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Not Rated | 1h | Drama, Family, Fantasy | Episode aired 11 December 1960
Original Title: "Shirley Temple's Storybook" The House of the Seven Gables
See this adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's supernatural, romantic tale of a New England family and their life in the House of the Seven Gables, a two-hundred-year-old dwelling haunted by the ghosts of past generations.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Irving Gaynor Neiman
Stars: Shirley Temple, Robert Culp and Agnes Moorehead
Original Title: "Shirley Temple's Storybook" The House of the Seven Gables
See this adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's supernatural, romantic tale of a New England family and their life in the House of the Seven Gables, a two-hundred-year-old dwelling haunted by the ghosts of past generations.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Irving Gaynor Neiman
Stars: Shirley Temple, Robert Culp and Agnes Moorehead
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00:14Hello, here we are again on Color Stage 2 at NBC in California, an ordinary stage with
00:21lights and booms and cameras, but a magic stage too, for in a moment, with a wave of
00:27the hand, we'll change this empty room into a haunted place, a place of whistling winds
00:33and whispering memories, an old and awesome place that thrills the heart and threatens.
00:41Nathaniel Hawthorne's Gray and Ghostly, House of the Seven Gables. You'll know me as Miss
00:48Phoebe Pynchon, and with me, you'll enter the house to learn its terrors. Miss Agnes
00:53Moorhead will be there as my strange and somber cousin, and Robert Culp, Jonathan Harris,
00:59John Abbott, and Martin Landau. We'll meet them all. One may be a murderer, and one may be
01:06a ghost. Come, take my hand, and we'll pay our chilling visit to the House of the Seven Gables.
01:39One may be a ghost. Role
02:50Oh, don't go in that house.
02:52Who's that?
02:53You've come to the wrong place, young miss.
02:55Isn't this Miss Hepzibah Pynchon's house?
02:57Aye, it is that.
02:58Then I've made no mistake.
03:00Wait.
03:01You mustn't set foot in that fearful place.
03:03Do you live there too?
03:05Aye.
03:06I've never set foot across that threshold and never will.
03:09Then why do you speak so of this house?
03:11Who are you?
03:12Uncle Vener is what everybody calls me, miss.
03:15Then, Uncle Vener, why do you say this house is fearful?
03:17Look at it.
03:19It's old.
03:20It's old and unseen.
03:22It's bewitched.
03:23That's what it is.
03:25Come away.
03:25This is no place for a fresh young girl.
03:27I've come a long way to be with my cousins.
03:29And you're one of the Pynchon family.
03:31And I don't intend to be frightened off by your superstition.
03:34You'll be frightened off by that music that you hear.
03:37The music that nobody plays.
03:40Sounds like the music of a harpsichord.
03:43And again, like the wind.
03:45You'll be frightened off by that light that you see up there in the gables.
03:49I see no light.
03:52You say he walks by night, though he's been dead these many years.
03:56Aren't you ashamed of yourself?
03:58A man of your years trying to frighten a girl.
04:01Wait, Uncle.
04:05Is it Miss Hepzibah Pynchon?
04:07Yes.
04:09I'm your cousin Phoebe.
04:10My mother wrote you I was coming.
04:12May I come in?
04:13Yes, of course you may.
04:15This way.
04:31Come, there's a fire in here.
04:33You'll be more comfortable.
04:35Take off your things, for surely you'll spend the night.
04:37The night?
04:39But didn't my mother write that I hope to stay with you for as long as you will have me?
04:43Yes.
04:43She wrote that she wanted you to leave home.
04:45Live in the city here.
04:47So that you might benefit yourself.
04:49But I really can't see my way clear to keep you here with me.
04:53Do let's try, cousin.
04:55We may suit each other better than you think.
04:57This house of mine is a melancholy place for a young girl.
05:01And I'm a dismal and lonesome old woman.
05:03I cannot make your life pleasant here.
05:06Then I shall try to make yours more pleasant.
05:09You do not understand, my child.
05:11This is not a wholesome place.
05:14It is haunted.
