Vincent Price
(as Waldo Trumbull)
John F. Black, Esq.:
[as he's dying again] "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more..."
Waldo Trumbull: I'll believe that when I see it.
Waldo Trumbull: I'll believe that when I see it.
Vincent Price
(as Waldo Trumbull)
John F. Black, Esq.:
[who has just awakened from a cataleptic trance in the mortuary basement] Mr. Trumbull... this man... what am I doing here?
Waldo Trumbull: [who has recovered from his shock] Well, you're here because you;'re dead, Mr. Black.
John F. Black, Esq.: The hell I am!
Waldo Trumbull: Oh yes, Mr. Black, quite dead. Everybody knows it... except apparently you.
John F. Black, Esq.: What jiggery-pockery is this?
Waldo Trumbull: Oh, not jiggery-pockery, Mr. Black. Hinchley and Trumbull, Funeral Parlor.
John F. Black, Esq.: [realizing what Trumbull means] You wouldn't dare!
Waldo Trumbull: [pause, then] Have we a choice, Mr. Black?
Waldo Trumbull: [who has recovered from his shock] Well, you're here because you;'re dead, Mr. Black.
John F. Black, Esq.: The hell I am!
Waldo Trumbull: Oh yes, Mr. Black, quite dead. Everybody knows it... except apparently you.
John F. Black, Esq.: What jiggery-pockery is this?
Waldo Trumbull: Oh, not jiggery-pockery, Mr. Black. Hinchley and Trumbull, Funeral Parlor.
John F. Black, Esq.: [realizing what Trumbull means] You wouldn't dare!
Waldo Trumbull: [pause, then] Have we a choice, Mr. Black?
Peter Lorre
(as Felix Gillie)
Felix Gillie:
[after Amaryllis' singing has caused glasses to break, flowers to wither, and corks to pop out of bottles] Just like a nightingale
Vincent Price
(as Waldo Trumbull)
Felix Gillie:
[he and Trumbuill and sitting on the coffin, trying to keep it closed and referring to Mr. Black, who's inside the coffin] For a man in his condition, he has a lot of energy!
Waldo Trumbull: The stubborn old crackpot! I could have sworn that he was dead!
Felix Gillie: It's about time!
Waldo Trumbull: I've never had such an uncooperative customer in my life!
Waldo Trumbull: The stubborn old crackpot! I could have sworn that he was dead!
Felix Gillie: It's about time!
Waldo Trumbull: I've never had such an uncooperative customer in my life!
Peter Lorre
(as Felix Gillie)
Vincent Price
(as Waldo Trumbull)
Felix Gillie:
[talking about Amarylliis' singing during Mr. Black's funeral service] I wish she would have picked another song.
Waldo Trumbull: I wish her vocal cords would snap.
Waldo Trumbull: I wish her vocal cords would snap.
Vincent Price
(as Waldo Trumbull)
Felix Gillie:
[They're hiding from the rampaging Mr. Black] It's better in the dark.
Waldo Trumbull: What is? Decapitation?
Waldo Trumbull: What is? Decapitation?
Peter Lorre
(as Felix Gillie)
Felix Gillie:
[to Mr. Trumbull, referring to Mr. Black] I don't think he's quite dead enough to bury.
Peter Lorre
(as Felix Gillie)
Boris Karloff
(as Amos Hinchley)
Amos Hinchley:
[giving eulogy for John F. Black] And so, my friends, we find ourselves gathered around the bier of Mrs... er... Mr... You Know Whom... this litter of sorrow, this cairn, this cromlech, this dread dochma, this gart, this mastaba, this sorrowing tope, this unhappy tumulus, this, this... what is the word?... this... er, coffin! Never could think of that word. Requiescat in Pace, Mr... um... Mr... the memory of your good deeds will not perish with your untimely sepulture.