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London After Midnight Page #10
- PASSED
- Year:
- 1927
- 69 min
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TITLE:
"They're vampyrs, I tell you,
and I'm going to destroy them --
the way the book says--"
BACK TO SCENE:
He finishes title and turns and runs madlyout of the scene, for the time being a maniac. Burke turns
quickly down from the window to Sir James, indicates off
and says:
TITLE:
"They're coming!"
235
INT. LUCY'S ROOM (NIGHT) CLOSE SHOT
Burke and Sir James, as Burke finishes title, indicating
off toward the window. "Who?" gasps Sir James in his
astonishment. Burke replies quickly, his manner brisk and
business like.
TITLE:
"The Scotland Yard men you
wrote for."
BACK TO SCENE:
He finishes title. Sir James' relief isprodigious. They start out toward the door.
236
EXT. HAMLIN HOUSE (NIGHT) SEMI LONG SHOT
An English car, turning in at the gate, drives toward the
house.
237
INT. HIBBS' ROOM (NIGHT) MED. SHOT
Hibbs, feverishly fingering the pages of the ancient book
until he finds what he wants, reads:
INSERT:
Page in old English:
The one certain method, which never
fails, is to drive a hickory stake
through the heart of the vampyr.
BACK TO SCENE:
Hibbs looks up, looks wildly around the room,as though there might be a hickory stake there somewhere,
then turns and runs out the door.
238
INT. LOWER HALL HAMLIN HOUSE (NIGHT) MED. SHOT
Burke, opening the door, admitting four burly Scotland Yard
men. With Sir James, they all exit to the library.
239
INT. SERVANTS QUARTERS (NIGHT) SEMI FULL SHOT
Miss Smithson and the other servants are huddled together,
scared half to death. They turn and scream as the door is
flung open and Hibbs, wild-eyed and breathless, bursts into
the room. Seeing who it is they subside. He tells them that
he has got to have an ax and a hickory stake. One of the
men hands him a hand-ax from the wood box by the stove. He
looks at a chair -- it isn't hickory. Wildly, he turns to
the table, inspecting it. With the ax he starts to knock
one of the legs off the table.
240
INT. LIBRARY (NIGHT) MED. SHOT
Sir James sitting at the desk, the four Scotland Yard men
and Burke standing, as Burke is crisply telling them of the
extraordinary events. They listen like good soldiers, but
solid as they are, they cannot escape a gasp or two of
surprise.
241
INT. SERVANTS QUARTERS (NIGHT) MED. SHOT
Hibbs, finishing sharpening the end of a table leg to a
point. With this in one hand and the ax in the other, he
runs out the back door. Miss Smithson slams it after him
and nervously fixes the latch.
242
INT. SERVANTS HALL (NIGHT) CLOSE UP
Miss Smithson nervously fixing the latch. Her hand shakes
so that she has to make two or three attempts before she
gets it. Then she turns, sinks back against the door,
breathing deeply, her eyes bulging. Her whole attitude
conveys that she thinks she had a narrow escape while the
door was open.
243
INT. LIBRARY (NIGHT) MED. SHOT
Burke turns from the four Scotland Yard men to Sir James at
the desk, drawing up a chair to the end of the desk so that
they are facing each other.
244
Burke and Sir James, as Burke sits down, facing Sir James.
He studies Sir James for a moment, then says:
TITLE:
"Have you got a gun?"
BACK TO SCENE:
For answer, Sir James reaches into a drawerof the desk and takes out a large Army revolver. Burke
looks at it and puts it aside, saying:
TITLE:
"You've got to have one
you can be sure will shoot."
245
INT. LIBRARY (NIGHT) MED. SHOT
The group, as Burke finishes title, rising and turning to
the four Scotland Yard men. One of them takes an automatic
pistol from his pocket and hands it to Burke. Burke gives
this to Sir James and tells him to put it in his pocket.
Sir James does so. Burke starts to sit down again.