05:16Haunted?
05:16By old and tragic memories.
05:18Oh, you will hear it said.
05:20The tormented spirits roam these dusty halls.
05:23Spirits whose lives have been spent here and are ended.
05:27Like this grim gentleman?
05:31Yes, him, they say, and others.
05:35That's Colonel Pynchon, who founded this family and built this house.
05:39It might have been better if he'd done neither.
05:42These dismal thoughts grow out of loneliness.
05:46Let me stay with you and they will disappear.
05:48Perhaps you shall.
05:50Perhaps they will.
05:52I do not believe the tales they tell in town, and yet...
05:56Oh, yes.
05:59Yes, you are a Pynchon.
06:02You remind me of...
06:07How do you like this face?
06:09He is handsome, isn't he?
06:12Who is it, cousin?
06:13Did you ever hear of Clifford Pynchon?
06:15Clifford?
06:15I think I heard my mother speak of him.
06:18Isn't he dead?
06:20Well, well, perhaps he is.
06:22In old houses like this, the dead have been said to come back again.
06:26Oh, my dear cousin, if after all I've said, your courage has not failed you...
06:31You may stay with me a while.
06:35May I light a candle?
06:37Yes, please do.
06:37You'll find a candle and matches in the music room, near the stairs.
06:57Cousin Hephzibah, isn't this a harpsichord?
07:00Yes, but it's never played.
07:02It was forbidden in my lifetime.
07:05Forbidden.
07:18Cousin Hephzibah!
07:21Cousin Hephzibah!
07:22I saw a man.
07:23Good.
07:24Come this way.
07:24I saw someone.
07:26It's getting late.
07:26I'll show you to your room.
07:28Is there anyone else in these rooms with us?
07:30You've traveled far, Phoebe.
07:32Please go to rest.
07:35I'll show you to your room.
08:29I'll show you to your room.
08:30I'll show you to your room.
08:42PIANO PLAYS
09:00PIANO PLAYS
09:38PIANO PLAYS
09:40PIANO PLAYS
10:03good morning good morning sir forgive me if i startled you my name is holgrave
10:11miss hepziver allows me lodging in one of her gables oh yes my cousin did mention a lodger
10:17but i thought you'd be you thought what i thought you'd be a much older man
10:23well i'm sorry to disappoint on such short acquaintance i'm not disappointed and yet
10:30and yet you thought you saw such a man perhaps a much older man i thought i did but i
10:36was tired
10:36and could have been mistaken yes you could have been if you live in one of the gables it must
10:42have been your light that shone last night no not mine i've just returned this morning from a short
10:47trip you saw a light i saw no light an old and foolish man did but never mind i had
10:55an assignment
10:55yesterday in springfield uh i'm a photographer by trade oh i'm not sure i like the sort of pictures
11:02you photographers take they make people look so hard and stern the camera only shows what's there
11:09what would you say of this face hard stern i've seen that face before it's the same as the man
11:16that hangs in the portrait over the fireplace but you've made his clothes modern no no i've done
11:23nothing you will probably meet this face i hope not then don't stay here miss phoebe leave it once
11:29am i so unpleasant that everyone i meet wants to send me packing only those who wish you well the
11:34curse of maul is on this house maul i've never heard that name and you a pension ah no you've
11:40been
11:41in the country you wouldn't know the awful history behind this house do you know it yes it's well known
11:46in the town it was the first maul uh matthew who cleared the forest from the spot over two centuries
11:52ago colonel pinchon the gentleman whose portrait hangs inside wanted the land and uh when maul
11:58wouldn't sell it to him he had maul hang for witchcraft but with the rope around his neck
12:03maul pointed at the colonel and shouted by heaven he'll know the curse of blood at his throat
12:09surely you don't believe in these silly curses
12:13well i only believe what happened the day that the house was to be dedicated the colonel had very
12:17little joy but they found him in the parlor here where his portrait hangs now quite dead
12:21sir i beg you he sat in his proud chair with blood in his beard
12:25i beg you no more talk of witchcraft and curses forgive me i don't mean to frighten you but you
12:29must know this house and leave it how very strange you are excuse me my cousin has a guest again
