00:15We now present George Edwards in Frankenstein.
00:27The good ship Voyager was held fast in the northern ice bank.
00:31The captain and crew were astonished when a stranger came staggering across the ice and asked for shelter.
00:37This stranger was Baron Victor Frankenstein.
00:41He was placed in the captain's cabin, and then he commenced to tell his story.
00:46Shortly afterwards, however, a ghastly laugh was heard outside the cabin door.
00:52Frankenstein weakly attempted to get out of bed, but the captain pushed him back and called to the first officer
00:57to come to his aid.
01:06Captain Walton, you are condemning your first officer to death.
01:11A monster is out there, a blood-clased, conscienceless beast.
01:15Oh, let me go.
01:16You are weak and ill.
01:17You can do nothing better than Frankenstein.
01:19Captain, what happened?
01:20Did you bring your pistol?
01:21Yes, I'm going to take you.
01:22I came down the companionway.
01:23Is there anyone out there now?
01:24No one, sir.
01:25Very well.
01:26I shall unlock the door.
01:29Now come in.
01:30What did you see?
01:32Tell us what happened.
01:33I heard the captain calling, and I dashed down the companionway.
01:36Then out of the darkness, a huge figure seemed to leap at me.
01:40I was not beside.
01:41When I arose, there was no sign of anyone.
01:44I dashed up on dick again.
01:46There was no one there.
01:48The man on watch reports, but he saw nothing.
01:52The monster was here.
01:54You are lucky to be alive.
01:57I believe your story now, Brother Frankenstein.
02:00I created that monster, and I must live until I kill him.
02:06That is my sole task on this earth.
02:09What I created, so I will destroy.
02:12What do you mean?
02:13It is a strange story, Mr. Boyce.
02:16The Baron Frankenstein is too exhausted to talk anymore tonight.
02:20The prey remain in the bunk bed.
02:22I must try to get to sleep.
02:25I must recover my strength.
02:27I must have strength enough to kill the monster.
02:30You shall have every care and attention here.
02:33I will place a man on guard outside your door.
02:36I do not think the monster will return tonight.
02:39The storm has become worse.
02:41The blizzard is raging now.
02:43It will be difficult for anyone to live out there.
02:46Let us trust that this monster perishes in the storm.
02:50I am to be called if any sign is seen of him.
02:53In the meantime, let me sleep.
02:56Then on tomorrow, if I feel refreshed, I will tell all my story.
03:00Captain Vulcan.
03:01Very well, Baron Frankenstein.
03:04Mr. Boyce, you will go up on deck now.
03:06And you will arrange for two men to stand guard outside this door.
03:10I will share your cabin with you tonight.
03:12Aye, aye, sir.
03:13I bid you good night, Baron Frankenstein.
03:16We will meet on tomorrow.
03:32The surgeon tells me that you seem much better today, Baron Frankenstein.
03:36Yes, Captain.
03:37I feel much better.
03:38Was there any sign of the monster during the night?
03:42Nothing was seen.
03:43Please be seated.
03:45I know that you are interested in my story and you are puzzled by these strange happenings.
03:50I am extremely puzzled.
03:52Well, I told you that after I left the university, my father built a laboratory near our house.
03:58Each day, I used to spend hours in this laboratory working with my servant, Julio.
04:05Day after day, I read and studied so that my great experiment would be a success.
04:11Sometimes by night, Julio and I would visit graveyards to exhumed freshly buried bodies.
04:17I was going to make a man, and the creature of my making was to be beautiful.
04:23I slaved and labored, neglecting my family and my friends, neglecting my fiancée, Elisabeth.
04:31It so happened that at that time, my greatest friend, Ernst Claval, came to stay at our home.
04:39He had been at the university with me, and he had a vague inkling as to the nature of my
04:44experiment.
04:46However, I had become sullen and morose.
04:49Yes, I shunned my friend, and as my experiment neared completion, well, I became possessed by a strange, tense excitement.
05:01Imagine me in my laboratory late one afternoon, Captain Walton.
05:07I glanced out of the window and saw that the sky was dark and overcast.
05:13My servant, Julio, stood by my side.
05:16Now and again, he would glance over at the great bench on which lay a huge, inanimate figure, swathed around
05:25with yards of bandages.
05:27I walked over to where the figure lay.
05:30Julio followed me.
05:34Julio, I have news for you.
05:37I think that tonight we'll see the end of our work.
05:40Do you mean that the figure will come to life tonight, my master?
05:45I hope so.
05:46If the threatened thunderstorm takes place, there will be sufficient electricity to bring light to this inanimate mass.
05:53Look at it, Julio.
05:54At present, it is a lifeless mass shaped in the form of a man.
05:58For months, we have worked over it.
06:01Tonight, if the storm breaks, we shall raise this figure to the top of the tower in the laboratory,
06:07and there it will stay for one hour while the thunder crashes and the lightning flashes.
06:14Then we shall lower the body onto this bench once again.
06:17The wrappings will be taken off and who knows?
06:19I may have created a man.
06:22Think of it, Julio.
06:24My work will be rewarded.
06:26I am afraid, master.
06:28We should not do this.
06:30Fool, why are you afraid?
06:32I am about to make a name for myself.
06:34I will be the greatest man in the world because I have created another in my own likeness.
06:41Throughout the centuries, men have tried to do this, but I will succeed.
06:44I know it.
06:45You may not be meant to succeed.
06:49Who is there?
06:50It is clever here.
06:51May I come in, Victor?
