"NARRATOR:" "Can death be outwitted?" "Is the secret to of eternal life just around that corner?" "Today medical science batches up mutilated bodies," "Transplanting human skin, eyes, limbs, even vital organs." "Is the next step the transplantation" "Of the human brain?" "Many scientists answer yes, but they pause and add" "A grim warning, for in the ancient folk legends tales are" "Told of blood sucking vampires, crawling out of graves" "To live on the bodies of helpless victims." "Is man now doomed to produce a race of ever living" "Monstrosities, worse than the vampires of legend?" "Will ruthless men and women of great wealth and power," "Greedily buy or steal the bodies of the young and beautiful" "So their brains may live on forever." "Such questions may seem fanciful," "But at this very moment, scientists" "Are working on the answer to brain transplantation" "And human bodies are used." "This girl was buried in a nearby cemetery yesterday." "Only a few hours ago her body was stolen by Dr. Otto Frank" "And brought to this hidden laboratory." "He has grafted a living animal's grain" "Into this newly dead body." "If the experiment works, the next step" "Will be the transplantation of a human brain." "The brain cells are being reactivated" "By an atomic fission produced the cyclotron." "Has he found a way to outwit death" "Or has he created another..." "[DRAMATIC MUSIC] Deep below," "Dr. Frank takes the chance of smashing" "His way into a new sealed vault." "His experiments cannot continue without another body." "The watchman's mind was not on body" "Snatchers, just his usual nip." "[SCREAM] Inside the vault a body waits." "This is one of the doctor's mistakes," "A monstrosity, an animal's brain grated to a human body." "Leaving the dead watchmen, the monstrosity" "Carried the girl's body out of the vault." "It fears and obeys one master, Dr. Frank." "Here beneath the old mention, the doctor carefully" "Prepared for another transplant." "This body had been in the vault for only a few hours." "Chances seemed better this time." "Still Dr. Frank was doubtful." "Tissue and dead bodies deteriorates rapidly." "Where were the live fresh bodies he had been promised." "He bitterly resents that every step forward" "Depends on the whim of the minds of a woman" "Brooding upstairs in her bedroom." "And Hetty March wonders has she been a fool squandering" "Money on this strange experiment?" "Money hoarded through a long, greedy lifetime, each day more" "Money, each day death getting closer." "Ah, but to starts life again in a brand" "New body, beautiful and young." "No price can be too high for that." "Can she really trust the doctor?" "Can she really trust anyone?" "Hasn't everyone tried to cheat her?" "Wanting her money while they smile at her ugliness," "But they never got a penny." "Oh, how she made them sweat." "Especially this old fool, companion and gigolo." "How many years she's kept him dangling on promises." "While sometimes it's convenient to" "Have him there, especially when he comes cheaper than servants." "The Austrian girl." "Nina Rhodes, 18, no family, pleasing personality... whatever" "That might mean..." "Thick ankles, pimply" "Face, but she always when she's spoken to very likely." "Well, applications forms for a servant girl" "Don't usually include bust, waist and hip measurements." "[RADIO ANNOUNCEMENT IN BACKGROUND]" "All three will be here tomorrow." "And then you can choose." "REPORTER (OVER RADIO):" "Earlier this evening" "At Greenhaven Cemetery, the body snatchers brutally murdered" "Nightwatchman Robert Pain, 62, who evidently interrupted" "His killers during their ghoulish tasks." "His neck was broken." "The imprint of a huge pair of hands was found on his throat." "It's the opinion of the police that the same gang" "That has previously..." "Ring for Dr. Frank. [BUZZER] So that's what he was doing." "[MECHANICAL WHIRRING]" "More of this hocus pocus, Hetty." "The doctor transplanted a brain from a live dog" "To a live human body." "You saw the walk out of the cylinder alive." "How many failures since thin?" "Still, it's your money." "The bodies must be fresh." "This specimen is excellent." "An the police are looking for the body snatcher." "Find a local cemetery doctor, are you" "Trying to blaze a trail to our door?" "The final test was essential for your protection." "As for the police if they come here, I hit the switch." "A nuclear reaction is set off." "And as a matter of minutes, this house and any evidence" "It might contain becomes a radioactive hole in the grade." "Be careful." "We can wait for that until after your operation." "Nothing must go wrong." "There's no sign of live." "Watch." "She lacks but one thing, a brain." "Hans was still living when we dragged him from the car." "That's why we succeeded with the transplant." "She seems alive." "She is to a limited extent." "She'll be able to move around, but the brain deteriorization" "Is too extensive with thought processes." "Pardon me, but how far is