All language subtitles for Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (Hor. 1943) B&W 720p

Lawrence Stewart Talbot,

who died at the youthful
age of 31.

R.I.P.

That's it.

Give me the chisel.

Suppose they didn't bury him
with the money on him.

Everybody in the village
knows about it...

his gold watch and ring
and money in his pockets.

It's a sin to bury good money when
it could help people.

This gives me the creeps.

What do you think it will look
like after so many years?

Just bones and an empty skull.

Watch the lamp.

Get me the light.

Wolfbane.

Wolfbane?

Yes.

Even a man who is
pure at heart...

and says his prayers by night...

may become a wolf...

when the wolfbane blooms...

and the moon is full and bright.

It looks like he's asleep.

Let's get on with it.
First the ring.

We won't have to worry for a long time.
I thought the dead was stiff.

Shut up.

Gold.

It's holding me.

Help me.
Help me.

Alive.

Help, help!

Don't leave me!

Here, now.
Come up.

Come on. Wake up and
get along with you.

You've got a home, haven't you?

Or do you want me to
take you to the station?

Good heavens!

How is the patient, Nurse?

He's conscious, Dr. Mannering.

And talked. He insists
upon sitting up.

Conscious? Talked?

But that's impossible so soon
after a critical operation.

The nurse tells me
you're well enough to talk.

Why, yes.

Pulse, 72, no fever.

There's no pain?

No.

Where am I?
Queen's Hospital.

Queens?
Yes, Queen's Hospital in Cardiff.

Wh...
How did I get here?

You were found in the street more
dead than alive with a head injury.

How did you get
that skull fracture?

I... don't remember.

This is Inspector Owen.
I'm Dr. Mannering.

What's your name?

Lawrence Talbot.

Lawrence Talbot.

Where did you come from?

Llanwelly Village.

But... how did I get
to Cardiff?

That's enough for now.
You must rest.

You'll be fit again very soon.

If there's any change,
call me immediately.

Yes, Doctor.

Hello? Put me through to the
police station at Llanwelly.

Just a routine checkup, Doctor.
Then we can close the case.

Llanwelly Police Station.

This is Inspector Owen
speaking, from Cardiff.

Have you got anything in
your file on a man named...

Lawrence Talbot?

Why, of course.
He lived here.

Good. That's all right, then. We've
got him up here in our hospital.

I wouldn't want him
in our hospital.

He died four years ago.

Why, of course I'm sure,
Inspector.

I was present at his funeral.

That'll be all,
Inspector. Good-bye.

Lawrence Talbot died four years ago.
Your man's an impostor.

That's a harsh word, Inspector.
Poor devil of unsound mind.

I'll wager he's sound enough
to remember his own name.

I'm gonna have
another talk with him.

Inspector.
Yeah?

That man is my patient,
not your prisoner.

I'll decide when
he can be questioned again.

Very well.
It's in your hands.

I found this bandage here
when I came in this morning.

I didn't open the window.
The patient must've done it himself.

You'd better cover him up.

You're all right.
Nothing has happened.

Better get some more bandages.
We'll renew the compress.

Now, don't excite yourself.
Please be calm.

Doctor... something
terrible has happened.

You must've had a nightmare. It's
evident you were walking in your sleep.

Call the police.

The police?
Yes, you'd better call them.

I'm a...

I'm a murderer.

Yes, of course.
Anything you say.

Ask Inspector Owen to come here at once.
Yes, Doctor.

What is all this
about wanting the police?

Last night, I...
I killed someone.

But you were in
this room all night.

I tell you, I did it.
I killed someone.

But you couldn't have.

You must've heard
the nurses discussing it.

Mr. Talbot, you're suffering
from a delusion.

It's true someone was killed last night,
but it happened many streets from here.

Moreover, he was attacked
by some sort of wild animal.

That's just it.
I turn into an animal.

Well, Mr. Talbot.

Decided to remember
your real name?

Mr. Talbot seems to have heard about
the unfortunate constable last night.

It's disturbing him. But
he doesn't understand.

There's a curse upon me.
I change into a wolf.

It's a bit difficult
to believe, my good man.

See that scar?

That's where I was bitten
by a wolf.

Only it wasn't a real wolf.
It was a man.

A werewolf.
I killed him.

Now I change into a wolf
at night when the moon is full.

Hmph.

It's the truth.

Ask Maleva, the old
Gypsy woman. She knows.

Maleva? Gypsy?
Hmph.

Mr. Talbot, you must
get back into bed.

Oh, are you blind? Won't
you believe me? Help me.

