Dracula's Daughter (1936)

Edward Van Sloan: Professor Von Helsing

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• Dr. Garth : I'm a psychiatrist, Professor, not a lawyer. I'd do anything in the world to help you, but what?

  Prof. Von Helsing : You must convince them of my sanity.

  Dr. Garth : If I do that they'll hang you for murder.

  Prof. Von Helsing : You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

  Dr. Garth : Talking like that won't help.

  Prof. Von Helsing : When you were a student under me in Vienna, Jeffrey, you had a far more open mind.

  Dr. Garth : My mind is just as open as it ever was, Professor, but it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstition.

  Prof. Von Helsing : Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow? In the history of your own profession, psychiatry, a century ago, hypnosis was looked upon as black magic. Today it is accepted as commonplace, even used in anesthesia. What would have happened to a man a hundred years ago who advanced the present-day theories of the subconscious?

  Dr. Garth : Oh, I know, I know.

  Prof. Von Helsing : Do you, as an intelligent scientist, dare to dismiss as superstition the principles underlying Tibetan magic, voodooism, thought transference?

  Dr. Garth : No.

  Prof. Von Helsing : Well, there you are.

• [last lines] 

  Sir Basil Humphrey : The woman is beautiful.

  Prof. Von Helsing : She was beautiful when she died, a hundred years ago.

• Hawkins : [comes out of Dracula's castle]  Some man is in there with a stake through his heart.

  Albert : Scary.

  Hawkins : [looks at Van Helsing]  You know anything about this?

  Prof. Von Helsing : Yes, I did it.

  Hawkins : Who is he in there?

  Prof. Von Helsing : His name's Count Dracula.

  Hawkins : How long has he been dead?

  Prof. Von Helsing : About 500 years.

• Prof. Von Helsing : The loss of blood. The marks on the neck. Hmm. I don't understand, gentlemen. I don't see how it can be, but those are the marks of the vampire.

  Sir Basil Humphrey : Well, it becomes increasingly evident, owing to the disappearance of Dracula's body and the subsequent evidence, that he isn't dead at all.

  Prof. Von Helsing : No vampire can survive the stake.

  Sir Basil Humphrey : Well, he may have given the appearance of death. During the day the body lay at Whitby and come to life at night. Oh, dash it all! You've got me talking this gibberish now.

• Prof. Von Helsing : A vampire cannot see its own reflection in the mirror.