Bride of the Monster (1955)

1. This is the worst storm yet.

2. Yeah, almost every night

3. for the last three months.

4. Well, it sure ain't natural.

5. I'm getting away from this lightning while I still can.

6. Ah, you'll be soaked to the bone before you get ten yards.

7. Well I'd better be soaked than barbecued.

8. What if we ran for it?

9. It's impossible to make it to the main road.

10. Maybe we can make it to the old willows place?

11. Are you out of your mind?

12. Do you actually believe in them monsters?

13. But the newspaper story said...

14. Oh, act your age, Mac.

15. Here's the house.

16. Don't look good to me.

17. Ah, you're just spooked.

18. Well, spooked or not, that place just don't look healthy.

19. It hasn't been lived in in 15 years, it's deserted.

20. It is, huh?

21. Thought you said this place was deserted?

22. Well, it's supposed to be. I don't get it.

23. what do you want?

24. Let's get out of here.

25. Uh, we didn't think anybody lived here.

26. It was all his idea.

27. We thought maybe we could get out of the rain.

28. It looks like it's going to last all night.

29. It's pretty bad out there.

30. Oh no, you can't stay.

31. Oh, be reasonable.

32. You can't stay.

33. We might catch pneumonia.

34. You're not welcome in my house.

35. Go away, now, go, go, go.

36. Lobo!

37. Lobo! No, no!

38. The monster!

39. Now you believe those newspaper stories?

40. Do you hear that, lobo? You're the monster.

41. Perhaps, one day you will meet the monster.

42. Heh, heh, heh.

43. Wait, wait! I can't run anymore.

44. We gotta keep going.

45. That was the monster.

46. Well, I wouldn't give to see a couple of cops right about now.

47. Come on.

48. you, get these straps off of me.

49. Let me loose, do you hear me?

50. Lobo hears,

51. but he cannot speak.

52. Lobo is mute.

53. Because of the storm, I was afraid

54. we were not going to have guests tonight.

55. Lobo, you're too rough with my patient.

56. Already, he tires of our humble hospitality.

57. I said, let me out of here.

58. At the moment, I am afraid it is impossible.

59. Who are you?

60. Vornoff, Dr. Eric vornoff.

61. The name will mean little to you.

62. what are you doing to me?

63. You will be soon as big as a giant.

64. Strength of 20 men.

65. Or, like all the others,

66. dead.

67. Turn off the switch.

68. Isn't it strange, lobo?

69. Our friend always returns home after his long, tiresome swim.

70. What's your name?

71. You find out.

72. We will. Hey, watch that cigarette.

73. What were you doing in the swamp?

74. What's it to you?

75. That's enough of that, buster.

76. No tank town jail can hold me.

77. I'll be out of this here rat trap in 24 hours.

78. That's what you think.

79. Vagrancy will hold you for 72 hours.

80. Take him downstairs and book him.

81. All right, let's go.

82. Let go of me, I said.

83. You can't do that to me. Let go.

84. Hey, where do you think you're going?

85. What do you mean, where do I think I'm going?

86. I've got captain Robbins' newspapers.

87. You have, have you?

88. And since when you don't leave the captain's papers with me?

89. Since the captain told me to bring 'em in myself.

90. When you read 'em first, you mess 'em up.

91. Hold your tongue and give me those papers

92. or I'll have you locked up for peddling without a license.

93. I got a license.

94. Want to bet I can make it expire all of a sudden?

95. Come in.

96. Here's the late editions, captain.

97. Look, why can't I work on this case?

98. Get back to your desk.

99. Yes, sir.

100. - And kelton. Yes, sir?

101. I told the boy to bring the papers in himself.

102. Yes, sir. But if you ask me...

103. I didn't.

104. Yes, sir.

105. - And kelton. Yes, sir?

106. Where's lieutenant Craig?

107. In his office, I think.

108. Send him in.

109. Yes, sir, right away, sir.

110. come in.