Hollywood from here?" "All right, let's see." "16 kilometers, about 10 miles." "Which way?" "That way." "Are you going to Hollywood?" "No such luck." "I'm what's known as a foreign domestic." "The next 12 months, I'll be scrubbing" "Floors and making beds." "But when my time's up, Hollywood look out." "That's strange." "A foreign domestic agency has paid my passage too." "I'm from Vienna, Austria." "Oh, really?" "I'm from England." "No." "Is this your first trip?" "Yes, I'm awfully excited." "Por favor, I no speak English very good." "Are you going to work for Mrs. March too?" "This sounds like a sister act." "You too?" "Nina Rhodes?" "Yes, sir." "Anita Gonzales?" "Beatrice Mullins?" "That's right." "Are you Mr. March?" "No, I work for Mrs. March." "Come along." "NARRATOR:" "Three new bodies, fresh, live, young bodies." "No families and friends within thousands of miles," "No one to ask embarrassing questions when they disappear." "Victor wondered which Mrs. March would pick," "The little Mexican, the girl from Vienna," "Or the buxom blonde." "Victor knew his favorite, but he still felt uneasy." "Making to an 80-year-old woman in the body" "Of a 20-year-old girl is insanity." "Still, Hetty's plan to transfer her fortune to the new body" "Had been brilliant." "Unpleasant to think about what's going to happen to these girls," "But a man has to consider his own future." "What would happen to him if Hetty" "Were to cast him off after all these years." "VICTOR:" "Well, there's your new home, girls." "BEATRICE:" "Gives me the shivers." "Aren't there any neighbors?" "No." "Are there any other servants?" "No, but I don't think you're going to find it boring." "What a jolly little place this is." "[SCREAMS]" "What was that?" "No one's to leave this house without permission." "Hurry along." "Hurry up." "No go." "Put down your luggage." "Turn around slowly." "Get the doctor." "Get the doctor." "NARRATOR:" "As with the other bodies stolen from cemeteries," "The nerve endings of the brain were too far" "Gone to receive a proper transplant." "The experiment had failed to produce anything more than a" "Walking breathing zombie-like creature." "But the doctor permitted to wander about the laboratory." "She was quite harmless and at times even amusing." "Charming, isn't she?" "Did you want something?" "Mrs. March is waiting for you." "The girls have arrive." "She doesn't have a brain." "May be advantages." "I want them examined immediately." "Very well, this way." "Victor, the doctor can conduct the examination perfectly." "What an old spoil sport I am." "Have you disconnected the phone?" "Can't I depend on you for anything?" "Won't it be midnight when those girls start calling police," "Employment agencies, immigration authorities, consulates." "There will be no phone calls." "Hideous, she's useless." "There is one more test I should make." "Do anything you what with her." "The other two?" "Perfect medical specimens." "All right, Anita, get dress now and wait for the others." "Mrs. March, I am now giving you notice." "I do not care to work in this house any longer." "I demand that..." "You have signed an agreement." "If you have any objection, you will discuss them" "With the immigration authorities as provided for in your papers." "But Mrs. March..." "Later." "Stand up, my dear." "BEATRICE:" "I've got the same measurements as Marilyn Monroe." "Ahem, the lucky girl?" "Yeah." "Allow me to be the first to offer" "Congratulations to both of you." "For me?" "Come on." "Come on." "Your room is in the basement, Anita." "Nina, your room is upstairs, right" "Across from the top of the stairs." "I'll have to show you." "ANITA:" "I think it will be lonesome down there." "VICTOR:" "Nonsense, you will be all right." "Gracias." "Thank you." "[BEEPS AND WHIRRING]" "Quien es?" "Who is it?" "[SCREAMS]" "Bea, are you sure she's not in her room?" "Yes." "Victor left a little while ago." "Maybe she went with him." "She didn't get out of this prison" "Without permission, that's for sure." "But she would have said good-bye." "Why should she?" "We only met her yesterday." "I don't blame her for not wanting" "To sleep in the basement." "It's funny though." "Mrs. March wouldn't even listen when I asked to be dismissed." "This house gives me the creeps." "She doesn't even have any uniforms for us." "What in the world do you think you're doing?" "You told us last night to clean and polish in here." "Look at your hands." "That will a stain o them." "No don't argue." "Go and wash them immediately." "You can put the things away after Nina cleans them." "Mrs. March, where is Anita?" "Anita?" "Oh, she left last night." "I would like to give notice too." "I will discuss it with you another time." "[BEEPS, WHIRRING AND BUBBLING]" "Nina?" "Nina?" "Come here this instant." "Yes, Mrs. March." "Your name isn't Nina." "But Mrs. March she's got polish all over her hand" "And I'm not doing anything." "I don't want you running up and down stairs." "Those pretty legs of yours will get