“It appears that my father thought that he could extract from lightning some super-violet ray of life-giving properties.”
Basil Rathbone - Baron Wolf von Frankenstein

“You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.”

Sir Charlie Chaplin - Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania

“- Ghost of Henry Frankenstein: Nevertheless, I was near to solving a problem that has baffled man since the beginning of time, the secret of life artificially created.
- Ludwig Frankenstein: But it has brought death to everything that it's touched.”

Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Ghost of Henry Frankenstein
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“- Doctor Waldman: You really believe you can bring life to the dead?
- Henry Frankenstein: That body is not dead. It has never lived. I created it. I made it with my own hands, from the bodies I took from graves, from the gallows, anywhere! Go and see for yourself.”
Edward Van Sloan - Doctor Waldman
Colin Clive - Dr. Frankenstein

“It is one of the strangest tales ever told. It deals with the two great mysteries of creation: life and death. I think it will thrill you. It might even... horrify you.”
Edward Van Sloan - Doctor Waldman