06:53Yes.
06:54All right, Julio.
06:55Unlock it all.
06:58Oh, thank you.
06:59I wondered if I might watch you at work.
07:02Ernst, the time is right now for you to share my secrets.
07:06My experiments are almost at an end.
07:09I suspect the nature of your experiments, Victor,
07:12and I almost dread to ask if my suspicions are correct.
07:16Look on this bench.
07:20Tell me what you see, Ernst.
07:23Oh.
07:24A huge, inanimate figure swarged around with bandages.
07:29My creation.
07:30Tonight, this figure shall have life.
07:33Victor, you must not do it.
07:36Man is not meant to do that for you.
07:39I like Julio.
07:40He is also afraid.
07:42I want to speak with you privately.
07:44May Julio be gone.
07:45Well, you may go, Julio, but be here tonight at seven o'clock.
07:49We shall wait for the storm to break.
07:52The clouds are banking up now.
07:55I will obey you, my master.
08:01Victor, your life is bound up in this strange experiment,
08:05which I do not think for one moment will succeed.
08:09But might I point out that you are in love with a very beautiful and charming girl?
08:13You are neglecting her, and she feels this neglect keenly.
08:17Claval, my friend, I know that I have been neglecting Elizabeth,
08:21but she will be proud of me, proud to marry me.
08:23I will be hailed as the greatest scientist the world has ever known.
08:27I beg of you to desist in this experiment.
08:29Do not try to bring life to this body tonight.
08:32Destroy what you have already done.
08:35Then marry Elizabeth and go away somewhere for a long holiday.
08:39You do not look well, my friend.
08:41I have been working too hard.
08:44But you ask too much of me, Ernst.
08:46I cannot give up my life's work.
08:48Do you love your work more than you do, Elizabeth?
08:51I love Elizabeth very dearly.
08:54But I must do something with my life.
08:57I have always wanted to be a great scientist.
08:59My discovery will revolutionize the world.
09:01It will be possible to make men.
09:04Do you not understand?
09:05It is not possible.
09:07Experiments like this are not meant to succeed.
09:10You are usurping the right of God.
09:12You are my best friend.
09:14You cannot seriously ask me to give up this work.
09:16I am going to ask you to be here in this laboratory with me tonight
09:19to watch as I unbind the bandages from this figure
09:23and to know that my experiment has succeeded.
09:26Very well, Victor.
09:28Since you insist.
09:29But I do think you should take Elizabeth into your confidence.
09:33Let her come here tonight.
09:34Oh, she will be afraid.
09:36We will all be afraid.
09:37But without wishing to dampen your ardor,
09:40let me assure you that I do not think this experiment will succeed.
09:43We shall see.
09:45Well, come with me now.
09:46Speak to Elizabeth.
09:47Tell her that you have been neglecting her
09:49and ask her to be present tonight.
09:51I will do that.
09:52We will go and seek out Elizabeth now.
09:54Well, Captain, I sought out my fiancée.
09:58I told her the truth.
09:59At first she was horrified,
10:01but gradually she became interested
10:03and she consented to be present in the laboratory that night.
10:07After dinner, the storm developed rapidly.
10:09The thunder roared and there were great streaks of woke lightning.
10:13Together, Elizabeth, Ernst, and myself went to the laboratory.
10:16There we found Julio awaiting us
10:18and I led the way to the bench on which lay the inanimate figure
10:22when we reached the bench.
10:25Well, my friends, I feel that you are about to witness
10:27one of the most extraordinary things in the annals of the world's history.
10:31Before you, you see a great inanimate figure
10:34entirely covered in bandages.
10:36By means of police,
10:38Julio and I will raise that figure to the top of the tower
10:41where it will remain for an hour.
10:43Then we will lower it and I think the figure will have life.
10:46No, you cannot do it, Victor.
10:48You must not.
10:49I am afraid.
10:50Elizabeth, you said you had confidence in me.
10:53Will you promise me this, Victor?
10:55If the experiment is a failure,
10:57will you marry me and let us go away together?
10:59Never attempt to do this again.
11:02It is madness.
11:03I promise that if the experiment is a failure,
11:05I will discontinue all attempts.
11:07Now, does that satisfy you, Elizabeth?
11:08It does.
11:09Oh, do not worry, Elizabeth.
11:10I feel sure that this experiment cannot succeed.
11:13You hope it does not succeed, Ernst,
11:14but we shall see.
11:16The storm is at its height now.
11:18Come, Julio.
11:19Help me to place the body on the lift.
11:21Now, careful.
11:23Roll it over.
11:25Victor, I beg of you, do not do it.
11:27Quiet, please.
11:28Now, Julio.
11:29Pull the ropes and I will assist you.
11:32Watch.
11:33Here.
11:34See, my friend.
11:36The body is going up to the tower.
11:38There it will be exposed to the full fury of the storm.
11:41Watch.
11:42The laughing frightens me.
11:44But this is a dreadful storm.
11:46The body is in place now.
11:48It will remain there for an hour.
11:49We must be patient.
11:51We will wait here.
11:52And in an hour's time, I will lower the body,
11:55unwrap the bandages, and perhaps I will have...
11:59Please proceed, Baron Frankenstein.
12:02Tell me what happened.
12:03I can tell you no more today, Captain.
12:05I am weary now.
12:07And the memory of the past...
12:09Please be patient.
12:11I will be patient.
12:12I will leave you to rest now.
12:14But I will return later, anxious to hear the remainder of your story.
12:18I will return later.
