But what am I doing? I'm harming nobody. Just robbing a few graves. What doctor or scientist doesn't? How else can we learn the complexities of the human animal?

— Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing)

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10 seconds sound clip from the The Curse of Frankenstein movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:32:28.741 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Haven't you found it difficult keeping away just guessing what I was doing? Never knowing just how well I was getting on?

- I've decided to let you see my progress. Then you can judge for yourself whether I shall succeed or not. I'm at the last stage but one, come and see.

- What do you think?

- It's horrible!

- The features are not important. What matters is I'm creating a being that will live and breathe. Once the scars on the face heal, it won't look so bad.

- Victor, I appeal to you. Stop what you're doing before it's too late.

- But what am I doing? I'm harming nobody. Just robbing a few graves. What doctor or scientist doesn't? How else can we learn the complexities of the human animal?

- Doctors rob for the eventual good of mankind.

- This can never end in anything but evil.

- Why do you say that?

- Look, I admit he isn't a particularly good-looking specimen at present, but don't forget, one's facial character is built up by what lies behind it... in the brain.

- A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence.

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Top rated lines from this movie

She may be right. One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths. Searching, researching until one is too old to enjoy life.

Just look at those hands. Great clodhopping things. No wonder he was a robber. With hands like those, he couldn't have been anything else. Except, perhaps, a gorilla.

But what am I doing? I'm harming nobody. Just robbing a few graves. What doctor or scientist doesn't? How else can we learn the complexities of the human animal?

All right, Victor. I'll help you.

Look, I admit he isn't a particularly good-looking specimen at present, but don't forget, one's facial character is built up by what lies behind it... in the brain.

The Curse of Frankenstein Sound Clip

Listen to memorable quotes from the 1957 British horror film The Curse of Frankenstein, with sound clips and sfx.

Actors: Peter Cushing (Victor Frankenstein), Robert Urquhart (Paul Krempe), Hazel Court (Elizabeth)

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