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Frankenstein is a 1931 science fiction film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale and very loosely based on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The film stars Colin Clive, Dwight Frye, Edward van Sloan, and Boris Karloff. The film also features Mae Clarke and John Boles. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
James Whale (July 22, 1889 – May 29, 1957) was a ground-breaking British Hollywood film director, best known for his work in the horror movie genre, making such pictures as Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man. ...
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. ...
American screenwriter John L. Balderston (1889 - 1954) specialised in writing plays and horror and fantasy scripts for movies. ...
Frankenstein 1931 Written by Garrett Fort Garrett Elsden Fort (June 5, 1900 - October 26, 1945) was an American short story writer, playwright, and prolific Hollywood screenwriter. ...
Colin Clive (20 January 1900 – 25 June 1937) was an English stage and screen actor most famous for portraying Dr. Frankenstein in James Whales two Universal Frankenstein films Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. ...
Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt) (London, November 23, 1887 – February 2, 1969) was an English actor, who immigrated to Canada in the 1910s, best known for his roles in horror films and the creation of Frankensteins monster in 1931s Frankenstein. ...
Dwight Frye in Bride of Frankenstein Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22, 1899–November 7, 1943) was an American stage and screen actor. ...
Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein with Edward van Sloan as Dr. Waldman (right) in Frankenstein Edward Van Sloan (1 November 1881–6 March 1964) was an American film character actor remembered for his roles in Universal Studios horror films. ...
Mae Clarke was born Violet Mary Klotz on August 16, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
Arthur Edeson (October 24, 1891 - February 14, 1970) was a film cinematographer. ...
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Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ...
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Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
Bride of Frankenstein is a horror/science fiction film released on April 22, 1935, a sequel to the 1931 film Frankenstein. ...
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Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ...
James Whale (July 22, 1889 – May 29, 1957) was a ground-breaking British Hollywood film director, best known for his work in the horror movie genre, making such pictures as Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man. ...
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. ...
Colin Clive (20 January 1900 – 25 June 1937) was an English stage and screen actor most famous for portraying Dr. Frankenstein in James Whales two Universal Frankenstein films Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. ...
Dwight Frye in Bride of Frankenstein Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22, 1899–November 7, 1943) was an American stage and screen actor. ...
Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein with Edward van Sloan as Dr. Waldman (right) in Frankenstein Edward Van Sloan (1 November 1881–6 March 1964) was an American film character actor remembered for his roles in Universal Studios horror films. ...
Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt) (London, November 23, 1887 – February 2, 1969) was an English actor, who immigrated to Canada in the 1910s, best known for his roles in horror films and the creation of Frankensteins monster in 1931s Frankenstein. ...
Mae Clarke was born Violet Mary Klotz on August 16, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
Publicity Photo of John Boles. ...
The film was adapted by John L. Balderston, Francis Edward Faragoh, Garrett Fort, Robert Florey (uncredited) and John Russell (uncredited) from the Shelley novel and the play by Peggy Webling. The make-up artist was Jack Pierce. American screenwriter John L. Balderston (1889 - 1954) specialised in writing plays and horror and fantasy scripts for movies. ...
Frankenstein 1931 Written by Garrett Fort Garrett Elsden Fort (June 5, 1900 - October 26, 1945) was an American short story writer, playwright, and prolific Hollywood screenwriter. ...
Robert Florey (14 September 1900, Paris - 16 May 1979, Santa Monica, California) was a French screenwriter, director of short films, and actor who moved to Hollywood in 1921. ...
Jack Pierce (May 5, 1889 in Greece – July 19, 1968), born Janus Piccoulas, was a Hollywood make-up artist most famous for creating the iconic make-up worn by Boris Karloff in Universal Studios 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. ...
Visually, the film was heavily influenced by the German expressionist films of the 1920s.[citation needed] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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Plot summary Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), an ardent young scientist, and his assistant Fritz (Dwight Frye), a devoted hunch-back, piece together a human body, the parts of which have been secretly collected from various sources. Frankenstein's consuming desire is to create human life through various electrical devices which he has perfected. Colin Clive (20 January 1900 – 25 June 1937) was an English stage and screen actor most famous for portraying Dr. Frankenstein in James Whales two Universal Frankenstein films Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. ...
