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Well, I uh...

It was the ghosts.

I know they were here.

And so does Dr. Greenway.

I think we all need a stimulant.

Where's the Brandy, Emily?

In the living room.

I'll get it, I'll get it.

Cuthbert!

Come on!

I tripped you, I tripped you!

J...

Why, I just...

I just swore I...

No.

No, this can't happen to me.

No, it's impossible.

It's a trick of my subconscious mind, I...

Its all wrong.

It just can't be, it...

Oh.

Now, be calm.

Ralph.

Ralph!

Be calm.

Be cool, uh...

Don't get excited, Ralph.

Everything is all right.

These things can't be, it's uh...

Thank you.

But darling, I told you 50 times I wasn't...

= Sheldon! Sheldon!

Ralph!

Ralph, what's the matter?

= oh!

You're a bad boy.

I'm sorry?

I knew you were up to something.

Now, you run along.

We have to find that letter.

All right.

Well, go on!

I'll go.

Go on, hurry up.

Hurry up!

I'm going upstairs again.

Mistress melody, I'll go down into the cellar and...

Mistress melody.

Mistress melody!

No tricks!

No tricks!

Ah, get out!

Oh, if Tom could only see me now.

Come on, Ralph, be calm, be reasonable.

Oh, keep 'em away!

Keep 'em away!

They've got a grudge against me.

Oh!

Come on, Ralph, now tell us what happened.

Oh, bottles floating through space.

Glasses filling up by themselves.

And somebody tooted in my stethoscope.

You see, darling, you didn't believe me.

Maybe now you're willing to concede

there's something odd going on around here.

= no.

No, I'm not, Shelly.

You've merely communicated your hysteria to him.

Yep.

Yep, vep, I hear ya.

Oh, get her.

I hear ya callin' me.

Ghosts of the well, lead me to you.

= wait a minute.

Better leave that here.

We need it much more than the ghosts do.

The ghosts of the well?

Why should they want to persecute us?

What do they want?

Well, maybe they got an eviction notice

and want to move in on us.

Well, you people can stay up all night

battling about ghosts,

but the charming Mrs. Dean is gonna hit the sack.

And I'll take my spirits with me.

Hello.

= Millie!

Millie!

Millie, what's the matter?

Oh!

Oh, Shelly, help me get her into the living room.

I was coming up the stairs

and that thing was...

How did this get here?

Oh, hurry, darling!

= t'll take that.

Here.

= oh!

Darling...

Take it away!

Take it away!

That dress, it's haunted!

I saw it coming down the stars all by itself!

That's impossible.

Oh, it is, huh?

How about that hit I got on the head?

- Yes. - See?

And what about the tooting in my stethoscope?

Oh, stop it!

Stop it, all of you!

I can't explain about the dress or anything else,

but I do know there's nothing supernatural about it.

And if you don't all stop acting like a bunch of

crazy neurotics, I'm going to start acting like one myself.

Oh, well, listen, honey...

Melody!

Melody!

Melody!

Oh, Horatio, stop that!

Melody!

Stop that!

Let go of it, Horatio!

Pull harder!

Melody!

Horatio, let's get back to the tree!

I'm afraid!

Come on.

= ooh!

Oh!

Ooh!

Ooh!

We'll think more clearly in the morning.

Well, we'd better think more clearly.

I'll not spend another night in this house.

Doc!

Oh, doc!

Oh, look, it's floating!

= oh!

= look.

Now do you believe there's something supernatural

going on here?

=t don't know what to believe.

But I know whatever it is, it's terrifying.

Ghosts of the well, come back.

They've gone.

You've frightened them.

- We did? - We did?

Yep.

They've gone back to the well, all right.

And we're going back to town

first thing in the morning.

Oh, June, please.

You've got to help me figure this thing out.

Come on, darling.

= no.

I don't care what Emily says,

I'm not taking part in any seance.

I've had enough.

But darling, isn't it better to try to find the truth?

Here, let me read you something.

This is the record of a major Putnam,

who shot the two traitors.

He says, "then we tossed their bodies down the well

"and I cursed their miserable spirits

"to be bound to danbury acres till crack of doom."

Now, don't you see, if it's anything at all,

it must be those two poor devils.

They can't get off this property.

