightcap with amateur psychiatry. 268 00:22:18,143 --> 00:22:21,018 Jealousy doesn't look well on your tie, dear. 269 00:22:23,518 --> 00:22:26,059 There's no jealousy involved. 270 00:22:30,184 --> 00:22:33,518 You know, Warren, you've lost contact with living people. 271 00:22:33,726 --> 00:22:37,559 Nobody means anything to you anymore, unless they're dead. 272 00:22:38,101 --> 00:22:41,559 And you can root around in them with your sharp little knives. 273 00:22:42,643 --> 00:22:43,934 There's a word for you. 274 00:22:44,143 --> 00:22:46,018 There's several for you. 275 00:22:46,393 --> 00:22:49,559 Lucy's very upset. So is Dave. And for that matter, so am I. 276 00:22:49,768 --> 00:22:50,768 Good. 277 00:22:51,684 --> 00:22:56,393 The only way Dave Morris will marry my sister is over my dead body. 278 00:22:56,601 --> 00:22:59,309 Unconventional, but not impossible. 279 00:23:00,059 --> 00:23:02,518 They're nice kids. They're in love. 280 00:23:02,726 --> 00:23:06,559 They're old enough and wise enough to make a go of a marriage. 281 00:23:06,768 --> 00:23:08,726 Nice kids! Love! 282 00:23:09,018 --> 00:23:11,893 Morris is another you. A scientist... 283 00:23:12,101 --> 00:23:14,184 who thinks the world is in his lab. 284 00:23:14,768 --> 00:23:18,018 I won't let my sister sacrifice herself the way I did. 285 00:23:18,476 --> 00:23:19,726 You may have to. 286 00:23:20,559 --> 00:23:21,726 What do you mean? 287 00:23:22,059 --> 00:23:23,518 You suggested a way. 288 00:23:25,434 --> 00:23:27,726 I'm tired and I'm sleepy. 289 00:23:28,768 --> 00:23:30,768 - Good night. - Stay awake a little longer. 290 00:23:30,976 --> 00:23:33,893 The next time you sleep, it may be forever. 291 00:23:34,101 --> 00:23:37,309 - Is this the hour for melodrama? - Depends on your definition. 292 00:23:37,518 --> 00:23:38,976 Sit down. Let's have a chat. 293 00:23:39,184 --> 00:23:42,726 - You've nothing to say I want to hear. - Sit down anyway! 294 00:23:43,059 --> 00:23:44,018 Go on! 295 00:23:47,351 --> 00:23:49,351 Now you won't have so far to go. 296 00:23:50,059 --> 00:23:54,434 I'd like to make two suggestions. First, leave Lucy and Dave alone. 297 00:23:55,309 --> 00:23:59,059 You're a shrewd and evil woman, adept at twisting people's minds. 298 00:23:59,268 --> 00:24:01,268 Leave them alone. Please. 299 00:24:01,434 --> 00:24:05,351 Next, I suggest that you give Lucy half of the money you've got. 300 00:24:05,559 --> 00:24:10,268 So Dave can continue in pathology, without the obstacle of having no money. 301 00:24:11,643 --> 00:24:15,684 I know a wonderful psychiatrist with a divine straitjacket... 302 00:24:15,893 --> 00:24:18,018 just your size. 303 00:24:18,226 --> 00:24:19,684 Are you forgetting anything? 304 00:24:20,226 --> 00:24:23,476 - Probably. - That's the understatement of the year. 305 00:24:23,684 --> 00:24:26,684 Now remember this: Everything you've got, I paid for! 306 00:24:26,893 --> 00:24:30,976 Your lab, all that expensive junk, Morris' wages, your car, this house! 307 00:24:31,185 --> 00:24:32,018 And remember! 308 00:24:32,226 --> 00:24:36,726 All I have to do to put you and Morris into the street is to turn the key. 309 00:24:37,101 --> 00:24:39,810 On the goodie box? Where did the goodies come from? 310 00:24:40,018 --> 00:24:41,518 My father. 311 00:24:42,435 --> 00:24:45,935 Nice man too. Pity he died so suddenly. 312 00:24:46,935 --> 00:24:50,476 I had nothing to do with my father's death, and you know it. 313 00:24:50,685 --> 00:24:54,143 - Like me to prove it isn't nonsense? - You can't prove anything. 314 00:24:54,351 --> 00:24:57,560 - There's nothing to prove. - You wouldn't like me to try? 315 00:24:57,768 --> 00:25:00,351 And you should remember this, darling. 316 00:25:00,601 --> 00:25:03,226 Organic poisons, like old soldiers, never die. 317 00:25:03,435 --> 00:25:05,976 They just lie smoldering in the grave. 318 00:25:07,018 --> 00:25:08,976 And I'm not bad at autopsies. 319 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,893 You're crazy! You really are. 320 00:25:16,101 --> 00:25:18,726 Isn't everyone? Now walk straight ahead. 321 00:25:18,935 --> 00:25:19,935 Go on. 322 00:25:22,435 --> 00:25:23,768 What are you going to do? 323 00:25:23,976 --> 00:25:28,226 We'll have a little chat. What I do next is entirely up to you, so walk. 324 00:25:32,435 --> 00:25:34,226 Where are you taking me? 325 00:25:34,435 --> 00:25:38,893 It'll be easier to "rearrange" things in the laboratory. 326 00:25:48,935 --> 00:25:51,143 You should come in here more often, dear. 327 00:25:59,476 --> 00:26:01,976 Let's stop all this childish behavior. 328 00:26:02,185 --> 00:26:05,351 - A gun is so out of character. - Isn't it? Over there. 329 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,518 - Warren, stop it! - Over there! 