Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

Director:

Terence Fisher

Writers:

Bert Batt (screenplay)
Anthony Nelson Keys (story) ...

Release Date:

11 February 1970 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Drama | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

The Most Frightening Frankenstein Movie Ever!

Plot:

Baron Frankenstein is once again working with illegal medical experiments. Together with a young doctor...

Plot Keywords:

Corpse | Blackmail | Frankenstein's Monster | Mask | Boarding House

Cast

Peter Cushing	...	Baron Frankenstein
Veronica Carlson	...	Anna
Freddie Jones	...	Professor Richter
Simon Ward	...	Karl
Thorley Walters	...	Inspector Frisch
Maxine Audley	...	Ella Brandt
George Pravda	...	Doctor Brandt
Geoffrey Bayldon	...	Police Doctor
Colette O'Neil	...	Mad Woman
Frank Middlemass	...	Guest - Plumber
George Belbin	...	Guest - Playing chess
Norman Shelley	...	Guest - Smoking pipe
Michael Gover	...	Guest - Reading newspaper
Peter Copley	...	Principal
Jim Collier	...	Dr. Heidecke

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence and horror images. (2004 re-rating)

Runtime:

98 min | Argentina:95 min | Spain:97 min | USA:101 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | Australia:M | Finland:(Banned) (1969) | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:GP (re-rating) (1969) | USA:M (certificate #22109) (original rating) | USA:PG-13 (re-rating) (2004) | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Stanmore Hall, Wood Lane, Stanmore, Middlesex, England, UK

Company:

Hammer Film Productions

Trivia:

The characters of Insp. Frisch (Thorley Walters) and the Police Doctor were added to the script at a late stage.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: A crew member is visible just after the water-pipe bursts, about one hour into the movie. As Frankenstein enters the house and walks down the hallway, the camera pans across to the left, and as it does so, someone is seen disappearing quickly behind the doorway to get out of shot.

Quotes:

Professor Richter: I fancy that I am the spider and you are the fly, Frankenstein.

Movie Connections:

References The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)

Great British horror film.

Peter Cushing stars as the evil Baron Frankenstein who,driven out of his homeland of Bohemia,has set up shop in an English boarding house,where he blackmails the lovely Miss Spengler,who has inherited proprietorship of the establishment from her ailing mother,and Miss Spengler's dashing young fiancé Carl into helping him with his diabolical experiments.Through Frankenstein's great good planning or great good fortune,Carl is a doctor employed at the mental hospital in which resides the infamous Dr. Brandt,Frankenstein's one time research associate and the very man Frankenstein came to England to see,now a hopeless madman.With Carl's help,Frankenstein plans to abduct Dr. Brandt and cure his insanity..."Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed" by Terence Fisher is brilliantly directed film.The script by Ben Batt is truly intelligent and Freddie Jones's creature is the most interestingly complex and well played of all the Hammer's Frankenstein monsters-indeed it is the only one to come anywhere near Mary Shelley's novel and her conception of an intelligent and literate creation come to taunt its creator for the condition inflicted on it.Give this one a look.8 out of 10.