August 31, 2025 • 29 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
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Shelley's Frankenstein Our Star, Mister Herbert Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
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Speaker 4 (02:07):
Oh, hello Victor.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Hello Mary. The reverend inn out in.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
The garden as usual. Do you want me to call him?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
No things?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I'll go out well all right, tell him not to
get too dirty. We're supposed to play croquet with the
McDonald's at five. I'll tell him when's Elizabeth coming.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Home tomorrow or tuesday. I think you'll both.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Have to come over for dinner.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Love to marry, see you later. Hi.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Oh, you're just in time to give me a hand. Well,
these and in summer's hot.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Too sticky, James. I got to talk to you, of course.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
What anything wrong? You know you haven't looked too good
for the past month or so. Something on your mind? Yes, Oh, well,
then let's go in the house.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
I'll get you a beer. We can talk and I'm
not in the house. You man if you walk, Oh.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Of course not and my pipe over here we are,
i'd get some rain, I hope, so I don't have
to play croquet as name game.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
James.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Oh look now we're friends. You know you can speak
to me. It's a matter of one of your patients die.
You made a mistake bad, No, nothing like that. Perhaps
it's worse. I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Has it anything to do with Elizabeth going away in
a way?
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Yes, ah, my favorite place, you know, Victor. I think
of most of my sermons standing here looking across the valley.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Lovely. Isn't it got a match? Thanks? Listen.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
I've been doing an expert. It's very complicated, and I've
almost finished.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Wonderful. I think I'm a little afraid of it. I
don't know.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
I've tried to think it out myself. I can't find
the answer.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Gone.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
You believe in God, don't you? I mean, because I
don't go to church. You don't think that I don't
believe do you.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I don't think that at all. You're a good man.
I want you to promise me something.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
You've got to promise that you'll never breathe a word
of what I'm about to tell you.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
You have my word, you swear.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
I don't usually break my I'm sorry. Look, I I've
made something.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
It's tremendous.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
It's impossible, but I think i've done it, and it
goes against everything you believe.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
James, Oh, what have you done? I've made a thing
I don't understand. I put it together heart, brain, nerves, muscle, everything.
I've done it. Now do you understand a complete body?
Speaker 7 (05:04):
And you're upset because of that. You think that you've
done something wrong, But you're a surgeon. What you've done
will help to save a life. If you've learned more
about the human body. This experiment can't be wrong. It
can only do good.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Oh, I shouldn't worry. Last night I made it move.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
I'm not certain, but I think I can give it life,
absolute life. Now you see why I'm afraid I've created
a man.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
I i'd better call Mary. She'll be worried, all right,
but I won't say anything.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Hello Mary. No, I'm with Victor.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Oh listen, dear, I'm afraid we'll have to put off
the McDonald's. As I know well, Mary, I I have
something very important to discuss with Victor. It can't wait, Yes, dear, No, No,
don't wait, supper. I'll have something over here as I would. Goodbye.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
You don't have to see this thing if you don't
want from James? Where is it? In my lab? I
have an addition built on I'm the only one has
a key.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
I don't say I believe what you've told me. But uh,
how do you know you can make it live? I mean,
is it anything more than galvanic action?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
You'll see I lock it I always do. Is that
the addition over there? Yes?
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Hm, dark the antenna windows.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
It's better that way.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Before I show you, I want to explain. This is
what started it. It was mostly an accident. One of
the kids brought in his dog had been run over killed.
He wouldn't believe it was dead, expected me to bring
it back. I gave it a shot in the heart
and then another with this stuff, a compound I've fooled
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with for a long time. Yes, the dog came back
to life, just for a moment.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
How do you know the dog was dead? Now?
Speaker 7 (07:47):
It was?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
It had been for two hours. All that happened three
years ago.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
You've been experimenting on things ever since.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Yes, it's wrong. I don't know it's wrong. You run
with the state, James, what are you going to do?
Try to bring it to life.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I've got to I've got to try. And why did
you come to me? I wanted to tell you. I
had to tell someone. You're my friend.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
I'm a minister. I preach and believe in the word
of God.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Do you want to see it? Oh? No, I don't,
but I must.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
It's not terrible to look at. I've done a pretty
good job on it, but it isn't quite finished. I'm
not quite done with a face.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Oh well, no, no, Victor, bury it.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Let it be at peace.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Don't do it even if you can, and I can't
imagine if possible, don't, don't.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Don't even try. Do you realize what it would mean
to me to the world.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Standing here with you looking at that, It's easy to
imagine anything.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I don't want to put it to rest, Victor, forget it,
That's just it. I can't not until I find out
one way or the other. Watch what are you going
to do? I'm going to show you what happened last night.