111. Hi, captain.

112. Hello, dick, sit down.

113. Seen today's papers?

114. Is there anyone who hasn't?

115. Well, there's the one nice thing about birds.

116. They never cause anybody any trouble.

117. Your girlfriend writes a good story.

118. She thinks so. Anything new.

119. No.

120. 12 disappearances around this place and nothing to go on.

121. And nothing this time either.

122. Been around that swamp so many times, I'm getting web-footed.

123. It's been fired recently.

124. It's been fired several times recently.

125. jake long's wife identified it a little while ago.

126. The coat belonged to Ralph mcrae, his partner.

127. They went hunting by marsh lake and never returned.

128. Not much left of it.

129. Boys found it floating in the lake.

130. What about the rifle?

131. About a mile from the old willows place.

132. All ties together.

133. But it doesn't prove anything.

134. You think there's anything in these monster stories?

135. Your girlfriend does.

136. What about you?

137. The police don't believe in monsters.

138. Facts are our business.

139. Facts and only facts, and don't you forget it.

140. I'm telling you, the captain isn't seeing nobody.

141. Now please be a good girl, miss lawton, and go.

142. Captain Robbins, will you tell this junior g-man to let me go?

143. Kelton. Yes, sir.

144. Let her go.

145. Just as you say, captain.

146. It used to be a newspaper reporter

147. could get information around this place.

148. What in the world do you mean?

149. Now, he makes like a comic.

150. Dick Craig, I don't put much stock

151. in the future success of our married life

152. if already you're holding out secrets on me.

153. You've been dodging me all day.

154. Where'd you get an idea like that?

155. You mean you haven't been dodging me?

156. No. And all those times I called.

157. And kelton said the line was busy, it really was?

158. Yes.

159. Ok, let's have the story on lake marsh and the monster.

160. Uh... monster, monster... aaah.

161. I thought so.

162. There is no such thing as monsters,

163. this is the 20th century.

164. Don't count on it.

165. Monsters, I mean.

166. Now, Janet.

167. Don't you "now, Janet" me.

168. And you can count our engagement off.

169. - You don't mean that. Yes, I do.

170. No, she doesn't.

171. I most certainly do.

172. Well, then, give him back the ring.

173. What?

174. If you're throwing over the marriage, give him back the ring.

175. Now, chief, I...

176. Captain. Give him back the rock.

177. It's the only fair thing.

178. I'd rather throw it in lake marsh first.

179. Besides, we've got to leave our personal lives

180. out of our business lives.

181. As it should be.

182. As I've been saying all along.

183. Dog! Now, what about the monster story?

184. Well, that's your own story.

185. You wrote it and you're stuck with it.

186. There's no such thing as monsters.

187. But two more men have vanished up at lake marsh.

188. That makes 12 in three months.

189. Everything points to an inhuman violence.

190. Or do you still stick to the alligator devouring routine?

191. Oh!

192. You're withholding news from the public.

193. Janet, you may not believe this,

194. but you got all the story there is.

195. You're right, I don't believe it.

196. Well, nevertheless, it's the truth.

197. Except for the monster, figment of your very vivid imagination.

198. While we've got nothing more to go on

199. than what you reported to the paper.

200. The figment of my imagination is something I believe

201. and you haven't been able to disprove it.

202. We've conducted every possible search.

203. Monsters, it's fantastic. You know that.

204. Our business is dealing in facts, evidence.

205. Can't you see that?

206. Men disappearing. Huh.

207. There's plenty of quicksand out there.

208. Yeah, 12 went down in the same place.

209. Well, we're doing our best to solve it.

210. Maybe your best isn't good enough.

211. - Janet! No, I mean it.

212. No clues.

213. What's this, a dancing costume?

214. And this, a pogo stick?

215. Well, I've got to admit those we're found at the lake.

216. But remember, they were in your own story.

217. No human did this.

218. So you say.

219. Well, looks like I've run into a dead end around here.

220. Ok, if you boys wanna play a game of secrets.,

221. there's nothing left for me to do

222. but take a run out to lake marsh myself.

223. Over my dead body.

224. That could be arranged.

225. Goodbye.

226. She's just crazy enough to do what she says.

227. - You know what, captain? What?

