Frankenstein: The True Story

Frankenstein: The True Story is a 1973 television film about a scientist who creates a monster.
 * Directed by Jack Smight. Written by Christopher Isherwood, based on the Frankenstein (novel) by Mary Shelley.

Dialogue

 * Dr. Henry Clerval: You're afraid. I was afraid at first. It's the way we've been brought up. We've been brought up to fear! To fear the punishment of the gods. But Prometheus defied them.
 * Dr. Victor Frankenstein: And they punished him!
 * Dr. Henry Clerval: He scorned their punishment. So has every other hero that's stolen secrets from nature to give to mankind.

Cast

 * James Mason — Dr. Polidori
 * Leonard Whiting — Dr. Victor Frankenstein
 * David McCallum — Dr. Henry Clerval
 * Jane Seymour — Agatha/Prima
 * Nicola Pagett — Elizabeth Fanshawe
 * Michael Sarrazin — The Creature
 * Michael Wilding — Sir Richard Fanshawe
 * Clarissa Kaye-Mason — Lady Fanshawe
 * Agnes Moorehead — Mrs. Blair
 * Margaret Leighton — Francoise DuVal
 * Ralph Richardson — Mr. Lacey
 * John Gielgud — Chief Constable