12:37forgive me for my story perhaps one day you will allow me to show you that my camera cannot bring
12:43out harsh traits in a perfectly lovely face perhaps one day
12:51and i tell you you must leave it once you know i've forbidden you this house now hepsebar you're not
12:56being fair all i want to do is greet my young cousin now what's wrong with that you know you
13:02mustn't let
13:02your lonely life turn you against those who love you is it judge pinchon that i am indeed your cousin
13:08and i greet you little phoebe pinchon it must be i see it in your face how is your dear
13:17mother
13:17well thank you and now you've come to be with us fine this is indeed a family reunion eh hepsebar
13:33she's a strange and sour woman isn't she i like her very much so do we all but come
13:40i haven't yet greeted you properly my dear forgive me
13:46i like that cousin phoebe a pretty young girl must never be too free with her kisses
13:52i didn't mean to be unkind nor were you my child i know we're going to be great friends
13:58together we may even find the treasure the treasure the treasure
14:06of friendship of course and now i must hurry off asking only that you carry a message to our dear
14:14cousin hepsebar gladly say that judge pinchon will be back before long
14:20to complete the business of which we spoke tell her that i will you're a good child choose your
14:30friends carefully and no harm will come to you
14:44what do you think of my camera now didn't it catch a cold and clever look in that man's face
14:48he seems agreeable he smiles a great deal and talks of treasure yes he did mention treasure
14:56wasn't it shakespeare who said that a man may smile and smile and be a villain
15:01yes i think there is treasure here vast treasure in this gloomy old house pray miss phoebe it does
15:09not bring down upon you the doom of the pensions and soon cousin hepsebar is it true what they say
15:18of colonel pinchon and matthew mall so you've already heard yes it's true every pension since has felt
15:26the guilt of that awful deed are there any descendants of matthew mall still living in
15:31this town no not for 30 years or more ah but the pensions have paid through the years for what
15:37the colonel did not because of that silly curse
15:46oh my dear phoebe not a century ago poor lovely young alice pinchon mysteriously wasted away
15:53and died in this house she it was who last played that harpsichord and your great uncle jaffray
15:58my uncle and the judges died in this very house as the colonel did with blood at his throat dear
16:05cousin
16:05surely you don't what's that what i thought i heard footsteps all this talk of witchcraft no it
16:14wasn't called witchcraft when my uncle died this time they called it murder murder there was evidence
16:21too much evidence you might say for they found the guilty party right in this very house how dreadful
16:30was it a servant no not a servant although we had many at the time do you recall a small
16:36picture i
16:37showed you when you first came here oh yes that handsome young man with the gentle face
16:45not clifford pinchon a noble and gentle face if they locked him in prison for 30 years
16:51from that day he never spoke a word not a word is past his lips murdered his uncle cousin i
16:59wish you
16:59hadn't told me well it was necessary that you should know my child then what they say of this house
17:04is true it is cursed and haunted for how else could it this is your cousin clifford phoebe
17:15murder my poor brother he has come home
17:46good morning uncle venner good morning miss phoebe i thought i heard singing i said to myself it
17:52cannot be for there's no singing to be heard at the house of the seven gables they're singing
17:57wherever there's happiness uncle well there may be happiness in the graveyard on church hill
18:02well they say some men are glad to leave this veil of tears but i never heard any singing there
18:10there you go again this is just a house like any other house and nothing to be afraid of
18:15perhaps young miss perhaps there's a man like any other man i'm i'm afraid of him he passes this
18:23way every day and each day at a different hour uncle banner you haven't told the judge that clifford's
18:31here have you not a word miss phoebe i swear good clifford fears the judge why i don't know
