Witchfinder General (1968)

Share this quote on facebook Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

Share this quote on facebook I will find out the truth for you, have no fear.

Share this quote on facebook [Hopkins and his men throw three securely-bound people into the moat as a witchcraft test] They swim... the mark of Satan is upon them. They must hang.

Share this quote on facebook [a tied-up woman Hopkins has thrown into the moat to test for witchcraft drowns] She was innocent.

Share this quote on facebook Gen. Oliver Cromwell: The year is 1645, England is in the grip of bloody Civil War. On the one side stand the Royalist party of King Charles, on the other, Cromwell's Parliamentary party: the Roundheads. The Structure of law and order has collapsed. Local Magistrates indulge their individual whims, justice and injustice are dispensed in more or less equal quantities, without opposition. An atmosphere in which the unscrupulous revel, and the likes of Matthew Hopkins take full advantage of the situation. In a time where the superstitions of country folk are still a powerful factor, Hopkins preys upon them, torturing and killing in a supposed drive to eliminate witchcraft from the country, and doing so with the full blessing of what law there is. However, his influence is confined largely to the Eastern Sector of the country: East Anglia, which is held firmly in Cromwell's grasp, but not so firmly that Roundhead cavalry patrols have everything their way. For there persists an ever present threat of the remnants of the Royalist armies, desperately foraging for food, horses and supplies.

Share this quote on facebook John Stearne: [about Richard Marshall] He's after our blood!
Matthew Hopkins: You're forgetting our powers... he could be a witch.

Share this quote on facebook Matthew Hopkins: By the way, you know what they call me now?
John Stearne: What?
Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General.

Share this quote on facebook Swallow: Stop that, Richard!
Richard Marshall: What?
Swallow: What you're thinking.
Richard Marshall: What am I thinking?
Swallow: Ungodly thoughts of your Sara, that's my guess.
Richard Marshall: Thoughts of Sara? Yes. Ungodly? Depends on how you look at it.

Share this quote on facebook Swallow: [finding Richard beating Hopkins with an axe] God! [takes Harcourt's gun and shoots Hopkins dead]
Richard Marshall: You took him away from me... you took him from me... you took him from me... you took him from me! YOU TOOK HIM FROM ME!
Swallow: [makes the sign of the cross] ... May God have mercy on us all.
[Sara cries and screams in anguish]

Share this quote on facebook There's lots of screaming when there's this much at stake!

Share this quote on facebook They revelled in torture and murder all in the name of justice.

Share this quote on facebook In the midst of England's bloodiest civil war, Evil ignites.

Share this quote on facebook Vincent Price unleashes a reign of fire and fury.

Share this quote on facebook The depraved must die... BEWARE the Witch Hunter!

Share this quote on facebook LEAVE THE CHILDREN HOME! ...and if YOU are SQUEAMISH STAY HOME WITH THEM!!

Share this quote on facebook Michael Beint - Captain Gordon