330 00:26:07,768 --> 00:26:10,393 Have you gone completely out of your mind? 331 00:26:10,768 --> 00:26:13,643 Not at all. You see, you're a good teacher. 332 00:26:13,976 --> 00:26:16,935 You taught me how to get what I want, no matter who gets hurt. 333 00:26:17,185 --> 00:26:19,685 - What do you mean by that? - Just this: 334 00:26:20,143 --> 00:26:23,976 Ever since you've been Lucy's guardian, you've tried to ruin her life. 335 00:26:24,185 --> 00:26:28,060 You've greedily kept what was hers. Now I'm giving you a choice. 336 00:26:28,268 --> 00:26:32,351 Either you give Lucy half of all the money you got and leave her alone... 337 00:26:32,768 --> 00:26:35,560 or you commit suicide right now. 338 00:26:36,268 --> 00:26:39,226 Suicide? You mean murder. 339 00:26:39,935 --> 00:26:42,685 When I finish rearranging things, it'll look like suicide. 340 00:26:42,893 --> 00:26:44,351 Now make up your mind. 341 00:26:44,601 --> 00:26:47,268 We want to be through with this before Lucy comes home. 342 00:26:48,518 --> 00:26:52,518 I won't give that child anything, so put away that silly pistol! 343 00:26:52,726 --> 00:26:55,351 This "silly" pistol can make a hole in you... 344 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,893 the size of a medium grapefruit. 345 00:26:58,851 --> 00:27:00,893 I'll call the police! 346 00:28:51,268 --> 00:28:54,935 You're not hurt, dear. It was just a blank cartridge. 347 00:28:55,143 --> 00:28:59,185 Thanks for helping with the experiment. You played your part excellently. 348 00:29:00,018 --> 00:29:01,601 I see. 349 00:29:01,893 --> 00:29:04,935 Sharing in your husband's work and all that, you know. 350 00:29:05,768 --> 00:29:06,935 Kitty. 351 00:29:07,143 --> 00:29:08,810 Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty. 352 00:29:10,226 --> 00:29:13,893 I was going to use this cat. But you made a much better subject. 353 00:29:17,268 --> 00:29:20,976 Have you two met? In the same alley, perhaps? 354 00:29:21,768 --> 00:29:25,685 When my turn comes, and it will come... 355 00:29:25,935 --> 00:29:27,976 it won't be an experiment. 356 00:29:42,435 --> 00:29:43,643 Howdy, boss! 357 00:29:43,851 --> 00:29:45,518 I've got something to show you. 358 00:29:45,726 --> 00:29:46,976 Wait. I brought a dog. 359 00:29:47,435 --> 00:29:48,810 A dog? What for? 360 00:29:50,768 --> 00:29:55,226 You say, "Get a cat." I got it, You say, "Get a dog." I get a dog. 361 00:29:55,435 --> 00:29:56,393 We don't need him. 362 00:29:57,851 --> 00:29:59,268 "A" for effort. 363 00:29:59,476 --> 00:30:03,601 I wouldn't be surprised if in a fair fight that cat'd whip this dog. 364 00:30:03,810 --> 00:30:07,226 - What do you want to show me? - You've never seen anything like this. 365 00:30:23,476 --> 00:30:25,185 See anything unusual? 366 00:30:27,685 --> 00:30:28,935 What's this? 367 00:30:29,143 --> 00:30:30,476 You tell me. 368 00:30:32,268 --> 00:30:35,810 I don't know. But it's stronger and denser than bone. 369 00:30:36,435 --> 00:30:39,726 I'm showing you these negatives in reverse order... 370 00:30:39,935 --> 00:30:41,226 on purpose. 371 00:30:44,101 --> 00:30:45,018 Look at that! 372 00:30:47,226 --> 00:30:48,185 Wait. 373 00:31:00,976 --> 00:31:02,060 The Tingler. 374 00:31:02,268 --> 00:31:03,726 It must be. 375 00:31:04,310 --> 00:31:07,643 Until we get a specimen of it, we can't be sure. 376 00:31:08,643 --> 00:31:10,893 I can't see any bone structure. 377 00:31:11,101 --> 00:31:14,018 - It must be solid matter. - That's what I thought. 378 00:31:14,435 --> 00:31:16,226 How'd you get this picture? Who is it? 379 00:31:16,435 --> 00:31:19,601 - It doesn't matter how or who. - Isabel? 380 00:31:19,810 --> 00:31:21,643 I said it doesn't matter. 381 00:31:22,393 --> 00:31:24,726 - I'm sorry, Warren. - That's all right. 382 00:31:26,268 --> 00:31:29,393 Let's review our progress so far. 383 00:31:29,768 --> 00:31:31,352 What do we know about The Tingler? 384 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,893 What do we think we know, and what've we got to find out? 385 00:31:35,102 --> 00:31:37,435 First, we know that it exists. 386 00:31:37,643 --> 00:31:40,685 If roentgen rays can't penetrate it, we know it's solid. 387 00:31:40,893 --> 00:31:44,143 We know that fear energizes it, gives it strength. 388 00:31:44,685 --> 00:31:46,185 That's about all we know. 389 00:31:46,435 --> 00:31:49,018 Except that it exists in every human being. 390 00:31:49,227 --> 00:31:50,977 And that it's extremely powerful. 391 00:31:51,185 --> 00:31:53,060 What do we think we know? 392 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,352 That fear causes The Tingler to spread along the spinal column. 393 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,768 And with those arm-like things, between the vertebrae... 