00:15We now present George Edwards in Frankenstein.
00:19We now present George Edwards in Frankenstein.
00:54Do you feel able to tell me any more of your story now, Baron Frankenstein?
00:59Somewhere out in those white wastes, there is something which must be destroyed.
01:03The thought of it is driving me mad.
01:06If only I could regain my strength.
01:08If only I could continue my quest.
01:11Please do not distress yourself.
01:13The surgeon tells me that you are making an excellent recovery.
01:17I want to hear about your great experiment.
01:20Well, I told you how my fiancée, Elizabeth, and my friend, Ernst Claval, and myself
01:25waited in the laboratory during the violent thunderstorm,
01:29while up above us, exposed to the full fury of the storm,
01:33lay the lifeless body which I had made.
01:36For a full hour, we watched, and everyone seemed to be agitated.
01:42My servant, Julio, clutched in a corner, and they were and anon cast fearful glances up above.
01:49At last, the hour passed, and I motioned to Julio to move over towards the pulley.
01:56Ernst and Elizabeth followed me, and I said,
01:59Come, Julio, the body has been there for a full hour now.
02:03It is time to lower it.
02:06My hands are trembling with excitement,
02:09for soon I shall know whether I have created a man.
02:12Stop.
02:13I make one more appeal to you, Victor.
02:16Do not proceed with that experiment.
02:18When you bring that body down,
02:20I beg you to destroy it.
02:23After experimenting on it for months and months?
02:26Oh, what you ask is too much.
02:28I also add my pleas to the Lord of Elizabeth.
02:31Well, I must turn it up here to you, please.
02:33Help me with this pulley, Julio.
02:35I will, my master, but I am afraid the devil stalks abroad tonight.
02:40Ah, that is nonsense.
02:41I am a scientist.
02:43I am conducting an experiment.
02:45Now lower it gently.
02:47The storm seems to have abated, Julio.
02:50I seldom remember a worse storm.
02:52The thunder is still pealing.
02:54It is a sitting night for devil's work.
02:57There.
02:58This is not devil's work, Ernst.
03:00It is an achievement in the field of science.
03:03Now, roll the body off the lift.
03:05Come on.
03:06Gently, Julio.
03:08Over here.
03:10I stand close.
03:12All of you.
03:13What are you going to do?
03:14I am going to unwrap the bandages.
03:16We'll start here.
03:17Nothing will happen.
03:19Nothing can happen.
03:21Oh, I feel that I must pray.
03:24Please.
03:25Please do not let this creature have life.
03:28We should all pray.
03:30It is not too late to stay.
03:32Your hands are in the track.
03:34I feel sure that I am on the verge of success.
03:37I am removing the bandages now.
03:45I am.
03:47Look.
03:48The storm is increasing again.
03:50It sounds almost as if the voice of the heavens is protesting.
03:55Look at the face.
03:57It is horrible.
03:59I did not mean the face to be like that.
04:02I thought it would be beautiful.
04:04The skin is all drawn tight.
04:07It is awful.
04:10Oh.
04:12This is ghastly.
04:15There is no sign of life.
04:19Great.
04:19I will remove the other bandages.
04:22They have never seen today.
04:25Idiot.
04:26Best you say.
04:27No creature like that could have life.
04:33Elizabeth.
04:35What ails you?
04:36The eyelids.
04:38I swear.
04:39I saw them flutter.
04:41Look closer.
04:43The eyelids did move.
04:45No, no.
04:45We must be dreaming.
04:48The eyes are open.
04:52The horrible creature is looking at us.
04:56No.
04:58It has closed its eyes again.
05:01Julio.
05:03Darken the room.
05:03The light is too strong.
05:04No, my master.
05:05Let me take this hammer.
05:07Let me destroy the creature.
05:08You heard my orders.
05:09Louis delights.
05:10I will obey.
05:11Look.
05:13It is raising one arm.
05:17It has life.
05:19My experiment has succeeded.
05:21I have created life.
05:23I am the greatest man the world has ever known.
05:26No other man has had such power.
05:29Victor, this is too horrible.
05:32Destroy it now.
05:34Destroy it now would be murder.
05:36Although this creature is terrible to look upon, it is a man.
05:40It has life.
05:41It has feelings just as you and I.
05:47Can it speak?
05:50Can it speak?
05:50Not yet.
05:51It must learn to speak.
05:52Just read it to me.
05:57That awful noise.
05:59What are you going to do?
06:00I was prepared for the success of this experiment.
06:04So there is a room all in readiness for my creation.
06:07Unlock the door of that room, Julio.
06:08I am afraid to destroy this creature.
06:11Come, come, Julio.
06:12You help me to create this man.
06:14It is not a man.
06:16It is a monster.
06:19It is moving.
06:21It is struggling into a sitting position.
06:24Have you unlocked the door of the room, Julio?
06:25I have, my master.
06:27Then help me.
06:28We will move the creature into its abode.
06:30We will lock it in there.
06:31It will be your charge until tomorrow, Julio.
06:34Remain here in the laboratory.
06:36Remain just outside the door.
06:37Do not enter the room yourself
06:39and do not let anyone else enter.
