The City of the Dead (1960)

Christopher Lee: Alan Driscoll

Quotes 

• Richard Barlow : [to Nan]  Any good encyclopedia will give you all the nonsense you want to know about witchcraft.

  Prof. Alan Driscoll : Witchcraft is not nonsense, Barlow.

  Richard Barlow : I'm sorry, Driscoll; witchcraft, black magic, sorcery--to me it's all mumbo jumbo. I'm a scientist, Driscoll, I believe what I can see, what I can feel and touch.

  Prof. Alan Driscoll : The basis of fairy tales is reality, the basis of reality is fairy tales. As a scientist you should be familiar with that quotation.

  Richard Barlow : Well, I don't believe that somebody in Chicago can die of a heart attack because some woman in New Orleans sticks a pin in a wax doll.

  Prof. Alan Driscoll : Maybe YOU don't, but practitioners of voodoo claim otherwise.

• Richard Barlow : When I look into a microscope, Driscoll, I see bacteria swimming, fighting, existing--that's real. These witches that were persecuted and burned in the 17th century were real too, but they weren't witches. They were pitiful human beings, victims of hysteria.

  Prof. Alan Driscoll : There are many imminent scholars who have documented proof of the actual practice of witchcraft.

  Richard Barlow : Yeah, but how effective was this practice? Did any of these imminent scholars ever meet a practicing witch? Did *you* ever meet a witch, Driscoll?

  Prof. Alan Driscoll : Perhaps.

• Prof. Alan Driscoll : Burn witch, burn witch, burn!

  Bill Maitland : Dig that crazy beat, man.

• Prof. Alan Driscoll : In 1692, Elizabeth Selwyn went to the stake; she was buried in the churchyard in New England, and yet three years later, three years later a new wave of blood sacrifices broke out in the village that condemned her. The daughters of the elders who had condemned her were themselves found dead with every single drop of blood drained from their bodies, and afterwards people came forward to testify that they had actually seen Elizabeth Selwyn.