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- Vorvolaka?
- What's that? Some old peasant superstition. An elemental wolf-spirit. Some such thing in human form.

10 seconds sound clip from the Isle of the Dead (1945) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:23:15.528 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- It sounds no stranger to me than some of the things you've been saying.

- Good winds and bad winds.

- I've explained that to you. The disease is transmitted by fleas. Their bodies have an eighty percent moisture content. The hot wind from the south literally burns them away.

- If the sirocco blows, all danger will be over in 24 hours.

- Kyra sounds just as logical to me. That the gods send plague to punish men for harboring the Vorvolaka.

- Vorvolaka?

- What's that? Some old peasant superstition. An elemental wolf-spirit. Some such thing in human form.

- They say it drains people of their strength and vitality until they die.

- Kyra will tell you that there's more to it.

- That the Vorvolaka is an evil for which the gods punish us mortals.

- I suppose the next thing you know she'll be telling us that the Vorvolaka walks among us. What nonsense.

- The doctor is the doctor, and we'll do as he says.

- Certainly. But one might as well go out on the cliff, and build a votive fire to Hermes. Not that I believe in Hermes, either.

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It's my way. The only way I know.
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The doctor is the doctor, and we'll do as he says. -Certainly. But one might as well go out on the cliff, and build a votive fire to Hermes. Not that I believe in Hermes, either.
Isle of the Dead (1945) Sound Clip

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Hear the most memorable quotes from the classic 1945 horror film Isle of the Dead, with sound bites!

Actors: Boris Karloff (General Pherides), Ellen Drew (Thea), Marc Cramer (Oliver Davis), Katherine Emery (Mrs. Mary St. Aubyn), Jason Robards Sr. (Aubrecht), Ernst Deutsch (Dr. Drossos), Helene Thimig (Madame Kyra)

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