Russ Tamblyn credited as playing...
Luke Sannerson
- Luke Sannerson: [referring to Hill House] It ought to be burned down... and the ground sowed with salt.
- 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.
- [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!
- 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.
- 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.
- Eleanor Lance: I was leaning back to see the top of the tower and... I got dizzy.
- Luke Sannerson: Dizzy like a fox, huh?
- 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.'
- [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!