I don't want to see. I don't care. I know better.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
Or Listen to me, Victor, this mustn't go on. You've
got to stop it yet nothing till I find out.
Does Elizabeth know what you're doing? Why did you send
her away?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
I didn't want her here when I made the last test.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Because you're ashamed. You know it's wrong. You know what
she'd think.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I'm not ashamed.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
I think I'm a little frightened at the incredible greatness
of what I've done. It's bigger than anything since the
world began.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
If it moves, I if you prove your point to me,
will you?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Will you stop?
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Then? Will you destroy it? The formulas, whatever papers you have,
destroy all of it?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Will you?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I don't know handle that hypodermic? Will you?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
No?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
All right there? If I say I believe you, Victor, if.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
You don't have to be afraid of it, it couldn't
hurt you. You know, there's only enough of this stuff
to stimulate a small portion of its brain.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
I'm not afraid of it. I'm afraid for us. All
I've never preached to you, Victor.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
It moved its left foot last night, then the right.
I'm gonna try the arm. Now move the light over, please, thanks,
Watch carefully, only takes a few seconds.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Now, look, look it's hand I know.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
That's the way it was yesterday, the movement old at
last for a moment though, that's all.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
I I I. I don't know what to say. I
I don't even think I understand what I've seen, except
that it's terrible.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Because you don't understand, or because of what it means.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
I'm afraid if you like, I'm afraid for you for
what you've done. That thing lying there, you've You've got
no right.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I won't allow. Oh what's that? What?
Speaker 8 (11:47):
Yes, stethoscope, It's impossible.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
There wasn't enough. It's breathing, Victor, what have you done?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
The things alive?
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Speaker 5 (14:28):
It didn't have enough.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
It couldn't help tin cc king yesterday unless the drugs
accumulative Maybe that's it.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
His eyes are open. What are you going to do? Now?
Listen to his heart again.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
It's got to be destroyed. You've got to put an
end to it. It's in human. Don't you see what
you're doing? You can't give it a sorry road. You
can't give it.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
How do you know what I can give it? I've
given it life, haven't I? It sees, it breathes, moves,
perhaps hears, yes?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Does it here? Huh? Look did you see that? It blinked?
The head jerked? It hears. It's a word of sound.
Does it feel pain?
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Don't, victor, It's not an animal. You've formed it like
a man. Give it the dignity of one. I won't
let you do.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
That to it. I have gone this far, James put
down a scalpelk. What are you going to approve by that?
I think you must be mad.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
I don't fill with your work, James. Why someone at
the door? Yes, I think i'd better strap it down
on the table. You won't forget your promise, will you.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
I'm sorry I gave my word. I'm sorry you ever
told me about this. I feel I'm as guilty as
you are now.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Well, whatever took you so long Hello James.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Hello isabe Darling.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I tried to go from the station, but the line's
out of order.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Oh, I'm sorry there. Do you have a nice time?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Lovely? Everybody sends their love.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
What did you do been up to? How's Mary? James?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Oh? Very well? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
What a fine pair?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
If so?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Besides you are Why did you do, Darling break one
of my good dishes?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I knew I shouldn't have left you alone.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Well?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
What are we standing in the hall for? Let's go in, Elizabeth?
Speaker 7 (16:43):
I must be going. Mary will be wondering, particularly if
the phone's out of order.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
It's raining very hard. You take an umbrella? There's one
in the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Are you going to tell her? No? If you want
to strap it from the table? Will you not? Yet?
All right, I'll try to come back later.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I want to think about what you've changed since you
came to see me this afternoon. You really don't care
what I think, now.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Do you?
Speaker 8 (17:07):
I suppose not? Thanks anyway, jam Are you going to
let it live? That's funny? From you?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Have I the right to kill it?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
You've already done something you had no right to do,
something that you don't even understand. The creation of man.
Isn't your job, It isn't mine.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Oh. I know your bright scientific mind is laughing at.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Me, umbrella James. But I wish you'd wait until the
storm blows over.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Ya.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
I really must get back, Thank you, Elizabeth. I I'll
return it tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Goodbye.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Well what's the matter with him? Have you been arguing
religion again?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Victor?