But Sheldon, that's sheer medieval superstition.

Shelly is right, June.

As a psychiatrist, I've got to agree with him.

And if we all intend to keep our sanity,

we've got to get to the bottom of this.

Now, if a seance is the only means...

And that from a man who wrote a dozen articles

exposing all seances as fakes.

Please, Mildred, please, both of you.

Let's do what Emily suggests

and if this seance doesn't work,

I swear I'll give up the whole thing

and go back to New York with you in the morning.

Is that fair enough?

Oh, all right, Sheldon, that's,

that's a deal.

Thank you, darling.

Go ahead, Emily.

Now, put your hands on the table again,

little fingers touching.

And we've all got to make our minds perfectly blank.

Well, that should be easy for you.

Itis, it...

Did you feel that?

Yes.

Something's happening.

It must be them people down at the house.

They're up to something again.

Oh, something's pulling me!

Me, too. = oh!

Hang on.

Hang on!

Hang on!

The windows.

I can feel their presence.

We didn't mean any harm.

Won't you please let us go back to the well,

where we belong?

I promise we will never bother you again.

Oh, please, let us go back to the well.

What do you say?

Oh, thank you.

Thank you ever so much.

Ar.

Did you hear what that nice lady said?

What did she say?

Oh, shh, be quiet and listen.

They're here.

Spirits of the well,

we know the curse upon your souls.

We only wish to help you if we can.

Horatio, did you hear what that charming young man said?

They want to help us.

= it's a trick.

T don't trust 'em.

Let's go back.

If you wish to cooperate with us,

rap on this table.

Once for no and twice for yes.

Horatio, go on, do as he says.

Maybe they can help us find your letter.

My letter?

Yeah.

Yeah!

Spirits of the well, can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Are you willing to help us?

Are you the spirits of the two traitors?

= ow!

Ralph!

Don't you call me no traitor, you!

Why do they always pick on me?

Perhaps it was your question

that offended them, Ralph.

You're right, I think you've hit it.

Are you trying to tell us that you're not traitors?

Then who are you?

What are you?

Identify yourselves!

Cuthbert Greenway, you know who I am.

I'm Horatio prim, the little tinker,

and this is melody Allen.

We were on our way to warn general Washington

about Benedict Arnold.

Horatio, Horatio! = and then...

I mean, but I gotta...

Don't be silly.

Don't you realize they can't hear us?

Who are you?

Who are you?

Who am I?

How am I gonna tell him who I am

if all I can do is rap yes or no?

I've got it!

Follow me!

They're going away.

Ti feel "em.

They're going away.

Well, don't think it hasn't been interesting,

because it hasn't.

How about a nice, quiet game of gin rummy?

Millie, sit down.

We're going through with this experiment.

Emily, try calling them back, will you?

= shh.

Spirits of the well, come back.

Come back.

They're here.

They're here.

Look!

Melody Allen!

= ooh!

Go on, get back under the table.

They're trying to tell us that one of the ghosts

is melody Allen.

= t don't understand.

They're both supposed to be men.

Are you trying to tell us that one of you is melody Allen?

Oh, now we're all confused.

Who is the other one?

= who is the other one?

I keep tellin' ya who the other one is!

It's me, it's me!

I wonder how we can get him to tell us who he is.

If we knew what their profession was,

that might give us a hint.

= yeah.

You've got it there.

Wait a minute.

Are you a soldier?

No.

A gentleman?

Why not try that old rhyme?

The one that has all sorts of people in it.

You know, "rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief."

June, that's a great idea!

Spirits of the well, listen to this rhyme.

Were you a rich man?

Poor man?

He was a poor man.

That's right

well, then, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief won't apply.

Uh, how does the rest of it go?

Oh, tinker...

Wait a minute, he's a tinker!

Danbury mentions a tinker right in here.

Let's see if I can find it.

"The shame I experienced because of my treasonable

"activities was increased threefold

"when the maid, Nora, wrote me

"and asked for information concerning

"one Horatio prim, her fiancee, who was a tinker."

= Nora.

Oh, Nora!

She did worry about me.

"He had disappeared from the manor

"on the night of the fire,

"a similar fate to my beloved and innocent melody."

Oh, Tom.

