Full Transcript for Almost AIP: Arnold

00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Then in 1974, A.I.P. became Cinerama Releasing's Domestic Distribution Agent, 43 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:56,000 and while digging through some promotional material, we came across my A.I.P.s product brochures 44 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,000 from 1974, promoting its current and upcoming releases from 1975, 45 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:05,000 and sitting right there among the A.I.P. titles as Arnold, identified as “In current release from Cinerama". 46 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,000 So since A.I.P. itself apparently considered Arnold relevant enough to put in front of its exhibitors, 47 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 that makes it relevant enough for us to cover on the podcast. 48 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,000 So to justify this, instead of pretending that this was secretly an A.I.P. production, 49 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,000 or to rewrite the filmography to make it fit, we're calling this one “Almost A.I.P." 50 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,000 It's a designation we will occasionally use for movies that monitor the A.I.P.s orbit 51 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 without ever quite becoming an American International Picture. 52 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 There are actually quite a few of these, and the connections will vary. 53 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Some were titles that were announced but A.I.P. never released them. 54 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,000 A lot of these titles were developed or finance with the A.I.P. involvement 55 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,000 and then ended up being distributed by another company. 56 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 And then there's Arnold, which was an existing Cinerama release, 57 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 but nevertheless, on its way into A.I.P.s own sales material. 58 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 So now that we've got all the corporate genealogy out of the way, 59 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,000 we're going to talk about our first Almost A.I.P. movie, Arnold from 1973. 60 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Alright, so here we go. 61 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Arnold was directed by George Fenady. 62 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,000 It was written by Jameson Brewer and John Fenton Murray, 63 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 and produced by Andrew J. Fenady and Charles A. Pratt for Bing Crosby Productions 64 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,000 and distributed, as we said, by Cinerama Releasing Corporation. 65 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Arnold stars Stella Stevens as Karen, Roddy McDowall as Robert, 66 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Elsa Lanchester as Hester, Shani Walise as Lady Jocelyn Dwellyn, 67 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Farley Granger as Evan Lyons, Victor Buono as Minister, John McGiver as Governor. 68 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 It also stars Bernard Fox as Constable Hook, Patrick Knowles as Douglas Whitehead, 69 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Jamie Farr as Dybbi, Norman Stewart as Lord Arnold Dwellyn, Ben Wright as Jonesy, 70 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Wanda Bailey as Flo, Steven

Marlo and Leslie Thompson as Dart players, 71 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,000 and Murray Matheson as the uncredited voice of Lord Arnold Dwellyn. 72 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Arnold opens with bells ringing their ominous chimes. 73 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 We're in a church graveyard. It's foggy. 74 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 It's gloomy. It's very wet looking. 75 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 A raven cause and a black cat meows. 76 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,000 The raven lands on a fountain near where the caretaker, Jonesi, is working. 77 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Jonesi tells Reggie the raven he's too busy to play and to mine the cat. 78 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,000 The cat tries to pounce on it, but the raven eludes the cat and flies off. 79 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Lighting strikes and thunder claps, and Jonesi stands at attention 80 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 when a coffin is brought through the yard and into the church. 81 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Nearby, Constable Hook cops off his bike and sluts the procession. 82 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Then he heads over to speak with Jonesi, hooks bicycle topples over as he goes. 83 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Hook tells Jonesi that Dwellyn Hall will never be the same, 84 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 not that his lordship is dead, and Jonesi agrees. 85 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Then the plot takes a hard right turn as we hear the peel of wedding bells ringing out, 86 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,000 and a song starts to play as credits roll. 87 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 The song seems very on a place with the sight that we're seeing. 88 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Because it's a love song. 89 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 You see a bride flanked by two bridesmaids and two flower girls, 90 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,000 and they're filing into a church as the ode to warm sweet Arnold finishes. 91 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Hook and Jonesi are utterly grop smack by the sight. 92 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,000 As the women head into the church, Jonesi turns to Constable Hook and says, 93 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 "There's been a terrible mistake. They mixed up the Marion with the Marion." 94 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Constable Hook goes over to the church and peeks inside. 95 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,000 The bridal march is playing in a minor key. 96 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Thuggles whitehead attorney is walking the bride down the aisle towards the minister, 97 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 who's looking very uneasy. 98 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Well, it's Reverend Victor Buono, and he's sneaking a few hits out of the communion cup. 99 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Our bride, whose name is Karen, is escorted to the altar, 100 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 where her groom is fitted with a standing coffin open at the top. 101 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,000 His face is fixed with a wide eyed grin in a blank stare. 102 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 The groom is the late Lord Arnold Dwellin. 103 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Also in attendance for the ceremony are Evan Lyons, 104 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Jocelyn, Lord Arnold's widow, Dibi, wearing a pink turban eye patch and a hook for his left hand, 105 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 and Arnold's brother Robert is the best man. 106 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Now that everyone is in position, the minister begins the ceremony. 107 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 But the tipsy preacher can't keep his services straight. 108 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Is this a wedding or a funeral? 109 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Anyway, he gets on with the strange proceedings. 110 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 When he gets to the part where he asks if anyone has any objections, 111 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,000 he seems to be pleading for someone to please speak rather than hold their peace. 112 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:42,000 The groom's widow, still dressed in black, looks grim, but like everyone else, says nothing. 113 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,000 So the minister has no choice but to continue, crossing as hard as he does so. 114 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 He gets to the until death to you part but stops himself again. 115 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 He asks Karen if she takes this man to be her laughily wedded husband. 116 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,000 "I do," she says, "the minister stares at her, then shakes himself out of it." 117 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000 He repeats the question to Arnold, and a voice replies, "I do." 118 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Everyone seems shaken, but not stirred. 119 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,000 So the Reverend has no choice but to pronounce them husband and wife, 120 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 and may heaven ever mercy on his soul. 121 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 At that, he drains the wine goblet, and the wedding party exits the church, 122 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 followed by the Paul Bears, lugging the casket back to the manner, 123 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 as the wedding recessional plays. 124 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Outside, Constable Hook and Jonesy watch as the wedding/futural party leaves. 125 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Hook says it doesn't look like Jonesy will have to be putting Arnold in the crypt anytime soon. 126 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,000 Instead, he might be just going on his honeymoon. 127 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,000 On the church steps Douglas Whitehead, barricer to the deceased, 128 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,000 slash groom, introduces his associate, Evan Lyons, to the late Lord's widow, Jocelyn. 129 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,000 He offers condolences to her, but when they notice Brother Robert standing there, 130 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Robert declines condolences. 131 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 What he needs is his stiff drink. 132 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Then he goes off in search of one. 133 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Jocelyn

asks Douglas what Arnold was trying to prove with his farce of his ceremony 134 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 with this over-sexed airline hostess. 135 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 He tells her all will be explained at the mannerhouse this evening. 136 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,000 He excuses himself and goes over to Jonesy and tells him there is a meeting at the mannerhouse this evening, 137 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,000 and that all staff should be in attendance. 138 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Douglas tells the Constable he should come as well. 139 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Constable Hook asks, "With what religion was Arnold affiliated, 140 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 because that funeral service was like nothing he had ever seen. 141 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Douglas explains that it wasn't a funeral, it was a wedding. 142 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 That makes sense to Hook, because it's sure seen more like a wedding ceremony, 143 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,000 with a slow exception being, in this case, the groom was dead." 144 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,000 "It was cold as a cod." 145 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 "But Arnold already had a wife, Lady Jocelyn." 146 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 "No, no, no, no, Lady Jocelyn is a widow now," explains Douglas. 147 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Constable Hook's brain starts to smoke as he attempts to understand this. 148 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,000 And now we see that the wedding recessional has reached the manner, 149 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 as the Arnold song plays again. 150 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,000 As the Paulbearers carrying the now-closed coffin enter with Karen, 151 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,000 they are greeted by Hester, Arnold's sister, and her pussycat. 152 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Hester runs down the stairs to welcome her new sister to the family. 153 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,000 She apologizes for not being able to attend the ceremony, 154 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 but she had to get the place ready for the guests. 155 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,000 And she does weep so at weddings. 156 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Hester supposes that Karen would like some alone time with her new hubby, 157 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,000 and Karen helps out the Paulbearers by telling Hester that they need to put him somewhere, 158 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,000 so Hester sends them into the drawing room. 159 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,000 In the drawing room, a large portrait of Arnold hangs on the wall. 160 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Hester informs Karen that Arnold was born in this house. 161 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Then she tells Arnold that she's going to fix him up nice, straighten his tie, etc. 162 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Karen says, "Maybe it would be best to keep the casket closed for now." 163 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 And Hester seems quite disappointed. 164 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Arnie loves parties. 165 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,000 So no. 166 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,000 And the cat thinks that now might be the time to bug her off. 167 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,000 The cat and Arnie weren't on the best of terms Hester tells us, 168 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 and then Hester corrects herself. 169 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Arnels' new wife should be taking care of her groom now, 170 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,000 and instructs Karen on which button to push to turn the casket into a convertible. 171 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Yeah, the lid slides open and Arnold rises up. 172 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,000 That evening, all I've gathered for the meeting at the manner. 173 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Arnold lays in his coffin, and in attendance around the room are Jocelyn, the deceased widow. 174 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Karen, the deceased bride. 175 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Robbie, the brother. 176 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Hester, the sister. 177 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 And basically everyone else we've met in the movie so far. 178 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Except for the minister. 179 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Except for him. 180 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:42,000 And the flower girls and the bride's mates. 181 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Douglas announces that the will is to be read at the manner in the evening following the ceremony, 182 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,000 which is now, except, says Douglas, he will not be the one reading it. 183 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Instead, the words will be spoken by his lordship, Arnold Dwellin. 184 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,000 And how is this going to be accomplished? 185 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Well, that's via the cassette tape that he's holding. 186 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Douglas puts the tape into the player built into the casket. 187 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,000 This is a modern casket, complete with stereo sound. 188 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000 And we hear Arnold's voice warmly greeting his guests. 189 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:10,000 He tells his heirs that he's gone to great pains to see to it that they get exactly what they deserve, 190 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:11,000 as thunder claps outside. 191 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:15,000 To his sister, Hester, he bequeaths a lifetime trust of 100 pounds a month, 192 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:19,000 plus the incontestable right to his side in this house for as long as she shall live. 193 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Thank you, Arnie, says Hester. 194 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 You're welcome, Arnold's voice replies from the tape. 195 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:28,000 As for Cousin Douglas, the solicitor, he entrusts the settlement of his estate and marriage and such, 196 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,000 with his retainer continuing at its, quote, "more than generous level." 197 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Douglas's expression is inscrutable here. 198 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,000 To his younger brother, Robbie, who had never

