Original subtitles

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Co lumy king or no King he must be Dar

destroying a creature so beautiful not

even a trial that you get and no surgeon

here to certify her death all decent and

proper well I ain't no surgeon but I'll

gladly stay behind to see this one we'll

both

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stay Meg pton you have been accused of

the murder of six men and of Witchcraft

and crimes so heinous they cannot even

be spoken of or written

about the moment of your death is at

hand do you

repent for the sake of your Immortal

soul I ask you

again do you

repent no I do not

repent and you may tell a man who

condemned me that Meg Payton does not

die here with your last words you defy

your Sovereign with my last words I pity

him get on with

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it good morning Mr

hangman good morning

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Mom hold on Boer only the king himself

can get Ang with his wig on it's the law

now we'll just take yours off no please

I don't want anyone to see me without it

not while I'm alive B than to a again

she's bald let's see shft your filthy

hands off

her don't worry M law no law you'll not

be put to shame as long as I'm in

charge thank

you

your hands are

trembling let me help

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you

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she dead I think so let me have a look

well now the lady's dropped to a wig now

we can see what she was

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hiding

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well that was a gruesome surprise even

for a

hangman a stunningly beautiful cortis is

dropped into the

pit and a moment

later her executioners discover a

withered hand claw likee clutching a

wig well of course the Noose usually

does have a disastrous effect upon the

human body

but nothing like

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this how

strange I should think it must have

something to do with this

wig there is something weird and

frightening about it but my friends look

it's only cloth and

hair lustrous red hair to be sure but

hardly very

mysterious at

least that's what the characters in

tonight's story

thought unfortunately for them may I

introduce Sheila dor played by Patricia

Barry George mashik played by John

barag Herbert blee played by John

feedler Arabella foot played by Linda

Watkins and Max quink played by Herbert

rudley we call our story a wig for Mr B

naturally I refer to this particular

way now my

friends you know all about the magic

that the Sorcerers of the Silver Screen

put on film For Your

Entertainment well

tonight as sure as my name is Boris

carof you learn that sorcery can be

performed without

Celluloid behind the

cameras perhaps even in your own living

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room

Cameron Moves In for a close shot of Meg

Payton's aristocratic face as she gazes

with the serenity of a Madonna at the

bishop who says Meg Payton you have been

accused of the murder of six men and of

Witchcraft and crimes so heinous that

they cannot be spoken of nor written

down the moment of your death is at hand

do you

repent I just stand there looking

looking

breathtaking

unafraid and the bishop says now Herbert

never mind all that business about what

the bishop says skip on down to that

part where I turn to the hangman and I

say good morning Mr

hangman uh a morning Mom are you ready

I'm ready the hangman brings a new up

but his hands are trembling badly his

face a mask of sorrow and I'm much more

worried about the way he feels than I am

about myself and I turn and I I look up

into his face and I

say your hands are

trembling here let me help you and I

take his two huge hands in my

own I guide The Noose up over my

head as I'm standing there waiting for

death the camera boo booms up up up

up until the cold gray fog obscures the

scene the

end Herbert yes Mr VOR Herbert I've made

up my mind of all the scripts that

you've brought me I like the legend of

Meg Payton the best oh that's nice I'll

put it on the top of the list and we'll

start through the stack again just to be

sure we chosen the right one for you no

no Herbert Herbert I said I've made up

my mind I'm going to make my comeback in

the legend of Meg Payton and I'm going

to be wonderful in

it do you know something

Herbert I think this long long rest has

