The script for the film baby doll (1956)

Record Details:

Title:
The script for the film baby doll
Date:
1956
Publisher:
New York : The New American Library
Volume:
The script for the film baby doll
Leaf #:
00082
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 08, 2024
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silva: But you're afraid of the house! Do you believe in ghosts, Mrs. Meighan? I do. I believe in the presence of evil spirits. baby doll: What evil spirits you talking about now? silva: Spirits of violence — and cunning — malevolence — cruelty — treachery — destruction. . . . baby doll: Oh, them's just human characteristics. silva: They're evil spirits that haunt the human heart and take possession of it, and spread from one human heart to another human heart the way that a fire goes springing from leaf to leaf and branch to branch in a tree till a forest is all aflame with it — the birds take flight — the wild things are suffocated . . . everything green and beautiful is destroyed. . . • baby doll: You have got fire on the brain. silva: I see it as more than it seems to be on the surface. I saw it last night as an explosion of those evil spirits that haunt the human heart — I fought it! I ran into it, beating it, stamping it, shouting the curse of God at it! They dragged me out, suffocating. I was defeated! When I came to, lying on the ground — the fire had won the batde, and all around was a ring of human figures! The fire lit their faces! I looked up. And they were illuminated! Their eyes, their teeth were SHINING!! SEE! LIKE THIS! He twists his face into a grotesque grimace of pleasure. Page 72