wished for anything, never worked for anything, 199 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,000 and consequently has nothing, to him, Arnold bequeaths nothing. 200 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Robbie smiles and raises his glass. 201 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,000 At this point, the storm blows open the French doors and the lights go out, 202 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 and Douglas stops the tape. 203 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Karen barks in order at Dibby to light the candles and he does. 204 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,000 In the light we see the cat on top of the casket, hissing at Arnold. 205 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Hester retrieves the cat from atop the casket, telling the cat she shouldn't sit on Port Arnie. 206 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,000 He's allergic to kiddies. 207 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Douglas turns the tape on again, and Arnold's voice continues. 208 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,000 To Jocelyn is bereaved in grieving widow, he leaves the title of Lady Dwellyn, 209 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,000 and the role's Royce, so she can continue the facade of nobility she cherishes. 210 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,000 That which she has always treasured more than him, her title. 211 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:18,000 As she refuses offer of 1 million pounds for a divorce, it's obvious that money has no value to her. 212 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,000 In addition, she will receive one share in the Lady D Cosmetics Company. 213 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,000 Jesus stounded. 214 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:27,000 One share, what about the rest of the estate she asks, and Arnold continues. 215 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,000 As for the rest of the estate, which everyone knows is monumental, 216 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 he leaves it to his new bride, Karen. 217 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,000 She'll get sole ownership of Dwellyn chemicals, all subsidiary companies stock spawns, 218 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,000 and an enormous horde of cash, currently stored in a vault, 219 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,000 to be revealed later. The voice of Arnold continues. 220 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:47,000 He tells Karen that even though she was frustrated by his heartless wife's refusal to grant a divorce, 221 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,000 and though she knew he was suffering from a terminal illness these past two years, 222 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000 she remained a warm and tender lover. 223 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 He knows that she'll abide by the terms of this agreement, 224 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,000 and their prenuptial agreement to keep him with her, just as she sees him now, 225 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,000 for as long as she shall live, and Karen's eyes bug out of her face. 226 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,000 And Jocelyn smiles just a little too much. 227 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Later, Karen is showing hook and Jonesy to the door. 228 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Jonesy says it was most generous for his lordship to remember all of them in his will. 229

00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,000 He was one and a million, says Constable Hook, as he puts on his Macintosh. 230 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,000 He wishes Karen and his lordship many happy years together. 231 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Karen opens the door for them, and it's pouring rain. 232 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Lovely day for the sort of wedding exclaims hook, and he and Jonesy bid Karen adieu. 233 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Douglas Whitehead and Evan are also leaving. 234 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Douglas has to go deliver pool, but Evan has a business errand to run first. 235 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,000 As Douglas leaves, he tells Karen to call, "Should she need anything?" 236 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,000 She asks about the money in the fall, but he hasn't the fagious notion. 237 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,000 But he says he sure that she'll find out soon enough where it is. 238 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Douglas says Arnold always prepare for every contingency, and this seems to be no exception. 239 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Jocelyn instructs Dibby to take her bag to the car. 240 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 He seers at it, then slowly takes it. She descends the stairs and tells Karen. 241 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:57,000 She hopes that she and her dead husband spend many happy years together in this medieval mausoleum. 242 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Karen chides Jocelyn for not providing more love and affection to her husband. 243 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Jocelyn snaps that Karen gave him enough affection for the both of them, 244 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,000 and then Jocelyn asks what Karen's going rate was. 245 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Arnold and I never discussed money, says incense Karen. 246 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 What did he do, leave it on the mantle each night? 247 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:16,000 As Jocelyn as she pushes past Karen, Karen says that their love was true, 248 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,000 and that's why she will stand by Arnold even after his death. 249 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Jocelyn informs Karen that it's quite illegal to marry a corpse, 250 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,000 but Karen says Douglas Whitehead believes he can prove the marriage valid 251 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,000 by using the precedent of women who marry soldiers at the front by proxy. 252 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Men who might already have died, but Jocelyn is done. 253 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,000 As she goes, she says that the courts will award her the rightful widow and heir, 254 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:40,000 the entire estate. Then she wishes Karen well again by saying, "Happy honeymoon, you bitch." 255 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:47,000 [Music] 256 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Now Karen returns to the drawing room with the dearly departed, 257 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000 but she's not alone there. 258 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Robbie is still there. He reaches for Karen and they kiss. 259 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000 He says he hadn't had a chance to congratulate the bride yet. 260 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Besides, now that Arnold is gone, the two of them don't have to hide anymore. 261 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Karen doesn't want to do this in front of Arnold, 262 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 but Robbie doesn't seem to have any trouble with it. 263 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Arnold can't see a thing or a canny. 264 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,000 We see someone's eye peeping through the eye of the portrait of Arnold hanging on the wall. 265 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Then Robbie and Karen go over to the casket. 266 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Karen says that his eyes and smile make her skin crawl. 267 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Robbie tries to prove that he's dead as a sausage by touching her hand to Arnold's face, 268 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,000 but this creeps Karen out even more. 269 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,000 And then Robert says something that I didn't really understand. 270 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,000 He says that Arnold had his joints articulated so he could be moved in any position. 271 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Really, I'm just trying to imagine how much surgical intervention that would require. 272 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000 If it was done after his death, maybe it was done before. 273 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Robbie suggests they could strip him down to his shorts and stand him into the croquet court. 274 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 That's sacrilegious, Protessa Karen, but Robbie just laughs. 275 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,000 You married him. 276 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Karen says she married Arnold to inherit the estate. 277 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,000 And Robbie tells her that they can get the best solicitor in England to break that ridiculous agreement. 278 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,000 And then she can spend the rest of her life with him. 279 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,000 The kiss says Hester pushes into the room with the post. 280 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,000 They're just small package for Karen. 281 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Hester hands the package to Karen. 282 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Asked to the three of them are having fun and then turns in exits before anyone can answer. 283 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Karen opens the envelope. It's another cassette tape. 284 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:10,000 She doesn't want to hear that voice again, but Robbie takes the tape saying that voice may be ready to tell her where the money is. 285 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Instead, as a voice plays, be your Arnold cast-gaining Robbie for coveting everything he's ever owned. 286 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000 And now he wants to take his bride away. 287 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Robbie is shocked because somehow Arnold knows about them, which Arnold confirms via the tape. 288 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Karen is a bit flustered by this. The timing of the tape's

