The Pit and the Pendulum
1964 · 37 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 165 VOTES · DIR. Alexandre Astruc
Overview
A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on a victim of the Spanish Inquisition...
Dialogue Timeline — 191 lines
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00:01:48 I was sick.
00:02:20 After that
00:02:53 gently
00:03:58 silence
00:04:39 No!
00:05:04 Yet
00:06:02 there have been moments when I dreamed of success.
00:06:56 at the mere idea of the interminableness
00:07:52 the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
00:09:37 I proceded for many paces
00:10:21 This process, however, afforded me no means
00:12:26 than death with its direst physical agonies...
00:17:00 during which I counted the rushing oscillations of the steel!
00:17:45 it might have been that many days passed
00:18:12 And then suddenly...
00:18:41 rushed to my mind.
00:19:19 I saw that the crescent was designed
00:19:39 would be the tearing of my shirt's fabric.
00:19:59 as I thought how it would be sufficient for the machinery to descend slightly
00:20:43 The first stroke of the razor athwart any portion of the band
00:21:20 what I cannot better describe
00:21:47 scarcely definite
00:28:27 to be delivered unto something worse.
00:35:32 The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed191
Dialogue density5.2 lines / min
First line00:01:48
Final line00:35:32
Production Record
DirectorAlexandre Astruc
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes165