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The Ghost of Frankenstein Quotes

"NEW THRILLS as the Monster stalks again!"

1942 · 1h 8m
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The Monster Returns with New Thrills
Taglines NEW THRILLS as the Monster Stalks Again!
A New Brain for the Creature
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein Yes but not for the purposes that you think Ygor. I'm giving him strength so that an operation may be successful.
Ygor An operation?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein Yes. I'm giving him another brain. You must explain to him when he becomes conscious. *You* must make him understand.
Ygor Whose brain?
Doctor Bohmer Kettering?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein Yes, Kettering. A man of character and learning. The monster will cease to be an evil influence and become everything that is good.
Ygor No. No, no. You cannot take my friend away from me. He's all that I have. Nothing else. You're going to make him your friend and I'll be alone.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein It will be as I say or he must be destroyed.
Ygor He cannot be destroyed.
[laughs]
Doctor Bohmer There is one way. By dissection.
Ygor No not that. Doctor, Ygor's body is no good. His neck is broken, crippled, and distorted. Lame and sick from the bullets your brother fired into me. You can put my brain in his body.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein Your brain?
Ygor You can make us one. We'll be together always. My brain and his body. Together.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein You're a cunning fellow Ygor. Do you think I would put your sly and sinister brain into the body of a giant? That would be a monster indeed. You will do as I tell you or I will not be responsible for the consequences.
Embracing Heritage: Lightning and Legacy
Ygor The lightning. It is good for you! Your father was Frankenstein, but your mother was the lightning!
[after the monster is struck by lightning]
Identity Confusion in Frankenstein's Lab
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein Do you recognize me? Tell me... who am I?
The Monster You are Dr. Frankenstein.
[Ygor's voice]
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein And you are...? You are Dr. Kettering.
The Monster I am not Dr. Kettering. I am Ygor.
[Ygor's voice]
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein What have I done?
The Monster I am Ygor! I have the strength of a hundred men! I cannot die. I cannot be destroyed! I, Ygor, will live forever!
[Ygor's voice]
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein I've created a hundred times the monster that my father made... .Bohmer! This is your work!
The Monster Don't touch him, Frankenstein. He's my friend. I should kill you, Frankenstein. But after all... your father gave me life... and you gave me a brain.
[Ygor's voice]
The Village Faces the Curse of Frankenstein
Villager There's a curse upon this village, the curse of Frankenstein.
Crowd Aye.
Older Villager Aye, it is true. The whole countryside shuns the village. Our fields are barren, the inn is empty.
Village Mother of Hungry Children My little ones cry in their sleep. They are hungry. There is no bread.
Older Villager It's the curse, the curse of Frankenstein.
Burgomaster This is nonsense, folks. You talk as though these were the Dark Ages. You know as well as I do that the monster died in the sulfur pit under Frankenstein's tower. And that Ygor, his familiar, was riddled with bullets from the gun of Baron Frankenstein himself.
Older Villager But Ygor does not die that easily. They hanged him and broke his neck, but he lives.
Villager Haven't I seen him, sitting beside the hardened sulphur pit, playing his weird horn as if to lure the monster back from death to do his evil bidding?
Burgomaster You talk like frightened children.
Villager Well, if something isn't done, there'll be a new mayor after the fall election.
Crowd Aye.
Burgomaster Well, what do you want me to do?
Villager Destroy the castle! Wipe the last traces of these accursed Frankensteins from our land.
Councillor The people are right, Your Honor.
Councillor I agree, Your Honor.
Burgomaster I don't believe that these dead wretches can affect the prosperity of this village. But do as you will with the castle. It's yours.
Villager We'll blow it up!
Confrontation Over the Monster's Fate
Ygor How does it feel to face a man you thought your brother killed, doctor?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein What do you want?
Ygor The monster is with me. He's the one in the police station, but he won't be there for long. You will bring him here.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein The law must take its course.
Ygor Law! What can the law do to him?
The Burden of a Dark Legacy
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein Ever since the day my father put life into that creature, it has been a curse. The terrible consequences of his creation killed my father, drove my brother into exile. The monster shall not ruin my life. I'm happy here. I have a lovely daughter, friends. They know nothing of all this.
Ygor You wouldn't like to spoil that, doctor. Would you? You wouldn't want me to tell them that you're the son of the Frankenstein that created him, that your brother made the thing live after it had been dead for years. Do you want me to tell them, Frankenstein?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein No! No.
Ygor All right. Then you'll make the police to hand him over to you.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein Yes. I could do that.
Ygor And you will do it, Frankenstein.
New Terrifying Adventures Await You
Taglines You've waited years for these NEW Terrifying adventures, more Thrilling than ever before!
Restoring the Frankenstein Legacy
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein I have replaced an evil brain with a good one. I have made amends for the great tragedies my father and my brother unintentionally brought to this community. I have restored the good name of Frankenstein.
A Choice Between Death and Life
Ygor Better death... than a life like this.
Identity and Recognition in Unfamiliar Encounters
Chief Constable He seems to recognize you Doctor.
[the Monster recognizes Ludwig]
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein I never saw this... man before in my life. I know nothing about him.
The Monster's Struggle for Sight and Power
The Monster Bohmer. Bohmer. I can't see! Bohmer! Where are you?
[with Ygor's voice]
Doctor Bohmer Here. Here, I am.
The Monster I... can't see you.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein Your dream of power is over, Bohmer. You didn't realize his blood is the same type as Kettering's, but not the same as Ygor's. It will not feed the sensory nerves.
The Monster Bohmer! You played me a trick! What good is a brain without eyes to see? What good is a brain without eyes?
Debate on Creation and Destruction in Science
Ghost of Henry Frankenstein My son! What are you about to do? Would you destroy that which I, your father, dedicated his life to creating?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein I must. The monster you created is in itself destruction.
Ghost of Henry Frankenstein Nevertheless, I was near to solving a problem that has baffled man since the beginning of time, the secret of life artificially created.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein But it has brought death to everything that it's touched.
Ghost of Henry Frankenstein That is because unknowingly I gave it a criminal brain. With your knowledge of science, you can cure that.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein It's beyond my cure. It's a malignant brain.
Ghost of Henry Frankenstein What if it had another brain?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein Another brain!