Well at first, if I made an enormous effort of will, the reflection used to change back to what it ought to be. But lately, however hard I try, it doesn't change anymore.

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You can hear this line at 00:38:27.844 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- I really am sorry, darling.

- Oh, it doesn't matter. Forget it.

- Listen, darling, I know you fairly well. You're keeping something from me. What is it?

- Well, if you must know, it's that mirror. You remember me telling you that first evening? Well, it's got worse. Much worse. Every time I look in it now, I see that room.

- It's getting me down. I'd really rather not talk about it.

- You'll feel much better if you do. It's no good bottling things up, you know.

- Well at first, if I made an enormous effort of will, the reflection used to change back to what it ought to be. But lately, however hard I try, it doesn't change anymore.

- The only thing to do is to try not to look in it at all.

- But in a queer sort of way it fascinates me.

- I feel as if that room, the one in the mirror, were trying to... to claim me, to draw me into it. It almost becomes the real room and my own bedroom imaginary.

- And I know there's something waiting for me on the other side of the mirror. Something evil. Monstrously evil. And if I cross that dividing line, something awful will happen.

[...]

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Actors: Mervyn Johns (Walter Craig), Frederick Valk (Dr. van Straaten), Michael Redgrave (Maxwell Frere)

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