18:37but until he recovers his strength his presence here must be our secret my lips are sealed we all must
18:44do what we can to make up for the terrible injustice he suffered injustice i you know i can almost
18:51believe him innocent to hear you say it believe it why you must i still blush to think that i
18:56was ever
18:57frightened of that gentle silent man he still says nothing not a word his years in prison have nearly
19:04broken his spirit mind as well perhaps i don't like that at all mr holgrave no you wouldn't
19:12you always prefer to believe the best of everyone miss phoebe but i warn you to be wary of us
19:17all
19:17yourself included
19:29his mind hangs in the palace you cannot know what it might do take care i won't listen to any
19:35more of
19:35this hasn't he suffered enough without your slanders a house that has held treasure mystery and death may
19:41their madness too i speak because i value your safety then don't speak to me again until you can
19:46learn to value kindness as well miss phoebe lock your bedroom door at night
20:24dear cousin phoebe not yet in bed i was waiting to hear how clifford is sleeping peacefully
20:32so you've been admiring our ancestor not admiring wondering why he ever did that terrible thing
20:39for greed alone the colonel was a wealthy man he owned great tracts of land in what is now the
20:46state
20:46of maine yet he wanted this place too and took it i've never heard of pension land in maine
20:52after his death no record of the land was ever found the family couldn't prove that he had owned
20:57it thus is greed greed come you mustn't think about it anymore that's all over and done with
21:07is it is it i often wonder somehow somehow i feel the colonel's presence here tonight my candle
21:22good night dear phoebe good night
21:28oh
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25:46If you'll excuse me, no.
25:47Nothing.
25:48You called for Clifford.
25:50I wonder why.
25:52Clifford, I can't imagine that I did.
25:54Can it be because he is in this house?
25:55No.
25:56That is, I...
25:58You're too honest a girl to lie with Grace.
26:01Of course he's here.
26:03I've been sure of it ever since his release from prison.
26:06Cousin Jaffrey, it's so cold in this attic.
26:09Please let me go.
26:10Of course.
26:11What am I thinking of?
26:14You will show me Clifford's room.
26:16My welcome to a cousin is long overdue.
26:19He cannot receive visitors at this hour of the night.
26:22Can you call me a visitor?
26:25I am his kin and will speak to him.
26:27He does not speak.
26:29Perhaps he may.
26:30Please, he fears you.
26:32I beg you.
26:33You try my patience.
26:34I tell you I will speak to him and he to me.
26:38Oh, no, cousin.
26:41We shall go together.
26:44Please don't see Clifford.
26:45You'll drive him mad.
26:46Oh, yes.
26:47You'd sooner I leave him in your hands
26:49to coax out his secret with your girlish charm
26:52and have my uncle's treasure for their own.
26:54I know of no treasure, I swear it.
26:56Perhaps not.
26:57But I have reason to know that Clifford holds the secret
27:00in his coward's mind.
27:04Come on.
27:15This thing, I'll tell you I will have his secret
27:18this night, which is his work.
27:20Yes, this.
27:22Spoken like a loving cousin.
27:26Good.
27:26You shall visit him now.
27:28Good evening.
27:29Judge Pitchum.
27:33Mr. Holgrave.
27:36You quid the hour is rather late, Judge.
27:40And that your visit to your cousin is poorly timed.
27:42Ah, yes.
27:43Perhaps so.
27:45Perhaps my love does drive me to extremes.
27:48Perhaps.
27:50Another time will do as well.
27:52Nothing must mar the joy of our reunion.
27:55Nothing shall, sir.
27:56No, upon my soul.
28:00So, good night, dear cousin Phoebe.
28:08Your servant, sir.
28:10Yours, sir.
28:18It is most interesting.
28:21What is Mr. Holgrave?
28:23It is the founder of Pynchon come to earth again.
28:27The faces, the spirits are the same.
28:30The Pynchon breed has come full circle round.
28:34The heritage of greed is greed.
28:38Mr. Holgrave, I most agree to you.
28:40Now, good night, Miss Phoebe.
28:42I trust you will lock your door.
28:44I trust you will lock your door.
29:20A lovely evening, Miss Phoebe.
29:22Yes, Mr. Holgrave, it is lovely, isn't it?
29:24Your cousin seems much improved.
29:26He's gaining strength every day.