394 00:32:01,977 --> 00:32:04,102 forces it to become arched and rigid. 395 00:32:04,310 --> 00:32:06,102 And you believe that screaming... 396 00:32:06,310 --> 00:32:10,310 or any sound the human in fear can make, paralyzes it? 397 00:32:10,518 --> 00:32:14,977 At least screaming seems to stop it from bending the spinal column. 398 00:32:15,185 --> 00:32:19,102 Screaming may dissolve it, or if it's a living organism, kill it. 399 00:32:19,310 --> 00:32:21,602 And these are things we have to find out. 400 00:32:21,810 --> 00:32:24,727 - What do you think it's made of? - I don't know. 401 00:32:24,935 --> 00:32:28,518 But I'd guess sinews of some very powerful material. 402 00:32:28,893 --> 00:32:31,310 You said, "living organism." 403 00:32:31,518 --> 00:32:33,602 Could The Tingler be alive? 404 00:32:33,810 --> 00:32:36,852 A separate and living thing inside our bodies? 405 00:32:37,060 --> 00:32:38,227 Why not? 406 00:32:38,935 --> 00:32:41,352 You know, of course, that after death... 407 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,018 many things continue to live in the body. 408 00:32:44,268 --> 00:32:45,560 Fingernails grow. 409 00:32:45,768 --> 00:32:49,643 So does hair, and the formation of calcium in the bones continues. 410 00:32:49,852 --> 00:32:54,352 Life is not merely a matter of breathing and a beating heart. 411 00:32:56,602 --> 00:32:59,227 - We've come a long way. - We got a long way to go. 412 00:32:59,435 --> 00:33:01,727 Perhaps. And perhaps not. 413 00:33:02,018 --> 00:33:05,143 We now know that at the peak of terror... 414 00:33:05,352 --> 00:33:09,268 The Tingler is a solid mass extending from the coccyx to the cervicals. 415 00:33:09,477 --> 00:33:12,477 If one could stand the pain without screaming... 416 00:33:12,685 --> 00:33:15,977 or otherwise releasing their tension until they died... 417 00:33:16,185 --> 00:33:19,393 an autopsy would give us a Tingler we could work with. 418 00:33:19,602 --> 00:33:23,227 The advancement of human knowledge is fine, but dying for it... 419 00:33:23,435 --> 00:33:24,602 If that's your attitude... 420 00:33:24,810 --> 00:33:29,602 we'll have to find someone else who's willing to die for science. 421 00:33:29,810 --> 00:33:31,810 And eventually we will. 422 00:33:49,268 --> 00:33:53,393 I'm worried, David. Isabel has been sweet to me all day. 423 00:33:53,602 --> 00:33:56,268 Me too. At least she said good morning. 424 00:33:56,477 --> 00:33:57,477 Even smiled. 425 00:33:57,685 --> 00:34:00,810 So look out. The roof is going to fall in. 426 00:34:01,810 --> 00:34:03,477 - Coffee, Warren? - No, thanks. 427 00:34:03,685 --> 00:34:06,810 I've been thinking... Yes, I'd love a cup of coffee. 428 00:34:07,018 --> 00:34:08,060 Thank you. 429 00:34:08,268 --> 00:34:09,268 So? 430 00:34:11,268 --> 00:34:15,143 I've been trying to frighten myself, but nothing works. 431 00:34:15,352 --> 00:34:18,810 It isn't that I'm too intelligent. Just too grown up. 432 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:20,852 Kids can scare themselves... 433 00:34:21,060 --> 00:34:24,935 by lying in the dark and making ghosts out of chairs, but we can't. 434 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,477 The only way I can frighten myself is to make it real. 435 00:34:30,768 --> 00:34:34,685 Jump out of a window, get run over by a car, go out and drown. 436 00:34:36,685 --> 00:34:39,768 After those x-rays, we know The Tingler exists. 437 00:34:39,977 --> 00:34:42,143 Why do you have to scare yourself? 438 00:34:43,435 --> 00:34:47,102 I want to personally sense the power of The Tingler... 439 00:34:47,310 --> 00:34:50,060 in a genuine fear situation. 440 00:34:52,185 --> 00:34:55,143 In a controlled experiment, with my own fear... 441 00:34:55,352 --> 00:34:58,560 perhaps I can find out all the things we have to know. 442 00:34:59,435 --> 00:35:01,560 Only nothing scares me. 443 00:35:04,685 --> 00:35:06,685 Exactly. Boo! 444 00:35:07,518 --> 00:35:10,268 Well, back to the salt mines. 445 00:35:12,102 --> 00:35:14,102 Why don't you take the night off? 446 00:35:14,310 --> 00:35:16,268 Go to a movie. You and Lucy. 447 00:35:16,435 --> 00:35:17,643 I'll be in later. 448 00:35:17,852 --> 00:35:19,477 I mean it. Take the night off. 449 00:35:21,727 --> 00:35:23,227 Okay, boss. The night off. 450 00:35:23,810 --> 00:35:24,977 Good night. 451 00:35:33,602 --> 00:35:35,227 This is not good. 452 00:35:36,768 --> 00:35:40,643 - He's leaving us out of something. - But what? There's nothing in the lab. 453 00:35:42,810 --> 00:35:44,643 That drug you brought... 454 00:35:44,852 --> 00:35:46,852 It's not a drug. It's an acid. 455 00:35:49,602 --> 00:35:51,102 I wonder... 456 00:36:01,935 --> 00:36:03,227 Locked. 457 00:36:03,435 --> 00:36:05,560 He never did that before. 