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The Haunting (1963 film) Quotes

The Haunting (1963 film) is a television program that debuted in 1970 . The Haunting completed its run in 1970.

It features Robert Wise as producer, Humphrey Searle in charge of musical score, and Davis Boulton as head of cinematography.

The Haunting (1963 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of The Haunting (1963 film) is 114 minutes long. The Haunting (1963 film) is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Dudley, Julie Harris as Eleanor Lance, Richard Johnson as Dr. John Markway, Claire Bloom as Theodora, Russ Tamblyn as Luke Sanderson, Lois Maxwell as Grace Markway, Fay Compton as Mrs. Sanderson, and Valentine Dyall as Mr. Dudley.

The Haunting (1963 film) Quotes

Julie Harris as Eleanor Lance

  • (Julie Harris) "Human nature could certainly stand some improvement."
  • (Julie Harris) "God. God. Whose hand was I holding?"
  • (Julie Harris) "The house -- it's alive."
  • (Julie Harris) "But where?"
  • (Richard Johnson) "Home of course."
  • (Claire Bloom) "Back to your little apartment, where all your things are."
  • (Julie Harris) "Oh. This house. You have to watch it every minute."
  • (Julie Harris) "I'm still so terrified from last night."
  • (Richard Johnson) "You shouldn't be. It's silly to be frightened --"
  • (Julie Harris) "Silly? You haven't been through it. This horrible unknown thing."
  • (Richard Johnson) "'Unknown.' That's the key word. 'Unknown.' When we become involved in a supernatural event, we're scared out of our wits just because it's unknown. The night cry of a child. A face on the wall. Knockings, bangings. What's there to be afraid of? You weren't threatened. It was harmless, like a joke that doesn't come out."
  • (Julie Harris) "But the child --"
  • (Richard Johnson) "There was no child, remember? Just a voice."
  • (Julie Harris) "A voice."
  • (Richard Johnson) "Look, Eleanor, put it this way. When people believed the Earth was flat, the idea of a round world scared them silly. Then they found out how the round world works. It's the same with the world of the supernatural. Until we know how it works, we'll continue to carry around this unnecessary burden of fear."
  • (Julie Harris) "Supposing it is in my imagination. The knocking, the voices. Everything. Every cursed bit of the haunting. Suppose the haunting is all in my mind."
  • (Richard Johnson) "Well, you can't say that, because there are three other people here. We all resist the idea that what ran through the garden that first night was a ghost. What banged on the door was a ghost. What held your hand was a ghost. But there is certainly something going on in Hill House. We're getting closer, very close to finding out what it is."
  • (Julie Harris) "Everybody has a right to run away."
  • (Julie Harris) "I got dizzy."
  • (Russ Tamblyn) "Dizzy like a fox, hmm?"
  • (Julie Harris) "What scares you, Theodora?"
  • (Claire Bloom) "Knowing what I really want."
  • (Julie Harris) "Can't you feel it? It's alive -- watching."

Lois Maxwell as Grace Markway

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Claire Bloom as Theodora

  • (Claire Bloom) "Is this another one of your crazy hallucinations?"
  • (Julie Harris) "I'm not crazy."
  • (Claire Bloom) "Crazy as a loon. You really expect me to believe that you're sane and the rest of the world is mad?"
  • (Julie Harris) "Well, why not? The world is full of inconsistencies. Unnatural things. Nature's mistakes they call you for instance."
  • (Claire Bloom) "What would you call this place? Fun-o-rama?"
  • (Claire Bloom) "Haven't you noticed how nothing in this house seems to move until you look away and then you just -- catch something out of the corner of your eye?"
  • (Claire Bloom) "Poor Nell. You look like Death."
  • (Claire Bloom) "I don't think you killed your mother."
  • (Claire Bloom) "Here you are. Okay, Isolde. Tristan wants you inside."
  • (Julie Harris) "Leave me alone."
  • (Claire Bloom) "Stop trying to be the center of attention, Nell. Come inside."
  • (Julie Harris) "Don't touch me, Theo. You revolt me."
  • (Claire Bloom) "Whoa, can't you take a joke? I didn't know you were serious about Markway."
  • (Julie Harris) "Of course you did."
  • (Claire Bloom) "I'm not jealous. I'm actually flattered that you have feelings for him. But he shouldn't be allowed to get away with it."
  • (Julie Harris) "Get away with what?"
  • (Claire Bloom) "You're making a fool of yourself over him."
  • (Julie Harris) "Suppose I'm not, though? You'd mind terribly if you turned out to be wrong for once, wouldn't you?"
  • (Claire Bloom) "You poor stupid innocent."
  • (Julie Harris) "I'd rather be innocent then like you."
  • (Claire Bloom) "You see? You haven't a ghost of a chance."

Russ Tamblyn as Luke Sanderson

  • (Russ Tamblyn) "Only one way to argue with a woman Doc -- Don't."
  • (Russ Tamblyn) "It ought to be burned down -- and the ground sowed with salt."
  • (Russ Tamblyn) "Which one am I?"
  • (Claire Bloom) "You're the dog."
  • (Russ Tamblyn) "I haven't seen a damn thing. I just don't like the way it looks."
  • (Russ Tamblyn) "Doc, I'll let you have the house cheap."