29:28And yet, he seems to brood.
29:31Yeah.
29:32What does he brood about?
29:34I feel that you would be much safer if we knew.
29:36I cannot see his thoughts or yours, Mr. Holgrave.
29:39No, there are many dark mysteries in this place, I'm afraid.
29:42Mysteries I intend to solve, if I can.
29:44That's why I'm leaving tomorrow.
29:46You're leaving us?
29:47Oh, just for a few days.
29:49Something tells me, woman's intuition, if you like,
29:52that behind all these mysteries lies the name of Maul.
29:56Well, I was told that that family no longer exists.
29:59I'm not so sure.
30:01I remember now my mother spoke of knowing them some years ago.
30:05If anyone has just cause to wish us harm, them all certainly have.
30:10I'll ask mother what she remembers.
30:13Well, then I wish you Godspeed, Miss Phoebe.
30:15But not good luck in what I seek?
30:18Oh, well, that too, of course, if you wish it.
30:21I frankly say, Mr. Holgrave, I can't say if you wish my cousins well or ill.
30:26I wish you well.
30:27Well, as for your cousins, I'm a lodger, a spectator, no more.
30:33How can you see people in distress without wanting to help and comfort them?
30:38I wish you felt less a spectator and more a human being.
30:44Perhaps one day I can explain.
30:48I had no right to say that.
30:50Forgive me.
30:53There's nothing to forgive.
30:57You know, it seems to me I never watched the coming of so beautiful an evening.
31:01I've never felt anything quite so much like happiness before.
31:05Does that seem strange?
31:06I've been happier than I am now, and yet never quite so content.
31:12Never before?
31:13Never.
31:15I've been frightened here and worried, too.
31:18But just now it doesn't seem to matter.
31:21How very strange.
31:25I must go in.
31:26I'll be leaving in the morning.
31:28Well, then, good night, little Phoebe.
31:30I shall pray for your safe return.
31:39Come, brother.
31:41Sleep through the night, and when you wake, it will be the day of our Phoebe's return.
31:46She's such a dear child.
31:48I've missed her more than I would have believed possible.
31:51Good night, dear brother.
31:53God grant you pleasant rest.
32:13Cousin Jack.
32:14Good evening, cousin Hepzibah.
32:16If this can in any sense be considered a good evening.
32:20You cannot see him.
32:21Now, dear cousin, surely you must see how unkind is your constant bitterness toward me.
32:27Clifford is my cousin, but I love him as though he were my own brother.
32:30Oh, for the love of heaven, stop this loathsome pretense.
32:34After all you've done, do not speak of your love for my brother.
32:36I can't stand it.
32:38You sound like a madwoman, Hepzibah.
32:41I intend to see Clifford before I leave this house.
32:44I am his only friend and an all-powerful one.
32:47You?
32:48His friend?
32:50How do you suppose Clifford obtained his release from prison?
32:53What?
32:53Did you think his release was a triumph over me?
32:56Not at all.
32:57I had him set free.
32:58I do not believe you.
33:00No matter.
33:02Cousin Hepzibah, long ago Clifford boasted to me that he held the secret of great wealth.
33:07He just meant to taunt me, I know.
33:09But there was truth in what he said 30 years ago.
33:12But why would he conceal this so long?
33:14He blamed me for his ruin because I testified against him to the truth as a man must.
33:20He would never share his knowledge with me while he was in prison.
33:24But the time has come when he must give up his secret.
33:27But surely you know he cannot utter a word.
33:29Cannot!
33:32Or will not.
33:34But what if he should still refuse?
33:36Or if he has no knowledge of treasure?
33:39Dear cousin, it must surely be obvious to you that poor Clifford's misfortunes have affected his mind.
33:44Oh, Jeff!
33:45If he refuse me this information out of hatred for one he should love, I shall have to believe him
33:51entirely insane.
33:52Oh, Jeffery, no, no, no!
33:53If he prove himself insane, it is in my power, for the safety of us all, to have him shut
34:00away in a public asylum for the rest of his days.
34:03Oh, Jeffery!