228. I think you're right.

229. Hi, tillie.

230. Hi, Janet. Long time no see.

231. Tillie, do you remember a couple of years ago

232. in the real estate section

233. when the old willows place out on lake marsh

234. was up for sale, against back taxes?

235. Seems to me that was around November or December of '48.

236. - Wanna see the files? Yes.

237. Just a minute.

238. Here they are.

239. October to December, '48.

240. In the top file there.

241. I won't be long.

242. Take your time I ain't going anyplace, and neither are they.

243. Find what you wanted, Janet?

244. Yes, thanks. Sorry to leave such a mess for you.

245. Well, that's what I get paid for.

246. Be a dear, tillie. Call the boss.

247. Tell him I'll be gone the rest of the day,

248. - I'll report in later. Sure thing.

249. On something hot?

250. Oh, it could be.

251. Oh, and dick.

252. Call him at headquarters, break my dinner date with him.

253. Tell him I... I have an ulcer or something.

254. Leave it to me. I fix.

255. Ok.

256. - Hi, Janet. Oh, hi, Marge.

257. Janet. Still on the monster hunt?

258. What do you think?

259. I think the boss has been looking for you all day.

260. Something about the police wanting those monster stories 86'd.

261. You've got the whole town in a panic.

262. I didn't hear you.

263. - I said... I know what you said.

264. But I didn't hear you.

265. I get it. See you later.

266. Lieutenant Craig has been working on the case

267. a long time, professor.

268. I'd like him to hear what you just told me.

269. I should be happy to cooperate.

270. Oh, hello, dick.

271. Professor Vladimir strowski, lieutenant Craig.

272. Glad to meet you, professor.

273. How do you do?

274. Professor, will you bring him up to date?

275. Lieutenant Craig, have you ever heard of loch ness?

276. I think so. That's a lake in Scotland, isn't it?

277. Mm. Then perhaps you are familiar

278. with the loch ness monster.

279. Vaguely.

280. A few years ago, I was called in by the British police

281. to investigate the appearance of a monster at loch ness.

282. Well, they thought that it was some creature

283. left over from a bygone age.

284. I am considered an authority on the subject

285. of prehistoric monsters.

286. However, I must admit that my investigation failed

287. to get the desired results,

288. in that I did not see the monster myself.

289. But others did.

290. There are sworn statements.

291. Professor, is it your theory that perhaps

292. the loch ness monster crossed the ocean and came to the swamp?

293. I consider that possibility extremely remote.

294. But the cases do bear a certain similarity,

295. in that there are so many varied descriptions

296. of this so-called monster.

297. And I thought perhaps, with my knowledge of such things,

298. and with your permission, of course,

299. that I might be able to shed some light on this mystery.

300. That is the reason for my presence here.

301. What do you think, dick?

302. Well, there's no denying we need help of some sort.

303. And you'll keep your findings secret for the time being?

304. As you will.

305. And you don't mind a little company?

306. How do you mean, company?

307. Lieutenant Craig.

308. At times, the police can be quite useful.

309. I should be most happy to have lieutenant Craig's assistance.

310. How soon can you be ready to leave for lake marsh, lieutenant Craig?

311. I'm ready.

312. Well, I suggest we wait until morning.

313. There was a storm brewing when I came in.

314. And it is so close to nightfall.

315. According to reports,

316. the monster strikes only at night.

317. Undoubtedly true, but the preliminary investigation

318. should take place in daylight.

319. The night, the monster, all in good time.

320. Sounds logical.

321. Whatever you say.

322. Now, gentlemen, since I just arrived in town this afternoon,

323. if you will excuse me,

324. I should like to return to my hotel.

325. Certainly, sir.

326. Good day, captain.

327. Professor.

328. Until morning, lieutenant Craig.

329. I'll be here.

330. Strange sort of bird.

331. Where do I meet him?

332. Here, ten o'clock.

333. That will give him plenty of daylight.

334. Well, see you later.

335. Hmm, got a date?

336. What do you think?

337. I'll say you don't.

338. I don't?

339. Girl from her office called in.

340. Said that Janet had a headache or some such thing.

341. If she's gone to lake marsh alone.

342. I'll take her across my knee,

343. if it's the last thing I do.

