The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Peter Jeffrey: Detective Inspector Trout
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Inspector Trout : One... one more question, if I might, sir?
Goldsmith : Yes?
Inspector Trout : What did she look like?
Goldsmith : Well, she was a... tall...
Inspector Trout : [writing] Tall.
Goldsmith : ...attractive...
Inspector Trout : Attractive.
Goldsmith : ...young lady.
Inspector Trout : Uh-huh.
Goldsmith : She didn't speak much, as I remember, but she was, um... she...
Inspector Trout : Smart, sir?
Goldsmith : Fashionable.
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Sgt. Schenley : Well, they have one thing in common.
Inspector Trout : If you say they all died mysteriously, I'll bloody kill you.
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Inspector Trout : Uh, the-these 10 curses, would they follow any particular order?
Rabbi : Oh, w... that is a point that Talmudic scholars have debated for generations, but there is no doubt that the classical tradition is, uh: the curse of boils, bats, frogs, the curse of blood, the curse of rats, hail, of beasts, the locusts of course, the death of the firstborn, and then, finally, of darkness.
Inspector Trout : Darkness, Rabbi?
Rabbi : Yes. The final curse upon the land, to end forever the sleep of man.
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Goldsmith : It's one of a very unusual set, this.
Inspector Trout : A set?
Goldsmith : Yes.
Inspector Trout : There's more than one?
Goldsmith : Of course there's more than one. It's a set.
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Crow : Anyway, medical men die every day.
Inspector Trout : I'm aware of that, sir.
Crow : Good. They're composed of the same flesh and blood as you and I.
Inspector Trout : I'm aware of that too, sir. I happen to have seen rather a lot of their flesh and blood in the past few days.
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Inspector Trout : Somebody is using these ancient biblical curses to kill everyone associated with the Phibes' operation; but, I mean, the husband's dead, there's no children, it all happened ages ago - so who the hell are we looking for?
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Inspector Trout : Well, who ordered the set?
Goldsmith : It's a lady.
Inspector Trout : Oh, a woman, eh?
Goldsmith : No, no. A lady.
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Inspector Trout : But, uh, all this would just be myth of course, sir?
Rabbi : Oh, I think not.
Inspector Trout : No?
Rabbi : No. There is little doubt that the plagues did occur, though so distant now as to seem a myth.
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Goldsmith : Good day, Inspector Pike.
Inspector Trout : 'Trout", sir.
Goldsmith : Oh, yes. Yes, of course.
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Inspector Trout : Oh, don't take him out like that. At least cover his face up... what's left of it.
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Dr. Vesalius : Human error won't stop him.
Inspector Trout : Why? Wha'chu mean?
Dr. Vesalius : He's had years to hide, to plot this damnable thing. He's compelling himself to follow exactly the classic death pattern of the G'tach. It's the psychic force that holds that man together, this maniacal precision. If we could just throw it off, interrupt the cycle, then he might be stopped by his own inflexible standards.
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Dr. Vesalius : I'm going alone. Perhaps he'll trade my life for my son's.
Inspector Trout : If you think you can reason with him, then you're as mad as he is!
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Inspector Trout : I'm sorry to take up so much of your valuable time.
Goldsmith : Uh, reasonably valuable, yes. Certainly yes.
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Inspector Trout : Well, you should have driven faster.
Sgt. Schenley : Faster? As it was, I got there a couple of minutes before the locals.
Inspector Trout : Yeah, but two minutes after the crash!
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Rabbi : Part of the G'tach.
Inspector Trout : The what, sir?
Rabbi : The G'tach - the 10 curses visited upon the Pharaohs before the Exodus.
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Inspector Trout : Well, what form would the curses take, sir?
Rabbi : Such as the, uh, curse of boils, of bats...
Inspector Trout : Frogs?
Rabbi : Frogs, yes. And the curse of blood.
Inspector Trout : I see, sir, yes, I see.
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Inspector Trout : The curse of hail in the bloody middle of NOWHERE!
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[last lines]
Dr. Vesalius : That still leaves the final curse.
Sgt. Schenley : Darkness.
Inspector Trout : Well, he'll be working on it, wherever he is.
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Inspector Trout : We have got to find Phibes!
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Inspector Trout : Bats appearing out of nowhere... I don't know, it... it just doesn't make sense.
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Inspector Trout : When you've finished up there, I want you to question the butler again. There may be something he's overlooked.