34:06Jeffery, it's your mind that's diseased, not Clifford's.
34:10You have riches enough.
34:11Why should you do this monstrous thing?
34:13Talk sense, heaps above, for heaven's sake!
34:15I've told you my determination!
34:17Oh, I beg of you, I beg of you, do not repeat the crime of our ancestors!
34:21Enough!
34:22Either you call Clifford and let us settle this as two kinsmen should, or you drive me to harsher measures.
34:30The responsibility is yours.
34:38Well, you're stronger than I am.
34:41I believe he knows no secret.
34:45But, but I shall call him.
34:47But, but I shall call him.
35:22Clifford, shall I look at him?
35:26Clifford?
35:28Brother?
35:33He's gone!
35:35Clifford!
35:36Clifford, where are you?
35:38Clifford!
35:56Clifford, answer me!
35:58Answer me!
36:00Jeffery!
36:01Jeffery!
36:03Heaven is gone!
36:04I cannot find the problem!
36:07Jefford, please help me!
36:08Some heart may come to you!
36:12Clifford!
36:13Clifford, brother!
36:15Where are you?
36:21See, Absip, see.
36:23Clifford!
36:25Clifford, you're speaking!
36:27Yes.
36:29Yes.
36:30Let him be silent now.
36:33See, the nightmare's over.
36:44Oh, my God.
36:46What is the darkness?
36:48Come.
36:48We love again.
36:50We must find it.
36:51Yes.
36:51We're free at last.
36:53Yes.
36:55Yes.
36:56Yes.
36:56Yes.
36:57Yes.
36:58Yes.
37:02Yes.
37:03Yes.
37:06Yes.
37:23No, don't go in, Miss Phoebe.
37:25Uncle Fenner, it's good to see you again.
37:27Oh, it's a joy to see you back safely, Miss Phoebe.
37:29Why mustn't I go into the house?
37:31I'm anxious to see my cousins.
37:33Well, maybe, but there's something strange about this house this morning, exceeding strange.
37:37I know.
37:38This house is haunted, young miss.
37:40It is old enough for the likes of you.
37:43Bewitched, I say.
37:43Oh, you do mock me, Miss Phoebe.
37:45But don't go in.
37:47This morning, when I came to collect scraps for my pig and knocked on the door, not a soul
37:52stirred an answer.
37:53Perhaps they didn't hear you.
37:54I knocked again and again and louder and louder.
37:56And all was so still that my heart misgave me.
38:00And I felt there wasn't a soul alive within the house.
38:03Suppose we try the garden door.
38:04There's no sense in that.
38:06Well, if you don't mind, I'll just try knocking.
38:08Well, if there's nobody there, nobody can answer, can there?
38:12But by the opposite rule, if somebody answers, somebody's there.
38:17Don't come away, Miss Phoebe.
38:19Come away.
38:22Cousin Hephzibah.
38:27We meet in an odd moment, Miss Phoebe.
38:30What's wrong?
38:31Why is the house so quiet?
38:33I don't know what to tell you.
38:35Where are my cousins?
38:37Gone.
38:38We're alone in the house.
38:39Clifford and Hephzibah gone, but that's impossible.
38:42Phoebe...
38:43Something's happened.
38:44I must go and see.
38:45No, no.
38:46There will be time enough for that later.
38:48Miss, tell me of your trip.
38:51Please, tell me what's happened.
38:56Do you remember this photograph?
39:00It's Judge Pynchon, of course.
39:02You showed it to me the other day.
39:04What has it got to do with Hephzibah and Clifford?
39:07Here is the same face, taken not an hour ago.
39:11I just finished it when I heard you outside.
39:15But that's death.
39:18Cousin Jaffrey's dead.
39:21As you see him here, your cousin now sits in the chair behind you.
39:26Now, don't, don't look.
39:30You didn't.
39:31Oh, no, you couldn't.
39:33You suspect me of this.
39:35Why?
39:35Why should I?
39:37Because your name is not Holgrave.
39:39My mother remembered well.
39:41There was a son, she said, just a few years older than myself.
