00:16We now present George Edwards in Frankenstein.
00:28During his enforced stay on the good ship Voyager, Baron Frankenstein related his experiences
00:34to Captain Walton, who noted them in his journal.
00:38And it is owing to that journal that we are able to retell the strange experiences of
00:43Baron Victor Frankenstein.
00:45Each morning, Captain Walton used to visit Baron Frankenstein's cabin.
00:56Good morning to you, Captain Walton.
00:58Good morning, Baron Frankenstein.
01:00Did you look over the notes which I have made in my journal?
01:03I did.
01:04They form a very graphic and remarkable story.
01:07It is extraordinary to think I am reading my own story, and that story has not yet ended.
01:14Somewhere outside, the foul monster of my creation still wanders at large, waiting for me to be
01:21to wreak his evil vengeance on all who stand in his path.
01:25Did you create a mate for that monster?
01:27You may remember you were telling me that you and your friend Ernst Claval had arranged to
01:32journey to a lonely island in the Orkneys, there to attempt to create a female monster.
01:37That is true.
01:39And I lied to my wife.
01:41I told her that I was going to take a short trip for my health.
01:45Eventually, I reached the island in the Orkneys, and there Ernst Claval and I took up our residence
01:52in a large, comfortable cottage.
01:54I used one big room at the back to conduct my experiments.
01:59I studied night and day.
02:01I worked for months, and at last I molded a form which I hoped would someday have life,
02:08and would be the mate of the monster which I had created.
02:12One night, I sat working over this form, while Ernst sat by my side.
02:18He watched me at work.
02:22Victor, I do not know whether you are doing the right thing.
02:25I do not feel that you should create another monster.
02:29I have doubts myself, my friend.
02:31As my work nears completion, I am afraid.
02:35I think that I will unleash another killer, another frightful monster to bring havoc and
02:39misery into the lives of many people, and yet I must go on.
02:44You do not know that the original monster you created still will?
02:48He may have died by now.
02:49And if you continue with this work, you may have to destroy it.
02:53Sometimes I feel that the monster which I created will destroy me.
02:57Oh, you should not think of those things.
03:00Have you heard from Elizabeth Leckley?
03:02I received a letter from her yesterday.
03:04She begged me to return home and wonders why I am delaying so long.
03:08She must never know what I am doing.
03:11She will never forgive me.
03:13She will never learn.
03:14Come to bed now, Victor.
03:15You have worked long enough.
03:17You look tired a little.
03:18Ah, I am tired and ill, but I cannot leave my work at Pleasant.
03:24You go to bed and leave me here.
03:26Truth to tell, I am tired of this cold, windy, unspressed island.
03:30Will we be here much longer?
03:32Not very much longer.
03:33If I work through the night, it will merely be a matter of waiting for a thunderstorm.
03:38That might come tomorrow, and then my work will be complete.
03:41Then this lifeless body will have the divine spark, and I will have sinned again.
03:47Oh, think of it, Ernst.
03:49I should not do it.
03:50I know I should not do it, courage, my friend.
03:54It is not too late to destroy the body.
03:57Go, leave me.
03:58I must think, and I must work on and on, working for the monster which I created.
04:05You will be all right here?
04:07Of course.
04:07Why not?
04:08Oh, very well, my friend.
04:10I will bid you good night.
04:12A moment.
04:13What was that?
04:14Oh, the casement window so open.
04:16The force of the wind must have blown it open.
04:18Strange.
04:19It has never done but before.
04:21I shall close it before I go.
04:25Ah.
04:26That is better.
04:27Good night, Ernst.
04:28I will see you in the morning.
04:30Good night, Richard.
04:31Do not stay up too long.
04:37Alone through the devil's work that I have made my own, my thoughts drive me to a frenzy.
04:48If only I had never attempted to create the monster.
04:52If only I did not have to slave now at the orders of my own creation.
05:01What was that?
05:02I said that I would be watching over you, Frankenstein.
05:08I watched her.
05:09I have watched you these many days.
05:13I've traced you to this lonely island.
05:15And I am happy knowing that now you are obeying my orders.
05:20Knowing that soon I am to have a companion, a mate in my own likeness.
05:25Oh, why do you haunt me?
05:27Why have you followed me here?
05:29Are you not my creator?
05:31Have I not the right to follow you and watch you at your work?
05:35Anger me not, Frankenstein.
05:38I am living for the day when that lifeless form that lies before me shall have life.
05:45Then there will be one creature on this earth which will not regard me with shuddering, hatred, and loathing.
05:54You look more hideous than ever.
05:57And when I think that I created you, I am filled with horror and remorse.
06:02I cannot make another in your likeness because of our fiends.
06:07Have a care, Frankenstein.
06:09You remember the threat I made to you?
06:13Unless you complete your work, unless you make me a companion, all those whom you love shall die at my
06:20hands.
06:22Standing there, framed in the window, you look more loathsome than anything I have ever seen.
06:28Those hands which I made have killed defenseless people.
06:31And they shall kill other defenseless people if you do not obey my orders.
06:36Tell me this.
06:39Have you slain anyone since last we spoke?