Fritz is a fictional character who appears in the 1931 Universal film version of Mary Shelley novel, Frankenstein. ...
Dwight Frye in Bride of Frankenstein Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22, 1899–November 7, 1943) was an American stage and screen actor. ...
Elizabeth (Mae Clarke), his fiancée, is worried to distraction over his peculiar actions. She cannot understand why he secludes himself in an abandoned watch tower, which he has equipped as a laboratory, and refuses to see anyone. She and her friend, Victor Moritz (John Boles), go to Dr. Waldman (Edward Van Sloan), his old medical professor, and ask Dr. Waldman's help in reclaiming the young scientist from his absorbing experiments. Elizabeth, intent on rescuing Frankenstein, arrives just as the eager young medico is making his final tests. They all watch Frankenstein and the hunchback as they raise the dead creature on an operating table, high into the room, toward an opening at the top of the laboratory. Then a terrific crash of thunder—the crackling of Frankenstein's electric machines—and the hand of Frankenstein's monster begins to move. Elizabeth or Elisabeth is the Greek form Ελισ(σ)άβετ Elis(s)avet of the Hebrew Elisheva, meaning my God is an oath or perhaps my God is abundance. ...
Mae Clarke was born Violet Mary Klotz on August 16, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
Victor Moritz is a fictional character who appears in the 1931 Universal film version of Mary Shelleys novel, Frankenstein. ...
Publicity Photo of John Boles. ...
Dr. Waldman is a fictional character who appears in Mary Shelleys novel, Frankenstein. In the novel, he has a fairly small part--he is Vicot Frankensteins teacher at medical school. ...
Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein with Edward van Sloan as Dr. Waldman (right) in Frankenstein Edward Van Sloan (1 November 1881–6 March 1964) was an American film character actor remembered for his roles in Universal Studios horror films. ...
The manufactured monster (Boris Karloff), a strangely hideous, grotesque, inhuman form, is held in a dungeon in the watch tower. Through Fritz's error, a criminal brain was secured for Frankenstein's experiments which result in the monster knowing only hate, horror and murder. It has the strength of ten men. Suddenly, there is an unearthly, terrifying shriek from the dungeon. Frankenstein and Dr. Waldman rush in to find the monster has strangled Fritz. The monster makes a lunge at the two, but they escape. As the monster breaks through the door, Dr. Waldman injects a powerful drug into the monster's back and he sinks to the floor. Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt) (London, November 23, 1887 – February 2, 1969) was an English actor, who immigrated to Canada in the 1910s, best known for his roles in horror films and the creation of Frankensteins monster in 1931s Frankenstein. ...
With preparations for the wedding completed, Frankenstein is once again himself and serenely happy with Elizabeth. They are to marry as soon as Dr. Waldman arrives. Suddenly, Victor rushes in, saying that the Doctor has been found strangled in his operating room. Frankenstein suspects the monster. A chilling scream convinces him that the fiend is in the house. The monster has gained access to Elizabeth's room. When the searchers arrive, they find her unconscious on the bed. The monster has escaped. He is only intent upon destroying Frankenstein.
Leading an enraged band of peasants, Frankenstein searches the surrounding country for the monster. He becomes separated from the band and is discovered by the monster, who springs at his prey and carries him off to the old mill. The peasants hear his cries and follow. Finally reaching the mill, they find the monster has climbed to the very top, dragging Frankenstein with him. Suddenly, in a burst of rage, he hurls the young scientist to the ground( Frankenstein is actually trying to escape the monster, it is trying to pull him back over the railing but loses its grip.). His fall, broken by the vanes of the windmill, saves him from instant death. Some of the villagers hurry him to his home while the others remain to burn the mill and destroy the entrapped monster.
Differences between the film and its source There are more differences between the movie and book than there are similarities. This is because the movie is largely based on the 1920s play accredited to Peggy Webling rather than the original Shelley text.