done just wonders for my

complexion I'm awfully glad I have the

kind of face that improves with age

there's a lot to be said for mature

Beauty

now Herbert I have the most Marvy idea

how to do my

hair I'm going to wear the Meg Payton

wig I mean the real actual wig I saw a

picture of it it's it's just absolutely

fabulous

she was supposed to be a witch you know

and there is this rumor that she made

the wig out of her own victim's

hairs I mean she just stood there and

pulled them out of their heads one

strand by one

strand isn't that

thrilling then she put a spell on

it you know Herbert that's pretty good

publicity stuff don't you think so oh

Max just simply has to get it for me I

mean I couldn't possibly get into

character without it besides all my fans

would absolutely adore the idea of my

wearing the genuine actual way well yes

I guess so but but don't you think we

should go through the stack just once

more I mean don't you think maybe we're

being Hasty no

sweetie we can't keep Max waiting

forever I mean he needs me well yes Mr

VOR but I know he's very hard to reach I

mean after all when you're head of a

studio that's a very responsible job and

he's a very busy man but I just know

that you can get in to see him well I

don't know about that darling I have all

the confidence in the world in

you besides it isn't as though he'd

forgotten all about little

me

Len Sheila darling we love you we miss

you we need you hurry back to us signed

Max was there ever anybody so

loyal no

one all right sweetie now you just run

right on down to Mr Max quin's office

and tell them at long last we found a

script the perfect script for

me

Miss Sheila devor is ready to resume her

career starting

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immediately Sheila

ofor all right how'd you find her where

is she find her I never left

her Mr quink I want you to keep your

promise to Mr DOR

my promise what promise the one I've

been making for you for the past 5 years

you've been making but you see Mr quink

every week you send Miss dor a basket of

roses red

roses I do and you enclose a card the

last card said Sheila darling we love

you we miss you we need you hurry back

to us sign

Max touching

sentiment now Mr VOR knows nothing of my

little deception and she need never

know but when she returns to work next

week returns to work everything should

be the same as the day she left she

should have her own Bungalow her

favorite

cameraman that would please her and

perhaps her old director machic George

machic maic wouldn't touch the kind of

stuff Sheila used to do he only does

highbrow stuff now oh the legend of Meg

Payton is a highbrow picture Mr VOR says

she'll be wonderful in

it is what the jaw woman I told you is

Meg Payton it's the vehicle Mr VOR has

chosen for her comeback comeback are you

out of your

mind well I won't tell her you said that

I look Bleak I'm an easygoing man I

tolerate oddballs they amuse me but not

when they keep Haring on the same bad

joke Sheila D'Or is a 38-year-old

hasband she was finished at 32 my heart

bleeds for her but that's life this part

calls for a 25-year-old fresh redhead

not miss dimple darling of

1945 well then you'll just have to get

Miss D'Or the best makeup man in

Hollywood you mean to tell me she

doesn't realize what she looks like Miss

dor is absolutely incapable of seeing

anything ugly I mean you of all people

should remember

that all right that's enough get out

very well Mr quink you'll be hearing

from Mr V's attorneys attorneys what

attorneys ones that will ask you and Mr

machic to account for the missing

profits of 32 of her pictures as I

understand it the three of you were

equal Partners in an independent picture

production

company who are you B I'll tell you who

I am Mr quink a bookkeeper who works in

your accounting

department and who's made it his

business to re audit the financial

statements on every picture Miss dor

made they'll try to Bluff me if you'd

found anything irregular you'd have told

Sheila years ago oh she trusted you I

didn't want to disillusion her and I

don't want to now but since you're going

to break her heart

anyway wait a

minute let's talk about it choice is

very simple Mr quink would you prefer to

go to jail or phone Mr machik and tell

him the

news sit

up

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now

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oh

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oh Herbert my old dressing room they