ugly muscles." "Send Nina to me." "Yes, ma'am." "MRS. MARCH:" "I'll be in my room." "Bea, come with me." "I want to show you something." "Anita wouldn't leave without taking her clothes." "I think we better get out of here, fast." "Bea, I'd hate to leave if she's still here." "You'll go now if you go with me." "This hinge is loose." "Help me." "[BEEPING]" "NARRATOR:" "One last experiment before Dr." "Frank would be ready." "But this was the most critical of all the experiments." "For the first time, the grafting operation" "Would be performed on a living human body," "And the brain would come from the doctor's favorite cat." "Anita was ready." "[KNOCK AT DOOR]" "It's me, Nina." "What about your clothes?" "Never mind, let's go." "Bea, she almost saw us." "Let's wait awhile to make sure we won't run into her." "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "Bea." "Bea?" "[THUNDER-LIKE SOUNDS] Bea?" "Bea?" "Where are you?" "Answer me." "Wait." "I'm here Mrs. March." "She's locked us in." "Open it." "I said, open it." "Mrs. March." "Victor." "Victor." "Well, you took long enough." "The lawyer will see you in the morning." "I told him you we're going to change your will." "You'll have to check the basement door, it came loose." "You failed." "[MEOW] She thinks she's a cat." "Nice kitty." "[CAT GROWLING] Well, I see still resent the way" "Mrs. March treats you." "I can't say that I blame you." "Kitty has always been very fond of me." "Haven't you?" "Does she have all the instincts of a cat?" "Watch." "[GROWLING]" "She ate it." "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "Bea, is that Anita?" "Where?" "Oh, I don't think so." "Look out!" "Somebody help her." "[GROWLING]" "Back, Hans, back." "Hans, Hans." "I still think you should have locked them up." "They're not about to leave this house" "After what they've witnessed." "They know Hans is outside there." "Even if we could get past that creature outside," "There's still the electric fence." "The phone's dead." "We can't get help that way." "If we could get the car..." "That's it." "Victor." "Victor?" "He likes me." "I guess." "If you could get the keys from him..." "Bea, I was having a little night cap." "Who do you think you are pinching me?" "Maybe you like some company?" "Someone like me?" "That's more like it." "Don't you like me, Victor?" "Wait." "Hans, is chained." "Let's go outside." "Outside?" "I think I'd like that." "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "MRS. MARCH:" "Victor?" "Victor?" "[HISSING]" "Anita?" "What are you doing up there?" "Anita, what's the matter with you?" "Don't you know me?" "Anita, listen to me..." "[HISSING]" "[GRUNTING AND GROWLING]" "Anita?" "Stay right there." "Don't move." "I'm coming." "[HISSING] Anita." "Anita, let me help you." "Anita, wait." "Take my hand." "Anita." "Anita!" "[SCREAMS] Astonishingly complex, isn't it?" "The human eye." "NINA:" "Dr. Crane?" "Bea?" "She's unconscious, but she'll live." "No." "She will live." "But Anita won't." "She's dead." "Nina, dear, come along with us now." "You've had a bad shock." "Get out of here, both of you." "I'm staying with Bea." "Why don't you do something for her?" "I've done what I can for now." "Later, an operation might be possible." "I'm preserving the eye." "Let me show you." "Come over here." "The cellular structure is being kept alive" "By these electrical vibrations." "I use the same principal in keeping that hand alive." "Bea is a very lucky girl." "You think that ironically?" "Let me explain." "I'm the only man alive today capable" "Of restoring your friend's sight." "Dr. Alexis Carrel, who pioneered the transplanting" "Of vital human organs, kept a portion" "Of an animal's heart alive for many years." "For this he received the Nobel Prize." "And I, who have so far surpassed his efforts..." "Surely you don't want to compare" "Yourself with Dr. Carrel." "He was humane." "I, too, fight to preserve life and to find the means" "To improve the lives of future generations." "Your viewpoint is that narrow ignorant one," "Held by the Medical Society today," "Which forces me to work in a place like this," "To give in to the whims of a foolish old woman," "Because she can supply me with the funds I" "Need to continue my work." "[MOANING]" "You're going to be all right." "Nina?" "Yes, Bea." "I..." "I can't see." "Why..." "Your eyes are bandaged." "Something happened." "Don't think about it now." "Listen to me, Bea." "Are you listening?" "This is important." "Yes." "We must be ready when the chance comes." "I remember now." "It was Anita." "She..." "Oh, my eye." "My eye." "[SOBBING]" "You better leave." "Give this a chance to take effect." "I'm a doctor." "I'll take care of her." "Make sure you'll take excellent care of her," "Until your plans call for something else." "Or am I to be the next one, doctor?" "There." "Got all the clothes?" "Yes." "And made my hair appointment?" "I took care of everything on your list" "While you were talking with the lawyer." "Hair