"I bethought myself that this must be

"the selfsame tinker whose letter of recommendation..."

Letter of recommendation?

"From George Washington

"I had taken forcibly from Nora

"and hidden in a secret drawer."

Uh, wait a minute.

Now, just a minute.

Then if the tinker had a letter from George Washington,

he couldn't have been a traitor.

We're right!

You see, we're right! See that?

Don't tell me we're gonna spend the rest of the night

trying to contact George Washington!

Don't you understand?

What they've been doing is looking for

proof of their innocence, that letter.

= of course!

That letter would remove the curse from them.

= ooh!

Horatio, they know, they know!

Isn't it wonderful?

= t did it!

T did it!

Oh, boy, we'll be outta here in no time!

Woo-hoo!

Well, Sheldon, all the original furniture is here.

All we have to do is find that secret drawer

that danbury mentioned.

Yes, the drawer.

= yeah.

Perhaps they know.

Let's ask them. = I wonder.

Mistress Alan, master prim, where is the secret drawer?

Do you know?

Odsbodkins and copper pots!

That's just it!

We don't know, do we?

There she goes again.

Must be number one on her hit parade.

Shh, Millie!

Please, answer me.

Have you any idea where this letter may be hidden?

Go slowly, slowly.

We can't understand you.

Oh!

Ar!

Melody.

That ain't me doing that!

= no.

No!

No, no!

Look!

I don't wanna scare you folks,

but that ain't me under the table.

Melody.

Melody.

Her voice is changing.

Oh, it's Tom.

My Tom.

You were gonna marry her?

Melody.

My beloved.

It's Tom.

I've come to help you.

Oh, Shelly!

What does it mean?

It must be danbury speaking through Emily.

Oh, fine!

A ghost to ghost broadcast.

Horatio, why can't I see him?

= you can't.

You poor kid.

You see, he's got his wings and we're still grounded.

Master danbury, we want to help miss melody.

Tell us, where is the secret drawer?

Start at 12.

Turn twice to three.

At 10 past one,

'twill open be.

Would you mind repeating that last part?

He's gone.

He's gone.

His brief span on earth is over.

Tom!

Tom!

But Emily,

Emily where is the secret drawer?

= secret drawer?

I'm sorry, I can't tell you anything else.

Goodnight.

Start at 12, turn twice to three at 10 past...

Now he's got it!

You bet your life I've got it!

12, three, 10 past, that can only mean a clock!

The letter's hidden in the clock.

But there's over a dozen clocks in this house.

Oh, what do we care?

We'll search every one of them!

Come on, let's get started.

All right.

Don't get excited.

Melody!

Melody, they've got the answer!

The letter is hidden in a clock!

Tom only had that letter in the library.

Uh-huh, uh-huh.

The library clock!

Yeah, yeah!

Hooray!

Well, don't just stand there,

we've got to let them know!

= oh!

I gotta tell Nora.

Nora, I'll be with you soon!

Won't I, Horatio?

Oh!

Odsbodkins, we're all mixed up!

Whew!

Melody, don't ever do that again.

I'm a boy.

Hurry, into the library!

= cuthbert.

What do you want?

Nothing.

= cuthbert!

What do you want?

Nothing!

Mr. Gage.

What do you want?

Nothing.

What do you want?

I want you to get them to come look in the library.

That's what I'm trying to do!

= t have an idea.

Come on.

Well, it certainly isn't in this one.

= no.

The library.

They're trying to tell us to come into the library.

Yeah, you're right!

They must mean that clock.

Oh, no, that's not the clock.

Oh, yes it is!

But Shelly, they directed us here.

I'm sorry, but that isn't the clock.

That happens to be one of my very fine reproductions.

The original's in the museum.

Well, why don't you go to New York

and search the clock?

= t can't do that.

That board of directors won't even talk to me.

As a matter of fact, they barred me from the museum.

Darling, do you suppose they'd let me examine it?

They wouldn't let anybody touch that clock.

Oh, that's fine.

Let's give the ghosts a 99 year lease

and move back to park Avenue.

Darling, I feel so sorry for them.

Well, so do 1.

What can I do about it?

I'll get the clock.

I'm the logical one to do it.

Why you?

Has it ever occurred to you folks

why I'm the main target to these ghosts?