Just tell us your real name.
Let us do the worrying.

I told you.
Lawrence Talbot.

Lawrence Talbot!
Why can't you understand?

Lawrence Talbot died
four years ago.

Died?

Four years?

Well, I did...

I can't die.

Mr. Talbot, if you want us to
help you, you must do as we say.

Now, please lie down.
You think I'm insane.

You think I don't know
what I'm talking about.

Well, you just look inside that grave where
Lawrence Talbot is supposed to be buried,

and see if you find
a body in it.

Please get back into bed.
Get on with it.

You're treating me like a lunatic. Well,
you're as stupid as all the rest.

Come along, Inspector.

You mean to say that Talbot actually
experienced that murder last night?

I'm afraid so.

People with brain injuries sometimes
develop supernormal mental powers...

that are quite extraordinary.

Certainly he got up
and opened the window.

The borderline between delusion
and reality is very narrow.

Sometimes a patient may
unknowingly overstep that line.

Then that man's dangerous.
He ought to be behind bars.

He's a lycanthrope.

A what?
Lycanthrope.

Oh.
What's that?

A man who imagines himself
to be a wolf.

Oh.

Poor devil.

We should try to do
something to help him.

Well, Doctor, I think I'll run
up to Llanwelly and find out...

You know, Inspector,
I had the very same idea.

To be able to cure this man,
I have to know who he is.

Right.
We'll go up together.

Somebody's broken
into this vault.

How long since you were
here last, Sergeant?

Not for months.
Nobody's died in Llanwelly lately,

and nobody comes here
if he doesn't have to.

The door...

What about it?
It's broken from inside.

Here, give me that.

Someone must've taken
the body out of the tomb.

That's not Lawrence Talbot.
Not Talbot?

Do you know who this is here?
Yes. That's Freddy Jolly.

Who's he?
Been up for vagrancy.

What would you say
he died of, Doctor?

Severed jugular.
This man bled to death.

Same as the constable
in Cardiff.

Looks rather like the bite of an animal.
Aye, that animal.

We remember it well hereabouts.

And it must've carried away
the corpse of poor Sir Lawrence.

What animal?
Why, didn't you know, sir?

There was a wild animal
around here a few years ago.

It killed people. Bit through their
throats, drained their blood.

Did they kill it?
Sir John Talbot thought he did, sir.

He attacked it in the dark
one night, or so he thought.

But it was his son he killed.
Poor Mr. Larry.

Where is Sir John Talbot now?

Over there, sir. Died
of grief shortly after.

Let's get out of here.
But the body, sir.

Mustn't touch that. That's evidence.
Yes, sir.

Sergeant, if it's convenient, I'd like
to see a photograph of Lawrence Talbot.

There's one up in
my office, sir.

Good.

Here's Mr. Larry's
photograph, sir.

Take a look at this face, Doctor.
Isn't that our man in Cardiff?

Yes. There is a similarity. But I
wouldn't swear it's the same man.

Of course it's not the same man.

If it were, I'd be off me top.

I think the sergeant here better
come back to Cardiff with us...

and see if he can positively
identify this man.

That's the thing to do. Do you
mind if I use your telephone?

I'd like to check up on
my patient's condition.

Of course, Doctor. Over there.

Hello? Put me through to the Queen's
Hospital in Cardiff, please.

I want to talk to
Dr. Gordon.

Have you ever heard of
a Gypsy woman named Maleva?

A Gypsy woman?
A vagrant?

We always register them.

Hello, Dr. Gordon?
This is Dr. Mannering speaking.

How's Lawrence Talbot doing?

You know, the head-injury case
that went violent yesterday.

Did you notify the police?

Well, I suppose that's all
we can do at present.

I'll be back tonight, Doctor.
Good-bye.

What happened to Talbot?
Did he die?

No, he tore off his straightjacket
during the night and escaped.

Tore off his straightjacket?

How?
Bit right through it.

Tore it to shreds
with his teeth.

With his teeth?

Bruno!
Stop it!

What do you want here?

I'm looking for
an old Gypsy woman.

Maleva is her name.

Is she here with you? Maleva?
Yeah, she is with us.

You'll find her over there.

Maleva!

They told me you'd left England.

I've looked all over Europe
for you, from town to town.

Now that I've found you,
you must help me.

Come in.

What do you want from me?

Maleva,

here I still carry
the sign of the pentagram.

The mark of the werewolf.

I kill people.

When the moon is full,
I turn into a wolf.

It's not in my power
to help you.

You're the only one
that understands.

Nobody else in the world
will believe me.

But you...
you know.

