It then has a short encounter with a farmer's young daughter, Maria, who asks him to play a game with her in which they playfully toss flowers into a lake and watch them float. It escapes from the tower and wanders through the landscape.
As he is preparing to begin dissecting it the creature awakens and strangles him. Waldman conducts an examination of the unconscious creature. Henry leaves to prepare for his wedding while Dr. Waldman to the floor and has nearly killed Henry when the drug takes effect and he falls to the floor unconscious. Waldman injects the drug into the creature's back. When the door is unlocked the creature emerges and lunges at Frankenstein as Dr. Realizing that the creature must be destroyed Henry prepares an injection of a powerful drug and the two conspire to release the monster and inject it as it attacks. The monster makes a lunge at the two but they escape the dungeon, locking the monster inside. Waldman rush in to find the monster has strangled Fritz. Waldman consider the fate of the monster they hear a shriek from the dungeon. Thinking that it is not fit for society, and will wreak havoc at any chance, they leave the monster locked up where Fritz antagonizes it with a torch. Waldman as an attempt to attack them, and so it is taken to the dungeon where it is chained. Its fright is mistaken by Frankenstein and Dr. Fritz, however, enters with a flaming torch which frightens the monster. Frankenstein welcomes it into his laboratory, and asks his creation to sit, which it does. The manufactured monster despite its grotesque form, initially appears not to be a malevolent beast, but a simple, innocent creation. Through Fritz's error, a criminal brain was secured for Frankenstein's experiments which results in the monster knowing only hate, horror and murder. Then a terrific crash of thunder, the crackling of Frankenstein's electric machines, and the hand of Frankenstein's monster (Boris Karloff) begins to move. They all watch Frankenstein and the hunchback as they raise the dead creature on an operating table, high into the room, toward an opening at the top of the laboratory. Elizabeth, intent on rescuing Frankenstein, arrives just as Henry is making his final tests. Waldman's help in reclaiming the young scientist from his absorbing experiments. Waldman (Edward Van Sloan), his old medical professor, and ask Dr.
She and her friend, Victor Moritz (John Boles), go to Dr. She cannot understand why he secludes himself in an abandoned watch tower, which he has equipped as a laboratory, and refuses to see anyone.
Frankenstein's consuming desire is to create human life through various electrical devices which he has perfected.Įlizabeth (Mae Clarke), his fiancée, is worried to distraction over his peculiar actions. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), an ardent young scientist, and his devoted assistant Fritz (Dwight Frye), a hunchback, piece together a human body, the parts of which have been secretly collected from various sources. Balderston and the screenplay written by Francis Edward Faragoh and Garrett Fort with uncredited contributions from Robert Florey and John Russell. The film stars Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles and Boris Karloff, and features Dwight Frye and Edward van Sloan. (3 of 20 lists - 43 points - highest rank #3 Tex)įrankenstein is a 1931 horror film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale and adapted from the play by Peggy Webling which in turn is based on the novel of the same name by Mary Shelley.
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