arrival was perfect. 289 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,000 How could that be unless Arnold was still alive? But Robbie thinks that's ridiculous. 290 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Arnold has always been able to anticipate Robbie's every move, so the tape had to be made before Arnold died. 291 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Karen asks who sent the tape and then Robbie says maybe it was cousin Douglas. 292 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,000 He'd do anything for money. Or sister Hester who always did Arnold's bidding. 293 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Or Dibi, who he picked up in India years ago when he lost his arm saving Arnold's miserable life. 294 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Many pauses were forgetting someone says Robbie. 295 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Ooh, Karen asks. The poor grieving widow. 296 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,000 And as for Jocelyn, she's in the role's voice with Evan. They're plotting something. 297 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Evan says that the state landed just where it belongs. And Jocelyn seems unfazed by this. 298 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Evan says that he can outwit whitehead. He's going to do his errand to then meet her at the shield and plume at midnight, where he will tell her his plan. 299 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Now we're at the shield and plume, a local pub. And a couple of guys are throwing darts and an older gentleman, whom everyone refers to as governor, sits at the counter with a checkerboard. 300 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,000 The waitress flow rushes back to the counter. It's her turn to checkers. 301 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:24,000 And we see all the men in the pub are eyeing the fuxen barmaids ample cleavage spilling out of her low cut top. 302 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,000 As she makes her move in checkers, the governor kisses her hand and she spots him away. 303 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Constable Hook comes in saying that Brandon puppies and pussy's tizz. 304 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:37,000 We'll look with a storm. Blue in says governor. He's your son says flow. Don't remind me governor replies. 305 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Hook asked flow for a kiss and then says he was at a wedding today. And it made him want to ask her when they were going to exchange vows. 306 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:50,000 All in good time she says hook says they've been betrothed for over a year now and all that waiting is hard on a man. 307 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,000 He tells her that he really stopped by and to ask if she fancy a ride home on his handlebars. 308 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,000 And then afterwards maybe he could pop up to her flat to watch TV with her and her mom. 309 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,000 She tells him that sweet of him to offer and governor calls him sex fiend. 310 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Just then jaslin comes down the stairs and announces to flow that she is retiring for the evening and asks that she not be disturbed. 311 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Hook says he didn't know lady dwell and was staying there. Lends a little class to the place. 312 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:17,000 And then he steals a look at flows bosom governor while staring at the checkerboard in front of him tells hook to stop his blathering. 313 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:22,000 He's trying to figure out his next move in a room lady jaslin stairs at a portrait of Arnold and calls him an idiot. 314 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:26,000 She puts his photo on the table with her travel case and starts taking out items. 315 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:31,000 She tells Arnold that her years with him weren't as dreary and loveless as he might have imagined for her. 316 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:36,000 She also had a lover someone he never even knew and she starts putting cold cream on her face. 317 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:41,000 She says he'll be there shortly to keep her company and to discuss how they can break his ludicrous will. 318 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Despite that farce of a wedding, she's his widow, not his ex-wife. 319 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Thunder claps on side and jaslin stairs to shake. The cold cream is eating away at her flesh. 320 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,000 She screams. 321 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Down stairs hook helps flow like candles because the power went out. 322 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:58,000 She's telling these squeals and hook asks what happened. The governor says flow. He just made his move. 323 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,000 He coosed her. Upstairs jaslin's death throws have her shattering the mirror. 324 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Just then Evan arrives at the pub and we see that upstairs jaslin is still dying in agony. 325 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Her screams reach the governor but hook here's nothing. 326 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Evan sneaks up to the jaslin's room. He goes in and finds her dead on the floor. Her face eaten away by that cold cream. 327 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:20,000 By now governor has convinced hook that he should investigate so hook excuses himself and heads upstairs. 328 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:26,000 From inside, Evan hears a knock at the door and he goes to the window. He climbs out until the storm and disappears. 329 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Then we cut to the headstone of jaslin, beloved wife. She's put to rest in the graveyard and not in the crypt. 330 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Karen and Hester are there as our diabetes Jonesy who dug the grave. Hook rides up on his bicycle which falls over as he hops off had to join the others. 331 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 I didn't even know this was supposed to be a bit at first. 332 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Karen and Hester express their shock at this terrible death but hook cheerfully says that we all die eventually. 333 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Karen objects to his tone and the constable tells her at least she's the soul surviving widow now. Hester corrects him. 334 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Karen is the wife, not the widow. 335

00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,000 That's right, says hook. He's forgetting the whole thing is so weird. 336 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Karen asks the constable if he has the results of the investigation and hook pulls on his notebook and reads off his report. 337 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Lady Dwellen was alone in a room putting goo on her face when something strange happened and chucks her face started to fall off. 338 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:15,000 It started to peel her like an onion. He laughs that the stuff was a real rickle remover har har har. 339 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,000 Karen looks very distressed and runs off and Hester chases after her. 340 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Then hook asked Jonesy if they built a cemetery here because it's always foggy or did the fog roll in because this is where the cemetery is. 341 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:30,000 I give up says Jonesy expect the answer to this riddle but there is none. They banter a little bit and then read you the raven shits on hookshead. 342 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Now we go to the manner. Karen's on the phone calling Robbie. She orders him to come to the manner. She knows who killed Jocelyn. 343 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,000 And then there's a significant shot of Arnold in his casket. 344 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 So Robbie drives over to the manner and Karen's waiting outside for him. 345 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Who did it? He asks Arnold. He puts something terrible in her cold cream. 346 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:53,000 As they head inside, Robbie tries to make sense of this. Is she saying that Arnold who have been dead for a week by this time snuck into Jocelyn's room and put acid in her room? 347 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Karen says he must have planted in advance somehow. Robbie says well if that's the case then bless him. 348 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:06,000 Now there's no one to contest the will. They kiss as Dibi comes in and Robbie yells at him for not announcing himself but Dibi never says anything. 349 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Instead, Dibi silently hands an envelope to Karen. 350 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:14,000 She knows that the postman had already stopped by today and inquires if this had been delivered by messenger. 351 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Dibi slowly nods and answer then leaves. He's the perfect houseboy for a corpse says Robbie. 352 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Karen says that she knows that this wasn't Jocelyn's doing this time, but that she still doesn't want to play the tape. 353 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:29,000 She can be content with just the estate. She doesn't need to know anymore, but that doesn't work for Robbie. He wants the money. 354 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:35,000 "We are not going to leave that money lying around for somebody else to find," says Robbie, taking a tape from her and inserting it into the casket. 355 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,000 The settlement of that estate could take months or years. They need something now. 356 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,000 Robbie plays the tape in which Arnold references Jocelyn's messy end. 357 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Karen takes this as proof that Arnold did do this and that the two of them could be next. 358 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:52,000 From the tape, Arnold says he knows that Karen must be worried. She might be next, but she must understand. 359 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:57,000 He wishes her no ill will, so as long as she upholds her end of the agreement, she has nothing to worry about. 360 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:02,000 Or else she may be destroyed and Robbie too. Now Robbie has had enough and he throws the tape into the fire. 361 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Robbie thinks that Arnold made a very in-depth psychological study of the two of them, but he has a disadvantage because Arnold is working with a fixed plot that he can't change. 362 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,000 But the two of them, they can out-fox him by doing something that he's not expecting. 363 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,000 This will give them the upper hand and Karen agrees to this. 364 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Throughout all of this, somebody is looking through the eye hole in the portrait. 365 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Karen really wants to leave this place though and Robbie says that they could go to his flat in the village. 366 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Just as Hester comes in and tells them that tonight she is going out, it's her weekly quilting night. 367 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,000 Karen tells Hester that she and Robbie are going out for supper tonight. 368 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,000 And Hester thinks it's wonderful that Karen is getting to know the family. 369 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,000 And she sure Arnold wouldn't mind her going out once in a while. 370 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Robbie offers to give Hester a ride, but Hester says she'd prefer to walk. She likes the smell of the Heather after sundown. 371 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,000 She loves to cross those mowers. She goes and then Karen calls for Dibi. 372 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 She asks him to have Jonesy bring the car around. 373 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,000 When next we see them, Robbie is parking as car as flat. 374 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,000 He and Karen go inside and she tells them that she's happy that they stopped for champagne. 375 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 However, Robbie would rather just jump her right now. 376 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,000 As they start to get busy on the couch, we see that they aren't alone in the room. 377 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000 There's someone sitting in a chair nearby. 378 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Robbie says that they'd probably be more comfortable in the bedroom. 379 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:11,000 And when Karen stands, her gal in a Kimbo, she sees that Arnold is in the chair dead-eyed and smiling at them. 380 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Karen gasps and runs from the room. 381 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,000 And

even Robbie is stuttle by the sight of his dead older brother smiling at him. 382 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,000 He too runs from the room, stumbling as he goes. 383 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,000 He falls on his golf clubs. 384 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,000 And then we see Robbie driving like a bat out of hell back to the manor. 385 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,000 But then he stops and pulls over. He's an idiot. They should have stayed. 386 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Arnie wanted them to run. 387 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 Karen wonders how Arnold got there. 388 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Obviously, Selling Put Him There says Robbie. 389 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,000 And whoever it was is taking him back to the manor right now. 390 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,000 So they brush back to the manor, but find that Arnold has beaten them there. 391 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Yes, he's already resting comfortably in his coffin when they return. 392 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,000 But how, as Karen, just then Esther arrives and starts bustling around, 393 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 thanking Arnie for letting them all go out to enjoy themselves. 394 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Robbie asks Hester if she saw anybody outside, but she says no, just Josie, and goes to make some tea. 395 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Karen tells Robbie that's it. She's leaving. 396 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Robbie says she has to stay until the estate is settled, or at least until Arnold tells her where the cash is. 397 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,000 Karen is starting to think the cash doesn't exist, but Robbie gets to thinking. 398 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000 The cash might be hidden here in the manor. 399 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,000 Maybe even in this very room. 400 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,000 What if it's in the most obvious place of all? 401 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:15,000 He opens the casket into his great shock he sees, mud and grass all over Arnold's shoes. 402 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Karen rushes over to see what's going on. 403 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 He walked across the mors, she gasps. 404 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Robbie closes the lid. It's obvious the money isn't hidden there. 405 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Karen still doesn't want to stay there. 406 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 So Robbie says they can stay at an intonate. 407 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 What in? What difference does it make? 408 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,000 And in. That way Arnold can't possibly know if even Karen doesn't know. 409 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Karen kisses him. I'll go pack a bag she says, screwing off. 410 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Robbie decides that he wants to change his clothes too. 411 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 And he'll borrow one of Arnie's suits. 412 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:45,000 After all he won't mind. Upstairs, Robbie and Karen share a kiss in the hallway outside her room. 413 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,000 She says she