06:41I will obey.
06:42Oh, this is my creation.
06:43A man which I made with my own hands.
06:46The creature seems to be able to focus its eyes now.
06:49It is looking straight at me.
06:51Oh, it looks awful.
06:56I shall train it myself.
06:58Come, take the other arm, Ernst.
07:00Let us lift it to walk across the room.
07:03No.
07:03No, I cannot touch it.
07:05There is much I would do for you, Victor.
07:07But I cannot touch that monster.
07:09I feel that I am going mad.
07:11There is no need to be afraid.
07:13The creature is helpless.
07:15It can barely walk.
07:16You help me, Julio.
07:18Take the other arm.
07:19No.
07:19Do not make me touch it.
07:21Do as I say.
07:22Look, I have taken one arm.
07:24Now, help it off the bench.
07:31Take it across the room.
07:34Carefully.
07:36It can barely drag one leg after the other.
07:41I have never seen anything so horrible.
07:45I admit I am disappointed in the appearance of my creation.
07:48It seems that in gaining life, the skin has become stretched tight and the features have coursed.
07:54Still, the creature has life and that's the main thing.
07:56Now, we will place it in the room.
08:00Carefully, Julio.
08:01Now, help me.
08:04Help me.
08:05Get it on the bed.
08:07The bed is not big enough.
08:09The creature seems to have become taller and bigger.
08:12That is the extraordinary thing.
08:15Probably caused by the electricity.
08:20Leave it on the bed.
08:21Now, come outside.
08:22I will lock the door.
08:24You take the key and keep it, Julio.
08:27I am glad the door is locked.
08:30I feel safer now.
08:32I feel a strange and almost overpowering sense of triumph.
08:35In my wildest dream, I had not hoped for success.
08:39And I...
08:39Oh, Victor.
08:40He has fainted.
08:42No, no.
08:42I feel strangely weak.
08:44Help me to get out of here.
08:46Let me go to my room.
08:49Baron Frankenstein, your story seems extraordinary.
08:55What became of the dreadful monster which you created?
08:59I felt weak and ill that night.
09:01And Elizabeth and Ernst helped me to my room.
09:05There, I fell into a deep and troubled slumber.
09:08I awakened in the morning to find both Ernst and Elizabeth standing by the side of my bed.
09:13As soon as I sought them.
09:18Ernst, Elizabeth, what are you doing here?
09:21We were worried about you.
09:23Oh, I remember now.
09:25My great experiment was a success.
09:28I must go to the laboratory at once.
09:30Victor, I beg you to destroy that creature.
09:33Just as you gave it life.
09:35So you can take that life away.
09:38I know that you will never be happy while the creature lives.
09:41And I know that I can never be happy.
09:44For the sake of the love you bear me.
09:47For the sake of the happiness which we desire.
09:49I beg you to destroy the creature.
09:52Elizabeth is right, Victor.
09:54Victor, your experiment was not altogether a success.
09:57You hoped to make something beautiful.
09:59And the result has been a hideous monster.
10:02A monster which you cannot unleash upon the world.
10:05Or it will be forever upon your conscience.
10:08Perhaps you are right.
10:09I know we are right.
10:10Please, Victor.
10:11If you love me, you will do what I ask.
10:16Well, I will dress at once.
10:18And then I will go over to the laboratory.
10:21And make arrangements to do away with the monster.
10:24You shall come with me.
10:25I will not go.
10:27I will go with you, Victor.
10:28Good.
10:29Then if you wait for me downstairs, I will join you.
10:33It seems that you regretted your somewhat rash experiment, Baron Frankenstein.
10:38I did, Captain Walton.
10:40And I feel happier when I had made up my mind to destroy my creation.
10:45I dressed hastily and went downstairs.
10:47Where I found Ernst waiting for me.
10:50We walked across to the laboratory and entered the room.
10:52And then I called for you.
10:55Julio.
10:56Julio.
10:57It is strange that he does not answer.
10:59I ordered him not to leave here.
11:01Look.
11:02The door of the room where you put the creature.
11:04There is no door there.
11:06It is wrenched off its hinges.
11:07What could have happened?
11:08Look.
11:09There is the corner.
11:10What is it?
11:11Let me see.
11:12Why?
11:13It is the broken body of Julio.
11:15Oh, the broken body of Julio.
11:19Yes, look for yourself.
11:21Oh, this is horrible.
11:25Let me look in that room.
11:28Is there?
11:29Is there anyone there?
11:30The room is empty.
11:32I am too late.
11:33The monster has escaped.
11:34And in so doing, he has murdered my servant.
11:37I have unleashed a horror.
11:39The partner will.
11:41I can speak no more of the matter at present, Captain Morton.
11:44The memory of that horror is still too vivid.
11:48I beg of you.
11:49Let me rest.
11:50I will let you rest, Baron Frankenstein.
11:53I feel that I have not the right to sleep.
11:56I should not rest.
11:57But I must regain my strength.
12:00Try and sleep now.
12:01I will send the ship's surgeon to you.
12:03And tomorrow I will come and speak with you again.
12:07THE END
