Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Shooting script - HorrorLair

135.262 CONTINUED: 262JEKYLL(praying)This I did not intend. I thought Iwas serving You. I saw a light - butI did not realize it led only toDarkness. Forgive me. Help me to -He cannot go on, knowing he has lost the right even to askfor help. His eyes close, and he leans his head against thepost, as weDISSOLVE TO:263 FULL SHOT - JEKYLL - EXT. SIR CHARLES' HOUSE - NIGHT263He comes hesitantly along the walk, stick in hand, the lightsfrom the house illuminating his drawn and agonized expression.His pace slackens as he turns in through the grilled irongate as WE PAN and he walks toward the front door in theb.g.264 CLOSE SHOT - JEKYLL - EXT. FRONT DOOR264He can hardly bring himself to pull the bell plunger. Suddenlyhe is aware of the dim sound of a piano o.s. He realizesthat Beatrix is playing. WE PAN HIM as he walks down thefront of the house to the end of the "side" garden.265 FULL SHOT - FORMAL SIDE GARDEN265Jekyll comes around the corner of the house and walks acrossa small flagged veranda which leads from French windows ofthe drawing room to the flower garden. The garden centersabout a small fountain and is set off with flower-bed patternsand marble benches.266 266 CLOSE SHOT - JEKYLL - EXT. FRENCH DOORS266He peers through them in the b.g. We see Beatrix playing thepiano, a sad and worried expression on her face. Back ofher, and to one side, Sir Charles nods in a chair over apaper.267 CLOSE SHOT - JEKYLL - REVERSE ANGLE267We are on his tortured countenance for a second as he lookso.s. at Beatrix. He half raises his hand as though to callher attention by the movement.