There was no reason for our mother and our uncle to have been there.

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

You can hear this line at 00:28:34 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- 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.

- Something was wrong, most terribly wrong. Even he, no more than 10 years of age, could sense it like a darkening vapor in the air.

- There was no reason for our mother and our uncle to have been there.

- As he struck, he kept on screaming at his brother one word over and over.

- Adulterer! Adulterer!

- And then he turned on her... accusing her of vile debauchery with his brother, cursing her as faithless, promising her the agonies of hell in payment for her infidelity.

- And there, before my brother's very eyes, our mother was tortured to death.

- Ever since then, Nicholas has been unable to live as other men. Always he is haunted by the memory of that terrible day.

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Top rated lines from this movie

We will exhume Elizabeth.

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.

Is it possible? Is it possible I am doing these things unaware, to punish myself?

Shock and grief restrained me from more adequate communication.

I can never leave. I must accept whatever vengeance Elizabeth chooses to inflict upon me.

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) Sound Clip

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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