haven't changed to thing isn't it

beautiful Herbert it's here

the way Meg Payton's very old all the

way from the museum in London oh look

it's

beautiful well it's just it's just

breathtaking when I told Mr quink you

had your heart set on it he said buy it

for bleak he hardly objected at all when

I gave him the

bill well I just have never seen

anything so so

breathtaking oh I just have to try it on

good I better go and see what's keeping

your makeup

fellas hold it a minute will you

please M D'Or is on her way to the set

she'll be here in any

moment now you all realize that this is

Mr dore's first picture in several years

but we're all very happy to have her

back we must realize how difficult it is

to get back into the routine after such

a long Hiatus therefore I ask your

complete understanding and cooperation

how does she look I don't know what do

you mean you don't know didn't the

makeup help the makeup man come when I

left several years just pH she's on her

way over here now well what I mean is

she has been ill for a long time and

when a person has been ill naturally a

person is bound to

change

Georgie

Max

Arabella oh

darling it's so wonderful to be back

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again Arabella darling sh

she Sheila

Tor I don't believe

it what's the matter

arabel is my slip

showing darling you look

positively

well I didn't remember you're having

such a flare for clothes but of course

not darling

you were always looking for

dirt you've changed Sher in more ways

than one everyone has noticed really mhm

everyone and especially the

hair that must be the wig Max had

brought over for the

picture people are beginning to wonder

why you're never seen without it darling

don't you think you're overdoing it a

bit I mean actually living in your

makeup that sort of nonsense went out

with theer

bar

Herbert please show Miss foot

out what's this temperament why I always

remember the Dipple darling girl is a

perfect angel but if you don't get this

female mut out of here I'll rip her to

shreds I have to check the mail room

Miss foot I'll walk you to your

car you shouldn't be nasty to me

Sheila might live to regret

it I'll die

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waiting

Sheila oh hi Georgie

Sheila Sheila I've just seen the rushes

and you've made a Believer out of

me I confess I was skeptical yesterday

but

darling you were Sensational oh that's

so

nice

Sheila you know

something before your retirement I I

thought you were the most beautiful girl

in the

world do you know something what that is

the nicest thing anybody ever said to me

in my whole life and I especially

appreciate it coming from you I mean

such a fine dedicated sensitive artist

with with impeachable

taste look Sheila why don't you um slip

into something

comfortable let's take a little run up

into the

hills i' um like you to see my

envirment the view is

magnificent Georgie I'd absolutely love

to do that but you see I'm afraid I

couldn't get back in time to dress for

the party

party oh yes yes we're supposed to be

there at 8:30 be where at 8:30 at

Max's you know I'm going to be the guest

of honor what are you talking

about why Georgie don't tell me you

weren't invited I that's sneako

Lech Max

Max

well that is the strangest thing I

wonder why he didn't invite you I

haven't the slightest idea except an

addition to being a dirty old man he's

greedy oh Georgie that's not nice I mean

Max is your friend he discovered

you Georgie

what I know that you're trying to Shield

me to protect me from some

unpleasantness my now darling don't you

see you mustn't do that I mean you must

tell Sheila

everything after all we're a part news I

hate to disillusion you Sheila darling

but your old friend Max quink stole from

you when he involved

me and I trusted him I swear I didn't

know what he was up to Sheila you do

believe me why would I tell you if I

were a party to it to save your own skin

you assumed I'd find out eventually no

no how would you find out you never took

the slightest interest in business

matters before I intend to take a great

deal of interest in a lot of things from

now

on Sheila what's happened to you

sometimes I think I hardly know

you darling

wait I

spoke in Anger about Max maybe I

exaggerated a little

Sheila you're not going to the

police no

JY I have a much better

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idea

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you again I must see Mr Vore Mr maek

