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The Seventh Veil is a 1945 film about a brilliant concert pianist who attempts suicide while she is being treated for a disabling delusional disorder that seems to affect her hands, making it impossible for her to play. A psychiatrist uses hypnosis to uncover the source of her crippling fear and to reveal, one by one, the relationships that have enriched and troubled her life.

Directed by Compton Bennett. Written by Sydney Box and Muriel Box.
It Dares Strip Bare a Woman's Mind  taglines

Francesca Cunningham

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  • I'm grateful to you for some of the things you've done for me, but I'll never forgive you for some of the others.

Nicholas Cunningham

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  • You are the one beautiful thing that's been in my life. I can't live without you. You must know that. I can't give you up. I won't give you up. You're a great artist! Great artists don't just happen. They have to be made, and I have made you. I spent ten years training you, mold you. You'll be my life's work. And now you want to throw it all away with a man who doesn't even want to marry you. Francesca, listen to me! You can't stand up against me. You don't have the strength. You'll do as I say. I demand that you give up this man. I demand that you send him away...You belong to me. We must always be together. You know that, don't you? Promise you'll stay with me always! Promise! Very well, if that's the way you want it. Very well, if you won't play for me, you shan't play for anyone else ever again. [strikes her hands with his cane]

Dr. Larsen

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  • Dr. Kendall, a surgeon doesn't operate without first taking off the patient's clothes, nor do we with the mind. You know what, uh, Staples says? The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of her dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils: veils of reserve, shyness, fear. Now with friends, the average person will drop first one veil, then another, maybe three or four altogether. With a lover, she will take off five, or even six, but never the seventh. Never, you see the human mind likes to cover its nakedness too and keep its private thoughts to itself. Salome drops her seventh veil of her own free will, but you will never get the human mind to do that, and that is why I use narcosis. Five minutes under narcosis and down comes the seventh veil. Then we can see what is actually going on behind it. Then we can really help.
  • Yes, I think I can promise you a complete cure. But, uh, you have to prepare yourself for a new Francesca. A new and a very different person....You see the past is over for her now, quite over. Her mind is clear and the clouds have been swept away. She's no longer afraid. Whether you will be entirely satisfied with the change in her, I don't know, but it might be wise not to expect too much...I'm trying to tell you she will want to be with the one she loves, or the one she's been happiest with, or the one she cannot do without, or the one she trusts.

Dialogue

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Francesca Cunningham: [as she poses for her portrait] Can I move?
Maxwell Leyden: In just one second.
Francesca Cunningham: My leg's getting stiff.
Maxwell Leyden: Phfft!
Francesca Cunningham: But I'm getting cramped in the most peculiar places.
Maxwell Leyden: All right - move.
Maxwell Leyden: Last time you were here you said something that worried me very much.
Peter Gay: Did I?
Maxwell Leyden: But you must know that you did.
Peter Gay: Oh, you mean when I told you I was in love with you.
Maxwell Leyden: Yes.
Peter Gay: But why should that worry you so much? Surely it's the most natural thing in the world.
Maxwell Leyden: Not to me. I hate love, hate being in love. I don't ever want it to happen to me again.
Peter Gay: If you deny yourself love, you might as well be dead.

Taglines

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  • It Dares Strip Bare a Woman's Mind
  • Is There Always a SEVENTH VEIL Between a Woman and the Men Who Love Her?

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