Werewolf of London (1935)
Warner Oland: Dr. Yogami
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Quotes
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Dr. Yogami : The werewolf is neither man nor wolf, but a Satanic creature with the worst qualities of both.
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Dr. Yogami : Good day. But remember this Dr. Glendon, the werewolf instinctively seeks to kill the thing it loves best.
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Dr. Yogami : Your department is trying to solve two murders. There will be other murders tonight, and tomorrow night. Also next month, when the moon is full again - unless you realize, sir, there is a werewolf abroad in London.
Sir Thomas Forsythe : Yes, my nephew has similar ideas. What do you want us to do about it?
Dr. Yogami : You must seize the only specimen of the "Mariphasa" plant in England.
Sir Thomas Forsythe : And where shall I get this posy?
Dr. Yogami : In the private laboratory of Dr. Wilfred Glendon. That flower is the only known antidote for werewolfery.
Sir Thomas Forsythe : Yes, a.. a very interesting folktale, but of no value to the police.
Dr. Yogami : I warn you, sir, unless you secure this plant and discover the secret of nurturing it in this country, there'll be an epidemic that will turn London into a shambles.
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Dr. Yogami : May I congratulate you sir, on the amazing collection of plants you've assembled here.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : Thank you.
Dr. Yogami : Evolution was in a strange mood, when that creation came along.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : Yes.
Dr. Yogami : It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : Have I met you before, sir?
Dr. Yogami : In Tibet, once. But only for a moment... In the dark.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : In the dark?
Dr. Yogami : Let me introduce myself again. I am Dr. Yogami.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : How do you do, sir?
Dr. Yogami : Like yourself, a student, a nurturist of plants.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : Dr. Yogami.
Dr. Yogami : Pardon?
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : Do I understand you to say, that we met in Tibet?
Dr. Yogami : Yes. And unless I'm mistaken, we were both on a similar mission.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : Yes.
Dr. Yogami : Would it be intrusive if I should ask you... If you were successful?
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : In what?
Dr. Yogami : In obtaining a specimen of the Mariphasa lumina lupina: The phosphorescent wolf flower. Well, you know it only blooms under the rays of the moon. My specimens died on the journey back.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : As a scientist, sir, as a botanist you actually believe that this flower takes its life from moonlight?
Dr. Yogami : I do.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : So far I've been unsuccessful in persuading mine to bloom by moonlight or any other kind of light.
Dr. Yogami : Let me see them.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : I'm very sorry. I'll have to ask you to excuse me.
Dr. Yogami : May I go along with you?
[They're both shown later sitting down]
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : [skeptical] This flower is an antidote for..for what
Dr. Yogami : Werewolfery. Lycanthrophobia is the medical term for the affliction I speak of.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : And do you expect me to believe that a man so affected actually becomes a wolf under the influence of the full moon?
Dr. Yogami : No. The werewolf is neither man nor wolf but a satanic creature, with the worst qualities of both.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : I'm afraid, sir, but I gave up my belief in goblins, witches, personal devils, and werewolves at the age of six.
Dr. Yogami : But that does not alter the fact that in workaday, modern, London today at this very moment there are two cases of werewolfery known to me.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : And how did these unfortunate gentleman contract this medieval unpleasantness?
Dr. Yogami : [reaches for Glendons arm] From the bite of another werewolf. These men are doomed but for this flower the Mariphasa.
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Dr. Wilfred Glendon : Dr Yogami, didn't they tell you that I wasn't seeing anyone today?
Dr. Yogami : I thought, perhaps, you might see me.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : Come another day, please.
Dr. Yogami : Another day would be too late. What will happen before morning, I cannot say. Tonight is the first night of the full moon.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : Still harping on that old wives tale of yours?
Dr. Yogami : Would it were in old wives tale.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : Exactly what do you want of me?
Dr. Yogami : Two blossoms of the Mariphasa flower in there would save two souls tonight.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : Tonight. But I thought you said the Mariphasa was a cure.
Dr. Yogami : No. An antidote. Effective only for a few hours. Won't you let me see the results of your experiment?
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : Sorry. When my experiments are completed I will show the results to the entire world. Not before. Now, sir, I must wish you good day.
Dr. Yogami : Then there is nothing more to be said?
Dr. Wilfred Glendon : Nothing
Dr. Yogami : Good day. But remember this, Dr. Glendon. The werewolf instinctively seeks to kill the thing it loves best.
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Dr. Wilfred Glendon : [Glendon catches Yogami using the Mariphasa to quell his lycanthropy and realizes that he was the werewolf who bit him in Tibet] Yogami! You brought this on me, that night in Tibet.
Dr. Yogami : [after using the Mariphasa] I'm sorry I can't share this with you.
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Botanical party attendee : [Just having seen a frog being fed to a carnivorous plant at the botanical party] Heretic! Bringing a beastly thing like that into Christian England.
Dr. Yogami : Nature is very tolerant, sir. She has no creeds.
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Party Gust : Heretic! Bringing a beastly thing like that into Christian England.
Dr. Yogami : Nature is very tolerant, sir. She has no creeds.
Party Gust : Quite so.