344. Well, it probably would be.

345. Watch him, dick.

346. Strowski?

347. Just a hunch.

348. Right.

349. you are all right now, my dear.

350. What?

351. Who... who are you?

352. I'm... I'm Dr. Eric vornoff.

353. You had a severe shock.

354. Oh.

355. How did I get here?

356. Oh.

357. That's not important for the moment.

358. What you need now is rest.

359. Rest.

360. You will sleep.

361. Sleep.

362. For the lovely young lady,

363. sleep.

364. Well, here we are at the fork in the road.

365. Like they say in all good westerns,

366. which way to go?

367. Well, that's the road to the willows place.

368. Let's take a chance on that one.

369. Ok. You know, I get to hate this swamp more

370. every time I come out here.

371. You just weren't born for swamp duty, Marty.

372. Yeah, I guess you're right.

373. I'd like to transfer to a department

374. as far away from here as possible.

375. The wind and the rain.

376. Gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural.

377. The ground alive with crawling things,

378. crawling death.

379. You're right there, Marty.

380. This swamp is a monument to death.

381. Snakes, alligators, quicksand,

382. all bent on one thing.

383. Destruction.

384. Something strange about all this rain.

385. The lightning's been going crazy too.

386. Maybe it's like the papers said.

387. All these atom bomb explosions distorted the atmosphere.

388. Maybe.

389. You know, if I was this professor strowski guy,

390. I wouldn't come out in this swamp without a guide.

391. You know, that's the one thing I can't figure.

392. He comes to the office with all these monster stories,

393. makes an appointment to come out here with us,

394. then he goes off by himself.

395. Are you sure he came out here?

396. Where else could he go?

397. Well, let's get at it. Hm.

398. Janet's car?

399. Yeah, there's not a trace of her.

400. Well, maybe after the accident

401. she found her way down to the road and then back into town.

402. I've gotta be sure.

403. Look, there's a coffee joint about ten miles back,

404. let's go and check.

405. - Let's go. Ok.

406. Where did you find her car?

407. Not a sign of her?

408. Where's strowski?

409. I told you not to let him out of your sight.

410. Right, captain.

411. I don't like the looks of things.

412. Well, get back to strowski.

413. I'll get word to you later.

414. Yeah.

415. You look worried, dick.

416. No one.

417. Captain Robbins, her apartment, her office.

418. No one has heard from her since yesterday afternoon.

419. Captain Robbins is checking further.

420. Ok, but what do we do?

421. Orders, find strowski.

422. Ah, get me the city desk.

423. Hello, Jim.

424. Yeah, about the lawton girl.

425. Uh, he just called me too.

426. Who saw her last around your office?

427. Don't be afraid of lobo.

428. He's as gentle as a kitten.

429. Put the tray down here.

430. That is all.

431. Get out.

432. I said, get out!

433. that is all.

434. Now come, my dear.

435. Some cream or sugar?

436. You didn't have your breakfast yet.

437. Now it's past noon.

438. You must be hungry.

439. What happened to me?

440. Your automobile, an accident.

441. Lobo brought you here. To me.

442. What is this place? And who are you?

443. Don't you remember I told you last night?

444. Did you tell me?

445. Yes, I'm Dr. Eric vornoff.

446. Oh. This is the old willows place.

447. Yes.

448. How did you know?

449. I checked our real estate files.

450. A Dr. Eric vornoff bought the willows place

451. in November of 1948.

452. You are a newspaper reporter, huh?

453. Yes.

454. My name seems to mean much to you.

455. Well, actually it wasn't your name I was interested in.

456. Through the mysteries of lake marsh,

457. and the willows place being right on the lake.

458. I looked in the files to see what happened to it.

459. Your name was there as the purchaser.

460. I thought perhaps you might have heard

461. something about the monster.