feels better now. 414 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:50,000 So Robbie goes into Arnie's room for histories opening a large box addressed to Arnold. 415 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,000 It's from London and it must be a wedding gift. 416 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 At least it's not a tape, he says. 417 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Robbie says they should take a look at it. It's a new suit and it's purple. 418 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,000 It's a lilac purple velvet suit. 419 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,000 And exactly what Robbie wants to wear right now. 420 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,000 He holds it up against himself. 421 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,000 Oh Robbie says, Hester, you were always trying to help yourself to Arnold's goodies. 422 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,000 Maybe that's because he always had so many more goodies than I had. 423 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,000 He says, Hester leaves and Robbie starts to put on the suit. 424 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,000 Again we see someone staring through the eye of Arnold's portrait. 425 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Meanwhile in Karen's room she's in her fancy underthings. 426 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Robbie resplendent in purple knocks on her door. 427 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 She says she's not dressed just yet. 428 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,000 I know he says let me in. 429 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,000 But she says she'll be right down. So he sulks away down the hallway. 430 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Looking and clanging a suit of armor as he goes down the hall. 431 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Meanwhile we see that someone has gone behind the sliding bookshelf by the fireplace in the drawing room. 432 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,000 And that person looks out from the portrait eye hole as Robbie enters the room to show off Arnie's new suit. 433 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,000 If it's Robbie perfectly. 434 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,000 Then he goes to the corpse telling him that his plan isn't working. 435 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Robbie will get his fortune and to tap it off his bride as well. 436 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,000 She never was his. 437 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Robbie says he glots about how Karen has always been with him since the beginning. 438 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,000 But then he gasps. 439 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 Even dead Arnold has to have the last word. 440 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:04,000 The purple suit starts to tighten around Robbie choking him and squeezing the air from his lungs. 441 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,000 We see Robbie fall flat on his back as the suit shrinks until it's like a second skin. 442 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,000 You bastard Robbie chokes as the suit squeezes him tighter and tighter. 443 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,000 The suit grows so tight that eventually Robbie pops. 444 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:20,000 He explodes all over the drawing room splashing the casket with red and purple. 445 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Karen comes downstairs calling Robbie that she's ready to go. 446 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 She walks into the drawing room screams. 447 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,000 Then runs back into the hall and collapses on the stairs. 448 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,000 We didn't get to see it but that's okay. 449 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000 And now the raven sits upon a new headstone. 450 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Robert beloved brother. 451 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,000 But Jonzy and Dibby are the only ones at Robbie's burial. 452 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Dibby places flowers on the grave and Jonzy says rest in peace and rest in peace. 453 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,000 Patting down the dirt over the grave. 454 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:46,000 At the shield in plume, flow and hook, gusp about how master Robbie popped his buttons. 455 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 Hook says his buttons were about all that was left of him. 456 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 Jonzy comes in for a quick drink. 457 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Then says he's got to be going back. 458 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000 He might have another hold to dig. 459 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000 He takes off and flow notices he left the package behind. 460 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,000 It's addressed to Karen so Hook says he can take it to her. 461 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,000 He's headed that way anyway. 462 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,000 She's expecting his report on Robbie's death. 463 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 She's not set a word to anyone since master Dwellen exploded. 464 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,000 He tells us and flow. 465 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000 And now we're in the drawing room where Hook addresses Karen. 466 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,000 He has a few things to clear up. 467 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:14,000 But first he needs to describe for her and us the state of Robbie's body after the death. 468 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,000 He notes that he found pieces of him all over the drawing room. 469 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,000 His head was on the mantle, all blue it was, and blown up like a ready circus plume. 470 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000 He notes that the mantle is be cleaned up nicely. 471 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,000 But then he continues. 472 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 His shoes were in the corner and scattered about. 473 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Higgledy-piggledy were wee bits of what goes between the head and the shoes. 474 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Like a jigsaw puzzle. 475 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,000 Hook defaulse. 476 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,000 Karen pleads with him to get to the bloody point already. 477 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,000 Hook apologizes and says he wants to confirm if all the pieces belong to Robert or if some 478 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,000 of the pieces might belong to someone else. 479 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Like a midget. 480 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,000 Karen stares at him in disbelief. 481 00:25:43,000 -->

00:25:45,000 There was only Robert, she says. 482 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Hook thinks her and notes that Arnold seems to be holding up well. 483 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,000 Hook supposes he just needs a little dusting every now and then. 484 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,000 Hook goes to leave but then remembers that package that Jonesy had left in the pub. 485 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,000 He gives it to Karen and wishes her good day. 486 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Karen opens the package and of course it's one of those tapes. 487 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,000 But she refuses to play it. 488 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,000 She tells Arnold that she's leaving him and runs upstairs. 489 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 As she does, Dye becomes into the room. 490 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,000 Upstairs we see Karen opening her bag and throwing things into it. 491 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,000 And then we hear Arnold's voice coming over the inner calm, 492 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000 which the house is apparently equipped with. 493 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,000 The voice tells Karen that he's disappointed in her just as he was with Robbie. 494 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000 And that he had that suit designed especially for him. 495 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,000 Here minds her that he and she will always be together. 496 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,000 Karen runs for the door but Arnold tells her that there's no escape. 497 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:29,000 And with Robbie dead, she has far fewer distractions so she can devote herself to him alone. 498 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,000 And of course we see that someone is peeking in through the portrait in her room. 499 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,000 So Karen calls Douglas Blighthead and he agrees to meet her. 500 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,000 But she isn't want to meet at the manner. 501 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Douglas says she'll be there rest assured. 502 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,000 And we see that Evan is listening to Douglas's side of the conversation upstairs. 503 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,000 That night Karen meets Douglas in the gloom of the graveyard. 504 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,000 He asks why she wanted to meet in this dreadful place. 505 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,000 But she says at least she knows that everyone here is actually dead. 506 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Karen confesses that she is sure that Arnold is going to kill her. 507 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:58,000 Douglas asks her to elaborate and she delivers a conspiracy theory that Arnold might have bribed a doctor 508 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,000 to falsify a death certificate and place a dummy in the casket in his place. 509 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 Why would he do that inquires Douglas? 510 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Who knows what went on in that twisted mind of his says Karen? 511 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,000 She begs for Douglas's help. 512 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,000 How can she be freed from the sadistic agreement that she signed? 513 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:16,000 Douglas ponders this and says that it will take some skilled legal maneuvering, but he could do it. 514 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:21,000 Karen offers him 10% of her share of the estate, but Douglas thinks 50% is a better price. 515 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,000 Plus, fringe benefits. 516 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,000 By which he means sex. 517 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:27,000 She says she won't pay 50% without addressing the fringe benefits. 518 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,000 So he decides that he's going to leave now. 519 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,000 As he turns to leave, he wishes her luck. 520 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000 So she says 50% Douglas turns towards her. 521 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,000 Plus, fringe benefits, she continues. 522 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:43,000 [Music] 523 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,000 Inside the manner, Karen is all smiles as Douglas proposes a drink to seal the bargain, 524 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,000 but just then Arnold's voice beams into the room from somewhere. 525 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Arnold asks Karen why she's always rushing to another man. 526 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000 You saw what happened to Robbie and she knows what happened to Jocelyn. 527 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Yet Karen fails to heed his warnings. 528 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,000 Once again, we see someone peering at them from behind Arnold's portrait. 529 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,000 Douglas walks over to the casket and he checks the tape. 530 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,000 That's a relief, he says. 531 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,000 I was almost convinced the corpse was talking. 532 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Some very life person is behind this, and Douglas has an idea. 533 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,000 He tells Karen to go up and get some sleep. 534 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,000 She protests. 535 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,000 He says he's got a scheme to scheme the skimmer. 536 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,000 That night, we see Douglas circling Arnie's coffin, going over past grievances, 537 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,000 and telling Arnold that now he'll get his bootle and his bride. 538 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,000 And when his friend sneaks in, he's going to get it hot off the goose. 539 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,000 He says, "Brandishing a gun." 540 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,000 And of course, someone is watching all this. 541 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000 Upstairs, Karen is sleeping fiftily. 542 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000 She's dreaming of running through fog in her nightie. 543 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,000 She sees Robbie being squeezed by his suit. 544 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,000 Then she's being chased by Arnold. 545 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,000 Douglas arrives to save her and shoots Arnold, but Arnold just laughs. 546 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000 Then Karen sees her own grave and she wakes up. 547 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,000 Now, midnight chimes. 548

