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- Doctor Pretorius: Everything is now ready for you and me to begin our supreme collaboration!
- Henry Frankenstein: No, no. Don't tell me of it. I don't want to hear! I've changed my mind. I won't do it!
- Doctor Pretorius: I expected this! I thought we might need another assistant. Perhaps he can persuade you.
- Henry Frankenstein: Nothing can persuade me!
- Doctor Pretorius: We shall see!
- [the Monster is revealed]
- Henry Frankenstein: No! Not that!
- Doctor Pretorius: Oh, he's quite harmless... except when crossed!
- The Monster: [speaking to Frankenstein and Elizabeth] Go, you live.
- [turning to Doctor Pretorius]
- The Monster: You stay, we belong dead.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.
- The Monster: Friend? Friend?
- The Monster's Mate: Awwwwwwww!
- Doctor Pretorius: Stand back! Stand back!
- The Monster's Mate: Awwwwwwww!
- The Monster: She *hate* me, like others.
- Doctor Pretorius: Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, no nonsense about angels and being good.
- Henry Frankenstein: [to Elizabeth] This is Professor Pretorius. He used to be Doctor of Philosophy at the university but, uh...
- Doctor Pretorius: But was booted out - booted, my dear Baron, is the word - for knowing too much.
- Doctor Pretorius: Do you know who Henry Frankenstein is, and who you are?
- The Monster: Yes, I know. Made me from dead. I love dead... hate living.
- Doctor Pretorius: You are wise in your generation. We must have a long talk, and then I have an important call to make.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An audience needs something stronger than a pretty little love story. So, why shouldn't I write of monsters?
- The Monster: You - make man - like me?
- Doctor Pretorius: No. Woman! Friend for you.
- The Monster: Woman? Friend! Yes!
- Doctor Pretorius: Follow the lead of nature - or of God, if you like your Bible stories. Male *and* female created to them. Be fruitful and multiply. Create a race. A man-made race upon the face of the earth. Why not?
- Karl: [looking at the female skeleton exhumed to create the Bride] Pretty little thing, in her way, wasn't she?
- Doctor Pretorius: I hope her bones are firm.
- The Monster: Smoke? Friend?
- Doctor Pretorius: Yes, I hope so. Have a cigar - they're my only weakness!
- The Monster: Good! Good!
- Villager: He isn't human. Frankenstein made him out of dead bodies.
- Doctor Pretorius: Everything is now ready for you and me to begin our supreme collaboration!
- Henry Frankenstein: No, no. Don't tell me of it. I don't want to hear! I've changed my mind. I won't do it!
- Doctor Pretorius: I expected this! I thought we might need another assistant. Perhaps he can persuade you.
- Henry Frankenstein: Nothing can persuade me!
- Doctor Pretorius: We shall see!
- [the Monster is revealed]
- Henry Frankenstein: No! Not that!
- Doctor Pretorius: Oh, he's quite harmless... except when crossed!
- Henry Frankenstein: It may be that I'm intended to know the secret of life. It may be part of the divine plan.
- Elizabeth: No, no! It's the devil that prompts you. It's death, not life, that is in it all and at the end of it all.
- Hermit: And now, for our lesson. Remember, this is bread. Bread!
- The Monster: Bread.
- Hermit: And this is wine - to drink.
- The Monster: Drink!
- Hermit: Drink!
- The Monster: Good! Good!
- Hermit: We are friends - you and I. Friends.
- The Monster: Friends!
- Hermit: Good!
- The Monster: Good.
- Hermit: And now, for a smoke!
- [lights a match]
- The Monster: No! No!
- Hermit: No. No. This is good. Smoke! You try.
- The Monster: Smoke?
- [puffs the cigar]
- The Monster: Good! Good!
- Hermit: And this is fire.
- The Monster: Arrrrrrr!
- Hermit: No! No. Fire is good!
- The Monster: Fire - no good. No!
- Hermit: There is good. And there is bad.
- The Monster: Good. Bad.
- Karl: [reading a tombstone] Died 1899. Madelina Ernestine, beloved daughter of...
- Doctor Pretorius: Oh, never mind that! How old was she?
- Karl: Age 19 years 3 months.
- Doctor Pretorius: Oh, that's the one!
- Minnie: Nobody'd believe me! All right. I wash me hands of it. They can all be murdered in their beds.
- Henry Frankenstein: [after seeing Pretorius' creations] But this isn't science. It's more like black magic.
- Doctor Pretorius: You think I'm mad. Perhaps I am. But listen, Henry Frankenstein. While you were digging in your graves, piecing together dead tissues, I, my dear pupil, went for my material to the source of life. I grew my creatures, like cultures, grew them as nature does, from seed.
- Lord Byron: Well, whatever your purpose may have been, my dear, I take great relish in savoring each separate horror. I roll them over on my tongue.
- Hans' Wife: Come back Hans! You will be burned yourself. Maria drowned to death and you burned up, what should I do then? Awwwww!
- Henry Frankenstein: Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world - the secret that God is so jealous of: the formula for life. Think of the power - to create a man - and I did. I did it! I created a man - and who knows, in time, I could have trained him to do my will. I could have built a race. I might even have found the secret of eternal life!
- Minnie: Doctor Pretorius? Pretorius? - - Wha-wha-what, what was the name?
- Doctor Pretorius: Doctor Pretorius.
- Doctor Pretorius: Our mad dream is only half realized. Alone, you have created the man. Now, together, we will create - his mate.
- Henry Frankenstein: You mean?
- Doctor Pretorius: Yes, a woman. That should be *really* interesting.
- Minnie: It's Doctor Pretorius. He says he wants to see the Master. Most insistent!
- Henry Frankenstein: Pretorius?
- Minnie: He's a very queer looking old gentleman, sir. I must see you on a secret, grave matter, he said. Tonight. Alone.
- Henry Frankenstein: Bring him in.
- Elizabeth: Henry, who is this man?
- Minnie: Doctor Pretorius.
- Henry Frankenstein: When can I see it?
- Doctor Pretorius: I thought you might change your mind. Why not tonight? It is not very late.
- Henry Frankenstein: Is it far?
- Doctor Pretorius: No, but you will need a coat.
- Doctor Pretorius: My experiments did not turn out quite like yours, Henry. But science, like love, has her little surprises. As you shall see.
- Hermit: [to The Monster] We shall be friends. I have prayed many times for God to send me a friend. Its very lonely here and its been a long time since any human being came into this hut. I shall look after you and you will comfort me. And now you must lie down and go to sleep. Yes. Yes. Now, you must sleep.
- Doctor Pretorius: Isn't it amazing, Henry? Lying here, within this skull, is an artificially developed human brain. Each cell, each convolution - ready. Waits for life to come.