00:15We now present George Edwards in Frankenstein.
00:26We now present George Edwards in Frankenstein.
00:49We intend to leave the ship immediately.
00:59Madam Frankenstein, I cannot allow you to go ashore.
01:02This is no affair of yours, Captain Walton.
01:04You dare not keep me here against my will?
01:07Besides which, your crew do not desire to have me aboard the vessel.
01:10The crew will obey my orders.
01:12I have a duty to do.
01:14I cannot send a man to certain death.
01:16Captain Walton, I appreciate your feelings.
01:19And I thank you for your friendship and for all that you have done for me.
01:23Do you not realize that life for me is over?
01:27I created a monster, and that monster has gradually destroyed me.
01:32Torn down the structure which surrounded me, killed my friends, my loved ones, made me an outcast.
01:39I live only for one thing, to witness the death of the monster.
01:44If you take me back to civilization against my will, you will be condemning me to torture, knowing that all
01:51men hate and despise me because of the crime which I committed.
01:54I am already destroyed, although there is life in my body.
01:59And that life cannot be extinguished.
02:02It must not be extinguished until my creation has been destroyed.
02:07Now, I beg of you, let me go.
02:09We shall not meet again.
02:11Very well, Baron Frankenstein.
02:13The choice is yours.
02:15You may leave this ship.
02:16There is still ice for you to walk across.
02:19I will have a rope led alone at once, but I shall always feel it on my conscience that I
02:24deserve it, left you here to perish in the white waste of the Lord.
02:29For me, death will be a merciful release.
02:33So go, Captain, that when you return to England, you may publish the notes in your journal, so that all
02:40may know that it is folly, that it is a grave sin to usurp the rights of God.
02:47I have suffered as men have seldom suffered.
02:51And when the monster dies, then shall I make atonement.
02:56To the members of your crew, I also say farewell.
03:02I am glad that none of them have suffered because of my misdeeds.
03:07Now I must...
03:11He's collapsed.
03:12I knew he had not the strength.
03:14I knew he should not have come on deck.
03:16What shall we do, Captain Walton?
03:17We cannot put him ashore in his present state, and yet we cannot remain here.
03:21The vessel must go on.
03:23I hardly know what to do.
03:24Oh, I think Aaron Frankenstein is trying to speak.
03:28I am to be cheated of my vengeance.
03:30I know it.
03:32I feel for the first time the icy clutch of death.
03:36Come close to me, Captain Walton, and hear what I say.
03:41What is it, Baron Frankenstein?
03:43Should you see the monster again, bid your men to fire and shoot to kill?
03:49I promise you I will do that.
03:52But we may never see the monster again.
03:54I must not die leaving him alive, leaving him to wander the earth.
04:00It is not fair.
04:02Oh, this is indeed my greatest punishment.
04:05But you may not die.
04:07Let me give orders that you are carried down to the cavern.
04:10There we will seek to revive you.
04:12Oh, it is too late for that.
04:15Even now all grows dim.
04:17Oh, God, forgive me for the great sin which was mine.
04:23Let no others be punished because of my folly and my pride.
04:28I have suffered because of my ambition, and I have paid the penalty.
04:36I go now to join my beloved Elizabeth, my friends, and I beg thy forgiveness.
04:44Oh, Lord, that which I have created has destroyed me.
04:52Now I go to my creator, hoping for his abundant mercy.
04:58Is there anything we can do for you, Baron Frankenstein?
05:01Nothing, Captain Walton, save to keep a close watch for the monster.
05:06Oh, Elizabeth, I commend my soul to God, and I beg that you consign my body to the dark black
05:14waters.
05:15That is the only favor I ask.
05:19Ah, I am coming, Elizabeth.
05:22All these long and weary months have passed, and soon we shall meet again.
05:31Oh, Elizabeth, my loved one, I long to be with you.
05:37It is.
05:39It is.
05:42Uncover your heads, men.
05:45Baron Frankenstein has passed away.
05:48May God receive his soul.
05:51Will you carry out the mount, Mr. Captain?
05:53Is his body to be consigned?
05:56His body shall be consigned to the sea, and my journal shall tell of the horrors and the suffering which
06:01he underwent.
06:02Look, there, coming across the ice.
06:05The monster, be ready with your pistols, Ben.
06:08He approaches the ship.
06:09See how he leaps across the ice.
06:11I am afraid.
06:12Show no fear.
06:13We are ready to deal with him.
06:14He is seizing the rope ladder.
06:15Shall we fire?
06:16Wait.
06:16Do not fire until I give the order.
