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The Professor and the Madman

My dictionary will need as manyvolumes as these

My dictionary will need as many
volumes as these

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My dictionary will need as many volumes as these...
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Timestamp in Movie
00:12:24
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...
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...
Broadmoor Asylum. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Broadmoor Asylum.
The Home Secretary wouldn't be bamboozled into accepting. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
The Home Secretary wouldn't be bamboozled into acceptin...
Written... in the Athenaeum... in a single sentence! - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Written... in the Athenaeum... in a single sentence!
Your book, Mr. Murray, will need to establish strict rules... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Your book, Mr. Murray, will need to establish strict rules.....
Sufficiently refined that it can henceforward only deteriorate. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Sufficiently refined that it can henceforward only deteriora...
You, Max? Me? No. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
You, Max? Me? No.
All words are valid in the language. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
All words are valid in the language.
The book must inventory every word, every nuance... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
The book must inventory every word, every nuance...