The Old Dark House (1963)
Tom Poston: Tom Penderel
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Quotes
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Agatha Femm : [Knitting] I capture time and space in my stitches. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if I stopped.
Tom Penderel : Happen? To you?
Agatha Femm : No, no. To the world.
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Roderick Femm : Any member of the family refusing to live here, loses all rights to the fortune.
Morgana Femm : If any member of the family is not home by midnight, every night, loses all rights to inheritance.
Cecily Femm : The Femm fortune, all of it, is left to the house. The Will can never be changed unless the house dies.
Tom Penderel : How can a house die? Did you ever try burning it?
Morgana Femm : I did once - but you can't burn solid rock.
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Tom Penderel : You, uh... why, you must be very lonely. Well, I mean, uh, all alone...
Morgana Femm : Oh, you have no idea. Every night in this house, with just a whole family of Femms.
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Cecily Femm : This is Mr. Tom Penderel, he was a friend of Caspar's.
Roderick Femm : Really? Caspar had some very strange friends. Were you one of them?
Tom Penderel : No, I'm not strange. I'm American.
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Cecily Femm : [Footsteps are heard outside the door] That's Uncle Morgan. Tom, he's furious you're here. He thinks you're going to take away Morgana. He... he might become dangerous. Again.
Tom Penderel : What do you mean, "again"?
Cecily Femm : The last young man that came here tried to take Morgana away.
Tom Penderel : Yeah? What happened? No, no, don't tell me.
Cecily Femm : We heard screams in the night and then... He never was found. You'd better get some rest. Do you think you'll be able to sleep?
Tom Penderel : Yeah, I'll count corpses.
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Tom Penderel : [Wondering how the Femms manage to get by in their big house] So, what do you use for money? I mean, how do you live?
Roderick Femm : Once a year, we divide the interest of the capital. On the anniversary of great-great-grandfather's hanging.