Dracula (1931)

Dwight Frye: Renfield

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• Count Dracula : This is very old wine. I hope you will like it.

  Renfield : Aren't you drinking?

  Count Dracula : I never drink... wine.

• Count Dracula : I am Dracula.

  Renfield : Oh, it's really good to see you. I don't know what happened to the driver and my luggage and... Well, and with all this, I thought I was in the wrong place.

  Count Dracula : I bid you welcome.

  [Dracula goes up the stairs. Renfield starts to follow him. Suddenly, Dracula hears wolves howling] 

  Count Dracula : Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.

  [Dracula goes up the steps and waits for Renfield, who, without difficulty, cuts open a hole in a huge spider's web using his walking stick] 

  Count Dracula : The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.

  Renfield : Why, er... yes.

• Innkeeper : Castle Dracula?

  Renfield : Yes. That's where I'm going.

  Innkeeper : To the castle?

  Renfield : Yes.

  Innkeeper : No. You musn't go there. We people of the mountains believe in the castle there are vampires. Dracula and his wives - they take the form of wolves and bats. They leave their coffins at night and they feed on the blood of the living.

• Van Helsing : You'll die in torment if you die with innocent blood on your soul.

  Renfield : God will not damn a poor lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those with weak minds.

• Renfield : He came and stood below my window in the moonlight. And he promised me things, not in words, but by doing them.

  Van Helsing : Doing them?

  Renfield : By making them happen. A red mist spread over the lawn, coming on like a flame of fire! And then he parted it, and I could see that there were thousands of rats, with their eyes blazing red, like his, only smaller. Then he held up his hand, and they all stopped, and I thought he seemed to be saying: "Rats! Rats! Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red blood! All these will I give you! If you will obey me!"

  Van Helsing : What did he want you to do?

  Renfield : That which has already been done!

  [giggles sinisterly] 

• Renfield , Van Helsing : Mr. Harker, I have devoted my lifetime to the study of many strange things. Little-known facts which the world is, perhaps, better off for not knowing.

  John Harker : I know. But Professor, all I want is to get Mina away from all of this.

  Van Helsing : That will do no good. Our only chance of saving Miss Mina's life is to find the hiding place of Dracula's living corpse and to drive a stake through its heart.

  Renfield : Isn't this a strange conversation for men who aren't crazy?

• Renfield : Rats. Rats. Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red blood! All these will I give you if you will obey me.

• Martin : Aren't you ashamed now? Aren't you? Spiders now, is it? Flies ain't good enough!

  Renfield : Flies? Flies? Poor puny things! Who wants to eat flies?

  Martin : You do, you loony!

  Renfield : Not when I can get nice fat spiders!

  Martin : All right, have it your own way.

• Renfield : No, no, master. I wasn't going to say anything, I told them nothing. I am loyal to you master.

• Renfield : I'm loyal to you, Master, I am your slave, I didn't betray you! Oh, no, don't! Don't kill me! Let me live, please! Punish me, torture me, but let me live! I can't die with all those lives on my conscience! All that blood on my hands!

  [Dracula picks up Renfield with his bony hands and in a few seconds, Renfield dies] 

• Renfield : You know too much to live, Van Helsing!

• Van Helsing : What have you to do with Dracula?

  Renfield : DRACULA?... I never even heard the name before