Son of Dracula (1943)
Robert Paige: Frank Stanley
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[first lines]
Harry [townsman bit] : How are ya, doctor?
Prof. Harry Brewster : Hi, Harry.
Frank Stanley : Hey, Charlie!
Charlie, station agent : Hello Dr. Brewster, Mr. Stanley.
Frank Stanley : How are ya. Say, uh, those all the passengers you have?
Charlie, station agent : Just the four.
Prof. Harry Brewster : You didn't put anyone off at the wrong station, did you? We're here to meet a friend of the Caldwells, a Count Alucard.
Charlie, station agent : There was no Count on this train. All customers. Say - there was a lot of stuff in the baggage car that might belong to your Count.
Prof. Harry Brewster : Thanks, we'll take a look at it.
Train Conductor Voice : [offscreen] All aboard.
Frank Stanley : [looking at a pushcart piled with trunks and cases] Well, does this look as though he's come to stay for just a couple of weeks?
Prof. Harry Brewster : No, it doesn't. I wonder what's become of him?
Frank Stanley : Probably coming by car. Don't worry, he'll show up.
Prof. Harry Brewster : [the Doctor moves close to the luggage, studies the name on a crest on a box which has been stacked sideways] D - R - A - C...
Frank Stanley : What are you mumbling about?
Prof. Harry Brewster : Nothing, nothing. Just a silly idea hit me. Well, if there's no Alucard, there's no need of our staying around here. I've got to get back to the office.
[He leaves scene as Frank now looks at the sideways crest. Fade to black]
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Frank Stanley : No, you can't be Kay. Kay's dead! I know, I killed her. I saw her fall. I was with the sheriff when he found her body. She was dead. She was dead! I saw her!
Katherine Caldwell : You see me now too.
Frank Stanley : Yes, but...
Katherine Caldwell : Do you doubt your own eyes?
Frank Stanley : It is you. It is you, Kay, and you're alive! But what is it, Kay? You seem to be cold, like death. You seem to be Kay, but there's a strange difference. It's almost as if I didn't know you.
Katherine Caldwell : Does that mean you no longer love me?
Frank Stanley : I'll always love you.
Katherine Caldwell : Enough to spend the rest of your life with me?
Frank Stanley : But... But you're married to Alucard.
Katherine Caldwell : I don't love him. I never did.
Frank Stanley : But you're married to him!
Katherine Caldwell : I had to. It was part of the plan I told you about in the garden. I asked you to have faith in me then. I beg you to have faith in me now.
Frank Stanley : I don't understand.
Katherine Caldwell : Count Alucard is immortal. Through him, I attained immortality. Through me, you will do the same, and we will spend eternity together.
Frank Stanley : Are you serious? Do you expect me to believe anything so unreal?
Katherine Caldwell : How can you explain the fact you shot through him without hurting him? How else could I be here?
Frank Stanley : Why, I can't explain it. It's... it's so incredible!
Katherine Caldwell : Perhaps you'll understand when I tell you... Count Alucard's real name is Count Dracula.
Frank Stanley : Count Dracula? You mean the Hungarian who's supposed to have become...
Katherine Caldwell : Don't use that word. We don't like it. Say, rather, that we are undead, immortal.
Frank Stanley : Do you mean you deliberately planned this? You married him so you could become a...
Katherine Caldwell : So you and I could attain immortality, yes.
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Frank Stanley : But even if it would work, do you expect me to agree to anything so fantastic?
Katherine Caldwell : You have no choice. I've taken the first step while you were sleeping.
Frank Stanley : No. No, I can't do it.
Katherine Caldwell : I've already told you, you have no choice. Frank, isn't eternity together... better than a few years of ordinary life?
Frank Stanley : Yes. Yes, I suppose it is.
Katherine Caldwell : There's one thing you must do while you're still in your present form.
Frank Stanley : What is that?
Katherine Caldwell : Destroy Dracula.
Frank Stanley : Destroy Dracula? But how?
Katherine Caldwell : There is one advantage all humans have over us. You can move about in the daytime. We can't. We must return to our graves before sunrise, or we're destroyed.
Frank Stanley : But how can I keep him from his grave?
Katherine Caldwell : You don't have to. You can destroy him in one of two ways... either drive a stake through his heart, or burn his grave before he reaches it. You must do this, Frank, for us.