458 00:36:08,643 --> 00:36:10,310 Can you see anything? 459 00:36:11,435 --> 00:36:12,852 He's locking the other door. 460 00:36:48,435 --> 00:36:50,102 What's he doing now? 461 00:36:50,310 --> 00:36:52,560 He's saying something to the tape recorder. 462 00:36:52,768 --> 00:36:56,435 Average injection: 50 micromilligrams. 463 00:36:57,185 --> 00:36:58,102 Fifty. 464 00:36:58,310 --> 00:37:02,268 I'm making it 100 micromilligrams in solution. 465 00:37:26,810 --> 00:37:28,560 What's happening now? 466 00:37:34,852 --> 00:37:36,852 Warren wanted to do this. 467 00:37:37,060 --> 00:37:39,685 Let's hope he's accomplishing something important. 468 00:37:39,893 --> 00:37:41,352 What's he doing now? 469 00:37:49,935 --> 00:37:53,227 Time: 8:03. Sharp stinging sensation. 470 00:37:54,768 --> 00:37:56,352 Now he's sitting down. 471 00:37:57,477 --> 00:37:59,977 - Is he all right? - As far as I can tell. 472 00:38:06,227 --> 00:38:08,935 Definite blurring of vision now... 473 00:38:11,685 --> 00:38:13,143 at 8:11. 474 00:38:14,810 --> 00:38:17,560 Emotionally, I feel nothing abnormal. 475 00:38:20,435 --> 00:38:22,518 What does that stuff do to you? 476 00:38:24,435 --> 00:38:26,185 For one thing, nightmares. 477 00:38:26,393 --> 00:38:29,102 You're wide-awake. But you're having nightmares. 478 00:38:33,644 --> 00:38:35,394 Blurring of vision... 479 00:38:36,019 --> 00:38:39,269 has been replaced by distinct rocking... 480 00:38:39,935 --> 00:38:41,727 and tilting sensation. 481 00:38:43,102 --> 00:38:46,727 I don't seem to be tilting, but the room is... 482 00:38:47,769 --> 00:38:49,602 from side to side. 483 00:38:51,269 --> 00:38:52,227 Time... 484 00:38:54,935 --> 00:38:56,310 8:13. 485 00:38:59,185 --> 00:39:02,894 Emotionally, I begin to feel somewhat apprehensive. 486 00:39:04,935 --> 00:39:07,060 Probably normal, however. 487 00:39:26,727 --> 00:39:28,310 The room is closing in on me. 488 00:39:28,519 --> 00:39:30,310 He's talking again. 489 00:39:30,519 --> 00:39:32,185 I wish I could hear. 490 00:39:32,394 --> 00:39:33,977 Is he all right? 491 00:39:34,185 --> 00:39:35,977 Something is scaring him. 492 00:39:39,019 --> 00:39:41,227 The room is closing in on me. 493 00:39:41,727 --> 00:39:43,560 You've got to make it stop. 494 00:39:44,435 --> 00:39:45,602 The walls! 495 00:39:47,727 --> 00:39:48,935 The walls! 496 00:40:02,644 --> 00:40:04,185 Can't we help him? 497 00:40:06,102 --> 00:40:07,644 No, we can't, Lucy. 498 00:40:07,852 --> 00:40:12,269 Break the door. He may be suffering. That drug may be hurting him. 499 00:40:12,477 --> 00:40:15,602 He's only suffering in his mind. Nothing is hurting him. 500 00:40:15,977 --> 00:40:17,935 It may hurt his mind. 501 00:40:18,144 --> 00:40:20,519 There's nothing we can do to help him now. 502 00:40:20,727 --> 00:40:22,769 That acid must wear off naturally. 503 00:40:22,977 --> 00:40:27,394 If I try to stop it or even minimize it with an antidote, I might kill him. 504 00:40:30,435 --> 00:40:32,144 I got to get out of here! 505 00:40:33,894 --> 00:40:35,310 No breath! 506 00:40:36,144 --> 00:40:37,227 No air! 507 00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:39,144 I can't breathe! 508 00:40:43,977 --> 00:40:46,019 The window. It won't open! 509 00:40:47,394 --> 00:40:49,352 It's locked. Barred! 510 00:40:51,769 --> 00:40:54,310 Somebody's got to help me! 511 00:41:08,727 --> 00:41:11,852 - Isn't there another key? - Maybe. I'll go look. 512 00:41:12,769 --> 00:41:14,019 Mustn't scream. 513 00:41:15,269 --> 00:41:16,560 I mustn't scream! 514 00:41:27,435 --> 00:41:29,727 I broke down and screamed, didn't I? 515 00:41:30,810 --> 00:41:32,727 I couldn't help it, Dave. 516 00:41:33,810 --> 00:41:35,519 Things were pretty foggy... 517 00:41:35,727 --> 00:41:38,685 but I remember thinking that I mustn't scream. 518 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:43,269 But the pain and the fear were so great. 519 00:41:43,727 --> 00:41:48,394 I don't think anybody could keep from screaming if they were really terrified. 520 00:41:48,894 --> 00:41:50,102 Unless... 521 00:41:51,144 --> 00:41:52,560 Unless what? 522 00:41:54,519 --> 00:41:55,894 Just an idle idea. 523 00:42:00,435 --> 00:42:03,560 I'd better be on my way. Good night, kids. 524 00:42:07,602 --> 00:42:09,435 Unless what, Dave? 525 00:42:09,644 --> 00:42:12,685 Suppose a person could not possibly scream? 526 00:42:13,185 --> 00:42:15,519 Well, everybody can scream. 527 00:42:17,227 --> 00:42:19,394 A deaf-mute can't scream. 528 00:42:28,769 --> 00:42:30,060 - Evening, Doc. - Ollie. 529 00:42:30,269 --> 00:42:31,769 Come to see the show? 530 00:42:31,977 --> 00:42:35,060 Not tonight. I just dropped by to see how you were doing. 531 00:42:35,269 --> 00:42:36,477 Well, pretty good. 532 00:42:36,685 --> 00:42:39,060 - How's your experiment? - It's making progress. 