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Suddenly there were footsteps. It was our father.

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

You can hear this line at 00:27:01 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- At first it appeared that for some inexplicable reason, our father was actually conducting them on a tour of his ghastly chamber.

- Nicholas could see that both our mother and our uncle were uneasy, frightened.

- Our father's smiling affability as he described the workings of these hellish instruments turned Nicholas' blood cold.

- He watched them with a mounting sense of premonition.

[...]

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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