The most specific difference between the book and the movie is the acceptance of the creature as a man than a monster which has led to the naming -- by some people's account as misnaming -- of the creature as "Frankenstein". In the Peggy Webling play which the film is based on, the direct idea of the creator largely accepting his creation as an actual man and accepting success of his original experiment, rather than the explicit rejection by Frankenstein of his creature of the novel, is explored more directly and exactly. In the first film, Henry Frankenstein specifically refers to his creature as "Herr Frankenstein" according to "Frankenstein: The Original 1931 Shooting Script" (by Riley, Philip J., ISBN10: 1882127056), though the quote is attributed in the captioned words on the released DVD to Professor Waldman. Frankenstein accepted that he was successful in creating an actual man rather than a monster. The idea of continuing to address the creature as an extension of the Frankenstein family is continued in all of the Boris Karloff films. In the successive 1935 Bride of Frankenstein film, while on his sick bed recovering, Frankenstein again repeats that he was successful in creating "an actual man". The idea of continuing to address the creature as an extension of the Frankenstein family is maintained in the film when Professor Septimus Pretorius names the female creature as the "Bride of Frankenstein", accepting that the creature as a member of the Frankenstein family. In the Son of Frankenstein this theme is also directly repeated several times as Wolf repeatedly denies those who think of the creature "as his brother" as stated by others who profess that the creature was also created by Heinrick Franenstein, despite the difference of normal birthing as when Ygor states "but his mother was light-ten-ning". Even Wolf does for a period of time think of the creature also as a man rather than a monster as indicated when he scratches out the condemnation of being a "maker of monsters" on his father's tomb. Bride of Frankenstein is a horror/science fiction film released on April 22, 1935, a sequel to the 1931 film Frankenstein. ...
Son of Frankenstein is a horror film made by Universal Studios in 1939 and directed by Rowland V. Lee. ...
This tolerance of the creature as a man would largely be revoked by Universal in their later films using the creature in which the creature was to be marketed as a specific villain and not to be empathized with by the audience. In all Universal films starting with Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, everytime the creature is referred to directly in-story, he is specifically named as "The Frankenstein Monster" or simply "the Monster" and never again in-story as just "Frankenstein" in order to emaphize the fact that he is a manufactured being and an inherently evil one. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, released in 1943, is an American horror film produced by Universal Studios. ...
But one of the other notable differences between the book and film is the articulation of the monster's speech. In Shelley's book, the creature taught himself to read with books of classic literature such as Milton's Paradise Lost. The creature learns to speak in the "thee" and "thou" manner of old, because of the texts he has found to learn from while in hiding. In the 1931 film, the creature is completely mute. In the 1935 Bride of Frankenstein, the original creature learns some basic speech but is very limited in his dialogue almost still preferring at times to communicate with grunts and growls to express his emotions. By the third film, Son of Frankenstein, the creature is again rendered completely mute. For other uses, see Paradise Lost (disambiguation). ...
Bride of Frankenstein is a horror/science fiction film released on April 22, 1935, a sequel to the 1931 film Frankenstein. ...
In Mary Shelley's original novel, the creature's savage behavior is his conscious decision against his maltreatment and neglect because of his inhuman appearance, whereas in the 1931 film adaptation states that his condition is largely due to the effect made by Frankenstein's assistant Fritz, (played by character actor Dwight Frye (who also played Renfield in Dracula with Bela Lugosi)), who has provided a defective brain to be used for the creature. This suggestion that the monster's brutal behavior was inevitable arguably dilutes the novel's social criticism and depiction of developing consciousness. Though there are times despite such a defect, the creature responds to kindness as done to him in the scene with Maria, the little girl at the lakeside. Dracula is a 1931 horror film produced by Universal Pictures Co. ...
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The deformed (hunchbacked) assistants of the first two films are not in the novel.
Also, in the novel, Dr. Frankenstein's name is Victor, not Henry.
Sequels and parodies Frankenstein was followed by a string of sequels, beginning with Bride of Frankenstein (1935), which is considered by some to be the best film of the series — partly because the creature actually talks in this film and is shown not to be animalistic or inherently evil as with the scene of the blind hermit referring back to the novel's portrayal of the creature to be a human being in the most important ways despite being created rather than born. Elsa Lanchester plays Frankenstein's bride. A recreation of the filming of this movie is shown in the 1998 film Gods and Monsters. Bride of Frankenstein is a horror/science fiction film released on April 22, 1935, a sequel to the 1931 film Frankenstein. ...
