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- [thunder]

- [door opens] - WOMAN #1: You can't see the

doctor because he's not here.

He hasn't come back.

That's too bad.

He hasn't come back.

- [door closes]

- What was that?

- A boy.

He said he'd come to ask you to go to Professor Orloff's.

- Well, why didn't you let him in?

- So he could dirty my nice, clean floors?

God help us!

I knew you wouldn't go anyway.

If anyone's sick up at the castle, the devil himself lives

there.

Let him cure them.

- Get me my case.

- You must be insane!

- [raining]

- What's wrong?

- We've got to go to the castle at once.

- Why?

- You've got to go to the castle at once!

- Hey!

- [indistinct chatter]

- [laughter]

- You know who that is?

- No. Do you Hans?

- The new doctor.

- I want to hire a carriage.

- Sure, Doctor.

I might have one, but I want to know first where you're going.

- To the castle of Professor Orloff.

Well, isn't anyone willing to go out there?

Are you all afraid of Professor Orloff?

- [softly] We go.

- [rain falling]

- [horse neighs] - [thunder]

- Heeyah!

Ho! Get on there!

- [whip cracking] - Haw! Haw!

- [whip cracking] - Careful, Driver.

We might overturn.

- You don't like my driving, get out!

- Walk from here? Have you gone mad?

- Get out, I said!

- You've been paid more than enough for the trip!

- You'll get back your money.

- Tell me the way.

I don't know these parts at all.

- It's easy. Just follow this road.

- Ah! Drive on.

- [horse neighs] - Haw! Haw!

- [horse neighing] - Get on!

Haw!

- [whip cracking] - [horse neighing]

- Haw!

You've got to help me. Get out and push!

- [wind blowing]

- [grunting]

- [whip cracking]

- Giddup!

- Hey! Come back!

- Haw!

- [thunder cracking] - Haw! Haw!

- [whip cracking]

- [wind blowing]

- [thunder]

- WOMAN #2: Who's there?

- I'm Dr. Garondet.

I'm on foot. I've lost my way.

- Where were you going?

- Someone is ill at the castle of Professor Orloff.

- Ah!

- Open up!

Please, open up!

- [pounding on doors] - [wind blowing]

- What do you want here?

- I'm Dr. Garondet.

- Isn't somebody ill here?

- Don't ask me.

- Well, then who's the person I'm supposed to ask?

- I am.

- I'm going around in circles.

Where's your master?

- What master?

- Professor Orloff.

What is this, a game?

Someone is sick here, and I want to see him immediately!

So show me the way!

- Are you the one who asked him here?

- Speak up when I talk to you, idiot!

- Who are you calling idiot?

It's your fault, not mine.

- The doctor wants to see the master.

Announce him.

- What if I won't?

- Listen to me.

Go and tell your master the doctor is here and is anxious to

talk to him.

- I'm not going anywhere near him.

I'm not as stupid as all that.

The maid here sent for you, Doctor.

Tell her to go.

- If I may ask...please, will you take me to see the

professor?

Is it so much trouble to explain to me at least what room he's

in?

I came here willing to do what I could.

You don't bother to answer, so you can't expect any assistance

from me.

Can you?

Can you?

- Wait! I'll tell you!

Just promise one thing.

- What?

- I'll tell you who sent for you this evening...

if you promise to help me get away.

Professor Orloff doesn't know you're here.

- Well, if he didn't send for me, who did?

- The master's daughter.

- She did?

What for?

- I can't divulge that.

You must ask Cecile.

- Is she in need of treatment?

[sighs] Then what's the matter?

- Don't ask me that.

Ask her.

Follow the hallway all the way.

Take the stairs at the end.

They lead to her room.

- Hmm.

- Be careful, won't you?

- Why should I?

- Good evening, Doctor.

I'm Cecile.

I'm glad that you're here.

I'm the one who asked you to the castle.

- You are?

Is somebody ill?

- No...

but something's the matter here, something strange, and I needed

you.

- I'm a doctor.

I'm not able to tackle mysteries.

- My father's--I hoped that being a doctor, you'd

be able to understand.

I'm afraid of his work.

It's strange.

- Perhaps if I knew what's been happening to you?

- Believe me...

it's something so unnatural.

I know it will sound ridiculous, but it's true, Doctor.

It happened right here this morning.

Somebody...

was walking at my side.

I could feel that he was there.

The floorboards were actually creaking.

I faced a mirror of polished glass.

I couldn't see myself in the glass...

not even a face...

nothing.

The mirror just didn't reflect.