533 00:42:39,269 --> 00:42:42,977 In fact, I dropped by because I was worried about your wife. 534 00:42:43,185 --> 00:42:46,019 A shock like that can have pretty bad after-effects. 535 00:42:46,852 --> 00:42:49,227 I've been a little worried about her too. 536 00:42:49,435 --> 00:42:51,894 She hasn't eaten a thing and she can't sleep. 537 00:42:52,102 --> 00:42:56,394 Ever since she saw that blood, she just roams around the theater all night. 538 00:42:56,769 --> 00:42:57,810 Is she here now? 539 00:42:58,019 --> 00:43:01,185 She's upstairs. She won't even tend the box office anymore. 540 00:43:01,394 --> 00:43:05,144 Why don't I have a look at her? It may be a simple case of nerves. 541 00:43:05,727 --> 00:43:09,019 - I'd appreciate it. - What drugstore do you use? 542 00:43:09,227 --> 00:43:11,185 The Cut-Rate around the corner. 543 00:43:52,352 --> 00:43:54,352 Good evening, Mrs. Higgins. 544 00:43:56,352 --> 00:43:58,935 Ollie told me to come up. He said you weren't... 545 00:44:08,269 --> 00:44:11,310 Ollie told me to come up and see you. 546 00:44:11,644 --> 00:44:14,185 He said you weren't feeling well. 547 00:44:15,102 --> 00:44:16,894 Would you like me to check you over? 548 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:35,269 All you need is sleep and rest. 549 00:44:35,477 --> 00:44:40,019 Now I'm going to give you a shot. To relax you. 550 00:44:40,352 --> 00:44:44,977 And then I'm going to give Ollie a prescription for some barbiturates. 551 00:44:45,935 --> 00:44:48,852 Sleeping pills. They won't hurt you. 552 00:44:49,435 --> 00:44:50,602 All right? 553 00:45:25,810 --> 00:45:28,311 All you need is rest and sleep. 554 00:45:37,311 --> 00:45:41,394 How much? How about a couple of passes for your theater? 555 00:45:45,269 --> 00:45:49,227 Now you just go to sleep, and you'll be as fit as a fiddle. 556 00:45:49,977 --> 00:45:51,102 Lie down. 557 00:45:56,769 --> 00:45:57,936 Good night. 558 00:46:24,102 --> 00:46:25,102 How is she, Doc? 559 00:46:25,311 --> 00:46:28,519 It's just nerves. I gave her a shot to relax her. 560 00:46:28,727 --> 00:46:32,811 If she should wake up, give her these pills. 561 00:46:33,352 --> 00:46:36,352 - How long will she sleep? - Now? 562 00:46:36,769 --> 00:46:39,352 The shot should wear off in two or three hours. 563 00:46:39,561 --> 00:46:43,144 Have her take these pills. She needs a lot of sleep. 564 00:46:43,352 --> 00:46:45,061 I'll go get this filled. 565 00:46:45,269 --> 00:46:47,602 I have time to have a beer, don't I? 566 00:46:48,102 --> 00:46:49,144 Sure. 567 00:46:49,602 --> 00:46:51,852 Join me? With her sick, I certainly need one. 568 00:46:52,061 --> 00:46:55,019 I'd like to very much. But I have some work to finish. 569 00:46:56,102 --> 00:46:58,102 Thanks, Doc. And good night. 570 00:51:46,686 --> 00:51:48,227 Home so soon? 571 00:51:51,352 --> 00:51:53,894 Did you hear what the husband said to the wife? 572 00:51:54,102 --> 00:51:56,644 This another one of your oblique jokes? 573 00:51:56,977 --> 00:52:00,686 Why does the back door slam every time I come in the front door? 574 00:52:00,894 --> 00:52:02,769 Because he was a jealous husband? 575 00:52:03,311 --> 00:52:05,894 Nothing like a good two-fisted drinker, right? 576 00:52:06,144 --> 00:52:09,061 Are you sure I didn't mix them for you, dear? 577 00:52:09,269 --> 00:52:11,061 You look tired. 578 00:52:19,269 --> 00:52:22,061 It's a pity I'm not the type for gold tie clips. 579 00:52:22,269 --> 00:52:25,186 But you are, Warren. Exactly. 580 00:52:35,228 --> 00:52:36,561 Doc! Doc, my wife! 581 00:52:36,769 --> 00:52:38,478 I know it's late, but my wife... 582 00:52:38,686 --> 00:52:40,769 Take it easy. What's the trouble? 583 00:52:40,978 --> 00:52:43,811 She's sick. Maybe dead by now. It's terrible. 584 00:52:44,019 --> 00:52:45,144 I'll get my bag. 585 00:52:45,353 --> 00:52:47,769 I brought her here because you treated her. 586 00:52:47,978 --> 00:52:49,019 I tried to phone you. 587 00:52:49,269 --> 00:52:51,853 Let's bring her around to the lab door. 588 00:52:53,603 --> 00:52:56,228 Just a couple of beers. When I got home, there she was. 589 00:52:56,436 --> 00:52:57,769 You suppose... 590 00:52:58,269 --> 00:53:00,186 Could it be that shot you gave her? 591 00:53:00,394 --> 00:53:01,769 Well, hardly. 592 00:53:03,311 --> 00:53:05,019 I found her lying on the bathroom floor. 593 00:53:05,228 --> 00:53:07,561 She was so cold, I thought she was dead. 594 00:53:07,769 --> 00:53:09,853 When I picked her up, she moved. 595 00:53:22,769 --> 00:53:24,436 Ollie, your wife is dead. 596 00:53:24,644 --> 00:53:26,228 I'm very sorry. 597 00:53:29,103 --> 00:53:31,769 I guess I wasn't much of a husband to her. 598 00:53:31,978 --> 00:53:34,394 There's no way I can make up for it. 599 00:53:34,644 --> 00:53:36,561 Ollie, I'm really sorry. 