246
Burke and Sir James, as Burke sits down, facing Sir James.
Burke starts to talk to him and as he talks his eyes take
on an intense piercing quality. He stops talking, holding
Sir James' gaze with his own for a few feet while neither
man moves a muscle. Then Burke turns easily away, leaning
back for a moment, relaxed.
James continues to sit without moving. Burke then reaches
over and picks up a desk clock. He turns the hands back and
sets it down on the desk again. Sir James looks at it.
INSERT:
DESK CLOCK Time: 8:15
BACK TO SCENE:
Sir James looks up from the clock. Burketells him:
TITLE:
"At 8:
25, leave here and cometo the side door of Balfour
House."
BACK TO SCENE:
He finishes title, studying Sir James for amoment, and then rises.
247
INT. LIBRARY (NIGHT) SEMI FULL SHOT
Burke, rising, pays no further attention to Sir James, who
sits staring at the clock. With a gesture to the men to
follow, Burke exits briskly from the library. The four
Scotland Yard men go out after him.
248
EXT. BALFOUR HOUSE (NIGHT) SEMI LONG SHOT
With gate in f.g., as Hibbs, carrying his stake and ax,
comes in, stops for a moment, looking in toward the house
and all around the garden, then starts in toward the house,
slipping from clump to clump of shrubbery.
249
EXT. BALFOUR GARDEN (NIGHT) CLOSE SHOT
Hibbs, coming behind a clump of shrubbery, drops down
suddenly, as though hearing something off toward the house.
250
EXT. BALFOUR HOUSE (NIGHT) CLOSE UP
Door to the side veranda, as it starts slowly to open.
Lucy appears in the doorway, behind her the ominous figure
of the Stranger, with face so white and the bullet wound in
his temple. She stops in the doorway. He stops.
251
EXT. BALFOUR GARDEN (NIGHT) CLOSE UP
Hibbs, in the clump of brush, as he cautiously raises
himself and looks off. He stares, suddenly seeing:
252
EXT. DOOR (NIGHT) MED. SHOT
Lucy standing in the doorway, looking out into the night.
The Stranger directly behind her. She does not move. But
the Stranger takes a step closer to her and leans over with
his face close to hers.
253
Lucy and the Stranger, as his ghastly face comes very close
to hers. Still she does not move, but looks off into the
night.
254
FLASH Hibbs staring off. His grip tightens on his stake and
ax, and the look in his eyes is terrible to see.
255
Lucy and the Stranger, with his face just behind hers and
very close to her. He whispers in her ear.
TITLE:
"Tell him to go, Lucy. Only
harm can come to him here."
BACK TO SCENE:
He finishes title. Lucy nods solemnly.256
EXT. GARDEN (NIGHT) CLOSE SHOT
FLASH of Hibbs staring. He starts forward.
257
EXT. DOOR AND VERANDA (NIGHT) MED. SHOT
The Stranger draws back quickly into the room as Lucy steps
out onto the veranda. The Stranger closes the door. Hibbs
comes in below her, on the ground, calling: "Lucy! Lucy!"
258
Hibbs, looking up at her, saying her name, softly but with
tragic earnestness.
259
Lucy, looking down at him, a large pity in her eyes, as she
tells him:
TITLE:
"Go!........Go!"
BACK TO SCENE:
She finishes title.260
Hibbs, staring up at her, saying the same. "Lucy! Lucy!"
261
EXT. VERANDA (NIGHT) MED. SHOT
The door opens and the Bat Girl, in her black dress, with
her face so white, comes out softly to Lucy, puts an arm
around her shoulder and slowly starts back into the house
with her.
262
Hibbs, he can only stare at this -- powerless for the
moment to act. His eyes follow them to the door.
263
Lucy and the Bat Girl going slowly through the door. It
closes behind them.
264
EXT. GARDEN (NIGHT) MED. SHOT
Hibbs, standing motionless, staring after them as one from
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