said she was here I'm sorry Mr quink

left strict orders he was not to be

disturbed but she is here good night

wait this letter it came special

delivery it's about the wig she has to

read it as soon as possible I said good

night

like old

times remember quiet evenings by the

pool

USIC that's the two of us how could I

forget sit down

de I hadn't forgotten this pinkt

champagne oh man your

favorite and now we're going to have a

toast just like old

times

remember let us have wine and women

mirth and laughter and sermons and soda

water the day

after you haven't

forgotten

come

here you know

something

you're twice as exciting now as you were

in the old

days you really missed your little

Sheila what do you

think

Max do you know something you never once

answered any of my phone calls and you

never came to visit it me what about the

U roses I sent you every week and the

notes oh ma you know if it hadn't been

for those Roses I would have sworn you'd

forgotten all about

L not

me Max darling please be

careful you're Ming my

hair give me that w Wiig ah come on

honey take it off why Max take it off

you don't need

it really want me to yes I really want

you to you sure I'm positive absolutely

positive absolutely I want to see my

Sheila as she really

is all

righty

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a

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oh

Georgie look well he just fell in and

hit his

head what are we going to do don't worry

baby just leave everything to good old

Georgie but I don't want to involve you

involve but I'm already involved

desperately I told you I'm in love with

you this gives me a chance to prove it

oh I'm glad you called me

Georgie wonder why all these awful

things always happen to me I told you

not to

worry

Georgie do you think we ought to call

the police no with all those scratches

on his face they'd think you had a

fight we did he attacked me I told you

Max was no friend

say we will call the police and that's

exactly what you'll tell them and when

they get here you'll be over here on the

sheds crime heartbroken

hysterical Georgie I'm afraid that won't

do oh why not well you see if we did

that then the police would want to ask

me all kinds of questions about well to

find out whether I might have killed Max

well then if they did that that messy

business about our company and the

stolen money and all those things would

come out and you'd go to jail too

Georgie oh yes I

see no there must be another way I've

got it we'll go to Yuma

tonight what fool we'll get married they

can't force a husband and wife to

testify against each other besides the

police will never suspect we do a thing

like this not on our wedding

night what about the picture we have to

finish shooting the picture I told you

don't worry tomorrow's the last day of

shooting we'll be back in plenty of time

come on all

righty a falling to a guinea she's bald

let's see keep your dirty hands

off God no La you'll not be put to shine

while I'm in charge

m'am you're very

kind you must have a daughter of your

own you must love her very much yes

m'am your hands are

trembling let me help

you

cut

oh that was Mar she was it all right yes

oh good fell hold it a minute will you

please I want you all to know that

through your understanding and

cooperation we've been able to make a

picture of which we can all be very

proud from the bottom of our

hearts my bride and I wish to thank

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you in great how dare they get married

without telling me

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thank you very much fell than

you Mr I have to talk to you well of

course H but not now can't you see I'm

busy but it's about your wig this letter

from the museum in

London I don't want to read it but

you're in danger Miss D'Or something

terrible is going to happen you are

absolutely right something terrible is

going to happen if you don't take that

letter and get out of here but you get

out you don't understand you heard what

Mrs maic said ble out done Joel show him

out thank you all right all right for

children be sorry we'll all be sorry the

usual poses and corny comments from the

Newly Weds that may be the real story

being hustled out the

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door

my Herbert

blink what a pleasant

surprise I saw what she did to you

tonight I was

shocked you were shot after all you've

done for her and she repays you with

insults little michila has suddenly

changed yes but it isn't her fault and

who should know that better than you you

who were in love with her I was her

friend I only wanted to help of course

you

did but I I should have known it it was

too late too

late it's a Museum's

fault they should have sent a letter

when they sent a wig I mean as soon as

as as soon I got the letter I try to

warn just what's in that letter oh is

it's a

story truth about M Payton's

wig the

truth tell me about

it

no no no I can't tell anybody but M dor

I got to help Miss

dor well all right I'm sure that when

Sheila finds out this terrible truth

she'll tell me all about it oh

Herber could you give me Sheila's new

telephone number it's unlisted and Grand

View just

a grand view8

31

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65 cheers

Herber and thanks for

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everything

oh

Georgie it's just

breathtaking your little Hideway here in

the sky it's simply

breathtaking

Georgie what my glasses

emptying

thank

you you know Georgie it's absolutely

dreamy to think that just yesterday you

were a struggling director now here you

are on top of the world and rich

rich

very rich you mean for my salary from

the

picture no silly from your inheritance

my what well it's true isn't it you and

Max had a partnership and the Survivor

inherited

everything now how did you know

that you know these things just sort of

pop into my head the minute Max fell

into the pool

oh

Georgie isn't it just Marvy the way

everything's turned out

life is just full of the most pleasant

surprises my

darling know something what I have

another surprise for you

oh give Sheila a kiss

gladly

no no no no

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no

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I get out of here I'm not going to say