Probably your ancestor, that Butler, was an old so and so.

That's exactly right, he was.

And there's every possibility that he

did this Horatio prim wrong.

Yeah, could be.

Well, if that's the truth, this is my chance

to atone for the sins of my forefathers.

Ralph, I think you're right.

I'll leave the first thing in the morning.

= Horatio!

Horatio, listen to me.

= you don't have to tell me.

Oh, yes, I do!

Let's go back to the well, melody.

But you don't understand.

Dr. Greenway himself is going to the museum

to get the clock.

He's gonna do that for us?

Yes, he's trying to make up for what cuthbert did to you.

= for what cuthbert did to me?

Mm-hmm.

= odsbodkins! Mm!

Melody, he's a nice man.

I'm gonna thank him.

Wait a minute, Ralph.

Hold this and I'll get another candle.

Oh, sure.

Thank you, Dr. Greenway.

Thank you.

= Millie!

My dear Dr. Greenway.

I know you by reputation, by I repeat,

we cannot allow so valuable an antique

to be removed from the premises.

But professor dibbs, can't I at least examine the clock?

Sorry, doctor, but that's contrary to our policy.

I told you it was only a pair of shoes.

Sorry, madam.

Regulations.

Oh, sorry, sir.

Anything under that coat, sir?

Uh, only me.

I've got to watch my diet.

My, four o'clock!

How time does fly.

And so must I.

Bill, hey, bill!

The queen Anne clock is missing!

= that liar.

Stop, thief, stop, thief!

= professor dibbs!

Professor dibbs!

Stop thief!

Get me the police department immediately.

Hurry!

= five o'clock.

I don't understand it, the museum's closed by now.

Ralph promised to call me.

Relax, darling.

Our ghostly friends have waited a century and a half.

A few more minutes won't make any difference.

This is a mighty fateful moment.

Even the ghosts are worried.

I know, I can feel 'em.

They're right here in this room.

Yep.

Yep.

I guess I'd better make some more tea.

= ghosts!

Ghosts, that's all she talks about.

Oh, uh, pardon me.

Is this chair taken?

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

T think I'll stand for a while.

Oh, that's Ralph at last.

Come on, Millie.

Uh, excuse me.

Melody, this is it!

He's here!

Ooh!

I forgot to do it again.

Lieutenant Mason, state police.

Oh, how do you do?

Is Dr. Greenway here?

Not vet.

We're expecting him.

Fine, we'll wait.

Is anything wrong, officer?

Your doctor friend stole a very valuable clock

from the museum this afternoon.

- Stole it? - Yeah.

Connors. - Yes, sir?

Better drive our car out of sight.

Don't want Greenway to see it.

Right, sir.

Uh, lieutenant, if you'll come into the living room,

I think I can explain this.

Poor Dr. Greenway!

Is he in trouble?

= is he in trouble?

What about us?

If they catch him here, they'll take him

and the clock before Mr. Gage has a chance to search it.

= odsbodkins!

What do we do now?

We've got to keep him away from the house.

Hurry, Horatio!

= ghosts?

Hey, what do you take me for, a chump?

I know it's hard to believe, lieutenant,

but we can prove it.

Horatio.

Melody.

= Horatio!

Melody!

Horatio!

Melody!

Horatio!

Oh, we'll be back in a minute!

Hey, hey! - Stop!

Hey, Dr. Greenway!

Dr. Greenway, it's a trap!

Don't go in there!

Don't go in there!

Trap!

Hey, hey! - Stop!

Hey!

Dr. Greenway!

Dr. Greenway, don't go in there!

It's a trap!

Oh, Horatio, he can't hear us!

We must stop him.

Psst, psst!

Dr. Greenway, the police are in the house.

= uh-oh.

= go hide in the stable.

Thank you, Emily.

Thank you.

Mason!

Lieutenant Mason!

Lieutenant Mason!

Dr. Greenway's car.

Well, where is he?

I don't know, sir.

Did you look for the clock?

No, I didn't.

Now, if I can only remember how that rhyme goes.

Start at 12! = uh-huh!

I have it.

Start at 12.

= uh-oh.

You gotta stop that noise.

Somebody's gonna hear you, Dr. Greenway.

- Now... - Do something!