00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,000 Douglas is frustrated that the accomplice hasn't shown herself yet. 549 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 He gets up for a drink and then he hears some glass breaking. 550 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,000 He goes out into the hall to find that the cat is knocked over a lamp, 551 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,000 and is now licking the base of it. 552 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,000 It was to put some tuna down there. 553 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,000 He doesn't notice the door to the drawing room closed behind him. 554 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Somebody snuck past him, while he was distracted. 555 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,000 Well, we actually saw somebody do it, but we didn't see who. 556 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,000 Then Douglas returns to the drawing room, where we see there's another tape in the casket. 557 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,000 Douglas pours himself a drink and a stir-dole when the tape begins to play. 558 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000 From the tape, Arnold says Douglas is an ungrateful rich. 559 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,000 It was only because Arnold had kept him on retainer all these years that he hadn't fallen into destitution. 560 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,000 Douglas disagrees with his assessment. 561 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,000 Arnold asked if Douglas enjoyed his very expensive cognac. 562 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,000 Douglas smiles until Arnold explains that he was certain that Douglas would help himself to it. 563 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,000 He always does. 564 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,000 Douglas stares at the glass in his hand and drops it to the floor. 565 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000 He grabs it as throat and starts to choke. 566 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,000 But the voice of Arnold assures him that the cognac isn't lethal. 567 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,000 It will merely put him into a prolonged and very restful sleep. 568 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000 And Douglas collapses on the couch. 569 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,000 When we next see his body, it's in a bag in the dumpster being picked up by the trash collectors, 570 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,000 dumping the contents into the crush-all, disposed-all with the other garbage. 571 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000 But not all of them went in there. 572 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,000 No, as the raven crows, we see a boot has been left behind. 573 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,000 The foot included, and the cat jumps on it. 574 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Back at the manner, Karen is following a trail of mud on the floor. 575 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000 It leads to Douglas's boot, being dragged down on the room by the cat. 576 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000 It is jealous-ly guarding its treat. 577 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,000 I know Douglas is buried, beloved cousin it says on the headstone. 578 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:10,000 Josie says that the whole grave is a waste of space for Douglas, with just the one foot to bury. 579 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:14,000 Constable Hook is there, and Hester asks him if he was sure that this foot belonged to Douglas. 580 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:19,000 Long windedly, Constable Hook explains how he tracked the shoe down, and that it was especially made for Douglas. 581 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,000 He pulls on his notebook to read his report, and Hester asks how Douglas might have met his demise. 582 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:29,000 Hook, who says he has put his investigative skills to work, says the trail of blood went from the boot, not onto the street. 583 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,000 Douglas went out, wearing a dark suit, and... 584 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,000 Well, he expects he'll be finding bits and pieces of him between here and Liverpool. 585 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,000 And tells her to call him, should the cat locate any more of Douglas? 586 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,000 Hester leaves, and Josie tells Hook he's heard of one foot in the grave, but... 587 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,000 But what asks Hook? 588 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,000 It's an expression, one foot in the... 589 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,000 Oh, never mind, says an exasperated Josie. 590 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,000 Like the antithesis of a comedy routine. 591 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,000 Hook goes over to where his bike is laying on the ground and kicks it. 592 00:30:53,000 --> 00:31:00,000 In the shield and plume, flow in some money off the other dark players, and then goes to ask Constable Hook if any of the dust have been due to foul play. 593 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,000 Hook stares at her cleavage as he declares that they were all accidents. 594 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,000 "It's plain as the nose on your pretty little chest," he says. 595 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,000 At the bar, Governor falls off a stool, and Hook helps him up, assisted by the dark players. 596 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000 Hook says he's got to be off, but he'll be back later to see Flow Home. 597 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,000 She tells him she's sorry, but she's got other plans this evening. 598 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,000 Hook tells her a man can only take so much before he starts questioning things, 599 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,000 so he asks her point blank. 600 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Are they engaged or not? 601 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,000 Of course, she says, so he says he'll see her tomorrow. 602 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,000 And then, after he's gone, she and the governor share a look. 603 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:32,000 At Douglas Whitehead's office, Evan takes his leave, glancing at the late Douglas' nameplate on the door. 604 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,000 Then we see Evan arriving at the manor house, and Dibi lets him in. 605 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,000 He takes his code, and Evan hangs his hat on Dibi's hook hand. 606 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,000 Then Evan goes to meet with Karen. 607 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000 She catches him up on what's been going on. 608

00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,000 Arnold killed Douglas and Robert and Joslyn. 609 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,000 Evan says he's been a busy one. 610 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,000 But Karen says he's going to murder her. Then why don't you leave, ass-7? 611 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,000 Karen says Arnold will find her. 612 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000 Evan says it seems unlikely that the corpse in this room is going to murder her. 613 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000 Well, not now, says Karen. 614 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,000 She's doing exactly what he wants, just sitting there, being with him. 615 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,000 She'll stay there as long as she shall live. 616 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Evan tells her that she's too young and beautiful to continue this macabre arrangement. 617 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,000 He says that now that he's on the case, he can get her out of this. 618 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,000 She says he shouldn't be talking like that, especially in front of Arnold. 619 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,000 He'll hear him. 620 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,000 At least Dibi will. 621 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,000 He's standing outside the door, listening. 622 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:19,000 Evan closes the casket, obscuring Arnold's face, and then asks about her arrangement with Douglas. 623 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,000 He says that he'll be happy to make her the same deal. 624 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000 But Karen says that then Arnold will kill him too. 625 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,000 But Evan isn't afraid. Arnold doesn't even know about him. 626 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000 There's no way he could have predicted he'd come here. 627 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,000 And he's smarter than the other two men who try to get her out of this. 628 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000 Maybe you can do something, says Karen. 629 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:39,000 Evan asks Karen where Arnold likes to hang around when he was alive, and she reveals that he had a laboratory in the cellar. 630 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,000 Though she's never seen it. 631 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,000 Evan says they should go down there when they get around to it. 632 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,000 But right now he's decided it's time to start collecting his payment. 633 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,000 So he kisses Karen and mother distract him with each other. 634 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,000 Dibi seeks past them and opens the door to the cellar. 635 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,000 He goes down there and finds a secret room behind the rack of wine bottles. 636 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000 He starts looking around and finds the door to the laboratory. 637 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000 By now Evan and Karen have made their way to the wine cellar as well. 638 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,000 Evan notices the secret door and the adventure forward. 639 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,000 Meanwhile, Dibi, who's still ahead of them, finds a cloth with an elephant embroidered onto it. 640

00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,000 He pulls it away from the wall to find a dumb waiter. 641 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,000 He opens it and peers into the hole, and a gill team blade appears. 642 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,000 And then the blade comes down. 643 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,000 Evan and Karen continue into the laboratory. 644 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000 They find Dibi's body lying on the floor. 645 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,000 Evan opens the dumb waiter door. 646 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,000 "There's the rest of them," he says, seeing Dibi's head. 647 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,000 And now Dibi gets a headstone, faithful servant. 648 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,000 Constable Hook is trying to hit Reggie the Raven with a rock, but Jonesy stops him. 649 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,000 Hook marvels at how there hasn't been an intact corpse in the last three burials. 650 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000 They've all been chopped into bits and pieces. 651 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,000 Jonesy says he's going to miss having Dibi around to talk to. 652 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Hook asks if Dibi said very much, and Jonesy says no, but he could listen a blue streak. 653 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,000 And then Jonesy asks Hook how Dibi's head could have been separated from his body. 654 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:47,000 Hook reads his report, which says that Dibi got his head trapped in the door while cleaning. 655 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:52,000 "He couldn't see well with the one eye in all, so was all an accident, killed in the line of duty, as it were." 656 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,000 Okay, back in the manner. Evan heads upstairs. 657 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,000 He goes into Karen's room and finds that she's in the shower. 658 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,000 He starts stuffing his clothes so that he can join her. 659 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,000 Where he only a tell, he climbs into the shower with her. 660 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,000 When Karen sees him, she asks, "What if Hester saw him?" 661 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,000 "Nobody saw me," he assures her. 662 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,000 He just came in to scrub her back. 663 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:14,000 She tells him she feels close to him. They kiss, and then they get even closer, as the walls push inward, squishing the pair, and destroying the shower head. 664 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,000 "It seems like a very weird device to install in a shower. What if you trigger it by mistake?" 665 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000 So now Karen has joined the others in the graveyard. 666 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,000 I guess Evan's body was returned to his people because he's not there. 667 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,000 Karen's headstone reads, "Beloved wife," and Hester puts flowers on her grave. 668 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,000 Jonesy says they're running out of space in the family plot. 669 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,000 If this continues, they'll have to start burying them biggie back. 670 00:34:32,000 -->

00:34:39,000 And of course Constable Hook is there, and Hester asks if he really thinks that those two deaths were an accident. 671 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,000 And of course Hook does. 672 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,000 He says he found them in Evan's car at the foot of the cliff. 673 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,000 They must have missed the turn and plunged over the edge. 674 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000 The car caught fire when they were burned to a crisp. 675 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,000 They were cooked to a turn, he must say. 676 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,000 They were also a flat ass pancakes, and it's all in his report. 677 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,000 Hester looks sad, and Hook says things are sad all over. 678 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,000 Why just yesterday he lost his father and his fiance. 679 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,000 They died, asked Hester, he grimaces, and then confesses to being cuckled by his own father. 680 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,000 Those two alopeed, but you knew that was going to happen. 681 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000 Hook moths his bicycle and rides off. 682 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,000 Hester goes back into the drawing room and puts a tape into Arnold's casket. 683 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,000 She says to listen to what Arnold has to tell her, "Well done, my devoted Hester." 684 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,000 The playing of this tape means you've carried out your final assignment. 685 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000 I got two of this last time, says Hester. 686 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000 Why didn't you even count it on? 687 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,000 Arnold says that now the two of them can be together forever. 688 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,000 He knew Jocelyn would never agree to it, and though Karen did agree, 689 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000 in the end she was as faithless as Jocelyn. 690 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:33,000 But then Arnold goes a little too far, and congratulates himself on a masterful plan, 691 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,000 powered by his skill and his genius alone. 692 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,000 Hester tells Arnold to shut up. 693 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,000 Without her, his plan would never have worked. 694 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,000 She's the one who timed the delivery of the tapes and the suit. 695 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,000 She got Jonesy to help her put Karen and Evan into Evan's car, 696 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000 and she got diving to dispose of Douglas in the trash. 697 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,000 Without her, his plan was just yards of tape. 698 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,000 And do he really think she would keep him around forever, 699 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,000 like some monstrous stuffed animal? 700 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,000 She only used him. 701 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,000 Hester closes the coffin, saying she's going to tuck him in nice and warm. 702 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,000 And then we see that she's having the casket cremated. 703 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,000 She returns to the graveyard, holding her kitty cat and an urn. 704 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,000 She goes over to Jonesy, who's dug another grave. 705 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,000 And thanks him. 706 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,000 She says she's appreciative, and he suggests she's sure appreciation with some cash. 707 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:15,000 After all, she promised she would, and he's been putting in a lot of extra hours lately. 708 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,000 She agrees, but says, as soon as we dispose of Arnie, he wonders where the coffin is, 709 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,000 and she points at the urn. 710 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,000 There's no coffin. 711 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,000 She had him cremated. 712 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,000 Jonesy marvels that his lordship cooked down to almost nothing. 713 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,000 The hole his dug is plenty big enough. 714 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,000 Jonesy was expecting him to take up a lot more space. 715 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,000 Hester asked Jonesy to remove a large rock from the grave. 716 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,000 She wouldn't be, and comfortable for a year on out. 717 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,000 As Jonesy bends down to a blige, Hester hits him over the head with a shovel. 718 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,000 The grave is not for Arnie, she says. 719 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,000 It's for you, Jonesy. 720 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:46,000 She laughs maniacally, then tells her cat that Jonesy was a good worker, but greedy. 721 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,000 And now he's dug his own grave. 722 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:53,000 Ha ha ha. And now it's time for her and the kitty cat to enjoy what everyone was fighting for. 723 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000 What Hester really wants is to travel. 724 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,000 She opens up Arnie's crypt and puts his urn in there and closes the door. 725 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,000 And then she says that she's going to find the vault. 726 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000 But then a light bulb goes off over her head. 727 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000 This is the vault. 728 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,000 She climbs into the crypt and starts feeling around the back for an opening, 729 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,000 finding a switch, a false door opens, and beyond it is piles of cash. 730 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,000 It looks like a Scrooge McDucks home bank. 731 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,000 There's cash, coins, stocks and bonds, etc. there. 732 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,000 While she's goggling at all the money, the crypt door closes. 733 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,000 And we hear Arnie's voice for the last time. 734 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,000 My dear devoted Hester, I was sure you were the one person who would love me for myself alone, 735 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,000 with no thought of monetary reward. 736 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000 Yes, Arnie, says Hester, picking up handfuls of cash. 737 00:37:30,000 -->