I stood there fixed.

I was afraid and...gradually, the mirror began to reflect in

the usual way...

but so frighteningly slow.

There was something between where I was standing and the

mirror, only I couldn't say what.

It hid me completely.

Then little by little, it slowly died away.

Shapeless and substantial, too.

Somehow it was transparent and opaque.

- Ah, but really, I can't-- - Oh, please, Doctor!

Doctor that was just the beginning.

There've been more strange things.

At 5 o'clock in the library, I saw a chair rise up in the air.

The room was empty.

No human being could've moved that chair.

I was afraid!

I knew it was real.

I didn't imagine it.

Somebody else was there...

unseen.

I could feel a mysterious presence or some unnatural force

there.

- That sounds supernatural, completely unreal and fantastic.

- [laughs] If you had seen it move, too...

Don't think I imagined it.

And later, the servant also saw it.

- You just thought you saw it.

It may have been autosuggestion.

Visions are not uncommon to girls who live alone.

Have you spoken to your father about what you've seen?

- My father is very busy.

Nobody comes to see him, and if they did, he wouldn't receive

them.

He spends his time locked up in his laboratory.

- Have you no other family here?

No friends or companions at all?

- No one at all.

I don't see anybody.

Nobody's permitted to come here under orders from my father.

He's a man who suffered and now wants to be alone.

There's no one here except us and the two servants.

But I think you might get him to talk, if anybody can.

I'm afraid if you don't, I don't know what will happen.

Oh, you think I'm being silly.

- No.

I'm convinced I ought to try to help your father.

I'll see him right away.

I had to walk through a terrible downpour to get here; I might as

well stay and try clearing up this puzzle.

- I don't know how to thank you.

The laboratory's at the top of the east wing.

Be careful, won't you?

- I'll try.

And you'd better keep your door locked.

I'll come back and tell you what I've managed to find out.

- Come back as soon as you can.

I know I'll be awake.

I'm too upset to sleep.

- Try not to worry.

- [wheel squeaking]

- Don't move!

Who are you?

- There's no need for a pistol.

I had no intention of intruding.

- Who are you?

- Dr. Garondet.

And you are Professor Orloff?

- Were you looking for someone?

- Someone asked me to come here.

- Really?

The servants...interfering in their usual inept way?

- Afraid not.

The servants weren't looking for a doctor.

- And you were willing to come here, my dear sir, knowing what

you do about Dr. Orloff?

I admire your courage.

- It's not surprising.

I came to see a patient.

It's my profession.

- A patient, Doctor?

Then you haven't come so far in vain.

You've seen, haven't you?

- Tell me how you move those objects without seeming to touch

them.

- I don't touch anything, you fool.

I've created a man, a creature that you can't see...

because he's invisible.

Do you doubt me?

- No, but, I must say, I'd like to hear more about it.

- You do doubt me.

You don't believe me at all.

No matter, I'm used to that.

My colleagues have laughed at me.

They consider my work ridiculous!

But I no longer try to convince anyone.

I can prove it!

Bring us some wine.

- [glasses clinking]

- That's fine.

Now go!

Satisfied?

- DR. GARONDET: Yes.

- I have created a new race, a superior creature whose

potential is unknown.

But he is stronger than a human being, with a more intelligent

brain.

You may consider this creature my revenge...

on my colleagues.

The bitter humiliation, the scorn, the insults!

But I've realized it, yes, the goal of my research.

- GARONDET: I can imagine that it must be satisfying for

you, Professor.

But tell me, do you suppose your invisible man can be dangerous?

- ORLOFF: [laughs] Dangerous?

Not at all, Doctor.

He's obedient.

I compare these last six years to the period of childhood

during which I saw fit to restrict his freedom.

But now I let him go free to wander through the castle

because you see, holding him prisoner longer could embitter

his character.

He's not an animal; he's a man like you.

He's intelligent, rational.

He can read.

- How did you organize your research?

- ORLOFF: I started 20 years ago.

Once I hit upon the idea, I began by studying the phenomenon

of transparency.

Then, six years ago, I found a human guinea pig for experiment.

He was less than a human being.

But you'll never know how valuable he was to me.

He had to die.

Yes, but his life wasn't-- - GARONDET: You killed him?

- It was for science.

No progress could've been made without this man.

Changing the structure of his brain, I created a superior and

completely different species to rule humanity and dominate the

earth.

- And to create this being, you murdered a man.

- Huh.

Not exactly murdered the man, Doctor.

- [wheel squeaking]

- I want you to hear the whole of my story.