06:18He is coming aboard.
06:19Wait until I give the word to fire.
06:20My monster, my creator, what ails him?
06:27Let me speak to him.
06:30Now, monster, Baron Frankenstein is dead.
06:33Destroyed by your hatred and vice.
06:35Now you shall die.
06:37Fire, men.
06:42You would destroy me.
06:45The blood pours from my wounds.
06:48But I still have life.
06:51Let me look on the body of Frankenstein.
06:55Shall we fire again, Captain?
06:57No, wait.
06:58Frankenstein, you are dead.
07:02Victim of my hatred.
07:05Victim of your own selfishness.
07:08Oh, Frankenstein.
07:10I am filled with remorse.
07:13And yet soon I am to die.
07:16They have dealt me mortal wounds.
07:21Frankenstein, my creator, I mourn for you.
07:26You say you mourn for him?
07:28And yet you drove him to his death.
07:31Your diabolical vengeance destroyed your creator.
07:34Thank you that I do not deserve your sympathy.
07:38I swear that after the murder of Claval, I was heartbroken and overcome.
07:45I pitied Frankenstein and hated myself.
07:50But I discovered that he still sought for happiness.
07:54While I, his creature, could live on in misery and loneliness.
07:59Men have forced me to murder.
08:02Loneliness has made me bitter.
08:04And now he who gave me life is dead.
08:09I swear I was not born to hate.
08:12But men turned from me.
08:14And my creator would not aid me.
08:17He offered you death?
08:19Does any man seek death while he may yet find happiness in life?
08:24Frankenstein welcomed death.
08:26He sought only to live so that he might destroy you.
08:30There lies my creator.
08:33White and cold and dead.
08:37You hate me.
08:39All men hate me.
08:41But your hatred cannot equal that which I regard myself.
08:45I once thought the friendship of Frankenstein.
08:49Should there not be friendship between the creator and his creature?
08:54But because he is dead, so shall I die.
08:58Becoming not to fire on me again.
09:01You can see that I am mortally wounded.
09:05Tell me, what was Frankenstein's last wish?
09:09His last wish was that his remains should be confined to the sea.
09:13His last wish shall be carried out.
09:16And I shall carry it out.
09:18Look you over the side of the vessel.
09:21See you not that deep black pool of water?
09:24That shall be the grave of Frankenstein and his creature.
09:28With my last remaining strength.
09:33I raise his body in my arms.
09:36And creator and creature will lie in cold death together.
09:40Beneath the dark, unfriendly ocean.
09:42He is making the body, Captain.
09:44Shall we shoot him?
09:45No, he is soon to die.
09:47Let us watch.
09:48I am about to leave this world.
09:50And you are the last of humankind who will ever behold me.
09:56Even now you shrink from me with horror and loathing.
09:59And he who am I hold in my arms gave me this hideous form.
10:05Condemned me to a life of loneliness.
10:07Yet he was my creator.
10:09And instead of loving his creature, he hated him, sought to destroy him.
10:13So I sought vengeance on all men.
10:16I turned against him who had given me life.
10:20Let every man learn of this story.
10:24Tell them the truth.
10:26Tell them that the hideous diabolical monster from which whom all men turn had feelings just as other creatures.
10:33And by those feelings, so was he forced to wickedness and crime.
10:40Frankenstein, my master, that which you created is now to be destroyed.
10:47With faltering strength, I carry you to your last cold, unfriendly, resting place.
10:57Did I kill him, Captain Walton?
10:59No.
11:00He goes to his death of his own free will.
11:03And now, in some strange way, I feel sorry for this monster.
11:07He has excited my pity.
11:10I will not live.
11:12But Frankenstein goes with me where I go.
11:17I let him across the world.
11:19The creator following his creature.
11:22Still I am suffering.
11:23Still I know remorse because Frankenstein is dead.
11:27But I know the suffering which I feel now will soon be ended.
11:32Watch and rest assured that I died.
11:36Come, Frankenstein.
11:37I hold your cold body fast.
11:40As I destroyed you, thus will I destroy myself.
11:45Nevermore will man learn the secret of how to create man.
11:50Farewell, all mankind.
11:52Frankenstein and his creature now vanish forever from mortal ken.
11:58I have barely the strength to climb over the rail, bearing my burden.
12:03But I must die.
12:04We go now, Frankenstein, to know only peace and blissful freedom from suffering.
12:11Look on us, Captain.
12:12Let your men look on us.
12:14No one shall ever behold us.
12:16I go now with my tree rickers.
12:19Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
