Frank Conlan credited as playing...
Joseph Hart
- [first lines]
- [Christian picks up a corpse lying on the bottom of Joseph's ferry]
- Joseph Hart: Can I be of any more help?
- Christian Sanders: No, thank you, Joseph.
- Martina Sanders: The strangler got him.
- Joseph Hart: Hah! You'd believe in anything, wouldn't you? Why doesn't he visit me? I live closest to his grave.
- Dark-haired Woman: He will! You, too, are a marked man.
- Joseph Hart: I'd like to see that old drunken card sharp again.
- Dark-haired Woman: He was all that, yes, and a no-good. But was he a murderer?
- Martina Sanders: And you got what you always wanted, didn't you, Joseph - his ferry?
- Joseph Hart: What do you mean?
- Martina Sanders: Nothing... nothing.
- Martina Sanders: Joseph, why have you let that rope hang all these years?
- Joseph Hart: It serves as a warning.
- Martina Sanders: As a warning? To whom?
- [discussing the noose that hung Douglas many years ago]
- Martina Sanders: Joseph, we're going to take that down.
- Joseph Hart: No! It stays there. Since that's been there, there hasn't been any more trouble.
- Martina Sanders: There's been more trouble than ever since it hangs there! Have you forgotten Bill Jenkins who was thrown from his horse and was choked by the reins?
- Anna Jeffers: And Shelton, strangled by the pulley rope as he fell from his hayloft?
- Dark-haired Woman: And Henry Craig, throttled by his fishnet?
- Martina Sanders: And tonight his son, Bill, choked to death by the weeds.
- Joseph Hart: What's Bill Craig got to do with it? He wasn't even at the hanging?
- Martina Sanders: Have you forgotten Douglas' vow that he'll return to strangle all the hangmen and their descendants for generations to come?
- Joseph Hart: Douglas! Douglas! Have you risen from the dead? What are you trying to do, frighten me? I know it's just a trick of my imagination, but how is it I can see you? Where did you come from?
- Ferryman Douglas: From my grave in the swamp. Whenever the heart and soul of a cursed one are filled with anguish to the brim, I appear. Tonight, it's your soul that calls me.
- Joseph Hart: You're not real!
- Ferryman Douglas: Your guilty conscience is. The rope you hanged me with is real.