Fritz is a villain in the 1931 film version of Frankenstein-first appearing in the play, Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein.
He is a hunchback who assists Henry Frankenstein in his experiments with life and death, even helping him collect pieces of corpses to assemble into what eventually became the Frankenstein's Monster Monster, a body Frankenstein created and gave life to.
He was portrayed by the late Dwight Frye, who also portrayed Renfield in another Universal horror film, Dracula.
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When Dr. Frankenstein ordered him to steal a brain from the Goldstadt Medical School for use in the Monster, Fritz was startled by a noise and dropped the normal brain he was supposed to steal and picked up a criminal's brain from the same table.
This blunder is possible to cause the homicidal acts the Monster would later commit. After the Monster's creation, Fritz took sadistic pleasure in tormenting it with a flaming torch and beating it with a whip. This torture undermined Frankenstein's tries to train the Monster and make him more human. The Monster finally had more than it could stand and killed Fritz, hanging him from the ceiling in the dungeon where the Monster was being kept.
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