1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ...
Lanchester in Naughty Marietta Elsa Lanchester (October 28, 1902 - December 26, 1986 in Woodland Hills, California) was an Oscar-nominated English character actress who became a naturalized American citizen in 1950 along with her husband, actor Charles Laughton. ...
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Gods and Monsters is a 1998 film which recounts the (somewhat fictionalized) last days of the life of troubled film director James Whale, whose homosexuality is a central theme. ...
The next sequel, 1939's Son of Frankenstein, was made, like all those that followed, without Whale or Clive (who had died in 1937), and featured Karloff's last full film performance as the Monster. Karloff would return to the wearing the makeup and role of the Monster one last time in the TV show Route 66 in the early 1960s, but most discredit that appearance. The Monster is no longer wearing his trademark "too small jacket" but is now wearing a furry vest/coat (which will mysteriously transform back into the too small jacket in the next following film Ghost of Frankenstein when the creature climbs out of the sulfur pit without changing the vest off), and the sets and lighting have a decidedly expressionistic tone. Basil Rathbone plays Baron Wolf von Frankenstein, and Lionel Atwill as Inspector Krogh delivers his famous line: "One doesn't easily forget, Herr Baron, an arm torn out by the roots." The film also features Donnie Dunagan (who voiced Disney's Bambi) as Wolf Frankenstein's young son, Peter. Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Son of Frankenstein is a horror film made by Universal Studios in 1939 and directed by Rowland V. Lee. ...
Route 66 was an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America. ...
The Ghost of Frankenstein (often referred to without the article The in the title), was an American horror film released in 1942. ...
Basil Rathbone (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967), Military Cross, was a British actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, and The Adventures of Robin Hood. ...
Wolf Frankenstein is a fictional character who appears in the Universal film Son of Frankenstein. ...
Lionel Atwill in Mystery of the Wax Museum Lionel Atwill (March 1, 1885 - April 22, 1946) was an English stage and film actor born in Croydon, London. ...
Donald Donnie Roan Dunagan (Born: August 16, 1934 in San Antonio, Texas, USA) is semi-retired American former child actor and United States Marine Corps drill instructor. ...
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Bambi is a 1942 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13, 1942. ...
Many consider most of the successive films using the Frankenstein creation to be less than appreciative to the creature as most of those films merely demote the creature to the status of only a lumbering murderous robotic device that is mostly used as a subservient illiterate henchman in someone else's plots, such as in the creature's final original Universal company's film appearance in 1948 with the deliberately farcical Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein whereby Lugosi's Dracula plans to "dumb down the monster" in order to prevent the creature from any possible resistance to Dracula by transplanting Costello's brain into the creature. Mel Brooks's comedy Young Frankenstein parodied elements of the first three Universal Frankenstein movies. Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (onscreen title: Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein) is a 1948 comedy/horror film directed by Charles Barton and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. ...
Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning American director, writer, comedian, actor and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies. ...
Young Frankenstein is a 1974 comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder as the title character. ...
Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ...
Outside of rare occasions on film, such as the 1985 The Bride or the 1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the Frankenstein creature would largely be kept in the idea of a mostly mindless monster who is always rampaging and running amok murdering people, until the recreated Universal film company's 2004 film Van Helsing where the Frankenstein creature would return to the idea of being more human. The Bride is an adaptation of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, released in 1985 and directed by Franc Roddam. ...
Mary Shelleys Frankenstein is a 1994 film directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Robert De Niro, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, and Kenneth Branagh. ...
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The popular 1960's TV show, The Munsters, depicts the family's father Herman as Frankenstein's monster, who married a vampire. The make-up for Herman is based on the make-up of Boris Karloff. Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Munsters is an American television sitcom depicting the home life of a family of monsters. ...
Additional credits and notes
 Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster In the opening credits, Karloff is unbilled, with only a question mark being used in place of his name. This is a nod to the first stage adaptation when the monster was billed only as a questionmark, and that Universal had not told who was playing the monster, and had not released any pictures of the monster in order to conceal his appearance.[citation needed] Karloff's name is revealed in the closing credits, which otherwise duplicate the credits from the opening under the principle that "A Good Cast Is Worth Repeating". Image File history File linksMetadata Frankenstein_Karloff. ...
