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The Old Dark House (1963)

Tom Poston: Tom Penderel

The Old Dark House

Tom Poston credited as playing...

Tom Penderel

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Quotes6

  • Agatha Femm: [Knitting] I capture time and space in my stitches. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if I stopped.
  • Tom Penderel: Happen? To you?
  • Agatha Femm: No, no. To the world.
  • Roderick Femm: Any member of the family refusing to live here, loses all rights to the fortune.
  • Morgana Femm: If any member of the family is not home by midnight, every night, loses all rights to inheritance.
  • Cecily Femm: The Femm fortune, all of it, is left to the house. The Will can never be changed unless the house dies.
  • Tom Penderel: How can a house die? Did you ever try burning it?
  • Morgana Femm: I did once - but you can't burn solid rock.
  • Tom Penderel: [Wondering how the Femms manage to get by in their big house] So, what do you use for money? I mean, how do you live?
  • Roderick Femm: Once a year, we divide the interest of the capital. On the anniversary of great-great-grandfather's hanging.
  • Tom Penderel: You, uh... why, you must be very lonely. Well, I mean, uh, all alone...
  • Morgana Femm: Oh, you have no idea. Every night in this house, with just a whole family of Femms.
  • Cecily Femm: This is Mr. Tom Penderel, he was a friend of Caspar's.
  • Roderick Femm: Really? Caspar had some very strange friends. Were you one of them?
  • Tom Penderel: No, I'm not strange. I'm American.
  • Cecily Femm: [Footsteps are heard outside the door] That's Uncle Morgan. Tom, he's furious you're here. He thinks you're going to take away Morgana. He... he might become dangerous. Again.
  • Tom Penderel: What do you mean, "again"?
  • Cecily Femm: The last young man that came here tried to take Morgana away.
  • Tom Penderel: Yeah? What happened? No, no, don't tell me.
  • Cecily Femm: We heard screams in the night and then... He never was found. You'd better get some rest. Do you think you'll be able to sleep?
  • Tom Penderel: Yeah, I'll count corpses.

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