Speaker 8 (17:42):
No, dear, Look, I'm doing a little work in the lab.
It's rather important.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Do you mind what is going on? Victor? There's something?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Nothing at all? There is?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I know there is. What's the matter?
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Nothing there?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Really, I've got to get back to work now. It
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broke the straps. It got off the table. It broke
the straps. It's just standing there looking at me. What
do I do? Talk to it? What do I say?
Can I understand? I've done it? I've done it. It's
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almost perfect muscular control, coordination. I wish i'd finished the
face though. It must be terribly strong. That's odd, it's
not over average size.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Now what.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
Can you understand what I say? You're feel any pain?
Are you hungry?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I am a man like you? You are a man?
You understand?
Speaker 8 (19:36):
Yeah, this is a mirror you can see yourself in it.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Look, yes, that's all right, it's all right.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
It's angry, Ah, but it doesn't show angry in his face. Ah,
there's emotion, though. It sees ugliness and is afraid. I'll
have to get it back on the table. Put it
to sleep, that's the best way. Then use a stronger
strap or chain.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
The eyes just tearing.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
He seemed watery. What a marvel it is, though. I
want you to come over here and sit down. Do
you hear me? Come here and sit down? Come here, No,
don't touch that, No, stop it, stop it, put it.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Down, Or, Victor, I heard some noise upstairs.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Why what's happened to you?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Who broke the window?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
What's the matter, dear, what's happened?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Did you see anyone?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Did someone break in?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Elizabeth? Don't ask me any questions.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Just do what I ask. Get your coat on. Why
I'm taking you over to the Gibsons. I wanted to
stay there?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Oh? Why? Why?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Victor?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Please?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
I can't. I can't tell you about it. Now you
may have to stay there all night. Hurry please, we've
got to call the police. No, they'll shoot it.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
I don't want that. It's just frightened.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
That's all being a fool or did you realize what
it means? That thing roaming about the country? What about
the children, everybody in the village. I'm going to get
the police.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
No, please, James, give me a chance to find it first.
Then what you do?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
A few more experiments, give it speech, perhaps and it
happens again.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
It's mine, I made it.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
I'm not thinking of that now. It's Mary and your wife.
We don't even know where it is. If it wants
to kill, how do you know where it will start?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
All right?
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Just give me an hour. Let me try to find
it before we call the police. If I do, I'll
take it back and destroy it myself.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Do you give me your word? Yes? All right, I'll
go with you. Thanks, James. I'll get my rifle.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Do you have a gun?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yes, but I'm not going to use it unless it yes,
unless that's why I'll take mine. Shan't be moret it's
getting dark. Where do you think it might have gone.
It's hard to tell. It's afraid of thunder. It might
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be hiding in the barn, the old Hamilton place.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Yeah, how are you going to capture it?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
If you thought of that? I brought along a hypodermic.
You're not afraid anymore, are you? No?
Speaker 7 (23:35):
That's strange because I am not of what it might
do to me, But because of the fact that I've
seen it, I know it exists.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
There's the barn. If it's in there, there's no way
out the back way. It was boarded up, wasn't it. Yes,
I'll go in. Wait out here, William, how I'm coming
with you. No, if it's in there, if it tries
to escape, shoot it as it comes out.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Don't take the check said, won't let you get here.
I'm gonna try.
Speaker 8 (24:03):
Thanks, James, I arrived. I am afraid, and it was
in here hiding waiting for me. I am afraid. I
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should have destroyed it. James was right. And what's the
matter with this flashlight? Wet ah, that's better.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
What's that in the corner?
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Oh, I won't hurt you. It's all right. I understand.
I won't hurt you. Don't be frightened. It's going to
be all right. You will hardly feel this. It won't happen.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Victor. Victor, did you shoot it?
Speaker 7 (25:37):
I'm not sure I might have hit it.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
I don't know it's gone.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Yes, are you, Victor, Victor, oh factor, he never recovered
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consciousness again. Outside I looked for the thing I'd shot at,
but there was no sign of it. I returned to
the lab and burnt every paper, destroyed every single evidence
of Victor Frankenstein's terrible experiment. But the result of that
experiment has never been found, nor have I been able
yet to convince the authorities that such a thing ever existed.