There was controversy around this point originally, as some part of the management of Universal built up the suspense of who was playing the creature to gather interest in the film as Bela Lugosi was still largely thought to be performing the role of the creature up until the time of the film's release. Some papers were erroneously still listing Lugosi as the performer. Some were coming to see if Lugosi had changed his mind and recanted to star in the film despite some published statements to the contrary, most notably the still famous "electric beam eyes" poster which still credited Lugosi as the monster and showed the creature without the now famous flat head, neck-bolt makeup (created by Universal Studios make-up artist Jack Pierce. Pierce also created Lon Chaney's Wolf Man make-up and Karloff's Mummy make-up as well). Jack Pierce (May 5, 1889 in Greece – July 19, 1968), born Janus Piccoulas, was a Hollywood make-up artist most famous for creating the iconic make-up worn by Boris Karloff in Universal Studios 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. ...
 the 1931 "Lugosi as Frankenstein's Monster" promo poster without the now famous flat head makeup Others state it was because the film would cause the ruin of the performer in the role and wanted to minimize said actor's liability[citation needed], for the original film went against the censor boards of the day, which resulted in some portions of the film starring actor as the monster being removed from the film, the most noted removal was the drowning scene of the little girl, Maria. These removed scenes have since been restored to the film releases as shown in the recent DVD releases of the original Universal films. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Bela Lugosi was originally set to star as the monster.[1] After several disastrous make-up tests, the Dracula star left the project, lamenting the mute role as he did; Lugosi would soon regret the decision, now probably the most famously catastrophic and talked-about mistake of an actor refusing a role in film history. At least that's what Lugosi always said. But recent evidence suggests that Lugosi was kicked off the project, along with director Robert Florey. Ironically, Lugosi would later go on to play the monster in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man a decade later, when his career was in decline and only after Lon Chaney, Jr. complained bitterly about the possibility of him doing double work through trick photography to appears as both the Wolfman and the Monster in the film for about the same pay rate. Chaney had already appeared as the Monster in the previous Frankenstein film Ghost of Frankenstein, directly succeeding Boris Karloff in the role. Bela Lugosi as Dracula United States stamp. ...
Dracula is a 1931 horror film produced by Universal Pictures Co. ...
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, released in 1943, is an American horror film produced by Universal Studios. ...
The Ghost of Frankenstein (often referred to without the article The in the title), was an American horror film released in 1942. ...
As was the custom at the time, only the main cast and crew were listed in the credits. Additionally, however, a number of other actors who worked on the project were or became familiar to fans of the Universal horror films. These included Frederick Kerr as the old Baron Frankenstein, Henry's father; Lionel Belmore as Herr Vogel, the Burgomeister; Marilyn Harris as Little Maria, the girl the monster accidentally kills; and Michael Mark as Ludwig, Maria's father. Baron Frankenstein is a fictional baron who appears in the 1931 film adaptation of Mary Shelleys novel, Frankenstein. ...
Lionel Belmore (12 May 1867 Wimbledon, London, England - 30 January 1953 Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) was an English character actor and director on stage and in US films of the 1920s and 1930s. ...
Marilyn Harris,(1924 - 1999),was an American child actor in several Hollywood productions of the 1930s. ...
Jack Pierce was the makeup artist who designed the now-iconic "flat head" look for Karloff's monster, although Whale's contribution in the form of sketches remains a controversy, and who was actually responsible for the idea of the look will probably always be a mystery. Jack Pierce (May 5, 1889 in Greece – July 19, 1968), born Janus Piccoulas, was a Hollywood make-up artist most famous for creating the iconic make-up worn by Boris Karloff in Universal Studios 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. ...
Ken Strickfaden designed the electrical effects used in the "creation scene." So successful were they that such effects came to be considered an essential part of every subsequent Universal film involving the Frankenstein Monster. Accordingly, the equipment used to produce them has come to be referred to in fan circles as "Strickfadens." It appears that Strickfaden managed to secure the use of at least one Tesla Coil built by the then-aged Nikola Tesla himself.[2] According to this same source, Strickfaden also doubled for Karloff in the electrical "birth" scene as Karloff was deathly afraid of being electrocuted from the live voltage on the stage. Tesla Coil at Questacon, the Australian National Science Centre museum A Tesla coil (also teslacoil) is a type of resonant transformer, named after its inventor, Nikola Tesla. ...