How does the rest of it go?

How does the rest of it go?

How do I know?

How do I know?

I gotit.

Turn twice at three.

Lieutenant Mason!

Well, hurry, Horatio, they're coming.

Turn the hands of the dial.

Okay.

Millie, the letter!

Hooray!

It just went in and out, in and out,

in and out!

The letter!

It's right here!

It's gone.

Did you see it?

Did you see it open? = yes.

It was there.

Dr. Greenway, the drawer was open!

The drawer was open!

I don't khow what I could do, but the drawer went

zip, zip!

Stick up your hands.

Dr. Greenway, I'm not kidding ya!

Because it...

J with thine eyes and I will 7

pledge! Pledge!

J pledge with mine;

we gotta blow!

It would've been cheaper for you to have bought a watch.

Come on, Greenway.

Oh, hurry, Horatio, get the clock.

Okay.

= oh!

Oh, come on, Horatio!

Hurry up and come on.

I had it right in my hands and I...

= t know.

I know, but come on.

We'll get it.

Come on, Horatio.

Come on.

But lieutenant, if you'll only listen.

We know the letter's in that clock.

Yeah?

How?

Tom danbury"s ghost told us so.

That's all, brother.

Come on, get in.

Oh, don't worry, Ralph!

We'll get the best lawyer in New York to defend you.

And you can always plead insanity.

You know how.

= it wasn't me.

It was Horatio.

Horatio, huh?

You gonna give me some more of that?

Come on, let's get outta here!

Hey, what's the idea of jamming on the brakes like that?

= t didn't touch the brakes!

I suppose I did it?

Come on, let's get going.

Well, what's the matter now?

I don't know, sir!

Something's holding us back.

I'd better get out and find out.

= Horatio.

= Horatio!

They've stopped.

Shelly, June!

Don't worry, Dr. Greenway.

As long as we're in here,

they can't get this carriage through the gates.

Horatio, do you think you could

work this contraption?

Why?

The well.

We could hide the doctor and the clock there,

well, till the police leave.

Hey, what an idea.

Now, let's see.

He turned it with this.

He pushed that.

And stepped on this.

Ah, you've blown your top.

There's nothing the matter here!

Get in the back seat, I'll drive.

Okay, lieutenant.

Now, get in!

It's supposed to run the other way!

Try to push the handle down.

Woo!

This is fun!

There's nobody at the wheel!

Oh!

Hey, Greenway!

Stop that car!

Get outta the way!

Close the gates!

What do I do now?

Oh!

Look!

Ooh!

Look out!

Oh, melody!

It's heading for the well!

Melody!

Oh, Horatio.

Do you know a fella could get killed doing this?

Odsbodkins!

Whoa!

Well, how are we gonna explain this to the chief?

Ar!

So you tried to get away, huh?

No, no, no, no!

Ralph, you all right?

I don't know yet.

Ralph!

The clock!

Shelly!

Shelly, here it is!

= the letter.

= oh!

Melody!

They got it!

They got it!

Now do you believe us, lieutenant?

Well, right now I'll believe anything.

But will chief Callahan believe me?

No.

= now the curse is ended.

This proves they weren't traitors

and their spirits are no longer bound to these acres.

They're free.

Free.

= we're free.

We're free!

Melody, what are we waiting for?

= come on!

Wait a minute!

Here, lieutenant, this is yours.

= thanks.

I'm...

= well?

= well?

Well, there's nothing to be frightened of.

Mistress melody, ladies first.

You go.

Ah.

I'm out!

= you made it.

Melody, I...

Melody!

Melody!

Oh, Horatio!

There you are.

Thank you.

Melody.

Melody.

Oh, it's Tom!

My Tom.

Goodbye, Horatio.

I'm going to miss you.

Goodbye, melody.

I'm gonna miss you, too.

But don't you worry.

Just as soon as Nora and I get set,

we'll have you and Tom over for dinner.

I'll have Nora bake a nice big angel cake.

Horatio.

Here I am, Horatio.

= noral

noral

Horatio, here I am.

= noral

= Horatio.

= you've waited for me.

It's been a long time.

Now that I'm here, nothing can keep us apart.

Let me in.

= t can't Horatio.

Why?

Odsbodkins!