The villagers are suspicious and frightened of the new doctor, Frankenstein's grandson, who has arrived at the castle. They fear he may be creating another monster. Inspector Kemp, who lost an arm and leg fighting one of Frankenstein's previous creatures, agrees to investigate. However, one villager points out they don't know if the doctor is guilty and that storming the castle is a tired cliche. Instead, Inspector Kemp proposes paying a friendly visit to snoop around under the guise of welcoming the doctor, which the villagers approve of.
The villagers are suspicious and frightened of the new doctor, Frankenstein's grandson, who has arrived at the castle. They fear he may be creating another monster. Inspector Kemp, who lost an arm and leg fighting one of Frankenstein's previous creatures, agrees to investigate. However, one villager points out they don't know if the doctor is guilty and that storming the castle is a tired cliche. Instead, Inspector Kemp proposes paying a friendly visit to snoop around under the guise of welcoming the doctor, which the villagers approve of.
The villagers are suspicious and frightened of the new doctor, Frankenstein's grandson, who has arrived at the castle. They fear he may be creating another monster. Inspector Kemp, who lost an arm and leg fighting one of Frankenstein's previous creatures, agrees to investigate. However, one villager points out they don't know if the doctor is guilty and that storming the castle is a tired cliche. Instead, Inspector Kemp proposes paying a friendly visit to snoop around under the guise of welcoming the doctor, which the villagers approve of.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN - ACT ONE, SCENE 8 – The Town Square
VILLAGER 1: I can feel it in my bones! There’s something very wrong going on up
there in that castle! VILLAGER 2: You’re right! They’re up to no good I'll tell you! VILLAGER 3: But what are we supposed to do about it? VILLAGER 4: Where’s Inspector Kemp? He’ll know what to do! Inspector Kemp enters VILLAGER 5: There he is! Villager 4 crosses to Inspector Kemp VILLAGER 4: Inspector, have you heard? Frankenstein’s grandson is in the village! VILLAGER 6: We’re frightened. They may be making another monster up there. VILLAGER 7: Those Frankenstein’s are dangerous! INSPECTOR: You’re telling me! I’ll never forget, years ago one of Frankenstein’s creatures came rampaging through our village. I tried to stop him but I couldn’t. He tore of my left arm and my right leg. ALL VILLAGERS: Oooooh! INSPECTOR: I had to go all the way to Vienna to find a top surgeon who could me back together again. VILLAGER 8: A top surgeon in Vienna? That must have been expensive! INSPECTOR: Expensive? Are you kidding? It cost me an arm and a leg! VILLAGER 9: We need to stop them before it happens again! VILLAGER 10: Lets storm the castle! VILLAGER 11: Everyone grab your pitch forks! VILLAGER 12: Lets show them what we’re made of! VILLAGER 13: STORM THE CASTLE! STORM THE CASTLE! All Villagers join in VILLAGERS: STORM THE CASTLE, STORM THE CASTLE, STORM THE CASTLE VILLAGER 14: (shouting) WAITTTTT! Everyone goes silent VILLAGER 14: We don’t know what’s going on up there in that castle. This Doctor Frankenstein might be guilty or he might be innocent. And why is it in every low- budget monster movie there’s always an angry mob shouting “Storm the castle!”? It’s such a tired cliché! INSPECTOR: Hmm, you’ve made a good point. Let’s not rush to judgement. We’ll save the storming for later. Meanwhile we’ll pay a friendly visit on the doctor, pretend to be welcoming him to Transylvania, while we’re in fact doing some serious work class schnooping! ALL VILLAGERS: YAAAAA! INSPECTOR: Follow me! They all exit behind the Inspector.