The Phantom Light Page #2

Synopsis: A lighthouse keeper has been murdered in mysterious circumstances and, during the ensuing investigation a Phantom Light keeps appearing at the scene of his death.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Year:
1935
76 min
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It is time Dr. Carey

was here, David.

Late he is and we must go

out on the ebb tide. -Aye.

Is it him we're waiting

for? -And Sergeant Jones.

They have to make a report on poor Jack

Davis, the lightkeeper who was killed.

Drowned wasn't he? Poor devil.

He just disappeared.

Disappeared like the other

lightkeeper before him.

Well, I hope it ain't catching.

What's the doctor coming for?

For poor Tom Evans. It is him we will

be bringing off from the light tonight.

What, the other lightkeeper? I

wasn't told this. What's his trouble?

His poor brain got twisted by what he

saw the night Jack Davis died. -Cuckoo?

Only yesterday we knew it. There

were signals from the light.

Very rough it was. Hardly the

relief boat get out to the light.

But whose in charge out

there now? -Claff Owen. -Owen?

My brother. -Let's get this straight.

There's you two Owens here right now,

then there's Claff Owen

at the lighthouse now.

Then there's the Owen who drove me

down in the car. That makes four.

Anymore Owens?

Well, there is John Owen in the

coal and William Owen, the gas.

They are the cousins of

Owen and Owen at the post.

And there is Iva Owen at

the farm and Trevor Owen.

Owen, Owen, Owen,

ain't anybody paying?

That's not bad.

There will be a sea getting up

before long, Griffith. -Yeah.

Wasn't there a big wreck around

here last year? -Yes, indeed.

One of the Fern line, it was. My

son Emerus was in her, whatever.

It was a lot of men

from this country.

It was the North Stake

light that drowned them all.

You'd better be careful what you're

saying. I mean, this is serious, this is.

You'd better not let Trinity House hear

him. How could the light drown him?

But he is right, lightkeeper. It

was the light that drowned them all.

Everybody knows it is a haunted light.

And when a ship comes into the channel,

suddenly out goes the light and another

light comes up onto the cliffs,

and the ship goes

on to the rocks over there.

A phantom light, I tell you.

Oh. So this is a good

place for wrecks, is it?

Well, now, I'm going

to tell you something.

It ain't going to spoil my sheet.

I've been in the service now

for 25 years come Michaelmas,

and I've never had

me light go out yet.

Hello, David. -Dr. Carey, this is Mr.

Higgins, the new chief lightkeeper.

Good evening, Mr. Higgins.

-Good evening, sir.

I suppose they've been chilling

your blood to begin with, eh?

Well, they've been

doing the best, sir.

They tell me the Merry

Fern signaled up channel.

Claff Owen will be pleased. His

son's the chief officer on board.

What ships that, sir? -The Merry Fern.

-But I thought she was wrecked last year.

Oh, no, no, that was

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Evadne Price

Evadne Price, née Eva Grace Price (28 August 1888 – 17 April 1985), was an Australian-British writer, actress, astrologer and media personality. She also wrote under the pseudonym Helen Zenna Smith. She is now best remembered for her World War I novel Not So Quiet (published in America as Stepdaughters of War) which adapts the style of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front to depict the experiences of British female ambulance drivers. During her lifetime she was known for her many romance novels, some of which were serialised in national newspapers, as well as for her children's books starring the popular character Jane Turpin. In the nineteen-fifties, she became a regular performer on television, as a storyteller and as an astrologer. For twenty-five years she published a monthly astrology column in SHE magazine. more…

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