39:45She described you very well indeed.
39:47Your name is not Holgrave.
39:48It's Maul.
39:49Maul.
39:51Yes.
39:53I should have told you soon.
39:54In any case, I hope you can forgive my deception.
39:57Forgive?
39:58You cannot believe me capable of that.
40:00I don't know.
40:01You are a Maul with reason enough to hate us.
40:04And if not you...
40:05Phoebe, we are going to need our best wits about us in the coming hours.
40:09Why do you suppose I've stayed here in the house alone with him instead of calling the police?
40:13I don't know, unless you're...
40:14Clifford is gone.
40:16To the world outside, your cousin is a murderer.
40:19Oh, no.
40:20It will be said that he has struck again, in terror and in madness.
40:24I won't believe it.
40:25I can't.
40:26Well, his flight puts the worst possible coloring on his case.
40:29Don't you see, he and Hephzibah must be found and brought back here before another soul hears of the judge's
40:35death.
40:36You're right, of course.
40:38Where can they be?
40:40Well, I'd hoped you might now.
40:42No.
40:45Perhaps Uncle Vennar.
40:50Uncle Vennar?
40:52Uncle Vennar?
40:53Uncle Vennar, if you're within the sound of my voice, please come.
40:56I need you.
40:57I'm here.
40:58I'm here, Miss Phoebe.
41:00Good.
41:01Uncle Vennar, would you...
41:02My spirit tells me.
41:04I should be many miles away.
41:06Uncle Vennar, please find my cousins and bring them here.
41:09Where shall I look?
41:10You know this town better than anyone else.
41:12Find them quickly and bring them back here to me.
41:15Well, I will ask myself where I might go if I were running away from some awful catastrophe within that
41:21house.
41:22There I will hope to find them.
41:23Yes, and please hurry and not a word to anyone.
41:26You say, Miss Phoebe, not a word.
41:29That's done.
41:30Now I'll go the other direction and search as best I can.
41:32No, you'd best stay here with me.
41:35You must be here if they return.
41:37We cannot take a chance that someone may find the judge as he is before we return.
41:41Can't you go and look for them?
41:43No, I will not leave you alone in the house with him.
41:46I'll be all right.
41:48I'll stay with you.
41:50Very well, Mr. Moore.
41:52We'll wait together.
42:13Mr. Moore, you haven't eaten all day.
42:16May I bring you something?
42:19No, thank you.
42:20I have no appetite for food.
42:22If you'll excuse me.
42:23Phoebe.
42:24Mr. Moore.
42:27You've been hiding from me all day.
42:28Do I frighten you so?
42:30It's getting late.
42:32What will we do if Uncle Benner can't find my cousins?
42:36Phoebe, do I frighten you?
42:39Why did you come to this house, Mr. Moore?
42:41Why did you use another name?
42:44Well, I'll tell you quite frankly, I came for treasure.
42:48You came to rob my cousins.
42:49No.
42:51No, I came for treasure hidden in this house, which I believe belongs rightfully to my family.
42:57It is a secret handed down from the first Elijah Moore, who built the house of the Seven Gables.
43:04I'll know more of this.
43:06You didn't find the treasure.
43:07No, I found much more than treasure.
43:11You see, I do.
43:12I frighten you.
43:13You are a maul.
43:14You must hate us.
43:15Is it only fear you feel?
43:17Nothing but fear.
43:19You feel no joy as I do?
43:22How can I think of joy at a time like this?
43:28Look.
43:30The moon is rising.
43:33Do you remember the last time we sat here and watched the moon?
43:36I haven't forgotten.
43:39Phoebe, this time when we are alone together may never come again.
43:43I must not let it pass without saying that I love you.
43:51Mr. Moore.
43:52Can you find it in your heart to love me too?
43:58To trust me in spite of everything.
44:00Put your hand in mine.
44:06The light.
44:08It's Cousin Jaffrey's light.
44:10What?
44:11It was Jaffrey's light the people saw as he searched for treasure.
44:13And they said it was a dead man's ghost.
