Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)

Vincent Price: Dr. Anton Phibes

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• Darius Biederbeck : What kind of fiend are you?

  Dr. Anton Phibes : The kind that wins, my friend.

• Dr. Anton Phibes : Go, Vulnavia. Your work is complete. Come and join us on the other side.

• Dr. Anton Phibes : I, too, have searched, Beiderbeck, but not for myself. For my Victoria. I offer you the same goal, the life of your beloved. But hurry. When the bough breaks, my friend...

  Darius Biederbeck : It could be a trick. Why should I trust you of all people?

  Dr. Anton Phibes : Not me. The ancient artisans who built these chambers. When the gates are unlocked, the water from Diana's pool will drain out and she will be free. Save her! Don't be a fool. Soon, it will be too late.

  Darius Biederbeck : For whom?

  Dr. Anton Phibes : For us all, especially Diana. Every second brings her closer to a terrible death. Can you pay that price, Beiderbeck? The key!

  Darius Biederbeck : The devil take you, Phibes.

  Dr. Anton Phibes : The devil take me? Not for some considerable time, I trust.

• Dr. Anton Phibes : I call on you once more, Vulnavia. Come, my trusted aide.

  [Vulnavia appears] 

  Dr. Anton Phibes : Thank you, my dear, for answering my call. Upstairs, in my safe, is a most precious map of papyrus. The way to a Pharaoh's tomb! Beneath which flows, each 2,000 years, the River of Life. We must make haste and find the river at its flood.

• Dr. Anton Phibes : I am protecting you, Victoria, from those who would discover us. I shall eliminate them all, one by one, my love. Yes, even Beiderbeck himself, if need be.

• Dr. Anton Phibes : Dear girl, man the machine.

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Anton Phibes : [singing]  Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly / Birds fly over the rainbow, why, oh, why can't I?

• Dr. Anton Phibes : Sleep on, my sweet Victoria, for regal claws of noble birds guard well your place of rest. For those poor fools that dare intrude, the penalty is death.

• Dr. Anton Phibes : It is a pity, in a way. We have so much in common.

  Darius Biederbeck : You flatter yourself.

  Dr. Anton Phibes : I think not. For years I have had one terrible obsession - to find the River of Life once used by the Pharaohs of Egypt. It lies beyond those gates, a river that gives new life, again and again and again.

  Darius Biederbeck : Why do you think I came here?

  Dr. Anton Phibes : You have all the life you need.

  Darius Biederbeck : No more, Phibes. The elixir that gave my life for a hundred years is gone. It has suspended time and age, but no more.

  Dr. Anton Phibes : How long? How many years?

  Darius Biederbeck : Too long to remember. Too long to throw it all away now!

• Dr. Anton Phibes : Those devils! To take from me the two treasures of my life! I shall get them back; he who tries to stop me will die!

• Darius Biederbeck : Phibes!

  Dr. Anton Phibes : So, at last we meet, Beiderbeck.

  Darius Biederbeck : Where's Diana?

  Dr. Anton Phibes : Waiting, as we all must wait.

• Dr. Anton Phibes : Oh, what happy times of years ago I think of, Victoria. It won't be long now. Soon you will be moving, breathing. Thy in my arms again and I in yours.

• Dr. Anton Phibes : No force in all the world can stop us now!

• Darius Biederbeck : So, that's it. The key.

  Dr. Anton Phibes : My key.

  Darius Biederbeck : No. For years I've searched. The Temple of Abiskis, the River of Life. It's mine, Phibes.

  Dr. Anton Phibes : Then your beloved will die. For only the key will save her now.

  Darius Biederbeck : You lie. The key controls the gates, nothing more.

  Dr. Anton Phibes : The key controls the gates and much more: the life of your Diana. And you have only three minutes to use it. Now, save your Diana.

• Dr. Anton Phibes : Victoria, for three years I have rested by your side. Now the Moon has risen to the exact position which last occurred 2,000 years ago, signaling the opening of this crypt, and the beginning of our greatest adventure. We shall embark to the land of Egypt, where years ago I did prepare for us a wondrous shrine. I shall search for the River of Life, which holds the key to resurrection for you and eternal life for both of us.

• Dr. Anton Phibes : Here where mystic lines converge, we shall find the doorway which seperates the living from the dead!

• Dr. Anton Phibes : No! While I slept in sweet oblivion, who dared destroy my house? The safe. Could it still be here?

  [he checks it and finds it is empty] 

  Dr. Anton Phibes : What fiend has taken it? Only one who seeks eternal life as I do... Beiderbeck!

• Dr. Anton Phibes : You cannot threaten the dead with death, my friend. Only with life, eternal life!

• Dr. Anton Phibes : [to his pet hawk who is feeding off Shavers' corpse]  Did you have a good dinner?

  [the hawk screeches in reply] 

• Dr. Anton Phibes : [quoting Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night"]  If music be the food of love, play on!

• Dr. Anton Phibes : So, once more I have been forced to kill for you, Victoria. Only that you may live again, my noble wife.

• Dr. Anton Phibes : Observe, my sweet Victoria. The waters are receding, as the final revelation is before us. The gates to eternity.

  [he looks up] 

  Dr. Anton Phibes : Go, Vulnavia, and let our victim know the full measure of our wrath!