06:43I slew but one man.
06:46He laughed and cheered at me, hurled stones at me, turned the villagers against me.
06:52Then I seized his throat and choked the life of his body.
06:57You devil, you promised you would slay no more men.
07:00Then, have you the right to command me?
07:04Am I not your creator?
07:06Did you not swear to me that if I carried out your orders, there would be no further murders?
07:12Sometimes a desire comes upon me to kill.
07:17I cannot resist that desire.
07:19But proceed with your work, Frankenstein.
07:23I like to watch you.
07:26Go from here.
07:27I will not proceed with my work while you are here.
07:30Go, you loathsome visage.
07:32Oh, you fill me with horror and hatred.
07:35Very well, my master.
07:38I will go.
07:40But I will not be far away.
07:43And I hope that soon your work will be complete.
07:47I bid you farewell.
07:49We shall meet again.
07:52Did the monster trouble you again that night, Baron Frankenstein?
07:55I did not see the monster again that night.
07:59But I sat in thought for many hours, realizing that my ghastly work was a great scene.
08:05Remembering the face of the monster as I had last seen it, wrinkled with ghastly malice and treachery.
08:12I was sitting there when dawn broke.
08:15My friend Chaval came in and found me.
08:18As soon as he saw me, he says,
08:20Victor, have you been here all night?
08:24I haven't.
08:25Is your work complete?
08:27It is not complete.
08:29But I received a visit from the monster last night.
08:32And I know now that I cannot complete this work.
08:35I dare not make another scene.
08:36I have not the right to do it.
08:38What did the monster say?
08:40Did he threaten you?
08:41Yes.
08:42Do you not understand, Ernst, that if I create this female, there is no knowing that she will accept the
08:49monster as her mate?
08:50She might turn with disgust from him when she sees him amongst other men.
08:56She will also know and realize that he is hideous and deformed, and she may have the same murderous purposes.
09:02I dare not do it.
09:03I must not do it.
09:04My poor friend, how can I advise you?
09:07Give me that iron bar.
09:10I feel that madness is upon me.
09:12I swear that I shall never complete this work.
09:15Give me that iron bar, Ernst.
09:16Yes, it is.
09:17What will you do with it?
09:18You will see.
09:19I will destroy all traces of my work.
09:21Look, I smash this lifeless form to atoms, and never will I resume these labors.
09:26As I smash this form, so do I defy the monster.
09:30I will find him.
09:31I will no longer fear his threats.
09:33I will destroy him just as I am destroying this work of mine.
09:36Look on me, Ernst.
09:37Think, sir, you are close to madness.
09:39Close to madness.
09:41See.
09:42See now what I have done.
09:44The monster shall never have a mate.
09:47Perhaps you are wise.
09:48I know that I am wise.
09:50But I know that my first creation still lives, and when he learns of this, he will vow hatred and
09:56revenge.
09:57Oh, the monster.
10:00Oh, he approaches the window now.
10:02I still have the iron bar.
10:04I shall destroy him as I destroy the form that was to be his mate.
10:08Oh, the loathsome creature stands outside the window.
10:12Look at him.
10:13Yes, look on me, Frankenstein.
10:15Look on your creation, and look on the world you have destroyed.
10:19And I am glad that I destroyed it.
10:22Do you dare to break your promise?
10:24I left Switzerland after you.
10:26I crept along the shores of the Rhine.
10:29I have lived many months in the heaths of England, and among the deserts of Scotland.
10:34I have endured unutterable fatigue, cold, and hunger.
10:37And now you dare to destroy my hopes?
10:39Your threats cannot move me.
10:42They confirm in me the determination not to create a companion for you.
10:46Do you think that I, in cold blood, would set loose upon the earth another monster,
10:50whose delight is in death and wretchedness?
10:52I will kill you.
10:53Careful, Victor.
10:54I do not fear him.
10:55I seize the iron bar from his grove.
10:58Stand back, Frankenstein.
11:00Do you think you are to be happy while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness?
11:07I go now, Frankenstein.
11:10But we will meet again on the day that you are reunited with your wife.
11:15Remember that, Frankenstein.
11:18On the day that you are reunited with your wife, you and I will come face to face again.
11:26Ersked, will you not help me to kill him?
11:28I will beat me, I helpless.
11:29He stands outside the window.
11:31Erank that iron bar from your grasp and bent it as if it were a stick of willow.
11:36See, he has gone now.
11:38Did you hear you, Rick?
11:40I am afraid.
11:43And you may well be afraid, Frankenstein.
11:47You have had your chance and you let it slip by.
11:52Fear me, my creator.
11:55I am now your monster.
11:58Did the dreadful monster carry out his threat, Baron Frankenstein?
12:02Ask me no more today, Captain.
12:05I recall that I almost swooned after the monster had left me.
12:09And I feel now that the monster is not far away.
12:12He is close to this ship.
12:14I seem to sense his presence.
12:16I shall place our men on guard outside your cavern.
12:18Do not fear, Baron Frankenstein.
12:21If my men set eyes on the monster, they will kill him.
12:24I go to give those orders now.