Your own son Bela
was a werewolf.

He attacked me. He changed
me into a werewolf.

He's the one that put
this curse on me.

You watched over him until
he was permitted to die.

Well, now I want to die too.

Won't you show me the way?
I can't.

But I will guard you
and take care of you...

as I took care of my own son.

You're not leaving us.
You're not going with him.

He has the sign
of the beast on him.

He is dangerous
only when the moon is full.

I shall watch over him.

He will murder you.

No. I shall take him
to a place I know.

Where?
I know a man...

who has the power to help you.

Help me?

Who?

Is that the town?

Yes, that is Vasaria.

At last.

Stop.
Ooh.

Let's ask in here.

Are you the proprietor?
I am.

What do you beggars want?
We just want to ask you, sir,

about the Doctor Frankenstein.

Frankenstein? Don't mention
that name around this town.

Oh, please, won't you
tell us where he lives?

There.

That's his burial place.

The fire destroyed him
and all his misdeeds.

He's dead?
Oh, but he can't be.

He didn't die
any too soon for us.

We all wish that
he'd never been born.

What did you want with him?

I heard he was a great doctor...

who could help people that
other doctors couldn't cure.

Him? Murder and crimes
was all he ever brought us.

He harbored a monster
in his house,

a thing created by black magic.

Dr. Frankenstein, dead.

Come.

Thank you, sir,
for the information.

Come on.
Get out and stay out.

We don't want your kind
around here.

Oh, keep your hands off of me!

Now I must go on living.

There's no hope for me to die.

Wait! Stop!
Don't go!

Wait!
Don't go!

Don't!

Who could've done
this terrible thing?

Could it be the monster again?

Frankenstein's monster?

No. The monster was burned
to death by Dr. Frankenstein.

Yes, we found his bones
and buried them.

How do you know they were
the monster's bones?

She wasn't killed by a monster.
An animal bit her to death.

I saw the wound on her throat.

What animals are around
here that can kill people?

A wolf.
Yes, a wolf.

That's his cry. Come on.
Let's get him.

Come on!
Come on!

There he is!

Where is he?
He was here a moment ago.

The Gypsy woman! What
are you doing here?

Come on.
Speak up, old witch.

Where's that strange man
that was with you?

Let's take her back to town.
We'll make her speak.

Dr. Frankenstein
must've kept records.

A diary.

You know where it is.
Show me.

It isn't here.

"To my dear father."

Then...
she's the one...

that can tell me.

And this man, he wishes to buy
the ruins of my father's estate?

Yes. That's why I asked you
to come here, Baroness.

He wanted me to give him
your address.

Naturally, I refused.

But since I knew you were anxious
to get rid of the property,

and all the memories
connected with it,

I thought that in
my position as mayor...

I would take the liberty
of sending for you.

- Did he say his name is Taylor?
- Yes.

And that's all I know about him.

Baroness Frankenstein,
Mr. Taylor.

- Baroness.
- Mr. Taylor.

Come in, Mr. Taylor.
Come in, come in.

Do you mind if I speak to
the baroness alone, please?

Why... Why,
certainly, certainly.

Now, if...

If you need a witness for the contract,
Baroness, I'm at your service.

Thank you.

Won't you please
sit down, Mr. Taylor?

Thank you.

I understand that
you want to buy our land.

No, I...
I wanted to meet you.

I don't understand.
I didn't know how to find you,

and the mayor wouldn't
give me your address,

so I felt that if I offered
to buy your land...

that you'd be sure to come.

It's certainly a most unusual
way to make an acquaintance.

But now that you have gone to
all this trouble to meet me,

what can I really do for you?

I want your father's records.

His experiments
with life and death.

The records of the creation
of the monster.

My father's diary.

Yes. You must
give it to me.

I don't have any records.

If I had, I...

I would have destroyed
them long ago.

My father was a great scientist,

but all he created
brought unhappiness,

terror.

Oh, but you don't understand.

I must have them.
Won't you help me?

I'm sorry, Mr. Taylor.
There is nothing I can do.

The house burned down,

and I have never set a foot
on that ground again...

and never shall.

And that's all the
information I can give you.

Well, is everything
settled, Baroness?

No.

We decided not to go through
with the sale after all.

Why, that sounds like...
Yes, Baroness.

It's the Festival of New Wine.
It begins tonight.

It's beautiful.

Takes me back to my childhood.

Why don't you join us tonight,
Baroness, as our guest of honor?

You would take the first
train in the morning.

Thank you, Mayor.
Of course I'll stay.