600 00:53:40,394 --> 00:53:43,061 Do you feel like helping me with some details? 601 00:53:43,269 --> 00:53:44,853 I feel okay. 602 00:53:47,936 --> 00:53:49,519 What do you want to know? 603 00:53:50,603 --> 00:53:53,228 Tell me as closely as you can... 604 00:53:53,436 --> 00:53:56,228 what time you found her, and the circumstances. 605 00:53:56,436 --> 00:53:58,978 It must have been about one o'clock, Doc. 606 00:53:59,186 --> 00:54:03,519 When you left, I went to have a beer. When I came home, I just went in. 607 00:54:03,728 --> 00:54:05,644 There she was, lying on the bathroom floor. 608 00:54:05,853 --> 00:54:07,978 - Age? - She's 46. 609 00:54:08,519 --> 00:54:10,186 Was there any sign of a struggle? 610 00:54:10,978 --> 00:54:14,269 There was nothing. She was just lying on the bathroom floor. 611 00:54:14,478 --> 00:54:17,186 There wasn't anything unusual about the room at all? 612 00:54:17,394 --> 00:54:19,519 No. Just the way it always is. 613 00:54:20,728 --> 00:54:25,269 From her expression, something must have terrified her just before she died. 614 00:54:25,811 --> 00:54:28,728 You haven't any idea what it was? 615 00:54:29,019 --> 00:54:32,311 Everything was locked. There was no sign of anyone there. 616 00:54:40,853 --> 00:54:42,894 My God, she's alive! 617 00:55:09,394 --> 00:55:11,428 She's not alive, Ollie. 618 00:55:12,478 --> 00:55:15,061 Something frightened her to death. 619 00:55:16,103 --> 00:55:18,019 She's been dead for over an hour. 620 00:55:19,311 --> 00:55:20,686 She moved. 621 00:55:23,728 --> 00:55:25,686 May I find out why? 622 00:55:26,436 --> 00:55:28,811 Sure, Doc, sure. Anything you want. 623 00:55:40,728 --> 00:55:42,186 Just sit over there. 624 00:57:42,686 --> 00:57:44,228 The Tingler! 625 00:57:45,894 --> 00:57:47,644 Give me that glass tank. 626 00:58:13,769 --> 00:58:16,561 - What happened? - It attacked him. 627 00:58:16,769 --> 00:58:17,978 That thing? 628 00:58:18,186 --> 00:58:20,061 How strong is it, Doc? 629 00:58:20,269 --> 00:58:23,561 Strong enough to kill a man, easily and quickly. 630 00:58:31,353 --> 00:58:34,561 - What made it let go? - My screaming, I think. 631 00:58:35,103 --> 00:58:36,561 Must have been. 632 00:58:38,436 --> 00:58:40,061 Your wife is... 633 00:58:40,269 --> 00:58:41,686 She's dead. 634 00:58:43,894 --> 00:58:46,269 Are you badly hurt, Warren? 635 00:58:49,519 --> 00:58:52,269 Good night. I'm sorry about your wife. 636 00:59:03,978 --> 00:59:06,311 Is there anything I can do for your arm, dear? 637 00:59:06,519 --> 00:59:07,394 No, thank you. 638 00:59:34,770 --> 00:59:35,895 Thank you, Ollie. 639 00:59:38,561 --> 00:59:40,228 We'd better call a funeral parlor. 640 00:59:40,436 --> 00:59:42,728 No, not in the middle of the night. 641 00:59:42,895 --> 00:59:45,728 Couldn't I just take her home and call in the morning? 642 00:59:45,936 --> 00:59:48,228 It's easier that way. They'll just come... 643 00:59:48,436 --> 00:59:51,270 It might take quite a long while. It's so late. 644 00:59:51,478 --> 00:59:53,186 You'd have to wait up. 645 00:59:55,728 --> 00:59:57,811 - I'd rather take her myself. - All right. 646 00:59:58,020 --> 01:00:00,811 - Can you manage? - I can manage. 647 01:00:07,478 --> 01:00:09,978 You'd better notify the police right away. 648 01:00:10,186 --> 01:00:11,353 I will. 649 01:00:18,478 --> 01:00:19,811 Has he gone? 650 01:00:23,353 --> 01:00:26,353 This is very important to you, isn't it, Warren? 651 01:00:27,436 --> 01:00:28,936 Yes, very. 652 01:00:29,270 --> 01:00:31,645 You've worked so long to find it. 653 01:00:32,020 --> 01:00:34,061 Let's celebrate, shall we? 654 01:00:34,728 --> 01:00:39,478 Let's celebrate finding The Tingler. And me. 655 01:00:40,895 --> 01:00:41,853 You? 656 01:00:42,395 --> 01:00:45,811 I've been a bad and foolish wife. 657 01:00:49,895 --> 01:00:52,895 All this time I've been jealous of your work. 658 01:00:53,270 --> 01:00:55,353 How silly can you get? 659 01:00:56,645 --> 01:01:00,186 - Scotch? - Yes, I think so. 660 01:01:00,395 --> 01:01:01,353 Thanks. 661 01:01:03,978 --> 01:01:05,270 Here you are. 662 01:01:06,103 --> 01:01:08,770 I'd rather have the other glass, darling. 663 01:01:08,978 --> 01:01:10,020 Why? 664 01:01:10,728 --> 01:01:12,061 More booze. 665 01:01:12,270 --> 01:01:14,603 They're both exactly the same. 666 01:01:14,978 --> 01:01:17,478 You're so amusing. 667 01:01:18,353 --> 01:01:20,061 And so trusting. 668 01:01:20,978 --> 01:01:21,978 Thanks. 669 01:01:22,978 --> 01:01:25,020 Here's to The Tingler... 670 01:01:25,728 --> 01:01:27,645 and your new wife. 671 01:01:29,061 --> 01:01:32,895 I hope the new wife doesn't turn out to be as dangerous as The Tingler. 