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The structure of law and order has collapsed.

5 seconds sound clip from the Witchfinder General movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:04:50 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- These two were cast alive into the pool of fire, burning with brimstone.

- And the rest were slain by the sword of him that sitteth upon the horse and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

(Woman screaming while being hanged)

- 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.

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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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