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Una Merkel and Chester Morris in The Bat Whispers (1930)

Maude Eburne: Lizzie Allen

The Bat Whispers

Maude Eburne credited as playing...

Lizzie Allen

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  • Cornelia van Gorder: Why do you suppose the servants left? I don't think the housemaid ever had a pain in her side, and I don't think the cook ever had a sister. And her sister didn't have twins. They was just scared stiff and they ran away... because, they saw IT.
  • Lizzie Allen: You're a fool. Keep quiet.
  • Lizzie Allen: I won't keep quiet. I've worked for you for twenty years and I guess I have a right to speak my mind.
  • Cornelia van Gorder: You haven't got a mind.
  • Lizzie Allen: If I had one, you wouldn't let me use it. I stuck by you when you was a Theosophist and a suffragettist, and I've seen you through socialism, Fletcherism, and rheumatism, but when it comes to spookism, I'm through!
  • Cornelia van Gorder: Shut up!
  • Lizzie Allen: [in terror] The Bat!
  • Cornelia van Gorder: Now what on Earth are you doing?
  • Lizzie Allen: I'm setting a bear trap for the Bat, in case he decides to come flying around here.
  • [throws a trap on a chain out the window]
  • Lizzie Allen: And I've got the other end fastened to the bed.
  • Cornelia van Gorder: Who did that?
  • The Caretaker: I don't know... this house gets on my nerves, they won't let me sleep.
  • Lizzie Allen: Don't trust him, caretaker means servant... Bat!
  • Cornelia van Gorder: Who won't let you sleep?
  • The Caretaker: The ghosts... he slams doors, and there's no one there to slam them... he opens windows, and I can't see nothing... he rolls things down the stairs, and there's no one there to make them roll... that ain't all, he whispers to me, from behind the wall.
  • [a loud scream is heard]
  • The Caretaker: Listen, he's here again... stay here long enough, you'll see.
  • Lizzie Allen: Let's go back to the city.
  • Lizzie Allen: That new gardener, I don't like his looks, suppose'n he's the Bat?
  • Cornelia van Gorder: I know he's not a gardener, because uticaria is hives, rubeola is measles, and alopecia is baldness.
  • Lizzie Allen: And knowing all this, you're going to let him stay here?
  • Cornelia van Gorder: I will, until I find out why my niece brought him here.
  • Lizzie Allen: Aren't you going to take me up with you?
  • Cornelia van Gorder: You're nothing but trouble on the ground floor, you'll be a nuisance on the roof.
  • [goes up the stairs]
  • Cornelia van Gorder: If I yell you come up!
  • Detective Jones: Who, me?
  • Cornelia van Gorder: Yes you!
  • Cornelia van Gorder: Get the Ouija board.
  • Lizzie Allen: It's got the Bible on top of it, keeping it quiet.
  • Lizzie Allen: [after The Bat gets trapped in her bear trap outside] I caught The Bat! I caught The Bat! I caught The Bat! I caught The Bat!

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