Frankenstein (1931)

Share this quote on facebook Victor: [suggesting he see Dr. Waldman about Henry] Perhaps he can tell me more about all this.
Elizabeth: Oh Victor, you're a dear.
Victor: You know I'd go to the ends of the earth for you.
Elizabeth: I shouldn't like that. I'm far too fond of you.
Victor: I wish you were!
Elizabeth: Victor.
Victor: I'm sorry.

Share this quote on facebook Waldman: Herr Frankenstein is greatly changed.
Victor: You mean changed as a result of his work?
Waldman: Yes, his work, his insane ambition to create life.
Elizabeth: How? How? Please tell us everything, whatever it is.
Waldman: The bodies we use in our dissecting room for lecture purposes were not perfect enough for his experiments, he said. He wished us to supply him with other bodies and we were not to be too particular as to where and how we got them. I told him that his demands were unreasonable. And so he left the University to work unhampered. He found what he needed elsewhere.
Victor: Oh! The bodies of animals. Well, what are the lives of a few rabbits and dogs?
Waldman: You do not quite get what I mean. Herr Frankenstein was interested only in human life — first to destroy it, then recreate it. There you have his mad dream.

Share this quote on facebook Henry: Elizabeth, please, won't you go away? Won't you trust me, just for tonight?
Elizabeth: You're ill. What's the matter?
Henry: Nothing. I'm quite all right, truly I am. Oh, can't you see? I mustn't be disturbed. You'll ruin everything. My experiment is almost completed.
Elizabeth: Wait a moment. I understand. I believe in you. But I cannot leave you tonight.
Henry: You've got to leave!
Victor: Henry, you're inhuman. You're crazy.
Henry: Crazy, am I? We'll see whether I'm crazy or not. Come on up...

Share this quote on facebook Henry: You're quite sure you want to come in? ...Very well. [locks door and pockets key] Forgive me, but I'm forced to take unusual precautions...A moment ago you said I was crazy. Tomorrow we'll see about that. [to Dr. Waldman] Don't touch that! Dr. Waldman. I learned a great deal from you at the University about the violet ray, the ultra-violet ray, which you said was the highest color in the spectrum. You were wrong. Here in this machinery I have gone beyond that. I have discovered the great ray that first brought life into the world.
Waldman: Oh! And your proof?
Henry: Tonight, you shall have your proof. At first, I experimented only with dead animals, and then a human heart which I kept beating for three weeks. But now, I'm going to turn that ray on that body and endow it with life.
Waldman: And you really believe that you can bring life to the dead?
Henry: That body is not dead. It has never lived. I created it. I made it with my own hands from the bodies I took from graves, from the gallows, anywhere! Go and see for yourself.

Share this quote on facebook Baron: Well, tell him to go away.
Maid: But he says it's important.
Baron: Nothing the burgomaster can say can be of the slightest importance.

Share this quote on facebook Vogel: What I really want to know is, when will the wedding be, if you please?
Baron: Unless Henry comes to his senses, there'll be no wedding at all.
Vogel: But Herr Baron, the village is already prepared.
Baron: Well, tell them to unprepare.
Vogel: Oh, but such a lovely bride! And such a fine young man, the very image of his father.
Baron: Heaven forbid!
Vogel: But sir, everything is ready!

Share this quote on facebook Waldman: This creature of yours should be kept under guard. Mark my words. He will prove dangerous.
Henry: Dangerous! Poor old Waldman. Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if nobody tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars or to know what causes the trees to bud and what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. But if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy!
Waldman: You're young, my friend. Your success has intoxicated you. Wake up and look facts in the face! Here we have a fiend whose brain...
Henry: The brain must be given time to develop. It's a perfectly good brain, doctor. You ought to know. It came from your own laboratory.
Waldman: The brain that was stolen from my laboratory was a criminal brain.
Henry: Oh well, after all, it's only a piece of dead tissue.
Waldman: Only Evil can come of it! Your health will be ruined if you persist in this madness.
Henry: I'm astonishingly sane, doctor.
Waldman: You have created a Monster and he will destroy you.
Henry: Patience, patience. I believe in this Monster, as you call it. And if you don't, well, you must leave me alone. So far, he's been kept in complete darkness. Wait till I bring him into the light.

Share this quote on facebook Baron: Well, what's the matter with you? You look as if you've been kicked by a horse. Where's Henry?
Waldman: I would advise you to take Henry away from here at once.
Baron: What do you suppose I'm here for, pleasure?

Share this quote on facebook Henry: It's like heaven, being with you again.
Elizabeth: Heaven wasn't so far away all the time, you know.
Henry: I know, but I didn't realize it. My work. Those horrible days and nights. I couldn't think of anything else.
Elizabeth: Henry. You're not to think of those things anymore. You promised.

Share this quote on facebook Maria: [to The Monster] Who are you? I'm Maria. Will you play with me? Would you like one of my flowers?
[The Monster smells the flower and smiles]
Maria: [handing The Monster more flowers] You have those, and I'll have these. I can make a boat.
[The two take turns tossing the flowers in the lake, where they float]
Maria: See how mine float?
[When The Monster has no more flowers, he picks up Maria]
Maria: No, you're hurting me. No!
[The Monster tosses Maria into the lake]

Share this quote on facebook Elizabeth: Henry. I'm afraid. Terribly afraid. Where's Dr. Waldman? Why is he late for the wedding?
Henry: Oh, he's always late. He'll be here soon.
Elizabeth: Something is going to happen. I feel it. I can't get it out of my mind.
Henry: You're just nervous. All the excitement and preparation.
Elizabeth: No, no. It isn't that. I felt it all day. Something is coming between us. I know it! I know it!
Henry: Sit down and rest. You look so tired.
Elizabeth: If I could just do something to save us from it.
Henry: From what, dear, from what?
Elizabeth: I don't know. If I could just get it out of my mind. Oh, I'd die if I had to lose you now, Henry.
Henry: Lose me? Why, I'll always be with you.
Elizabeth: Will you, Henry? Are you sure? I love you so.

Share this quote on facebook Victor: [pounding on Henry's door] Henry! Dr. Waldman!...He's been seen in the hills terrorizing the mountainside.
[A low moan is heard]
Henry: He's in the house. He's upstairs!

Share this quote on facebook Villager: Maria, she's drowned...She has been murdered.
Vogel: I'll see that justice is done. Who is it?

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