672 01:01:37,186 --> 01:01:39,853 One thing that's so nice about you... 673 01:01:41,061 --> 01:01:42,645 I can always count on you. 674 01:01:43,103 --> 01:01:44,103 To do what? 675 01:01:45,270 --> 01:01:46,811 The right thing. 676 01:01:48,728 --> 01:01:50,728 Now, about this new wife... 677 01:01:51,061 --> 01:01:52,936 First, about The Tingler. 678 01:01:53,145 --> 01:01:55,228 Is it really so dangerous? 679 01:01:57,020 --> 01:01:58,395 You know... 680 01:01:59,686 --> 01:02:03,770 I felt as though my arm were in one of those hydraulic presses. 681 01:02:05,353 --> 01:02:07,103 Tremendous power. 682 01:02:07,895 --> 01:02:09,895 What are you going to do with it? 683 01:02:15,478 --> 01:02:17,728 Probably for my old wife. 684 01:02:23,020 --> 01:02:24,186 That you, Doc? 685 01:02:24,645 --> 01:02:27,561 I just called to let you know everything's all right. 686 01:02:29,311 --> 01:02:32,061 You really didn't have to bother. 687 01:02:33,145 --> 01:02:34,395 I left her... 688 01:02:34,978 --> 01:02:38,103 Well, I mean... She's at the funeral parlor. 689 01:02:38,811 --> 01:02:41,895 I called the police. They said let it go till morning. 690 01:05:55,186 --> 01:05:58,436 Nothing affects it. You can't destroy the thing. 691 01:05:58,645 --> 01:06:01,436 Doctors will be amazed when they see The Tingler. 692 01:06:01,645 --> 01:06:03,270 They're not going to see it. 693 01:06:03,478 --> 01:06:05,728 Aren't you taking it to the convention? 694 01:06:06,436 --> 01:06:09,061 You'll write about it in the journals. 695 01:06:09,395 --> 01:06:12,645 There's not going to be anything in the journals about it. 696 01:06:13,186 --> 01:06:15,811 After all this work! What are you going to do? 697 01:06:15,978 --> 01:06:18,645 To break the laws of nature is always dangerous... 698 01:06:18,978 --> 01:06:22,061 and we've violated some basic principles. 699 01:06:22,270 --> 01:06:24,186 We had to. But now we'll stop. 700 01:06:24,395 --> 01:06:26,478 But, Warren, you can't just... 701 01:06:27,187 --> 01:06:28,353 Hear me out. 702 01:06:28,562 --> 01:06:32,103 That The Tingler exists in every human being we now know. 703 01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:35,312 Look at that. It's an ugly and dangerous thing. 704 01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:38,145 Ugly because it's the creation of man's fear. 705 01:06:38,353 --> 01:06:42,562 Dangerous because a frightened man is dangerous. 706 01:06:42,728 --> 01:06:47,228 We can't destroy it, because we've removed it from its natural place. 707 01:06:47,437 --> 01:06:49,062 Then what can we do? 708 01:06:50,395 --> 01:06:51,895 Call Ollie. 709 01:06:52,395 --> 01:06:55,645 Ask him the name of the funeral parlor where he left his wife. 710 01:06:56,603 --> 01:06:58,853 We can only hope, and try. 711 01:06:59,312 --> 01:07:03,978 Fear made that Tingler grow from microscopic size to this. 712 01:07:04,187 --> 01:07:05,437 We can only hope... 713 01:07:05,645 --> 01:07:09,603 when it goes back where it came from, it'll also go back to a thing... 714 01:07:09,812 --> 01:07:13,937 infinitely small. Even die. 715 01:07:14,603 --> 01:07:18,228 Because its creator is dead. All fear gone. 716 01:07:19,187 --> 01:07:20,395 Ollie doesn't answer. 717 01:07:20,603 --> 01:07:23,562 Then call the police or the coroner. They'll know. 718 01:07:23,770 --> 01:07:26,520 - Isabel's gone. - Isabel is always gone. 719 01:07:26,728 --> 01:07:29,603 - I mean she's left. - Give me the police department. 720 01:07:29,812 --> 01:07:32,645 - She's taken her clothes. - I want to check on a death. 721 01:07:34,312 --> 01:07:38,062 Well, I can only hope she'll be happier. 722 01:07:38,645 --> 01:07:40,728 They have no report of her death. 723 01:07:40,937 --> 01:07:43,562 But they must have! Ollie called me... 724 01:07:44,728 --> 01:07:45,978 I wonder. 725 01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:50,187 Call Ollie again. 726 01:07:51,228 --> 01:07:52,603 Call him till he answers. 727 01:07:52,812 --> 01:07:56,395 And when he does, tell him not to do anything foolish. 728 01:07:56,728 --> 01:07:58,478 That I'll try to help him. 729 01:08:53,562 --> 01:08:56,687 - What did you do with her? - I took her to the funeral home. 730 01:08:56,895 --> 01:08:59,770 Like I told you on the phone, but you hung up on me. 731 01:09:00,437 --> 01:09:02,937 - Where is she? - I keep telling you, Doc. 732 01:09:03,645 --> 01:09:04,562 What's in there? 733 01:09:04,770 --> 01:09:08,687 Just my things. I'm moving out. It's too gloomy here. 734 01:09:12,978 --> 01:09:14,478 You killed her. 735 01:09:14,687 --> 01:09:15,895 No, I didn't. 736 01:09:16,062 --> 01:09:19,645 Your wife was frightened to death with this. 737 01:09:19,978 --> 01:09:21,437 And this. 738 01:09:21,812 --> 01:09:23,228 What did you do with her? 739 01:09:23,395 --> 01:09:25,270 - I keep telling... - You're lying! 