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One day, while Nicholas was playing in the lower corridor...

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

You can hear this line at 00:25:54 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- In not telling you before, he only meant to spare you pain.

- He is a good man, a kind and gentle man, and I know that he adored your sister.

- I would like to believe him, but I find it very difficult to do so. There's something about him I cannot help but sense. A kind of fearful tension that... I'm sorry, but an air of definite guilt.

- Of course he suffers from guilt, because of what our father did, because of what happened to Elizabeth.

- Perhaps it will help you to understand if I tell you something that happened to Nicholas when he was just a boy.

- One day, while Nicholas was playing in the lower corridor...

- He had been forbidden by our father to enter this chamber at any time.

- The curiosity of youth, however, overcame his fear of challenging our father's discipline.

- He had to see the chamber.

- Suddenly there were footsteps. It was our father.

- With him were our mother and our Uncle Bartolome, who was our father's brother.

[...]

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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