00:37:32,000 You know how close we've always been? 738 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:37,000 But dear sister, just in the terrible event you should prove me wrong, I devised this final moment of reckoning. 739 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000 No Arnie cries, Hester. I've done everything you said. 740 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,000 The vault door closes, and Arnie says that this was his last calculation. 741 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,000 She wouldn't be there unless she disposed of him against his wishes. 742 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,000 Hester tries to plead for him to release her, but he's not really there. 743 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000 There's no one around anymore. 744 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,000 Hester screams, "There's really no need for tears," the voice continues. 745 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,000 We both have what we most want. 746 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:03,000 You have that horde of money at your fingertips, and I have you with me here, for all eternity. 747 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,000 Now we're outside the crypt. 748 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,000 The cat, who had wisely left Hester alone in there, runs into the graveyard. 749 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,000 Constable Hook is there, but tells the cat that there's no one at the matter. 750 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:16,000 Indeed there's no one around here. He thinks Lady Hester must have finally gone in that long trip that she was planning. 751 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,000 He gets on his bike and rides away. 752 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:22,000 The Ravenfly is behind a gravestone, and the cat pounces on it. The cat screeches and the mother's fly. 753 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:27,000 Somebody's getting shredded back there, and then Arnold's theme song plays again, credits roll, and that's the end. 754 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:39,000 Welcome back to the American International Podcast where we're talking about Arnold from 1973. 755 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:44,000 Director George Fennity and his brother, producer Andrew J. Fennity, shot this film and terror in the wax museum, 756 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,000 which was released the same year, back to back with some of the same actors. 757 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:52,000 Usalon, Tester, Patrick Nalles, Shiny Wells, Stephen Marlow, Ben Wright, and Leslie Thompson. 758 00:38:52,000 --> 00:39:00,000 Exterior shots for Arnold took place at the Mount Kalmia estate, also known as the Fairy Lady Castle, on sunset Boulevard in Switzerland Avenue in Los Angeles. 759 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:08,000 Now owned by actor Johnny Depp, then Castle was built in 1932, and was once home to Motown producer Barry Gordy, divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchellson, 760 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:15,000 and Noah Dietrich, the man who ran Howard Hughes' movie-making empire, according to an LA Times article published in 2006. 761 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,000 The movie's interiors were shot at Paramount Studios. 762 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:23,000 British actor Murray Matheson, veteran of films and television, provided the voice for Arnold's corpse, 763 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,000 Norman Stewart served as the body. 764 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:29,000 Shannie Wallace, who played the first victim, Lady Jocelyn, also sang the movie's lively theme song, 765 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,000 which featured lyrics by Andrew Fennity and music by George Dunning. 766 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:39,000 She was called the English Judy Garland by writer Kenneth Tinen, and Settie Ballet and Dance Before Attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Great Britain. 767 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:46,000 She played Nancy in the film version of Oliver, but moves the United States where she became a naturalized citizen, and still lives there today. 768 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Rodaim McDowell said in an October 1973 interview with syndicated columnist Dorothy Manners, that acting in Arnold was sort of a relief after being trapped in a monkey suit for his role in the plan of the Davis movies. 769 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:02,000 Arnold is something else. My face is out. I can breathe and see Stella Stevens and Elsa Lanchester and others in the cast. 770 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,000 Arnold just happens to be rotten to the core. He's fun. 771 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:11,000 Producer Andrew Fennity was also at the interview with Dorothy Manners, and he told her that McDowell designed the suit that shrinks him to death. 772 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,000 He said to Manners, "I've never worked with a less temperamental actor." 773 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:24,000 Elsa Lanchester, who played the bite of Frankenstein in the 1935 classic, jokingly called herself the Queen of Horror films in a syndicated interview with Bill Mann, published in August of 1973. 774 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:35,000 She said of Arnold, "I believe that when you see a film like Arnold, or my one before this, terror it in the wax museum, the sight of so many bizarre murders and such, actually help a person who has a lot of repressed hostilities building up inside of him." 775 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:41,000 Lanchester also spoke about her career, saying that when actors are young, they want to play only Shakespeare, Shaw, or Ibsen. 776 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:50,000 But when they get older and the parts are not as tempting, she says, "You must make do with what they offer you. You must be discriminating, but, quote, "a little romp like Arnold doesn't hurt you as an actor." 777 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,000 Arnold premiered in theaters in October of 1973. It was waited PG. 778 00:40:54,000 --> 00:41:04,000 And like we said before, the only information we have tying Arnold to A.I.P. is that the title is mentioned in a book for exhibitors, released in 1974 as a preview of coming attractions. 779 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:10,000 In addition to Arnold, the book mentioned other cinema titles like Walking Tall, Digby the Biggest Dog in the World, and Street Gangs of Hong Kong. 780 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:17,000 Fox office

magazines suggested theater owners put a dummy in a coffin to get across the idea of who and what Arnold is in the film. 781 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:23,000 That would kind of spoil it though. Taglines for Arnold include, "Call Horror by its first name, Arnold." 782 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,000 Arnold is a scream. 783 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:28,000 Arnold is dead, and a newlywed don't miss his honeymoon. 784 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,000 Seven dead, who's next? The clues lie with Arnold. 785 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:37,000 A funeral in Arnold is the body. A wedding, and Arnold is the groom. Eight murders in Arnold is the suspect. 786 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:42,000 Tony Masteryani, in the Cleveland playing dealer, said he was the only one in the theater tonight Arnold opened in that city. 787 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:47,000 There had been no reviews, no chance for a first night audience to tell anyone what kind of a picture it is. 788 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,000 But the public knew, I sat there all alone, washing Arnold and fold. 789 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:55,000 Anyone with any sense was at home, or in a saloon, or at some other movie. 790 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:01,000 He also said the intention was to make a comedy horror picture, but the comedy turned out horrible, and the horror is ridiculous, and often revolting. 791 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:10,000 The preview blur for Arnold published in the Des Moines Register said that the film had plenty of chill factor, but little visible blood, and that some of the demise are unusual. 792 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:15,000 Fox office magazines review called Arnold one of the funnier horror spoof in many of full moon. 793 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,000 The multiple murders are novel without being horrid. 794 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,000 Sure do we talked about is McDowell's unique demise. 795 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,000 Tom McElfresh and this Cincinnati inquired, called Arnold a turkey, saying, 796 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:30,000 "At first, when the bride and bride's maid arrive at a funeral, and the tipsy person begins marrying the girl to a corpse, 797 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:35,000 you might think that Arnold might be one of those deliciously mad little horror films that the British do so well. 798 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:50,000 Wrong. Right after that bizarre moment, it turns into an utterly mechanical, utterly predictable, even littler who done it, with great chunks of alleged comedy which waste John McGuyvers' large quirky talent, and prove forever more that Bernard Fox's imitations of Oliver Hardy are a thing of no joy, whatever." 799 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,000 Will Jones in his column in the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote, 800 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:57,000 "There's a weirdly funny throwaway of a movie called Arnold currently playing. 801 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:02,000 Arnold is a spoof of those who's going to get it next movies, staged in spooky old mansions. 802 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:08,000 From the way the advertising has been handled, I suspect several of them may deals not to have their names used in connection with the film." 803 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,000 Robert Jennings of the Memphis Commercial Appeal asked, 804 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:16,000 "When, oh when, will they stop misusing Stella Stevens? She might well have become a Latter-day Carol Lombard, 805 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:22,000 but she not been so consistently cast in ridiculous roles, and even more ridiculous pictures. The newest is called Arnold. 806 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:28,000 This is an abomination, the offensive which is compounded that it not only bogs down the potentially marvelous Stella, 807 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:33,000 but waste other talented folk as Arradi McDowell, Elsa Langezter, Farley Granger, and Victor Buono. 808 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:38,000 Stella said the picture was shot in 20 days. They should not have shot the picture. They should have shot whoever dreamed it up." 809 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:44,000 But Jerry Stein of the Cincinnati Post liked Arnold, calling it an evil, delightful, bizarre mystery comedy, 810 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:49,000 and said Jameson Rure and John Fenton Murray's script, for the most part, is at once so humorous and morbid, 811 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,000 the effect is like being tickled in the middle of a chill. 812 00:43:52,000 --> 00:44:00,000 Director Fennity maintains a certain imbalance by suddenly leaving the tone of Mary Ghostly Satire to move to straight horror, then quickly back again to mock the horror. 813 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:04,000 It cast as having a wild time playing these exaggerated characters. 814 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:20,000 We have decided to do almost AIP movies, which may be cheating a little bit, so tell me why did you want to include Arnold amongst all the other movies that we still have yet to do. 815 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:24,000 It's just my quest for Thurinus. I don't want to leave anything behind. 816 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:30,000 But can you argue that this really isn't within our remit? It's not AIP. It might have been AIP, but it wasn't. 817 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:35,000 Well, we're doing several other titles with a less tenuous connection to AIP than Arnold. 818 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:39,000 And to cover those, we've decided to glue those as almost AIP. 819 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:43,000 Basically, anything that we find that has a connection to AIP is fair game. 820 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,000 That's fine. I'm not complaining. 821 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:50,000 And there's not going to be that many of them. There's going to be more than a few, but it's not like it's going to add hundreds to our roster here. 822 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,000 There were like a couple in that one press package that we found. 823 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:59,000 And a number of those were already on our list because they were in the Sinorama Features television package or a later package. 824 00:44:59,000 -->

