I must admit I had never heard about "Tales of Tomorrow" before noticing this little episode as an extra feature on the Spanish DVD edition of the trash-classic "Frankenstein's Daughter". Quite frankly, I also don't really see the point of yet another re-telling of the famous Mary Shelley tale, except maybe to see Lon Chaney Jr. reprise the role of the monster as he did in "Ghost of Frankenstein". But apparently this little half hour Frankenstein tale is remotely notorious for an entirely different reason, namely a drunken Lon Chaney destroying the expensive props during rehearsal and looking like an idiot during the live recording. It's a rather funny sight to behold Chaney – nevertheless with terrifically eerie make up effects – stumbling, blundering and mumbling, but overall this feels very derivative and insignificant. Professor Frankenstein retired to a remote castle in the middle of a lake to accomplish his lifework, a manually manufactured but superior human being. It works fine, but the servants and his dumb little nephew hurt the creature's feelings by repeatedly yelling he's ugly. Obviously the creature goes bonkers and Frankenstein realizes he shouldn't have played God. In other words, a very rudimentary and straightforward re- telling of the Frankenstein story we all know.
Review of Frankenstein
