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I watched her drawn to one and then another as if the aura of pain and suffering which surrounded them was luring her to sickness and to death.

15 seconds sound clip from the The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:23:10 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I tried to find out what was wrong, but she never had an answer except to say that... that something was oppressing her.

- Oh, God, help me for my blindness. I should have known.

- And then, one day, she disappeared. Frantic, I... I searched the castle for her.

- And then I knew... the castle and its awful history had obsessed her.

- These very instruments of torture, which were my birthright and my curse, now tormented her, as well, infecting her with a kind of haunted fascination.

- I watched her drawn to one and then another as if the aura of pain and suffering which surrounded them was luring her to sickness and to death.

- Immediately I made my plans to leave the castle with her.

- We would travel for a while, restore her spirits, and then make our home elsewhere.

- Then, on the very eve of our departure... we heard a scream from below, the most hideous, blood-chilling scream I have ever heard in my life.

- Just before she died, she whispered a name: Sebastian. Sebastian. Sebastian.

- May I speak with you?

- Yes, of course.

[...]

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) Sound Clip

The Pit and the Pendulum cover

Memorable quotes from The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name).

Actors: Vincent Price (Nicholas Medina, Sebastian Medina), John Kerr (Francis Barnard), Barbara Steele (Elizabeth), Luana Anders (Catherine Medina), Antony Carbone (Doctor Leon)

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