462. Oh, my dear miss lawton. I...

463. When did I tell you my name?

464. You didn't.

465. But since you were unconscious,

466. I took the Liberty looking into your purse.

467. You must have seen my press card.

468. Yes, I did.

469. Well, since you knew the answers already, why the third degree?

470. And who or what was that monster?

471. Oh, he's quite human.

472. I discovered him in the wilderness of Tibet.

473. He has been quite useful to me... at times.

474. But now, since your tiring experience,

475. I think we have talked too much.

476. I'm not the least bit tired.

477. But you are tired.

478. You are so tired.

479. Strange.

480. Suddenly, I...

481. I do feel very tired.

482. Yes.

483. Very tired.

484. Very tired.

485. Lobo! Take the girl to my quarters.

486. My dear professor strowski.

487. Well, it has been a very long time.

488. Vornoff.

489. It is you.

490. You can see.

491. In Paris, I missed you by a month.

492. In London, a week.

493. At loch ness, by only one day.

494. The monster of lake marsh sounded again like you.

495. Why the sudden interest in me, professor strowski?

496. Your experiments in atomic energy, of course.

497. Ah, so my dear country now believes in my work.

498. And that it can be a success.

499. Our government wants you to return, vornoff,

500. to continue your research and experiments there,

501. where you can have everything at your disposal.

502. Why do you laugh?

503. Surely this is not a laughing matter?

504. My dear professor strowski.

505. 20 years ago, I was banned from my homeland.

506. Parted from my wife and son,

507. never to see them again.

508. Why?

509. Because I suggested to use the atom elements

510. for producing super beings.

511. Beings of unthinkable strength and size.

512. I was classed as a madman,

513. a charlatan,

514. outlawed in the world of science

515. which previously honored me as a genius.

516. Now, here in this forsaken jungle hell,

517. I have proven that I'm all right!

518. Now, professor strowski,

519. it is no laughing matter.

520. Yes. Yes, indeed it was a tragic error.

521. But, as soon as I had learned how correct your findings were,

522. always have been,

523. I informed those in authority.

524. Vornoff, I have searched for you everywhere,

525. everywhere I hear stories of monsters.

526. Now, I am here,

527. sent to bring you home.

528. Home?

529. I have no home.

530. Hunted, despised,

531. living like an animal,

532. the jungle is my home.

533. But I will show the world

534. that I can be its master.

535. I will perfect my own race of people.

536. A race of atomic supermen which will conquer the world.

537. Yes. Yes, of course.

538. A truly great master race,

539. such as I convinced my superiors only you could create.

540. One with which our government

541. can rule the world without debate.

542. You misunderstand me, strowski.

543. I don't intend to return home.

544. My plans are for myself.

545. Are you mad, vornoff?

546. One is always considered mad,

547. when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.

548. Our government ordered me to bring you back.

549. I'm afraid you will find that rather difficult.

550. You see, vornoff, I did not come alone.

551. Neither did I, my dear strowski.

552. Bring him along, lobo.

553. Come, come.

554. Hurry!

555. You are a fool, vornoff.

556. You... you may... you may kill me,

557. but others will come. Silence.

558. You will never get away with this.

559. Put him in there.

560. Vornoff! Vornoff! No! No!

561. Help! Help!

562. Vornoff! Vornoff!

563. Vornoff!

564. Now, professor strowski,

565. you will get a much closer view of the product of my genius.

566. The alleged monster of lake marsh.

567. Vornoff! Vornoff!

568. Vornoff! Vornoff!

569. Your country offers fame and fortune for my return,

570. but my price is so much more great.

571. You will disappear, professor strowski,

572. just as all the others have disappeared.

573. vornoff! Vornoff!

574. It's a rental car.

575. Think it's the one strowski used?

576. I'd make book it is.

577. It's getting dark now.

578. You take the car, and go down to the beach.

579. I'll go through the swamp to the old willows place.

580. Ok.

581. Oh, here. You'd better take this with you.

582. Right.

583. - Oh, Marty? - Yeah?