44:16And you say he's dead.
44:17He is quite dead.
44:19And still walking and still searching.
44:25Forget about it.
44:49Cousin Jaffrey.
44:52It's gone.
44:52Dear heaven.
44:54Wait here.
44:55I'll see if I can find the light upstairs.
44:56No, wait.
44:56Wait for me, Mr. Moore.
44:57I don't want to stay alone.
45:14I don't want to stay alone.
45:16Mr. Moore?
45:20Mr. Moore?
45:21Where are you?
45:23Mr. Moore?
45:32Please.
45:34Come no closer.
45:36Please.
45:44I can't see you.
45:48I can't see you.
45:48Mr. Moore?
45:58What is it, brother?
46:01The picture, Hexaba.
46:05Yes, I remember.
46:08It's as though it once spoke to me long ago.
46:13But what did it say?
46:14My mind will not recall the picture.
46:19Did it speak of treasure, Clifford?
46:22Yes, that was it.
46:24It spoke of treasure.
46:26But what did it say?
46:28Cousin Hexaba, are you all right?
46:30Yes, Phoebe.
46:31We ran away at first.
46:33I feared poor Clifford might have done the deed.
46:35But then I realized how foolish I had been.
46:37I saw the judge in this chair this morning.
46:39Where is he now?
46:46It was my duty to see his body properly laid out in the guest room above.
46:52Then it was your light in the attic.
46:56I sought a shroud for my poor, departed cousin.
46:59Then if not Clifford, who?
47:02It was not you.
47:04It never could have been.
47:05Oh, thank you.
47:07Thank you, my lad.
47:08But your cousins know the truth.
47:11From the time of Colonel Pynchon, descendants in his line have died this way several times.
47:16But through no other hand than God's.
47:20It's an illness, much like apoplexy, passed down from sun to sun.
47:23And Matthew Moore knew of it when he called down his curse.
47:27True.
47:29Except when my uncle died, evidence was added to make it seem as if I'd killed him.
47:34Added by poor Jaffrey, I'm convinced.
47:37You knew this all along and never told me.
47:39My love, you thought me a murderer.
47:42I had to have your trust, beyond reason, beyond logic, to know that you love me.
47:47It was unkind, but just.
47:50And now you've looked into my heart.
47:54The picture spoke to me, yes, but what did it say?
47:57There is a secret handed down from the first Elijah Moore.
48:02A secret panel built into the wall.
48:05The Colonel's treasure hidden there for revenge.
48:10Clifford must have found it years ago by accident, and I've never known where to search until this moment.
48:15The secret is in the picture.
48:18Yes, I remember. I was just a boy.
48:24What is it?
48:26Is it a will?
48:27A map?
48:30No, neither.
48:35The final irony of all.
48:38Ah, a deed.
48:40Quite so.
48:42The long-lost deed signed by Sagamore Indian chiefs granting to Colonel Pynchon those boundless acres up in Maine.
48:50This is what the Pynchon family needed years ago to prove their claim, and here it is.
48:55Quite worthless now.
48:57Worthless? Worthless.
48:59So this is the end reward of greed.
49:02To scheme, to strike, to die for what is worthless.
49:07Wait.
49:15Mr. Holgrave, would you tell Miss Phoebe that her cousins are nowhere to be found?
49:20They've gone from the...
49:22Oh, there they are.
49:25And did they never run away?
49:27Come in, Uncle Benner.
49:29Come in.
49:29It's all right.
49:33Is there nothing, then, to fear in this house?
49:36No, Uncle Benner.
49:37There's no longer anything to fear in the House of the Seven Gables.
49:44Well, that was pretty frightening, but we made it back safe and sound to our stage two in Burbank, California.
49:51Our thanks to the splendid cast who helped us bring to television the House of the Seven Gables.
49:57Our stage is empty now, but next week it will come alive with another exciting adventure.
50:04Rudyard Kipling's Baba Black Sheep.
50:06Until then, this is Shirley Temple wishing each of you a fond good night.
50:31The End
50:32The End
50:33The End
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