Frankenstein: The True Story (1973 TV Movie)

James Mason: Dr. John Polidori

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• Dr. John Polidori : What a model parent you've been! You loved your creature so long as it was pretty but when it lost its looks, Hah! That was another matter! So much for your dainty conscience.

• Dr. John Polidori : It's a wise monster that knows its own father.

• Dr. John Polidori : And what different futures, your and mine. But each will have what each desires. Only fools like Henry Clerval want vulgar fame. I shall have the power that works unseen, that moves the world. You alone, Frankenstein, when you read in your newspaper that a monarch has been deposed or that two nations are at war with each other, will say to yourself - that's the hand of Polidori. That's the man who once called me colleague.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Long live Polidori the invisible. May his plots thicken.

• Dr. John Polidori : [to the Creature]  I can't abide delicacy, especially in monsters.

• Dr. John Polidori : [to Frankenstein]  You want to be rid of him just as much as I do, you hyprocrite!

• Dr. John Polidori : [to the Creature, referring to Victor]  He not only made you, he made a mess of you.

• The Creature : [hypnotized and speaking in Henry Clervel's voice]  For God's sake, help me, Polidori!

  Dr. John Polidori : I can't help you, Henry. And God certainly won't. Why should he? He didn't create this... freak.

• Dr. John Polidori : Violence may be unavoidable, but clumsiness is inexcusable.

• Dr. John Polidori : Our dear girl must get married as soon as is decently possible. An unmarried woman has no freedom of action.