You, too, Mr. Taylor. I hope you
will accept the invitation...

to be our guest tonight,
on behalf of our community.

Thank you.
I'll be there.

Eternally!
I don't want to live eternally!

Stay away!
Go away, all of you!

Let me alone.!

Stay away!

Good evening,
Mr. Talbot.

I beg your pardon.

You must be mistaken. My name is Taylor.
I know you by Talbot.

Lawrence Talbot. You carry your
identification on your forehead.

Baroness Frankenstein,
Dr. Mannering.

How do you do,
Dr. Mannering?

Won't you sit down?
Thank you.

How does it happen
that you're here, Doctor?

I've been looking
for you, Mr. Talbot.

And you were very easy to find.

The newspapers told me
where to look for you.

Fontainbleu, Aachen,

Elrad,

and finally Vasaria.

I simply followed the trail
and found you.

Very clever of you,
wasn't it, Doctor?

Mr. Talbot is returning
to England with me.

I don't think that I care
to do that, Doctor.

Baroness, will you give me
the honor of the next dance?

Of course.

At our Festival
of New Wine, gentlemen,

it's a man's privilege
to ask any lady for a dance.

And vice-versa.
Excuse us.

Why have you followed me?

Talbot, you're a murderer.

Prove it.
You're insane at times, and you know it.

You're sane enough now, though,
to know what you're doing.

Why don't you let me
take care of you?

Do you think it would do any good
to put me in a lunatic asylum?

You know that's where you belong.
It's the only thing to do.

That wouldn't do any good. I'd only
escape again, sooner or later.

We might be able to cure you.
Might prevent you...

I only want to die.
That's why I'm here.

If I ever find peace,
I'll find it here.

You understand.
Why don't you help me?

Sit down.

How can I help you?

Dr. Frankenstein
left a diary.

In it are his records of the
secrets of life and death.

If I can find
Dr. Frankenstein's diary,

I can break this curse
and find peace in death.

That's morbid.
Besides,

Dr. Frankenstein's experiments were
considered rather extraordinary.

Medical science never,
never recognized them.

That's just it. Why don't you
ask that girl, his daughter?

She can tell you about
things Dr. Frankenstein did...

that your medical science
has never heard of.

Talbot, I'm appealing
to your better nature...

while you can still
think normally.

The moon will be full again soon. You must
come back with me while there's still time.

Isn't there somebody
that could understand?

Gentlemen, why those
serious faces?

The monster.! The monster.!
The monster.!

No. No, it's me.

Come on with me.

Well?

Not a sign of them.
We shall have to wait until morning.

It's clear to me
they're hiding in those ruins.

Much as I'd like to kill the
monster, I'd hate to crawl around...

through the dark catacombs of Frankenstein's
castle in the black of the night.

What about that Frankenstein girl?
She has lived up there.

Let's bring her in here.
Stop, stop.

There's no need for us all
to storm after her.

She'll come in if I ask her.

Why should we treat her so fancy?
She's a Frankenstein.

Wait, wait, wait.

She's a young woman
who's done us no harm.

Now, stay here.

The men would like to
talk to you, Baroness.

The Gypsy woman is still
locked up in the prison.

Let's find out what she
knows about all of this.

There's the daughter of
the accursed Frankenstein.

That name has brought nothing but
misery and misfortune to our village.

We want an end of it,
do you hear? Tonight.

Now listen to me.

The baroness and I want
nothing but to help you.

I tell you, he's lying.
I heard him this evening...

talking to that stranger
about insanity and murder.

I heard it with my own ears.

Don't get excited. You won't
get anywhere by raving.

Dr. Mannering is right. To find and
destroy the monster, we must have a plan.

We know that it's hiding
in the Frankenstein ruins.

I can lead you there,
if you want me to.

I know those cellars well.

Don't trust her! Don't let them fool you!
They're all in this together!

Here she is.
And the Gypsy too.

She's one of your gang of murderers.
You know these people?

Speak up, old witch.

I never saw them before.

What's your name?

Maleva.
Maleva?

See? He knows her. Why don't
you arrest them, all of them?

Lock up these murderers. As long as I'm
mayor, justice shall be preserved.

I shall decide what is to
be done in this village.

Haven't we tried before to get
rid of the monster by force?

We burned down the sanitarium,

and yet we didn't destroy
Frankenstein's fiendish creation.

We must be
more clever this time.

Let's use our brains for once.

Whose brains? Yours? I'd
rather depend on my fists.

There's no use
in storming the ruins.

We must pretend to be
friends with the monster.

Yes. Why not elect it
mayor of Vasaria?

