Well, the explanation is quite a simple one.

2 seconds sound clip from the Fiend Without a Face (1958) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:23:13.110 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Are you collating his material?

- I do most of it. He dictates on this. I edit the tapes and prepare the draft manuscripts.

- That's some job.

- Mmm, but interesting.

- The professor must be quite a guy. Thought control, cybernetics, all that stuff.

- That's only half of it.

- Strange, isn't it, finding a man like that here in Winthrop?

- In these uncivilized backwoods, I think you were going to say.

- Well, I'm afraid so.

- Well, the explanation is quite a simple one.

- Professor Walgate had a stroke about five years ago. He's retired now.

- Well, he still works.

- And at odd hours.

- Odd hours?

- He thinks nothing of starting work at 11:00 at night and working until the small hours of the morning.

- You know, the mayor mentioned that Walgate was an authority on psychic phenomena. Is that still a hobby if his?

- I don't know. If it is, he'll have Dr. Bradley after him.

- Dr. Bradley said no more overwork or excitement.

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