584. You see anything suspicious, you know where I am.

585. Trouble is, everything in this swamp is suspicious.

586. What can I do for you, sir?

587. Captain Robbins, homicide.

588. Why, captain I haven't murdered anyone in a month of Sundays.

589. Did Janet lawton stop by here late yesterday afternoon?

590. Oh, just a like a policeman, no sense of humor.

591. Yes, she stopped by late in the afternoon.

592. Remember the time?

593. Well, not to the second.

594. She came in around two, and left around 3:30.

595. Then again, that isn't so late, is it?

596. What'd she want?

597. She was looking for information.

598. That I'm sure of.

599. Do you happen to know what that information was?

600. Well, sure.

601. - Well? Well, what?

602. Must we play games?

603. I didn't know we were.

604. What was miss lawton looking for in the files?

605. Oh, well, why didn't you ask that in the first place

606. instead of all your chit-chat?

607. She was looking over the real estate files

608. in October, November and December of 1948.

609. In particular, the sale of the old willows place,

610. out on lake marsh.

611. Did she find what she was looking for?

612. Well I guess she did. At least, she found the sales notice.

613. I saw it myself after she rushed out.

614. She left the paper open at the November 26th date.

615. Wanna see it?

616. Why, very much.

617. Well, it's right up there. I haven't had time to put it back yet.

618. Yeah, Dr. Eric vornoff.

619. Give me all you have on him.

620. I'll hang on.

621. Are we ready for the girl?

622. Here.

623. Oh, lovely.

624. Strap her to the table.

625. Do as I command you.

626. I'll teach you to disobey.

627. You will obey.

628. Strap her in.

629. Strap her in, I command you.

630. Get the equipment ready.

631. It will hurt just for a moment,

632. and then you will emerge a woman

633. of super strength and beauty.

634. The bride of the atom.

635. You are insane.

636. My paper knows where I am.

637. You can't hurt me and get away with it.

638. As soon as my experiments are completed,

639. no one can ever touch me,

640. I will make the law.

641. Either way, whether I succeed or fail,

642. it will not hurt you very long.

643. Let me go! Let me go!

644. You heard what she said.

645. Who are you?

646. For one thing, the police.

647. Now turn her loose and make it fast.

648. You have the advantage for the moment.

649. Stop talking and turn her loose.

650. Dick.

651. Take him out, quickly.

652. Where's lieutenant Craig?

653. We found strowski's car down the road.

654. Lieutenant took off through the swamp.

655. Sent me down here to the beach to wait for him.

656. Where was he heading?

657. Old willows place.

658. - Kelton. Yes, sir.

659. Now, this is your first time out.

660. - Don't mess up the operation. Yes, sir.

661. I mean no, sir.

662. martin, you stay with me.

663. Yes, sir.

664. Come on.

665. I'm sure my experiments

666. on the young lady will interest you.

667. I'll live to see you hang.

668. There are much more important things to attend.

669. I hope the straps are not cutting.

670. Such lovely skin should not be marred.

671. Lobo, stop.

672. Stop. Stop, I command!

673. Stop!

674. easy, Janet.

675. Janet, get me the gun.

676. Easy.

677. I've gotta stop him.

678. You can't, he'll kill you.

679. He probably will anyway.

680. Stay here.

681. Turn that thing off.

682. Lobo!

683. No! No!

684. Stop.

685. I beg you!

686. stop!

687. Kelton, you station yourself here.

688. You men surround the house.

689. martin, you come with me.

690. All right, captain.

691. - Ready? Right.

692. look, the place is on fire.

693. Let's get out of here before we get roasted.

694. Ca... captain, look!

695. What do you suppose that was?

696. Well, whatever it is, get it.

697. Oh, wait a minute. Here comes dick.

698. He's got Janet.

699. Get him!

700. No, don't shoot! You might hit Janet.

701. Let's go.

702. - Marty. Yeah?

703. Give me a gun.

704. Here you go.

705. There he goes!

706. Can I suggest something, captain?

707. No! Now get on up over that ledge.

708. Get up over on top of him.

709. That's what I was gonna suggest.

710. Well, stop the chattering.

711. - Get in action. Yes, sir.

712. Now he's clear. Give it to him.

713. I think it's broken. Don't move, buddy.

714. he tampered in god's domain.