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The Professor and the Madman

But it's so sudden

but it's so sudden

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but it's so sudden.
Duration
4 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:11:14
Uploaded
Jun 11, 2025
Genres
biography, drama, history
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Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid-19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William M...
Is it truly what you wish for all of us? - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Is it truly what you wish for all of us?
Ada, I'm an untutored linen draper's boy from Teviotdale... - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Ada, I'm an untutored linen draper's boy from Tevi...
Now, suddenly, with a real crack at it. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Now, suddenly, with a real crack at it.
If I am to fashion a book, I'll need a spine. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
If I am to fashion a book, I'll need a spine.
Are we going somewhere? - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Are we going somewhere?
Yes, but his book comprised of only a mere handful of words. - The Professor and the Madman 00:06
Yes, but his book comprised of only a mere handful of words.
I am charged with identifying and defining every last word! - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
I am charged with identifying and defining every last word!
My dictionary will need as many volumes as these... - The Professor and the Madman 00:06
My dictionary will need as many volumes as these...
Never play with books, all right? That's wrong. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Never play with books, all right? That's wrong.
BRAYN Wednesday, April 17, 1872. Inmate number 742. - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
BRAYN Wednesday, April 17, 1872. Inmate number 742.
American, 48 years old... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
American, 48 years old...
Surgeon, a captain in the United States Army. - The Professor and the Madman 00:06
Surgeon, a captain in the United States Army.
No known religion, classified a danger to others. - The Professor and the Madman 00:06
No known religion, classified a danger to others.
The prisoner is in a rage, spitting dozens of times... - The Professor and the Madman 00:06
The prisoner is in a rage, spitting dozens of times...
By his own account trying not to swallow poison-coated... - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
By his own account trying not to swallow poison-coated...
Cold, iron bars that have been pressed against his teeth. - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
Cold, iron bars that have been pressed against his teeth.
Three days now the prisoner has gone without sleep. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Three days now the prisoner has gone without sleep.
Constantly leaping from his bed to search... - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Constantly leaping from his bed to search...
Repeatedly claiming to look for those coming for him at night. - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
Repeatedly claiming to look for those coming for him at nigh...
Doctor Richard Brayn, alienist superintendent... - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Doctor Richard Brayn, alienist superintendent...