This monster was created
artificially.

It must be destroyed
by the same means.

I'll take you to the ruins now.
I'll go with you, of course.

I promise you, if you'll help me, I'll rid
Vasaria of this curse once and for all.

Talbot!
Talbot!

Talbot, where are you?

Talbot, we're your friends.

They must be there.
I saw the smoke.

- What do you want?
- We have come to help you.

What do you mean?

You wanted to find
my father's diary.

Yes, of course.
I'll show you where it is hidden.

She speaks the truth, my son.

I... I guess
I'll have to trust you.

Steady.

They're friends.

This is Dr. Mannering.

He's come to help you,
to make you well.

Yes, that's why I'm here.

Dr. Mannering.

But the diary... You said you
knew where your father hid it.

Yes.

It isn't in there.
I know.

Please.

The Secret of Life and Death.

"Matter ages because
it loses energy."

"This artificial body
I have created..."

"has been charged with
superhuman power..."

"so that its span of life
will be extended."

"Its lifetime will equal the lives of
more than a hundred human beings."

"This, my creation,
can never perish, unless..."

"unless its energies are
drained off artificially...

by changing the poles
from plus to minus."

But that's the secret of life.
What good does it do me?

I'm not interested in life.

I wasn't created artificially.

I'm a human being. I've got
real blood in my veins.

What can we do to end my life?

"Energy which cannot be
destroyed can be transmitted."

Well, if that's the case,

then the energies from my
body can be drained off also.

Dr. Frankenstein must've...

performed his experiments
in this room.

With these machines.

The don't seem to have been
destroyed by the fire.

You must fix them...

and help me be rid of this thing
that keeps me alive eternally.

When you were talking
to the monster,

I was afraid you meant
what you said.

What did I say?

You said you'd help him.

Of course I can't.

I mustn't.

It shouldn't be difficult
to connect these wires again.

Yes, I'll need these machines.

I believe they can be
repaired again.

Machines, day after day.!

What does Mannering
need machines for?

Remember Dr. Frankenstein?
He ordered machines too.

I tell you, that English doctor's no
better than Frankenstein himself.

Ho, hum. Always grumbling, Vazek.
Always complaining.

We've got to trust the doctor.
What else can we do?

But doesn't it strike you as strange that
Mannering and that Frankenstein girl...

never tell us what
they're doing up there?

If it wasn't for
that old Gypsy witch...

driving her wagon down to buy their
provisions, we'd never see any of them.

- I think we ought to go up there and see for ourselves.
- Right.

Oh, they're not hurting us.
It's none of our affair what goes on there.

Do you want to wait for disaster
to strike at us again?

I'll tell you what
we ought to do.

Here are the ruins.

In here are all of them.

Here runs the underground
stream that drives

the turbines that
Frankenstein installed.

But the water comes
from up here...

to the dam below.

Blow up that dam and they'll
all drown like rats.

All of them.

You're drunk, Vazek.

That's why I don't take
your word seriously.

Otherwise, I'd have you arrested
for conspiring to endanger...

the lives of this community.

That's the water.

The water rushing down
to turn the turbines.

That'll make the machines work.

Doctor.!
Aren't you almost ready?

I'm setting the machines now. Everything
will be ready for you in a little while.

Yes, but there's so little time.

I don't want to live
through another spell.

Yes, I know. But please
don't bother me now.

I have work to do.

Remember, Doctor.
It must be tonight.

Why don't you lock him up...

so you can give your full attention
to do what you promised...

to destroy the danger
of the monster?

Please, Elsa, I know
what I have to do.

- But he's insane!
- Insane?

He's not insane.

He simply wants to die.

Frank! Frank!

Listen to me, Frank.

I saw my father become
obsessed by his power.

He died a horrible death,

just as my grandfather did.
Yes, I know.

You promised the people to rid
Vasaria of this monstrous creation.

I want to be sure that nothing,

nothing whatsoever,
can sway you.

It is in your hands to undo the crimes
my father and grandfather committed.

We must clear the name
of Frankenstein.

All right. Tonight, I will
draw off the monster's energy.

And I hope I'll bring
peace to both of them.

"Connecting the plus poles
to the minus...

"will charge the energy output
of the nervous system...

as by connecting
the minus to the minus."

Connect the minus to the minus.

I can't do it.

I can't destroy
Frankenstein's creation.

I've got to see it
at its full power.

Frank! You're making
him strong again!

Frank, stop it!

Stop the machine, Frank!
Don't pull that switch!

Where's Vazek?
He said he'd blow up the dam.