Edgar Allan Poe's Gold Bug

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:13]Shoot from left eye socket.

[00:00:16]>> Got to keep on digging. I can feel now my >> There's nothing here.

[00:00:22]>> IT'S HERE. IT'S RIGHT HERE.

[00:00:27]JUST GOT TO KEEP DIGGING. MAYBE him right sir. Maybe we go all go back home.

[00:00:45]Give me a hand out now.

[00:00:51]Now go pile up our things, will you?

[00:00:54]It seems I am to offer you an apology, doctor, for dragging you out here and the wasting of your time. Indebted to you, I am as always.

[00:01:05]I am sorry.

[00:01:07]>> I trust you understand that not all debts can be repaid by fantastic stories.

[00:01:14]However, I suspect it's all you have left >> left.

[00:01:22]Bless you. Infernal black villain.

[00:01:31]Tell me this instant. WHICH IS YOUR LEFT EYE? OH, HOW SICK is my left eye of a sudden?

[00:01:38]>> Dame's not up yet, doctor.

[00:01:46]>> What now? Grand.

[00:01:51]We must try again.

[00:01:54]>> 1 2 3.

[00:01:55]>> Try again.

[00:01:57]>> I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION, SIR.

[00:02:00]>> And you shall have one.

[00:02:12]>> Hey, find anything, sir?

[00:02:38]You okay, sir?

[00:02:42]A gold bug. It bit you.

[00:02:47]Calm down. You gold can't bite.

[00:02:51]>> Whoa.

[00:02:52]I get it.

[00:02:59]>> Now the damn thing can't bite you no more.

[00:03:01]>> I do not know what I would do without you.

[00:03:04]>> What you going to do with it, sir? Damn thing is bad luck to keep around the house.

[00:03:10]You know, if I had a piece of gold for each of your superstitions, my fortune be reinstated in no time.

[00:03:22]Let's head on home, shall we?

[00:03:28]>> You know, doctor, >> it is a strange coincidence that you should come visit him this very night out of all other nights.

[00:03:34]>> Is that a fact? Another old acquaintance of mine visited me earlier this afternoon.

[00:03:40]>> And who might that be?

[00:03:46]>> Fortune.

[00:03:55]Extraordinary, isn't it?

[00:03:58]>> Indeed it is. All right. Now, tell me the truth. Where'd you get this? Well, I found it on the coastline about a mile eastward of this here island. That there you are holding in your hand is worth one pretty penny.

[00:04:12]>> Maybe now you can afford to start paying me for my services.

[00:04:15]>> Now don't go losing your head now.

[00:04:17]>> Whoa.

[00:04:20]What happened to your finger, young man?

[00:04:22]>> I pricricked it on the horn when I leaned down to pick it up.

[00:04:25]>> Well, it's becoming infected. Believe I got something in the bag to help you with that.

[00:04:32]brought it with me. Where is it?

[00:04:55]Main branch east side. Shoot from left eye of death's head. A beline from tree through shot 15 strides out.

[00:05:07]>> NOW SEE HERE, BOY. I WANT YOU TO SCOOT OUT ON THAT LIVER ABOUT AS FAR AS YOU CAN GO NOW.

[00:05:12]>> YES, SIR.

[00:05:13]>> YOU TELL ME IF YOU SEE ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS.

[00:05:15]>> Do that, too, sir.

[00:05:17]>> What are you about here, Lrand? That poor man is too old to be climbing around in trees for you.

[00:05:23]>> Are you trying to KILL HIM?

[00:05:24]>> WILL YOU CALM YOURSELF, DOCTOR?

[00:05:28]We master our daughter mercy.

[00:05:31]>> What is it? What do you see >> upon my life side? The skull.

[00:05:37]>> Now you listen carefully to me, Jupiter.

[00:05:41]I want you to take that there GOLD BUG AND I WANT YOU TO STICK IT RIGHT IN THAT LEFT eye socket of that there skull and lower it on down to the ground.

[00:05:51]>> Which one? The left eye, SIR.

[00:05:54]>> CURSE YOUR STUPIDITY. DO YOU NOT KNOW YOUR LEFT FROM YOUR RIGHT?

[00:05:57]>> HOLD ON. I got it. I got it. I got the left eye now. Sir, >> look out below.

[00:06:03]>> Easy now.

[00:06:04]>> Let him come.

[00:06:05]>> Easy now.

[00:06:15]I can feel it.

[00:06:19]We are nearly there.

[00:06:21]>> Nearly well. L Grandand. This is madness.

[00:06:29]You hold on to that for me now.

[00:06:32]One 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15.

[00:06:46]X marks the spot.

[00:06:52]>> JUPITER.

[00:06:54]JUKE, GET IN THIS HOLE RIGHT THERE.

[00:07:04]YES.

[00:07:05]YEAH.

[00:07:43]Do you see?

[00:07:45]Do you see?

[00:07:49]You better fetch all things. Well, now, doctor, what you think of my story?

[00:07:56]>> In truth, Lrand, had I not been partyed to these absurd proceedings, I never would have believed you.

[00:08:02]>> Well, now, and that is to be expected.

[00:08:09]>> Now, you see, doctor, in life, there are two types of people.

[00:08:16]those who doubt and those who choose to believe. Now you see myself I fall in the latter category whereas you you only believe when you have been proven wrong.

[00:08:28]>> I believe only what I see with my eyes >> and now that you have seen.

[00:08:32]>> What I see is that you have a method to your madness.

[00:08:37]>> You stand beside a mountain of evidence to the contrary. Yet you still think me mad. Doctor, if I am mad that it is surely because of you.

[00:08:48]You have opposed me at every turn. HAD I HEEDED YOUR JUDGMENT, we wouldn't even be here.

[00:08:56]>> Nonsense. It was my involvement that led you to discover the map.

[00:09:02]>> Then I suppose you think you are entitled to an equal portion?

[00:09:06]>> Yes.

[00:09:10]Half.

[00:09:12]It appears the madness is spreading.

[00:09:18]>> Perhaps you're right, doctor.

[00:09:21]Maybe you do deserve an equal portion.

[00:09:25]Yet logic would demand that an equal portion be a third, not a half.

[00:09:32]>> Surely you are not suggesting that we share this fortune with your slave. while he is just as involved as you are.

[00:09:42]>> A slave's involvement entitles HIM TO NOTHING.

[00:09:44]>> PRECISELY.

[00:09:45]>> I AM NOT A SLAVE.

[00:09:48]I am a trained physician and my services come at a price. A price you have been unable to pay.

[00:09:57]>> Here, one handful shall settle the debt >> and two handfuls is more than you deserve. chest full of treasure is more than you deserve.

[00:10:12]>> You will only squander it just as you did when YOU INHERITED YOUR FIRST FORTUNE.

[00:10:18]>> What happened to your finger?

[00:10:20]>> That's where it been, sir.

[00:10:35]You fool. Look at what you've done.

[00:10:39]>> We share THE SAME FATE, DOCTOR.

[00:10:41]>> FATE? Fate has decided to bestow the fortune on me and led you to your grave.

[00:10:54]Jupiter.

[00:11:01]Jupiter.

[00:11:06]Help me. Help me, JUPITER.

[00:11:24]JUPITER, help me out. Help me out, Jupiter.

[00:11:30]NOW, DON'T JUST STAND THERE. JUPITER.

[00:11:33]JUPITER.

[00:11:46]HEAT. HEAT.