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Son of Frankenstein (1939) More at IMDbPro »

Inspector Krogh: One doesn't easily forget, Herr Baron, an arm torn out by the roots.
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Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: It appears that my father thought that he could extract from lightning some super-violet ray of life-giving properties.
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Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: My son, herein lies my faiths, my beliefs and my unfoldments. A complete diary of my experiments, charts and secret formulas. In short, the sum total of my knowledge, such as it is. Perhaps you will regard my work with ridicule or even with a distaste. If so, destroy these records. But if you like me burn with the irresistable desire to penetrate the unknown, carry on. The path is cruel and torturous, carry on. I put secret after truth, you will be hated, blasphemed and condemned. You have inherited the fortune of the Frankensteins, I trust you will not inherit their fate.
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Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: I should turn you over to Inspector Krogh!
Ygor: No! Krogh no want dead man, Ygor is dead!
Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: What are you talking about?
Ygor: They hanged me once, Frankenstein... they broke my neck.
Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: Hanged you... well, why did they hang you?
Ygor: Because I stole bodies... they said...
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Ygor: [after faking a coughing fit and pointing to his broken neck] I'm sorry. I cough. You see, bone get stuck in throat!
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Elsa von Frankenstein: What a dreadful storm and awful lightening.
Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: It's magnificent. Nothing in nature is terrifying when one understands it. Darling, my father drew that very lightening from heaven and forced it for his own will to bring life to a being he created with his own hands. Why should we fear anything?
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Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: That's enough Benson. Left ventricle. And look here Benson, look at this. Do you know what those are?
Benson: No, Sir.
Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: Bullets. Crude bullets in his heart but he still lives.
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Peter von Frankenstein: Here we are.
Elsa von Frankenstein: Peter! Peter! Peter! Peter! Open the door!
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Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: And what did the giant look like?
Peter von Frankenstein: [stiffens his arms and legs as he walks] Well, he was a great big man, with a hairy coat, and he walked like this...
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