00:45:05,000 Yeah, I was surprised that this wasn't a television movie because this is something I can totally imagine seeing on a Saturday afternoon. 825 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,000 That would be a good time to watch a film like this. 826 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:13,000 It really puts me in mind of movies like Clue or Murder by Death, where it's more of a spoof than an actual straight-up murder mystery. 827 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:18,000 Right, but those were outright comedies and satire parodies. 828 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,000 Whereas this one, I think, tries to be more of a dark comedy. 829 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:27,000 It does seem like it's playing with the conventions of those horror movies, the eye behind the portrait, the mysterious death. 830 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:35,000 Right. And I think it falls under dark comedy because the way the murders play out are darker than the murders in the other movies you mentioned. 831 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:40,000 I will say that dark comedy is probably my favorite genre. I did enjoy this one. 832 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,000 I did too. It's really funny. And I think it's funnier when it tries not to be funny. 833 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:49,000 I don't know. I think that Constable Hook is so over the top funny that it's funny. 834 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,000 Yes, but some of the bits that he and Jonesy did went on a little too long. 835 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:56,000 And to me, that was part of the humor when you drive something into the ground. 836 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,000 Well, they drove a lot of things into the ground. 837 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,000 Yeah, they had to. People kept dying and you had to put them somewhere. 838 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,000 Luckily, once the entire cast was disposed of, there was room for everyone in the grave and hurt. 839 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,000 And they had the foresight to kill the grave jigger last. 840 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,000 So, also Lenshester didn't have to get out there and bury people. 841 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,000 Right. Did any of the deaths surprise you the first time you saw this? 842 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,000 Did you think that somebody would have made it further along? 843 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,000 For me, I'm thinking that Divey died a little too soon. He died before like Evan. 844 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:24,000 Yeah, well, we didn't know whose eye we were watching. Watch everybody through the portrait. 845 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:28,000 I guess it was Hester the whole time because you never see it happen when she's in the room. 846 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:33,000 You see it seconds before and seconds after not giving her enough time to get into position, but it still must have been her. 847 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,000 But I think they do a good job with the misdirect because they always have Divey lurking about. 848 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,000 But then he's dead and then he can't be him anymore. 849 00:46:39,000 -->

00:46:42,000 Another reason why Divey died too soon because I thought he was him too. 850 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:47,000 I would have been less surprised if Karen had made it a little further, like if she had made it to the vault as well. 851 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,000 I would have expected her to make it at least that far. 852 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,000 Because we see everything through her eyes to begin with. 853 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,000 Right. She seems to be the character that we're following the whole time and then she dies before. 854 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,000 There's still like 20 minutes of the movie left when she dies. 855 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:06,000 So even though this wasn't technically AIP, I think it fits really well within the AIP family of films. 856 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,000 Well, yeah, of course. 857 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,000 It seems like it could have been AIP. 858 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,000 I was surprised to find out that it wasn't completely AIP. 859 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,000 I would have expected them to really suss in some fashion. I wonder why they didn't. 860 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,000 This was a pretty hard movie to find for a while. 861 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:23,000 A couple of years ago, I was at a convention and I saw a bootleg DVD and I almost picked it up. 862 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,000 And I decided not to. 863 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:29,000 And just a couple of months later, vinegar syndrome announced that they were putting it out. 864 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:30,000 So I got that instead. 865 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,000 And I'm glad I didn't buy both. 866 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,000 I really liked Elsa Lanchester in this. 867 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,000 I loved her as the bride of Frankenstein. 868 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,000 She is the queen of horror at that point. 869 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:39,000 She would have been. 870 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,000 But it's fun to see her aging gracefully taking on these spinster roles, 871 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:46,000 but then turning them on their ear and doing comedy horror. 872 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,000 I think that she was great in this. 873 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:49,000 This is a good role for her. 874 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:54,000 And I think it's fun to see my name McDowell in here too, as the scusy Robbie. 875 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,000 He was in so many movies that year when I'm doing the research for this movie. 876 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,000 His name came up in so many movie ads. 877 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:05,000 The planet of the apes movies were coming out at this time and just seemed like he was in theaters. 878 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,000 Whether it's holdover movies or new ones. 879 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:12,000 Well, other movies around this time that will be watching for the podcast include "Legit of Hell House," 880 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,000 which not A.I.P. again. 881 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,000 It's another one that will follow their almost A.I.P. 882 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,000 but it was produced by James Nicholson after he left A.I.P. 883 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:20,000 Oh yeah, that count. 884 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,000 And the devil's widow is another one that was. 885 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,000 I think Commonwealth United and then handled by A.I.P. 886 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:27,000 But what do you think of the story? 887 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:31,000 I think that Arnold must have been a real jerk in life because he certainly was after death. 888 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:32,000 Well, he's a rich man. 889 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,000 That's kind of the package. 890 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,000 You don't get rich by being a nice guy. 891 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,000 I don't know. 892 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:41,000 The story, you can't think about it too closely because there are some plot holes. 893 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:46,000 One in particular, the ending, where Hester has figured out where the money is stashed. 894 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:50,000 What if she did that while Arnold was still in the drawing room in his casket? 895 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:51,000 Well, technically she left him there. 896 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,000 But she's allowed to leave the house. 897 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,000 She got to go to her quilting parties at the church. 898 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,000 Why couldn't she figure out where the money is? 899 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:02,000 So I think that assuming that she had disposed of him, I guess he knew she might have been pretending. 900 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,000 So you would just assume that, but that wouldn't have necessarily been the case. 901 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:11,000 Well, I think is even though you'd never expect it, every time a package comes, it's not a good thing. 902 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,000 And Robbie eagerly puts on that suit. 903 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:17,000 I guess that having a squeeze me to death would be the furthest thing from my mind. 904 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,000 I definitely was surprised. 905 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:22,000 You should have started on buttoning immediately. 906 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,000 That seemed to never occur to him. 907 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,000 That's what happens when I put something on and it's too tight. 908 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,000 Or I eat dinner and now it doesn't fit anymore. 909 00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:29,000 You take it off. 910 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,000 But I guess he just really loved purple velvet. 911 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:37,000 I think that makes what is arguably the most amusing scene in the movie, especially when it comes back during the dream sequence 912 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,000 because he's just standing there being squeezed. 913 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,000 Contorted face. 914 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,000 It's all done for comedy. 915 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,000 Looking at the

