Sir Cedric Hardwicke also plays the "ghost" of His Father in the scene where Frankenstein decides to reinvigorate the Monster. Hardwicke's mellow baritone sounded nothing at all like the clipped, nervous speech of Colin Clive, who played the original Frankenstein, but Clive had passed away in 1937, the result of poor health exacerbated by acute alcoholism.
The Mob :
There's a curse upon
This Village...
The Curse of Frankenstein.
Aye.
Aye, it is True.
The whole countryside
shuns The Village.
Our fields are barren,
the inn is empty.
Wailing Woman :
My little ones cry in their sleep.
They are hungry. There is no bread.
It's The Curse, The Curse of Frankenstein.
The Mayor of Frankenstein :
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 sulphur pit under
Frankenstein's tower...
and that Ygor, his familiar
was riddled with bullets
from the gun of Baron
Frankenstein himself.
The Mob :
But Ygor does not die that easily.
They hanged him and
broke his neck,
but he lives.
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?
The Mayor of Frankenstein :
You talk like frightened children.
Elder # 1 :
Well, if something isn't done,
there'll be a new mayor
after the fall election.
The Mob :
Aye!
The Mayor of Frankenstein :
What do you want me to do?
The Mob :
Destroy The Castle —
Wipe the last traces of these
accursed Frankensteins
from Our Land.
Elder # 1 :
The People are right,
Your Honour.
Elder # 2 :
I agree, Your Honour.
The Mayor of Frankenstein :
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.
The Mob :
We'll blow it up!
*****
Frankenstein :
Ever since I can remember,
I have dreaded this moment.
For years I felt secure, certain that
The Monster had been destroyed.
I tried to keep all knowledge of it from you.
And until last night, I succeeded.
Elsa Frankenstein,
The Princess :
I had to know.
Yesterday, when I saw Ygor...
I felt that something had come out
of The Past to threaten our Happiness.
Please don't let it spoil our lives.
Father, promise me.
Frankenstein :
I promise you, Elsa.
I'll find a way.
I must find a way.
*****
Frankenstein :
Dr. Bohmer, I need your aid.
This Monster must be destroyed.
Dr. Bohmer :
Destroyed? But how?
He's not subject to the ordinary laws of Life.
Frankenstein :
There is a way.
He was made limb by limb, organ by organ.
He must be unmade in the same way.
Dr. Bohmer :
Dissection?
Frankenstein :
Bit by bit, piece by piece...
just as My Father created it.
Dr. Bohmer :
But this thing Lives --
It would be Murder.
Frankenstein :
How can you call the removal
of a thing that is not Human, 'Murder'?
Dr. Bohmer :
I regret, Doctor...
I cannot be part of your plan.
Frankenstein :
Then I must do it alone.
While it lives, no one is safe.
*****
Frankenstein's Ghost :
My Son - What are you about to do?
Would You Destroy...
that which I, Your Father,
dedicated his life to creating?
Frankenstein :
I must. The Monster you created
is in itself destruction.
Frankenstein's Ghost :
Nevertheless, I was near to solving a problem
that has baffled Man since The Beginning of Time...
the secret of life, artificially created.
Frankenstein :
But it has brought Death
to everything that it's touched.
Frankenstein's Ghost :
That is because, unknowingly...
I gave it a criminal brain.
With your knowledge of Science,
You can cure that.
Frankenstein :
It's beyond My Cure.
It's a malignant brain.
Frankenstein's Ghost :
What if it had another brain?
Frankenstein :
Another brain!
*****
Frankenstein :
Bohmer! Dr. Bohmer!
Dr. Bohmer :
What is it, Doctor?
You've changed Your Mind?
Frankenstein :
Yes. Attach the high-frequency
leads to the terminal electrodes.
Dr. Bohmer :
Yes, sir.
Ygor, The Bad Shepherd :
Frankenstein!
Frankenstein :
Come in, Ygor.
I may need your assistance.
Ygor, The Bad Shepherd :
You have agreed.
You are going to Help Him, Doctor?
You are giving him Life.
Frankenstein :
Yes, but not for The Purpose
that you think, Ygor.
I'm giving him strength so that
an operation may be successful.
Ygor, The Bad Shepherd :
An operation?
Frankenstein :
Yes, I'm giving him another brain.
You must explain to him
when he becomes conscious.
You must make him understand.
Ygor, The Bad Shepherd :
Whose brain?
Kettering?
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, The Bad Shepherd :
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 will be alone.
Frankenstein :
It will be as I say,
or he must be destroyed.
Ygor, The Bad Shepherd :
He cannot be destroyed.
Frankenstein :
There is one way - by dissection.
Ygor, The Bad Shepherd :
No. Not that. Doctor.
Ygor's Body's 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.
Frankenstein :
Your brain?
Ygor, The Bad Shepherd :
You can make us One.
We'll be together always...
my brain and his body... Together.
Frankenstein :
You're a cunning fellow, Ygor.
Do you think that I'd put
your sly and sinister brain
into the body of A Giant?
That would be A Monster indeed.
Ygor, The Bad Shepherd :
You'll do as I tell you,
or I'll not be responsible for the consequences.
Dr. Bohmer :
Ironic, isn't it, Doctor?
Yes, The Monster's Victim shall inherit His Body.
And Everlasting Life.
Frankenstein :
Build up the voltage potential to its maximum.
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