740 01:09:44,562 --> 01:09:46,812 You don't know how it was with her. 741 01:09:47,020 --> 01:09:50,978 She would've killed me if she could've. She tried to lots of times. 742 01:09:51,187 --> 01:09:52,728 You don't know how it was. 743 01:09:52,937 --> 01:09:55,228 I know exactly how it was. 744 01:10:19,312 --> 01:10:20,937 What are you going to do? 745 01:10:21,145 --> 01:10:24,770 First, I'm going to put The Tingler back where it came from. 746 01:10:24,978 --> 01:10:27,270 So that if it can die, it will. 747 01:10:28,228 --> 01:10:29,895 And then I'll call the police. 748 01:10:42,270 --> 01:10:44,562 It broke out of the box! 749 01:10:49,228 --> 01:10:50,562 What's that? 750 01:10:52,020 --> 01:10:54,812 It's just a loose board. I've been meaning to fix it. 751 01:10:55,728 --> 01:10:57,687 What's below this? 752 01:10:58,687 --> 01:11:00,145 The theater! 753 01:11:00,895 --> 01:11:02,020 The theater! 754 01:11:05,895 --> 01:11:08,228 The Tingler is in the theater! 755 01:11:08,437 --> 01:11:10,228 I'll warn the audience. 756 01:11:11,062 --> 01:11:13,020 No, you'd start a panic. 757 01:11:14,228 --> 01:11:16,853 We've got to be quiet and careful. 758 01:11:17,895 --> 01:11:19,853 But we've got to find it. 759 01:13:49,937 --> 01:13:53,520 It must be in here somewhere. Let's look down the other aisle. 760 01:14:40,270 --> 01:14:43,062 Ladies and gentlemen, there's no cause for alarm. 761 01:14:43,270 --> 01:14:45,062 A young lady has fainted. 762 01:14:45,229 --> 01:14:48,770 She is being attended to by a doctor, and is quite all right. 763 01:14:48,979 --> 01:14:51,270 So please remain seated. 764 01:14:51,479 --> 01:14:53,770 The movie will begin again right away. 765 01:14:53,979 --> 01:14:57,562 I repeat, there is no cause for alarm. 766 01:15:38,062 --> 01:15:41,229 - Must have been about here. - No, it's further down. 767 01:15:44,062 --> 01:15:45,645 Why can't we see it? 768 01:16:33,062 --> 01:16:36,604 Ladies and gentlemen, please do not panic! 769 01:16:36,812 --> 01:16:40,062 But scream! Scream for your lives! 770 01:16:40,229 --> 01:16:42,229 The Tingler is loose in this theater! 771 01:16:42,437 --> 01:16:45,312 And if you don't scream, it may kill you! 772 01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:46,729 Scream! 773 01:16:46,937 --> 01:16:48,104 Scream! 774 01:16:49,187 --> 01:16:52,395 Keep screaming! Scream for your life! 775 01:16:52,854 --> 01:16:54,854 It's here! It's over here! 776 01:16:55,062 --> 01:16:56,437 Help! Help! 777 01:16:57,312 --> 01:17:00,062 - Look out, it's under the stage! - Ladies and gentlemen. 778 01:17:00,229 --> 01:17:03,520 The Tingler has been paralyzed by your screaming. 779 01:17:03,729 --> 01:17:06,145 There is no more danger. 780 01:17:06,354 --> 01:17:10,270 We will now resume the showing of the movie. 781 01:17:11,604 --> 01:17:13,479 The projection booth, quick! 782 01:17:24,562 --> 01:17:25,854 Are you all right? 783 01:17:26,062 --> 01:17:28,187 - Where is it? - Right there. 784 01:17:29,145 --> 01:17:32,270 - You must have screamed just in time. - I guess so. 785 01:18:10,979 --> 01:18:13,229 All right, no more stalling. 786 01:18:16,062 --> 01:18:18,770 Don't open that film can until I tell you. 787 01:18:18,979 --> 01:18:20,729 And then you'll have to help me. 788 01:18:24,854 --> 01:18:27,270 I'm sorry now I did what I did, Doc. 789 01:18:28,812 --> 01:18:30,687 You gave me the idea. 790 01:18:32,104 --> 01:18:36,979 Just because poison happens to exist is no excuse to commit murder with it. 791 01:18:37,187 --> 01:18:39,062 I'm not blaming you. 792 01:18:39,229 --> 01:18:43,895 But I knew she couldn't scream, and about The Tingler and all. 793 01:18:48,104 --> 01:18:49,437 Give me The Tingler now. 794 01:18:59,229 --> 01:19:01,187 Come on. Give it to me. 795 01:19:06,104 --> 01:19:11,062 It isn't as though I'd shot her or taken a knife and stabbed her, is it? 796 01:19:11,937 --> 01:19:14,520 If you kill anybody deliberately, it's murder. 797 01:19:14,729 --> 01:19:16,437 No matter how you do it. 798 01:19:19,562 --> 01:19:22,395 I guess they'll probably electrocute me, won't they? 799 01:19:23,104 --> 01:19:25,395 I'm neither judge nor jury. 800 01:19:26,979 --> 01:19:30,729 This time you're going to the police with me. 801 01:19:31,604 --> 01:19:34,062 You're wrong. You're going by yourself. 802 01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:38,895 Look, all I have to do is go downstairs and call the police. 803 01:19:40,020 --> 01:19:41,729 It won't do you any good. 804 01:19:46,854 --> 01:19:48,020 Goodbye. 805 01:21:04,187 --> 01:21:07,562 Ladies and gentlemen, just a word of warning. 806 01:21:07,729 --> 01:21:11,771 If any of you are not convinced that you have a Tingler of your own... 807 01:21:11,979 --> 01:21:16,729 the next time you're frightened in the dark, don't scream.