It may interest you.

I'm certain with you not to be ridiculed for it.

- ♪

- ORLOFF: It all started six years ago in the late spring.

My daughter, Cecile, has a weak heart, and after an unexpected

shock, it stopped beating entirely.

The doctor had signed the death certificate.

The parish priest who had come to bless the body had gone.

I had no family, no friends.

I sat there alone by her bedside.

I couldn't bear the thought of strangers touching my dead

child, so the servants in the castle came with the coffin and

carried poor Cecile to the tomb.

- [hammering echoing]

- [church bell ringing]

- [birds cawing] - GARONDET: I was the only

person to accompany the coffin to the vault.

I had to endure the anguish of burying Cecile with no one to

comfort me.

- [church bell ringing]

- GARONDET: It was night before I got back to the castle.

I went to her room, half expecting to find her still

there, and sat by the fire as if waiting for her to come back.

I looked at the bed, my heart swollen with grief, completely

ignorant of the drama of greed being played out under my

roof, just below the room where my daughter once lived and

played and slept.

- All those pretty jewels have been buried along with her?

- You know damn well they were.

- [laughs] What a waste of money.

- When the professor gets over his grief, he'll dig her up

again.

- I beg your pardon!

If I let you come in here while I'm getting ready to go to bed,

what more do you want?

Don't push your luck or I'll never have you here again.

- I want us to get married, Maria.

I've got money.

- Oh!

[laughs] I'd never marry a man with such

a stupid face.

And besides, I'm in no hurry to be miserably poor, living in a

hut like a farmer's wife.

[laughs] You're not a man, you're a

gorilla.

And look at me.

- I'll do anything to have you, Maria.

- Simply show that you're really a man.

- That couldn't be easier.

- Imbecile!

[laughs]

Turn away.

[laughs]

- [breathes heavy]

- MARIA: [laughs]

- Hmm...

- You and I will get married on the day you're able to present

your wife with a diamond necklace.

- You're crazy!

They cost a fortune.

- It could be possible, my dear, if you used your brain.

- Are you trying to say-- - You could be rich just like

that.

It would be so easy.

- No! Don't ask me.

- Oh...

Superstitious about graves, huh?

Afraid of poor Cecile?

- Suppose I go, will you marry me?

- I will.

- Wait here.

- [laughs]

- Maria, ready.

- [owl hooting]

- [dog barking] - You'll be happy when we're

married.

- Ah! Ah!

[grunting]

Mmm.

[grunting]

- Cut it!

Cut it with this!

- You're hurting me!

- [screams] [moans]

- [panting]

- ORLOFF: The dawn found me still sitting there in her room.

I had passed a terrible night full of horrible dreams that

hung in my mind like storm clouds.

Then suddenly--

- [footsteps] [doorknob squeaking]

- Father!

[moans] Can you help me?

It was Roland, the gamekeeper.

He was after my jewels.

- Oh!

- ORLOFF: I sent at once for a doctor.

Roland had only wounded Cecile, but the poor girl had suffered a

terrible shock.

Her mind was completely deranged.

And for that, I made her attacker pay the full price.

Open the door!

Open it!

Open the door, you swine!

[pounding continues] - No!

No, no!

I'm innocent!

I didn't do it!

No! Believe me!

I beg you!

You must believe me!

- You miserable swine!

- No! Let me go!

- You hurt my Cecile!

- No, Professor!

Please!

Let go of me!

- You'll pay for what you did!

Come on!

- No!

No, please!

- ORLOFF: You'll pay!

Pay!

- Uh! Uh!

- Filthy pig!

- Oh!

- You'll suffer the way she suffered.

On your feet!

- Uh! Uh!

No! No!

No!

- You're coming with me!

Get up!

Eh!

Down here!

Hurry!

- [chains rattling]

- [grunting]

- [chains rattling]

- [moaning] I'm not the one!

I'm not!

Don't chain me!

Don't punish me, Master!

It was Maria's fault!

Maria, she wanted the jewels!

- Maria, too?

- I didn't want to do it!

It was Maria, Master!

She wanted to have the jewels!

- ORLOFF: You stabbed Cecile!

- No, Maria stabbed her!

It was Maria!

She thought of it because she wanted the jewels!

It wasn't me, Master!

Don't kill me!

Oh, no!

Please listen!

I didn't want to harm her!

It was Maria!

She's the one who said "cut off her finger" to get the ring!

I didn't want to do it!

I'm not like that, Master!

I'm not like that!

[sobbing] It was Maria!

Maria!

