An atmosphere in which the unscrupulous revel and the likes of Matthew Hopkins take full advantage of the situation.

9 seconds sound clip from the Witchfinder General movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:05:02 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- The year is 1645. England is in the grip of bloody civil war.

- On the one side stand the Royalist party of King Charles, on the other, Cromwell's Parliamentary party, the Roundheads.

- The structure of law and order has collapsed.

- Local magistrates indulge their individual whims...

- Justice and injustice are dispensed in more or less equal quantities and without opposition...

- An atmosphere in which the unscrupulous revel and the likes of Matthew Hopkins take full advantage of the situation.

- In a time where the superstitions of country folk are still a powerful factor, Hopkins preys upon them...

- Torturing and killing in a supposed drive to eliminate witchcraft from the country and doing so with the full blessing of what law there is.

- However, his influence is confined largely to the eastern sector of the country...

- East Anglia, which is held firmly in Cromwell's grasp, but not so firmly that the Roundhead cavalry patrols have everything their own way...

- For there still exists an ever-present threat from the remnants of the Royalist armies, desperately foraging for food, horses and supplies.

[...]

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It's not only the King's armies which bring death this year.
They swim. The mark of Satan is upon them.
Being his niece, you, too, may be corrupted by Satan.
Now, are you going to be sensible or do I kill you?
You don't appear to understand. I am not selling.
Witchfinder General Sound Clip

Witchfinder General poster

Audio quotes from the movie Witchfinder General (1968).

Actors: Vincent Price (Matthew Hopkins), Robert Russell (John Stearne), Ian Ogilvy (Cornet Richard Marshall), Hilary Dwyer (Sara Lowes), Patrick Wymark (Oliver Cromwell)

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