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Speaker 4 (02:07):
Oh, hello Victor.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Hello Mary. The reverend inn out in.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
The garden as usual. Do you want me to call him?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
No things?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I'll go out well all right, tell him not to
get too dirty. We're supposed to play croquet with the
McDonald's at five. I'll tell him when's Elizabeth coming.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Home tomorrow or tuesday. I think you'll both.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Have to come over for dinner.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Love to marry, see you later. Hi.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Oh, you're just in time to give me a hand. Well,
these and in summer's hot.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Too sticky, James. I got to talk to you, of course.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
What anything wrong? You know you haven't looked too good
for the past month or so. Something on your mind? Yes, Oh, well,
then let's go in the house.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
I'll get you a beer. We can talk and I'm
not in the house. You man if you walk, Oh.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Of course not and my pipe over here we are,
i'd get some rain, I hope, so I don't have
to play croquet as name game.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
James.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Oh look now we're friends. You know you can speak
to me. It's a matter of one of your patients die.
You made a mistake bad, No, nothing like that. Perhaps
it's worse. I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Has it anything to do with Elizabeth going away in
a way?
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Yes, ah, my favorite place, you know, Victor. I think
of most of my sermons standing here looking across the valley.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Lovely. Isn't it got a match? Thanks? Listen.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
I've been doing an expert. It's very complicated, and I've
almost finished.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Wonderful. I think I'm a little afraid of it. I
don't know.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
I've tried to think it out myself. I can't find
the answer.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Gone.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
You believe in God, don't you? I mean, because I
don't go to church. You don't think that I don't
believe do you.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I don't think that at all. You're a good man.
I want you to promise me something.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
You've got to promise that you'll never breathe a word
of what I'm about to tell you.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
You have my word, you swear.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
I don't usually break my I'm sorry. Look, I I've
made something.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
It's tremendous.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
It's impossible, but I think i've done it, and it
goes against everything you believe.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
James, Oh, what have you done? I've made a thing
I don't understand. I put it together heart, brain, nerves, muscle, everything.
I've done it. Now do you understand a complete body?
Speaker 7 (05:04):
And you're upset because of that. You think that you've
done something wrong, But you're a surgeon. What you've done
will help to save a life. If you've learned more
about the human body. This experiment can't be wrong. It
can only do good.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Oh, I shouldn't worry. Last night I made it move.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
I'm not certain, but I think I can give it life,
absolute life. Now you see why I'm afraid I've created
a man.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
I i'd better call Mary. She'll be worried, all right,
but I won't say anything.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Hello Mary. No, I'm with Victor.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Oh listen, dear, I'm afraid we'll have to put off
the McDonald's. As I know well, Mary, I I have
something very important to discuss with Victor. It can't wait, Yes, dear, No, No,
don't wait, supper. I'll have something over here as I would. Goodbye.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
You don't have to see this thing if you don't
want from James? Where is it? In my lab? I
have an addition built on I'm the only one has
a key.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
I don't say I believe what you've told me. But uh,
how do you know you can make it live? I mean,
is it anything more than galvanic action?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
You'll see I lock it I always do. Is that
the addition over there? Yes?
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Hm, dark the antenna windows.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
It's better that way.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Before I show you, I want to explain. This is
what started it. It was mostly an accident. One of
the kids brought in his dog had been run over killed.
He wouldn't believe it was dead, expected me to bring
it back. I gave it a shot in the heart
and then another with this stuff, a compound I've fooled
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with for a long time. Yes, the dog came back
to life, just for a moment.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
How do you know the dog was dead? Now?
Speaker 7 (07:47):
It was?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
It had been for two hours. All that happened three
years ago.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
You've been experimenting on things ever since.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Yes, it's wrong. I don't know it's wrong. You run
with the state, James, what are you going to do?
Try to bring it to life.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I've got to I've got to try. And why did
you come to me? I wanted to tell you. I
had to tell someone. You're my friend.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
I'm a minister. I preach and believe in the word
of God.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Do you want to see it? Oh? No, I don't,
but I must.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
It's not terrible to look at. I've done a pretty
good job on it, but it isn't quite finished. I'm
not quite done with a face.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Oh well, no, no, Victor, bury it.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Let it be at peace.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Don't do it even if you can, and I can't
imagine if possible, don't, don't.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Don't even try. Do you realize what it would mean
to me to the world.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Standing here with you looking at that, It's easy to
imagine anything.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I don't want to put it to rest, Victor, forget it,
That's just it. I can't not until I find out
one way or the other. Watch what are you going
to do? I'm going to show you what happened last night.