it again let me see her that's all I

just want to see her Lester if you can't

keep those creeps out of here I'm going

to get somebody who can sorry Mr Vault

won't happen again get out h

Bert let him go you said you didn't want

to be bothered never mind what I said

let him go and get out of

here I've been trying to reach you for

weeks Miss dor I've got to talk to you

well I haven't time Herbert I'm giving a

party on the set of my new picture I'm

rushing now well your party will'll have

to wait I must speak to you now I mean

alone go back to the set Betty would you

please oh yes Mr

dor you can't go on this way

mror what way Herber wearing that wig it

it carries a well a curse it it was all

in the letter you've got to stop wearing

that thing it's changed

you you're my friend

would you want me to go back to the way

I was or

Worse oh no so you see

I I have to go on wearing it but you've

already murdered two men where will it

stop that's a very dangerous thing for

you to say her but I hope you haven't

repeated it to anyone no no of course

not then we can go on being friends if

you wish and you can be my personal

manager I need

you I need someone I can trust to handle

my personal affairs but how can I forget

what happened to Mr quink and and Mr

maic but you don't really know what

happened to the m oh but I can guess now

Herbert the police were satisfied that

their deaths were accidental and that

should end the

matter and unless of course you're here

to prove otherwise in which case I'd be

delighted to remove my wig just for you

no no no

please I thought

not you know something

her after a while this wig grows on a

person the mere idea of it is really

quite quite breathtaking don't you agree

just imagine being able to go on and on

and

on always being

beautiful Never Growing Old I never

intend to go without

it so we'll never mention our little

secret

again no Mr

VOR

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w

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t i wait in the dressing room for keep

out of sight when i h we break in and

photograph

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understand what have we here a budding

stall you know who I am yes you just put

the movie comes you're a bright girl

how'd you like to make

$50 all you have to do for it step

outside the moment Mr V comes in oh

don't worry you won't get into trouble

all I want is a private interview with

her well you say

so you're sweet twist twist twist

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twist

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and

whips

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marvelous party Sheila darling what a

sweet idea to reserve the entire Sound

Stage for your crew well you ought to

get out in the dance for Arabella we're

doing the twist marvelous for the figure

fine if if I could do something about

the face

too speaking of

faces I heard a rumor about

yours really Arabella well I'd love to

hear all about it sometime unfortunately

I don't have the time right

now I have to dash back to my

party it wasn't exactly a rumor

Sheila these are facts darling

documented by one of the most reputable

museums in the world

and what does that letter that you stole

from Herbert say

arabel it says that mysterious Wick of

yours is the product of medieval

Witchcraft and that it has dark and

demonic

Powers you don't believe a [ __ ] andbull

story like that do you AR ordinarily I

wouldn't but when you stop to consider a

frowsy old bag puts on the

wig and overnight mind you becomes a

ravishing Beauty the head of the richest

studio in town drowns

accidentally a director with the biggest

Smash in the country dives off his

balcony and turns himself into a puddle

of

blood put them all together and they

spell what

Arabella what do they spell I don't know

yet but now you want to find out don't

don't you think your fans are entitled

to know all about their Glamour Girl you

keep away from me Arabella there's

nothing to be afraid of that story can't

possibly be true I only want you to

prove

it take off the wig Sheila I'm warning

you

darling I've been around too long to be

threatened by a cheap

little off it comes

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glamoril

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W Mr

for Mr

V Mr

V Mr V Mr V

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Mr Mr

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V I know I know no lies but Mr V you're

hurt you're hurt I've got to do

something still

is wait is that you Jo all turn on those

truck lights no no Herbert hert please

don't let them see me

don't let them turn on the light no her

her help me help

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me

a wig the

wig excuse

me

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