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The Pit and the Pendulum
Originally Aired: November 28, 1947
Suspense #273, "The Pit and the Pendulum," stars José Ferrer as Captain Jean Dalbray, a French artillery officer imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition during the Napoleonic Wars. Accused of destroying the Holy Church of Saint Martha the Innocent with cannon fire, Dalbray defends his actions as military duty, insisting the church was being used as an enemy powder magazine. The Grand Inquisitor, Fra Pedro de Spiglia, shows no mercy. Dalbray's marriage to the Spanish noblewoman Donna Beatrice Valdez cannot save him, and he faces a terrible choice between two…
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