I don't want to see. I don't care. I know better.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
Or Listen to me, Victor, this mustn't go on. You've
got to stop it yet nothing till I find out.
Does Elizabeth know what you're doing? Why did you send
her away?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
I didn't want her here when I made the last test.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Because you're ashamed. You know it's wrong. You know what
she'd think.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I'm not ashamed.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
I think I'm a little frightened at the incredible greatness
of what I've done. It's bigger than anything since the
world began.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
If it moves, I if you prove your point to me,
will you?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Will you stop?
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Then? Will you destroy it? The formulas, whatever papers you have,
destroy all of it?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Will you?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I don't know handle that hypodermic? Will you?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
No?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
All right there? If I say I believe you, Victor, if.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
You don't have to be afraid of it, it couldn't
hurt you. You know, there's only enough of this stuff
to stimulate a small portion of its brain.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
I'm not afraid of it. I'm afraid for us. All
I've never preached to you, Victor.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
It moved its left foot last night, then the right.
I'm gonna try the arm. Now move the light over, please, thanks,
Watch carefully, only takes a few seconds.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Now, look, look it's hand I know.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
That's the way it was yesterday, the movement old at
last for a moment though, that's all.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
I I I. I don't know what to say. I
I don't even think I understand what I've seen, except
that it's terrible.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Because you don't understand, or because of what it means.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
I'm afraid if you like, I'm afraid for you for
what you've done. That thing lying there, you've You've got
no right.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I won't allow. Oh what's that? What?
Speaker 8 (11:47):
Yes, stethoscope, It's impossible.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
There wasn't enough. It's breathing, Victor, what have you done?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
The things alive?
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Speaker 5 (14:28):
It didn't have enough.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
It couldn't help tin cc king yesterday unless the drugs
accumulative Maybe that's it.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
His eyes are open. What are you going to do? Now?
Listen to his heart again.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
It's got to be destroyed. You've got to put an
end to it. It's in human. Don't you see what
you're doing? You can't give it a sorry road. You
can't give it.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
How do you know what I can give it? I've
given it life, haven't I? It sees, it breathes, moves,
perhaps hears, yes?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Does it here? Huh? Look did you see that? It blinked?
The head jerked? It hears. It's a word of sound.
Does it feel pain?
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Don't, victor, It's not an animal. You've formed it like
a man. Give it the dignity of one. I won't
let you do.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
That to it. I have gone this far, James put
down a scalpelk. What are you going to approve by that?
I think you must be mad.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
I don't fill with your work, James. Why someone at
the door? Yes, I think i'd better strap it down
on the table. You won't forget your promise, will you.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
I'm sorry I gave my word. I'm sorry you ever
told me about this. I feel I'm as guilty as
you are now.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Well, whatever took you so long Hello James.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Hello isabe Darling.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I tried to go from the station, but the line's
out of order.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Oh, I'm sorry there. Do you have a nice time?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Lovely? Everybody sends their love.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
What did you do been up to? How's Mary? James?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Oh? Very well? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
What a fine pair?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
If so?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Besides you are Why did you do, Darling break one
of my good dishes?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I knew I shouldn't have left you alone.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Well?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
What are we standing in the hall for? Let's go in, Elizabeth?
Speaker 7 (16:43):
I must be going. Mary will be wondering, particularly if
the phone's out of order.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
It's raining very hard. You take an umbrella? There's one
in the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Are you going to tell her? No? If you want
to strap it from the table? Will you not? Yet?
All right, I'll try to come back later.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I want to think about what you've changed since you
came to see me this afternoon. You really don't care
what I think, now.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Do you?
Speaker 8 (17:07):
I suppose not? Thanks anyway, jam Are you going to
let it live? That's funny? From you?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Have I the right to kill it?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
You've already done something you had no right to do,
something that you don't even understand. The creation of man.
Isn't your job, It isn't mine.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Oh. I know your bright scientific mind is laughing at.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Me, umbrella James. But I wish you'd wait until the
storm blows over.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Ya.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
I really must get back, Thank you, Elizabeth. I I'll
return it tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Goodbye.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Well what's the matter with him? Have you been arguing
religion again?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Victor?
