Suddenly there were footsteps. It was our father.

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

You can hear this line at 00:27:01 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Perhaps it will help you to understand if I tell you something that happened to Nicholas when he was just a boy.

- One day, while Nicholas was playing in the lower corridor...

- He had been forbidden by our father to enter this chamber at any time.

- The curiosity of youth, however, overcame his fear of challenging our father's discipline.

- He had to see the chamber.

- Suddenly there were footsteps. It was our father.

- With him were our mother and our Uncle Bartolome, who was our father's brother.

- 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.

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