Richard Johnson as Dr. John Markway

  • (Richard Johnson) "A closed mind is the worst defense against the supernatural -- If it happens to you, your liable to have that shut door in your mind ripped right off it's hinges."
  • (Richard Johnson) "It's in the nursery."
  • (Russ Tamblyn) "You must be crazy."
  • (Richard Johnson) "I'm going out there."
  • (Russ Tamblyn) "Oh, no you don't. Not with that thing out there."
  • (Julie Harris) "Luke, we must find Mrs. Markway to find out if she's there."
  • (Russ Tamblyn) "No. Don't be crazy."
  • (Richard Johnson) "I've got to get out of here. I've got to find out if Grace is all right."
  • (Russ Tamblyn) "Look, I don't know what that is out there, but I don't want to find out."
  • (Richard Johnson) "Get away from me. I've got to get out of here. I've got to find out if Grace is all right."
  • (Richard Johnson) "That's very good, Eleanor. You catch on quickly."
  • (Claire Bloom) "I'm hungry. Let's go."
  • (Richard Johnson) "The story goes that the old lady died calling for help in the nursery upstairs; while the companion fooled around with a farmhand on the veranda."
  • (Richard Johnson) "Look, I know the supernatural is something that isn't supposed to happen, but it does happen."
  • (Richard Johnson) "Did something happen?"
  • (Julie Harris) "No, nothing in particular, just someone banging on the door with a cannon ball."
  • (Richard Johnson) "Now. Which door?"
  • (Claire Bloom) "That one."
  • (Richard Johnson) "Wrong. I've studied the map, it's this one."
  • (Richard Johnson) "It has taken 60 million years to develop the carnivorous biped you see before you, Luke Sanderson."
  • (Claire Bloom) "Let's see what kind of martinis it makes."
  • (Russ Tamblyn) "They should be pretty good. I majored in them at college."
  • (Richard Johnson) "Ghosts make the papers along with celebrities every day of the week."
  • (Richard Johnson) "When people believed the earth was flat, the idea of a round world scared them silly. Then they found out how the round world works. It's the same with the world of the supernatural. Until we know how it works, we'll continue to carry around this unnecessary burden of fear."
  • (Richard Johnson) "You wait here, Grace. I'll go in and get your things, and then call the police."
  • (Lois Maxwell) "No, no, no. No one must go back into that house again. Whatever's there might --"
  • (Richard Johnson) "I'll be all right. The house has what it wants -- for a while."
  • (Richard Johnson) "Why aren't you upstairs?"
  • (Russ Tamblyn) "I needed a drink."
  • (Richard Johnson) "Grace."
  • (Russ Tamblyn) "Wait a minute. It's nowhere near the nursery -- it's down here,"
  • (Claire Bloom) "Seems we've been on this kick before."
  • (Julie Harris) "Next vacation I must really go somewhere else."
  • (Julie Harris) "It knows my name, this time it knows my name."
  • (Richard Johnson) "I have to go out there."
  • (Julie Harris) "No, No. It hasn't hurt me. Why should it hurt her?"
  • (Richard Johnson) "She might try to do something about it."
  • (Julie Harris) "Is it over, Theo? Is it?"
  • (Claire Bloom) "No, I'm still cold. It's going to start everything all over again."
  • (Julie Harris) "It can't get in. It can't get in. Don't let it get in."
  • (Julie Harris) "God, it knows I'm here."
  • (Russ Tamblyn) "Doc -- I'll let you have the house cheap."
  • (Julie Harris) "Go on and on and come back again until it finds me. On and on and on until it finds me."
  • (Richard Johnson) "Let's see if there's a tiger behind this one."

Fay Compton as Mrs. Sanderson

  • (Fay Compton) "The dead are not quiet in Hill House."

Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Dudley

  • (Rosalie Crutchley) "I can't keep the rooms the way I'd like, but there's no one else they could get that would help me."
  • (Julie Harris) "How very nice."
  • (Rosalie Crutchley) "I set dinner on the dining room sideboard at 6. I clear up in the morning. I have breakfast for you at 9. I don't wait on people. I don't stay after I set out the dinner, not after it begins to get dark. I leave before the dark."
  • (Julie Harris) "Your husband?"
  • (Rosalie Crutchley) "We live over in town, miles away."
  • (Julie Harris) "Yes."
  • (Rosalie Crutchley) "So there won't be anyone around if you need help."
  • (Julie Harris) "I understand."
  • (Rosalie Crutchley) "We couldn't hear you. In the night."
  • (Julie Harris) "Do you have any idea when Dr. Markway --"
  • (Rosalie Crutchley) "No one could. No one lives any nearer than town. No one will come any nearer than that."
  • (Julie Harris) "I know."
  • (Rosalie Crutchley) "In the night. In the dark."

Valentine Dyall as Mr. Dudley

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