plot and trying to pick it apart is a complete waste of time. 916 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,000 But still, you did ask about the story. 917 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,000 But it's funny the way the people play it so straight at times. 918 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:53,000 And they really don't freak out as much as they should. 919 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,000 That just sort of adds to the surreality that's going on here. 920 00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:05,000 Again, I'm going to have to bring up a possible hook because the way he makes note of everything that's happening, it's funny because he's got this morbid sense of humor. 921 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:06,000 And he keeps on laughing. 922 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,000 He's got this really strange hole, hole laugh too. 923 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,000 And he's talking about this most morbid stuff. 924 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,000 And everybody else is just a pall that what he's saying. 925 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,000 He's talking to the grieving widow or the grieving sister-in-law. 926 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,000 He's talking to the people who you would think had loved the deceased. 927 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,000 And he's making terrible puns about their death. 928 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,000 Yeah, he never seems to be taking his job that seriously. 929 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:30,000 He just does the bare minimum necessary describing everything as bits and pieces. 930 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:31,000 And that's enough to go on. 931 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:36,000 And he comes to the incorrect conclusion as possible to come to you when he does his investigation. 932 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,000 But at least it's completely he can go on to his next bit of work, 933 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,000 which is probably going to the shield and plume and hitting on flow. 934 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,000 Well, she's gone. She took off with his paw. 935 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,000 We've got some pretty very character actors appearing here. 936 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:51,000 Well, there's Victor Buano, who I know from playing King Touch on Batman series. 937 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,000 He has a brief role here as a drunken person. 938 00:50:54,000 --> 00:51:00,000 And there's Jamie Far, who as former Toledoans, we have heard a lot about Jamie Far in our lifetimes. 939 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,000 Yeah, he was originally from Toledo. 940 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:07,000 And he appeared on the television show Mash and his character there, Klinger, was also from Toledo. 941 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,000 So Toledo represents. 942 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,000 Exactly. 943 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,000 But in this movie, he plays a Hindu man, an Indian. 944 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:18,000 And he puts on this terrible brown face makeup. 945 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:22,000 And yeah, you could get away with that in 1973, but it's really cringey now. 946 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,000 He's sort of dark-complexed anyway. I don't think that was necessarily necessary. 947 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:30,000 He's Lebanese. So you're not white, but you're also not chocolate brown. 948 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:35,000 He also puts scars on his face because I guess his whole left side of his body had some damage. 949 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,000 He has the eye patch over his left eye, the hook on his left hand. 950 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:42,000 He never speaks. He's the faithful man servant until he's had less. 951 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,000 And he's kind of a creepy guy. 952 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,000 Right, but I kind of understand that because people just yell at him to do stuff. 953 00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,000 And nobody seems to care about him as a person. 954 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,000 And I wonder if he can speak. He just chooses not to. 955 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:58,000 I wonder how Norman Stewart managed to stay so composed as the corpse of Arnold. 956 00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,000 Because it seems like that is a real person in there. 957 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:04,000 Yeah. And it's an unsung job, but I think he did a pretty good one. 958 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:09,000 Because he never see him breathing or blinking. He just has that same blank stare 959 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,000 and sort of grin on his face the entire time. 960 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:16,000 I think his grin was wider when he was putting the chair at his brother Robbie's place. 961 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:20,000 Oh, definitely. He just has slight smile when he was standing at the wedding ceremony. 962 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:24,000 Yeah. So his expression actually changes a little subtle, but it changes. 963 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:27,000 Maybe that's part of that wiring had done. 964 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:31,000 Oh, God. He's basically a puppet, but an actor played him. 965 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:36,000 So that's just really wild to think of that as a job, or you're just laying in a coffin grinning 966 00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,000 for significant periods of time. 967 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,000 It doesn't sound that hard, but it probably really is. 968 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:43,000 I can't even stand still for like 10 seconds. 969 00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:44,000 I tend to fidget. 970 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,000 It's not even that I'm trying. It's just that my body twitches. 971 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,000 Now, John McGuyber looks really familiar as the governor. 972 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,000 Do I see him as a former police officer? 973 00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,000 That's a title they give them. 974 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:54,000 And he's really funny in this. 975 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:58,000 And he was mentioned in one of those reviews, but I don't know what else he's done. 976 00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:04,000 He best remembered today as being one of Gilbert Godfrey's impressions that he did all the time on his podcast. 977 00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:05,000 Oh, really? 978 00:53:05,000

--> 00:53:09,000 Arlene Episodal would go by where he didn't do a John McGuyber impression. 979 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,000 And Bernard Fox from Bewitch was in this. 980 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,000 He played Dr. Bombay on Bewitch and here he's the constable. 981 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,000 And he's got a much different accent here. 982 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,000 I think it's his native Welsh accent. 983 00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:23,000 I was surprised if I know this movie was made in America because it has a very British feel to it. 984 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,000 In addition to a lot of British cast members. 985 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,000 I don't think I realized there wasn't made in Britain. 986 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:30,000 I didn't until I was looking into it and they found out where it was filmed. 987 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,000 Oh, yeah, eventually it came to light. 988 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:33,000 Obviously it wasn't the case. 989 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,000 It was filmed in the castle, but it was an American castle. 990 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:40,000 You mentioned the castle and how it's located in Los Angeles and currently owned by Johnny Depp. 991 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,000 The castle itself doesn't get a lot of screen time. 992 00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:48,000 There are some quick establishing shots, but mostly we're in this studio graveyard or the studio sets of the manner. 993 00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,000 They do the wedding processional outside. 994 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:51,000 We see them coming back to the house. 995 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:52,000 That's the graveyard though. 996 00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,000 And it still looks like it's in a studio. 997 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,000 No, we see them coming into the house. 998 00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:57,000 Yeah, okay. 999 00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,000 Once they get out of the graveyard. 1000 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,000 It's just like a few seconds of time. 1001 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:06,000 I think we see still Stephen standing outside of it and Roddy McDowell pulls up in his car. 1002 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,000 There's only one or two long shots where you see the entire castle. 1003 00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:10,000 They're quick. 1004 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:14,000 I recognized it when I was looking it up and I found a picture that had been taken of the exterior. 1005 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,000 I'm like, "Oh, yeah, that wasn't the movie." 1006 00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:20,000 The castle itself is a long and storied history that we don't need to get into here, but it's really interesting. 1007 00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:25,000 My point being that it might have been nice to have some extended long shots of the castle 1008 00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:29,000 to get out of the house instead of the quick studio stuff that we saw. 1009 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:30,000 I don't know. 1010 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:35,000 I think that adds to the surreality of it that we're obviously not

in reality here. 1011 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,000 The graveyard looked like a Roger Corman set. 1012 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:38,000 It did. 1013 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:42,000 It looked like Vincent Price could be coming out of the tomb at any moment. 1014 00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:47,000 So this almost AIP film still gets a grade the way our regular AIP films do. 1015 00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,000 And it's the same rating system. 1016 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:52,000 A is for awesome eyes for intermediate and P is for pathetic. 1017 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:53,000 What grade do you give Arnold? 1018 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:56,000 Despite with the many critics thought of Arnold, I really enjoyed this. 1019 00:54:56,000 --> 00:55:00,000 I think because it was a comedy and there aren't a lot of comedies, 1020 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,000 at least funny ones, that we get to watch for this podcast. 1021 00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,000 So it kind of stood up because of that. 1022 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:10,000 And with the morbid subject matter, it still felt like it would fit well within AIP's body of work. 1023 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,000 So I'm going to give this one an A. 1024 00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:13,000 I think it's a fun watch. 1025 00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:18,000 I could see myself putting this one on again and not having to take notes and just going along for the ride. 1026 00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,000 I don't think I'm going to catch anything watching it again that I haven't already caught. 1027 00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:25,000 I don't think there's any specific rewards for me watching it. 1028 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:27,000 But I think it's enjoyable enough for an occasional rewatch. 1029 00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,000 So it's an awesome A for me. 1030 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:30,000 How are you going to rate it? 1031 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:31,000 We did watch this one twice. 1032 00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:35,000 And on the second watch, I did catch a few things more than I did the first time around. 1033 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:39,000 But having done that, I don't think there's anything else to be gleaned from the material. 1034 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,000 But this movie really reminded me of when I was about eight years old or so, 1035 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,000 my family took a trip to Cleveland. 1036 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,000 We lived in North Central Indiana. 1037 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,000 And my dad was a big fan of the Cleveland Indians. 1038 00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:52,000 So one summer holiday just to keep us kids from getting too bored. 1039 00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:55,000 We went to see Murder by Death in the theater when it came out. 1040 00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,000 And I thought that movie was hysterical and I've loved it ever since. 1041 00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,000 And this movie really put me in mind of that experience. 1042 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,000 It's about the same time period. 1043 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,000 It kind of

plays out the same way. 1044 00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:05,000 There's a bunch of murders. 1045 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:07,000 Nobody knows who's doing it. 1046 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:11,000 There's a mysterious somebody behind everything narrating the whole experience. 1047 00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:14,000 And so based on that, I really enjoyed it. 1048 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,000 And this movie is really funny. 1049 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,000 There are some extremely funny moments. 1050 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:21,000 I just think that there are times when they kind of belabor the humor a little too much. 1051 00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,000 But when they're not doing that, there are a lot of laughs to this movie. 1052 00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,000 And I think Stella Stevens is a lot better here than she was in slaughter. 1053 00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:28,000 Oh definitely. 1054 00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,000 Which came out within a few years of this movie. 1055 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,000 And I think that she's having fun here. 1056 00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,000 It seems like everybody's having fun here. 1057 00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,000 And as an audience member, I also had fun. 1058 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,000 And so I will likewise give it an A. 1059 00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:41,000 It's good because we haven't agreed in quite a while here. 1060 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:42,000 No, we agreed on Gorp. 1061 00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:43,000 Oh, that's true. 1062 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,000 Actually, we had to make up a new rating system for how awful Gorp was. 1063 00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:47,000 But we both hated it. 1064 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,000 Well, while we're rummaging around in the stranger corners of A. 1065 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:50,000 I. 1066 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:50,000 P. 1067 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,000 History, you could do some digging of your own at aippod.com. 1068 00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:57,000 Our ever expanding online museum devoted to all things 1069 00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:58,000 A. 1070 00:56:58,000 --> 00:56:59,000 I. 1071 00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:00,000 P. 1072 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:01,000 You'll find posters, lobby cards, trailers, radio spots, production, release information. 1073 00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,000 Plus our growing guide to American International Television. 1074 00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,000 And it's many syndication packages. 1075 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:11,000 You'll also find a list of films we hope to track down to cover in future episodes of American International Podcast. 1076 00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:15,000 As well as links to our socials and to our store where your purchase will help keep the podcast 1077 00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:16,000 and website going. 1078 00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,000 It's all waiting for you at aippod.com. 1079 00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:23,000 And as the podcast comes to a close, fortunately we have found ourselves on the right side of 1080 00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:27,000 the closed crypt door where we will hopefully remain until our next episode. 1081 00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:30,000 For the American International Podcast, I'm Cheryl Lightfoot. 1082 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:31,000 And I'm Jeff Markin. 1083 00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,000 And we'll meet you at the drive-in. 1084 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:44,000 Follow the American International Podcast on Instagram and Letterbox @aip_pod and on Facebook at facebook.com/AmericanInternationalPodcast 1085 00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:50,000 The American International Podcast is produced and edited by Jeff Markin. 1086 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,000 A man whose mind is distorted by hatred. 1087 00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,000 And Cheryl Lightfoot. 1088 00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:58,000 A girl hungry for too many things. 1089 00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:11,000 The American International Podcast is part of the Pop Culture Entertainment Network. 1090 00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:15,000 [Music]