Witchfinder General (1968)
Vincent Price: Matthew Hopkins
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Quotes
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Matthew Hopkins : Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.
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[a tied-up woman Hopkins has thrown into the moat to test for witchcraft drowns]
Matthew Hopkins : She was innocent.
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Matthew Hopkins : I will find out the truth for you, have no fear.
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[Hopkins and his men throw three securely-bound people into the moat as a witchcraft test]
Matthew Hopkins : They swim... the mark of Satan is upon them. They must hang.
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[first lines]
[United States Conqueror Worm versions]
Matthew Hopkins : [voiceover] LO! 't is a gala night/Within the lonesome latter years./An angel throng, bewinged, bedight/In veils, and drowned in tears,/Sit in a theatre to see/A play of hopes and fears,/While the orchestra breathes fitfully/The music of the spheres."
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[last lines]
[United States Conqueror Worm versions]
Matthew Hopkins : [voiceover] Out-out are the lights-out all!/And over each quivering form/The curtain, a funeral pall,/Comes down with the rush of a storm,/While the angels, all pallid and wan,/Uprising, unveiling, affirm/That the play is the tragedy, 'Man,'/And its hero, the Conqueror Worm."
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Matthew Hopkins : By the way, you know what they call me now?
John Stearne : What?
Matthew Hopkins : Witchfinder General.
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[Stearne eludes Marshall to warn the Witchfinder General]
John Stearne : He's after our blood!
Matthew Hopkins : You're forgetting our powers... he could be a witch.
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Matthew Hopkins : I hold all human life sacred, especially my own.
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Webb : They're all women, Sir.
Matthew Hopkins : Strange, isn't it? So much iniquity the Lord vests in the female.