- ORLOFF: The state of Maria's room shown she had left

hurriedly.

I took one of her scarves and told my huntsman to track the

woman down as if he were hunting a savage beast.

- [dogs barking and howling]

- [birds tweet]

- [dogs barking and howling]

- [distant barking and howling]

- Ah!

- Out of here!

- [dogs growling]

- [screaming] - [whip cracking]

- [whipping stops] - [moaning]

- ORLOFF: Get back to the castle!

- ORLOFF: Years passed.

Six years in all.

At first, I wanted to murder the guard.

Instead, I experimented on him.

Cecile was 16.

Her mind was completely deranged.

- GARONDET: And now?

She's still...

- Completely mad.

Alive, but her case is hopeless.

- But she's all right now.

She's not insane.

- I did everything.

She's insane.

You'll never make it back to town.

The storm's getting worse.

I can offer you the hospitality of the castle.

- Very well.

I accept.

Thank you.

- [door creaks open] - Take the lantern.

Your room is in the north tower.

The wind is calmer outside that part of the house.

Here you are, Doctor.

This is your room.

- Thank you.

- Hold the lamp up.

Sleep well, Doctor.

- I doubt it.

- ♪

- [blows on hands]

- [bell rings]

- [bell ringing]

- It's the Master.

- [ringing continues]

- Get up there!

- [ringing]

- [knock on door] - Come in.

You know why I rang for you.

You brought that stranger here.

You'll be punished!

- Don't let him do it!

[whimpering] No!

[screaming]

No!

No!

[screams]

Ah!

- [distant screaming]

- She is yours.

- [whimpering]

[struggling]

[screams] [moaning]

[screaming]

Believe me!

[moaning] [screaming]

[moaning]

[screaming]

[screams] [moaning]

[moaning stops]

- [distant scream]

- [clank]

- [distant scream]

- [distant moaning]

- Uh!

- [clatter] - [girl moaning]

[moaning]

- What do you want here?

- [snoring]

- Who is he?

- That concerns me!

- [snoring]

- That, dear Doctor, is the unfortunate creature who stabbed

my Cecile.

- He's still here?

- Right.

He's the one who finds my guinea pigs.

There is no success without sacrifice...

as you know yourself.

My invisible creature must have human blood to survive, and my

prisoner supplies him.

All those strange disappearances in this part of the country are

his work.

[laughs] My dear Doctor, did you really

think I made this creature out of thin air, out of nothing?

- It's horrible.

- How important are all those lives when a discovery like mine

depends on it?

- How did this happen?

- I was curious to see how the invisible man would behave

with a human female.

- Stop what you're doing here!

- You understand as little as the others.

- She must get medical attention, or she won't be able

to last out the night.

- Bring the torch then and come.

Leave him inside.

- [door locks]

- Professor, come back!

You're being a fool!

Open the gate immediately!

- Sorry to do this, Doctor.

But you know too much to go free.

You are too intelligent a man to forget what you've learned.

- GARONDET: Professor, let me out!

Open the gate!

- You won't die in vain.

You're going to donate your blood to science.

- No!

Come back!

Come back!

[grunting]

- ♪

- [grunting]

- [grating]

- Let me out!

Open the bars!

- [loud squeaking]

- Over here.

Come, Doctor.

Are you all right?

- Yes.

I don't know how to thank you.

- Hush. Not now.

Take the candle and come this way.

Shh.

Ah!

[sighs] I thought somebody was there,

somebody invisible.

If it comes after us, we can see the print of his footsteps in

the sprinkled powder.

- Ah. That explains it.

- We've got to hurry.

In here.

Quickly, there's no time!

- Mmm. Oh...

You saved my life.

I--I never would have-- - Ah!

- Ah! Uh!

- Ah!

[struggling]

[whimpering]

Help!

Huh.

- [strangled groaning] Oh!

- Oh...

- Hmm.

- Mmm.

And now we must escape from here.

Father will be looking for us.

[gasps]

- ORLOFF: Cecile!

Cecile!

My darling, you've got to get out of the

castle.

The invisible man has set the place on fire!

He won't obey me!

Save yourself, my dear.

I'll join you later.

I must kill what I created.

Your life is in danger every minute he remains alive!

I'll be all right.

Hurry!

- ♪

- [coughing]

- [fire crackling]

- How awful!

He'll never escape from that!

- The thing he created has been killed.

- [grunting] - I hope the invisible man

never comes back again.

- [grunting]

- [dogs barking and howling]

- [grunting]

- [loud screaming]

[screaming] - [screaming and barking

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