The City of the Dead (1960)

Dennis Lotis: Richard Barlow

Quotes 

• Reverend Russell : They must sacrifice a young girl on two nights of the year.

  Richard Barlow : When are these nights, sir?

  Reverend Russell : Candlemas Eve, and the Witch's Sabbath.

  Richard Barlow : Candlemas Eve, that, that's February the 1st, when is the Witch's Sabbath?

  Reverend Russell : *Tonight*.

• 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.

• Richard Barlow : Maitland, get to a cross! A cross! Shadow of a cross!

• Richard Barlow : I've got a score to settle with Mrs. Newliss!