The Haunting (1963)
Russ Tamblyn: Luke Sannerson
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Quotes
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Luke Sannerson : [referring to Hill House] It ought to be burned down... and the ground sowed with salt.
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Luke Sannerson : Only one way to argue with a woman, Doc... Don't.
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Dr. John Markway : It has taken 60 million years to develop the carnivorous biped you see before you, Luke Sannerson.
Theodora : Let's see what kind of martinis it makes.
Luke Sannerson : They should be pretty good. I majored in them at college.
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Dr. John Markway : Psychic phenomena are subject to certain laws.
Luke Sannerson : And just what are these laws?
Dr. John Markway : You won't know until you break them.
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Luke Sannerson : Doc, I'll let you have the house cheap!
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[the group is huddled in the conservatory. Nell, Theo, and Markway are asleep as Luke enters and takes a drink from a liquor bottle, when the door suddenly slams shut by itself, waking everyone up!]
Dr. John Markway : [to Luke] Why aren't you upstairs?
Luke Sannerson : I needed a drink.
[suddenly there are sounds of wind blowing and then distant yet distinct pounding is heard]
Dr. John Markway : Grace!
Luke Sannerson : Wait a minute! It's nowhere near the nursery... it's down here.
Theodora : Seems we've been on this kick before.
Eleanor Lance : Next vacation I must really go somewhere else!
[the pounding becomes louder and closer]
Eleanor Lance : [thinking; voice-over] It knows my name, this time it knows my name!
Dr. John Markway : I have to go out there.
Eleanor Lance : [shouting] No, no! It hasn't hurt me. Why should it hurt her?
Dr. John Markway : She might try to do something about it!
[the pounding stops]
Eleanor Lance : Is it over, Theo? Is it?
Theodora : No, I'm still cold. It's going to start everything all over again!
[the pounding resumes violently and loudly against the closed door]
Eleanor Lance : [screaming] It can't get in! It can't get in! Don't let it get in!
[the pounding stops and the doorknob jiggles]
Eleanor Lance : [whimpering] God, it knows I'm here!
[the door begins to buckle and bend in on itself, Luke in his horror drops his bottle]
Luke Sannerson : Doc... I'll let you have the house cheap!
[the bulging door returns to normal, the wind is heard blowing again, and soon the pounding footsteps resume and head upstairs]
Eleanor Lance : [thinking to herself; voice-over] Go on and on and come back again until it finds me! On and on and on until it finds me!
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Luke Sannerson : I haven't seen a damn thing! I just don't like the way it looks.
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Theodora : [noticing the large sculptures] You know, this could be a family portrait of us.
Eleanor Lance : Don't be ridiculous.
Theodora : You're the companion, I'm Abigail, uh, grown up, and Markway could be old Hugh.
Luke Sannerson : Where do I fit in?
Theodora : The dog.
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Eleanor Lance : I was leaning back to see the top of the tower and... I got dizzy.
Luke Sannerson : Dizzy like a fox, huh?
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Grace Markway : I didn't want any of this to happen. You must believe me, John.
Dr. John Markway : Well, what were you doing? What happened?
Grace Markway : That terrible house... I woke up and I was frightened, so I tried to find your room, but I got lost, almost as though the house was doing it on purpose... and I ended up in the attic. I was only trying to find a way out when I opened the trap door. I wasn't trying to frighten her. Didn't you see me?
Dr. John Markway : No, but Eleanor did. The shock of seeing you almost killed her.
Theodora : She DID kill her. Seeing her's what made Eleanor lose control of the car.
Grace Markway : Oh, no. No, she only saw me the very last instant, the same time I saw her! I don't even know how I got out here.
Luke Sannerson : It wasn't your fault. Eleanor did it to herself. Looked to me anyway like she deliberately aimed the car at this tree.
Dr. John Markway : Where the first Mrs. Crain was also killed in an 'accident.'
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[the group in the conservatory room hears the pounding and breaking glass and furniture from the unseen phantom]
Dr. John Markway : It's in the nursery!
Luke Sannerson : [stops Markway from opening the door] You must be crazy!
Dr. John Markway : I'm going out there!
Luke Sannerson : Oh, no you don't! Not with that thing out there!
Eleanor Lance : [intervenes] Luke, we must find Mrs. Markway to find out if she's there!
[Luke shoves Eleanor aside and continues to try to stop Markway from leaving the room]
Luke Sannerson : No! Don't be crazy!
Dr. John Markway : I've got to get out of here! I've got to find out if Grace is all right.
Luke Sannerson : Look, I don't know what that is out there, but I don't want to find out!
Dr. John Markway : Get away from me! I've got to get out of here! I've got to find out if Grace is all right!