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)[1] was a world-renowned Serbian inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. ...
Although Dr. Frankenstein's hunchbacked assistant is often referred to as "Igor" in descriptions of the films, this is incorrect. In both Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein has an assistant who is played both times by Dwight Frye who is crippled. In the original 1931 film the character is named "Fritz" who is directly hunchbacked and walks with the aid of a small cane. In Bride of Frankenstein, Frye plays "Karl" a murderer who stands upright but has a lumbering metal brace on both legs that can be heard clicking loudly with every step. Both characters would be killed by Karloff's monster in film. It was not until Son of Frankenstein that a character called "Ygor" first appears (here, he was played by Bela Lugosi and revised by Lugosi in the Ghost of Frankenstein after his apparent murder in Son of Frankenstein). This character — a deranged blacksmith whose neck and back are broken and twisted due to a botched hanging — befriends the monster and later helps Dr. Wolf Frankenstein, lending to the "hunchbacked assistant" called "Igor" commonly associated with Frankenstein in pop culture. The Igor character and its pronouncation would be specifically addressed finally in the parody Young Frankenstein whereby the Igor character specifically classifies the proper pronunciation of his family name as "EYE-gore" against the popular pronunciation of "EE-gore". This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...
Dwight Frye in Bride of Frankenstein Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22, 1899–November 7, 1943) was an American stage and screen actor. ...
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The Ghost of Frankenstein (often referred to without the article The in the title), was an American horror film released in 1942. ...
Son of Frankenstein is a horror film made by Universal Studios in 1939 and directed by Rowland V. Lee. ...
Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a cord wrapped around the neck, causing death. ...
Wolf Frankenstein is a fictional character who appears in the Universal film Son of Frankenstein. ...
Young Frankenstein is a 1974 comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder as the title character. ...
During the early stages of preproduction on the biopic Walk the Line, director James Mangold interviewed the biopic's subject Johnny Cash. Cash told Mangold that his favorite film was Frankenstein. Cash explained that the idea of a gentle figure being mistaken for a monster spoke to him at a personal level.[3] For the song, see I Walk the Line. ...
James Mangold (born December 1964) is an American film director born in New York City, New York best known for the independent film Heavy, winner of the best directing prize at Sundance; Cop Land starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta; Girl, Interrupted, which won the Best...
For the song of the same name, recorded by Tracy Byrd and later by Jason Aldean, see Johnny Cash (song). ...
This film was banned in Kansas for its portrayal of "cruelty and tended to debase morals".[4] For nearly the entire history of film production, certain films have been either boycotted by political and religious groups or literally banned by a regime for political or moral reasons. ...
Official language(s) English[2] Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Area Ranked 15th - Total 82,277 sq mi (213,096 km²) - Width 211 miles (340 km) - Length 417 miles (645 km) - % water 0. ...
In 1991, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".[citation needed] The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...
This film was #27 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.[citation needed] This article is about the U.S. cable network. ...
The world's most valuable movie poster is the full color 1931 Frankenstein 6-sheet which is currently owned by a NY collector.[citation needed] It is the only copy known to exist.
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A gallery of classic Universal monsters Universal Horror is the name given to the distinctive series of horror films made by Universal Studios in California from the 1920s through to the 1950s. ...
El espÃritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) is a quiet, enigmatic film featuring a very young child in the leading role. ...
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James Whale (July 22, 1889 – May 29, 1957) was a ground-breaking British Hollywood film director, best known for his work in the horror movie genre, making such pictures as Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man. ...
Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt) (London, November 23, 1887 – February 2, 1969) was an English actor, who immigrated to Canada in the 1910s, best known for his roles in horror films and the creation of Frankensteins monster in 1931s Frankenstein. ...
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James Mangold (born December 1964) is an American film director born in New York City, New York best known for the independent film Heavy, winner of the best directing prize at Sundance; Cop Land starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta; Girl, Interrupted, which won the Best...
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