appointment, Monday, 10:00 AM, Charles" "At the Ritz under Nina's name." "I'll want Nina to model these later after I've rested." "You tell her." "They're back." "I will have to leave you now." "Remember, I'm going to try to get us out here tonight." "No." "Forget about me." "I won't go." "Bea, don't talk like that." "NARRATOR:" "Mrs. March had not realized her new body had such" "A satisfactory shape, perhaps not as spectacular" "As the English girl, but in excellent taste." "She couldn't help being amused." "The stupid girl was not only modeling Mrs. March's" "Future wardrobe but Mrs. March's future body." "So firm, so nicely rounded in places men like." "You might have knocked when you came in." "I'm sorry, don't stop your style show on my account." "Does my aged look disturb you?" "Hetty, that's unkind." "You see it's hard for a vain, stupid man" "To realize that he holds no attraction" "For a lovely young girl." "You're not needed now, Victor." "Close the door quietly when you go out." "I'm not going to be needed at all." "That's what you're saying, isn't it?" "After tomorrow, when..." "Victor!" "That's enough Get out." "That's the way it's going to be when what?" "Don't ask tiresome questions." "That will be enough for tonight." "I want us both to get some rest." "Try to sleep." "But Mrs. March..." "That's an order." "Do as I say." "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "You aren't looking for me, are you?" "Why would a pretty, young girl want to be around an old man?" "What did you try to tell Mrs. March?" "So that's what you planned to do." "Get rid of old Victor once you get all that money." "The only thing is, of course, is won't really be you." "Victor, please tell me." "Try to make sense." "I am telling you." "Tomorrow, you'll be one of the richest women in the world." "Here's a press release." "It's in the mails now." "All the major news syndicates." "Orphan girl is sole heir to March millions." "Nina Rhodes has a lucky star." "I don't understand." "The next press release will be March" "Mansion destroyed by fire." "Cinderella girl Nina Rhodes, sole survivor." "Only it won't be you." "It's a pity too." "You're nice the way you are." "Please don't let it happen." "You could help me and Bea get away." "When you're a rich woman, you wouldn't forget an old friend," "A friend who saved your life, would you?" "Get out in the car." "And stay there." "Victor, Bea too." "Bea must come too." "One minute." "Just to make sure." "Sign this." "Hurry." "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "[CYMBALS CRASHING]" "Bea, you've got to come with..." "No, I won't go." "Why should I want to go on living like this?" "I'll get Victor to help me." "And we will carry you." "[SCREAMS]" "Did you want something from Victor, dear?" "Sit down, my dear." "I'm afraid you're wearing yourself out with all this" "Rushing around I don't like that." "You realize she's mad, don't you, Dr. Frank?" "Relax." "Hurry, doctor." "I'll be ready for you shortly, Mrs. March." "MRS. MARCH:" "I'll be waiting." "It's finally about to happen You don't know what it's been" "Like for me, living with this ugly body of mine." "Knowing that any attention I received" "Was not for me but my money." "Well, nobody got any of it." "I've never known what it is like to be loved for myself alone." "Why did you kill Victor, Mrs. March?" "Victor?" "Victor was a fool." "I'm a practical woman, Dr. Frank, a business woman." "I've never been a very practical person." "I suppose that makes me a fool too in your eyes." "Of course not." "Relax, Mrs. March, just relax." "[ZAPPING SOUND]" "Waking up are you?" "Good, I want to talk to you." "You singed a paper making Victor your legal guardian." "That's right, isn't it." "I did sign something, didn't I?" "That would probably work as well for me." "We could stay here." "None of this would have to be destroyed." "Feeling better aren't you?" "Try it on your own." "I want to know if Mrs. March didn't intend blowing" "Me up with all the rest of this." "You're a very wealthy woman now, Nina." "But I what I must decide is how to keep you" "And your funds available with the least amount of nuisance" "To myself." "I could keep you under sedation until your signature is" "Required or I could replace your brain with one more amenable." "What about Mrs. March, doctor?" "Mrs. March no longer has a thing to say." "Do you, my dear?" "Completely recovered I'd say." "How do you feel." "[HISSING] I guess" "A transplant would be better." "It won't hurt." "NARRATOR:" "Dr. Frank had enjoy this transplantation." "Mrs. March's brain ending up in the body of a cat." "Poetic justice to think of autocratic Mrs. March" "Scavenging in back alley garbage cans for her dinner." "But Mrs. March doesn't take things lying down." "[ELECTRIC WHIRRING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Mrs." "March did not intend to let their money get out of sight." "She would follow that girl." "Some time, some place, revenge would come." "[MUSIC PLAYING]"