What the heck were the film makers even trying to do here? The story line suggests there might have been not one, but two daughters of Frankenstein, vastly different in appearance and disposition. The first was pretty teenager Trudy Morton (Sandra Knight) after she was slipped a mickey by her father's lab assistant Oliver Frank (Donald Murphy). Turning into a hillbilly with buck teeth, she managed to terrorize a few folks who caught a glimpse of her wandering around in the night. But Frank's real mission was to recreate his grandfather's original creation, but this time complete with a female brain, because by his own admission, women who have been conditioned to a man's world will do what they're told! I think the seeds of women's lib were planted right there.
You see, Oliver Frank's grandfather was the creator of the first Frankenstein monster and in following the famed scientist's footsteps, he considers himself eminently more capable than the man he's working for, Professor Carter Morton (Felix Locher). Morton secretly breaks into Rockwell Labs to make off with a substance called Digenerol, but doesn't know that it hasn't been perfected yet, as it degenerates tissue and cells. No matter, Frank in his haste, uses the stuff on the corpse he's been hanging on to until he had the chance to procure a female brain, which he does by running over one of Trudy's friends. It shouldn't come as a surprise that every now and then, Frank gets the most crazed look in his eyes as he forges ahead with his experiment.
In the midst of all this, there's time out for a break at the hop with Page Cavanaugh and His Trio, which gave me pause, because I had to question the accuracy of his little group's name. While performing a couple numbers for the local teens at the soda shop, I'm thinking to myself, if the band leader had three musicians backing him up, shouldn't they be the Page Cavanaugh Quartet?
You see, Oliver Frank's grandfather was the creator of the first Frankenstein monster and in following the famed scientist's footsteps, he considers himself eminently more capable than the man he's working for, Professor Carter Morton (Felix Locher). Morton secretly breaks into Rockwell Labs to make off with a substance called Digenerol, but doesn't know that it hasn't been perfected yet, as it degenerates tissue and cells. No matter, Frank in his haste, uses the stuff on the corpse he's been hanging on to until he had the chance to procure a female brain, which he does by running over one of Trudy's friends. It shouldn't come as a surprise that every now and then, Frank gets the most crazed look in his eyes as he forges ahead with his experiment.
In the midst of all this, there's time out for a break at the hop with Page Cavanaugh and His Trio, which gave me pause, because I had to question the accuracy of his little group's name. While performing a couple numbers for the local teens at the soda shop, I'm thinking to myself, if the band leader had three musicians backing him up, shouldn't they be the Page Cavanaugh Quartet?