Speaker 8 (17:42):
No, dear, Look, I'm doing a little work in the lab.
It's rather important.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Do you mind what is going on? Victor? There's something?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Nothing at all? There is?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I know there is. What's the matter?
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Nothing there?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Really, I've got to get back to work now. It
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broke the straps. It got off the table. It broke
the straps. It's just standing there looking at me. What
do I do? Talk to it? What do I say?
Can I understand? I've done it? I've done it. It's
(18:54):
almost perfect muscular control, coordination. I wish i'd finished the
face though. It must be terribly strong. That's odd, it's
not over average size.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Now what.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
Can you understand what I say? You're feel any pain?
Are you hungry?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I am a man like you? You are a man?
You understand?
Speaker 8 (19:36):
Yeah, this is a mirror you can see yourself in it.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Look, yes, that's all right, it's all right.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
It's angry, Ah, but it doesn't show angry in his face. Ah,
there's emotion, though. It sees ugliness and is afraid. I'll
have to get it back on the table. Put it
to sleep, that's the best way. Then use a stronger
strap or chain.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
The eyes just tearing.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
He seemed watery. What a marvel it is, though. I
want you to come over here and sit down. Do
you hear me? Come here and sit down? Come here, No,
don't touch that, No, stop it, stop it, put it.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Down, Or, Victor, I heard some noise upstairs.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Why what's happened to you?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Who broke the window?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
What's the matter, dear, what's happened?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Did you see anyone?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Did someone break in?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Elizabeth? Don't ask me any questions.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Just do what I ask. Get your coat on. Why
I'm taking you over to the Gibsons. I wanted to
stay there?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Oh? Why? Why?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Victor?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Please?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
I can't. I can't tell you about it. Now you
may have to stay there all night. Hurry please, we've
got to call the police. No, they'll shoot it.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
I don't want that. It's just frightened.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
That's all being a fool or did you realize what
it means? That thing roaming about the country? What about
the children, everybody in the village. I'm going to get
the police.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
No, please, James, give me a chance to find it first.
Then what you do?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
A few more experiments, give it speech, perhaps and it
happens again.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
It's mine, I made it.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
I'm not thinking of that now. It's Mary and your wife.
We don't even know where it is. If it wants
to kill, how do you know where it will start?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
All right?
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Just give me an hour. Let me try to find
it before we call the police. If I do, I'll
take it back and destroy it myself.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Do you give me your word? Yes? All right, I'll
go with you. Thanks, James. I'll get my rifle.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Do you have a gun?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yes, but I'm not going to use it unless it yes,
unless that's why I'll take mine. Shan't be moret it's
getting dark. Where do you think it might have gone.
It's hard to tell. It's afraid of thunder. It might
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be hiding in the barn, the old Hamilton place.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Yeah, how are you going to capture it?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
If you thought of that? I brought along a hypodermic.
You're not afraid anymore, are you? No?
Speaker 7 (23:35):
That's strange because I am not of what it might
do to me, But because of the fact that I've
seen it, I know it exists.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
There's the barn. If it's in there, there's no way
out the back way. It was boarded up, wasn't it. Yes,
I'll go in. Wait out here, William, how I'm coming
with you. No, if it's in there, if it tries
to escape, shoot it as it comes out.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Don't take the check said, won't let you get here.
I'm gonna try.
Speaker 8 (24:03):
Thanks, James, I arrived. I am afraid, and it was
in here hiding waiting for me. I am afraid. I
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should have destroyed it. James was right. And what's the
matter with this flashlight? Wet ah, that's better.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
What's that in the corner?
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Oh, I won't hurt you. It's all right. I understand.
I won't hurt you. Don't be frightened. It's going to
be all right. You will hardly feel this. It won't happen.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Victor. Victor, did you shoot it?
Speaker 7 (25:37):
I'm not sure I might have hit it.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
I don't know it's gone.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Yes, are you, Victor, Victor, oh factor, he never recovered
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consciousness again. Outside I looked for the thing I'd shot at,
but there was no sign of it. I returned to
the lab and burnt every paper, destroyed every single evidence
of Victor Frankenstein's terrible experiment. But the result of that
experiment has never been found, nor have I been able
yet to convince the authorities that such a thing ever existed.
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