Needing money, the last of the Frankensteins leases his castle out to a film company as he tries to complete his ancestor's gruesome experiments at creating life.
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| Boris Karloff | ... | Baron Victor von Frankenstein | |
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Tom Duggan | ... | Mike Shaw |
| Jana Lund | ... | Carolyn Hayes | |
| Don 'Red' Barry | ... | Douglas Row (as Donald Barry) | |
| Charlotte Austin | ... | Judy Stevens | |
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Irwin Berke | ... | Inspector Raab |
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Rudolph Anders | ... | Wilhelm Gottfried |
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Norbert Schiller | ... | Shuter |
| John Dennis | ... | Morgan Haley | |
| Mike Lane | ... | Hans Himmler / The Monster | |
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Baron Victor Von Frankenstein has fallen on hard times; he was tortured at the hands of the Nazis for not cooperating with them during World War II and he is now badly disfigured. As his family's wealth begins to run out, the Baron is forced to allow a TV crew shooting a documentary on his monster-making ancestors to film at his castle in Germany. However, the Baron has some ideas of his own: using the money from the crew's rent he buys an atomic reactor and uses it to create a hulking monster, transplanting his butler's brain into the thing and using it to kill off the crew for more spare parts. Written by Jeremy Lunt <durlinlunt@acadia.net>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
20 July 1958 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Frankenstein 1960 See more »Filming Locations:
Stage 3, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA See more »Edit
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$110,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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2.35 : 1
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Judy Stevens: [Condescendingly and sarcastically] Didn't that take an awful lot of courage, darling? After all, you never know who you'll find dead in an oven!
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The film was scheduled for eight shooting days and was completed on time (1/9/58 to 1/20/58). Boris Karloff worked all eight days. See more »Goofs
The degree of damage to Karloff's disfigured eye changes from scene to scene. See more »Quotes
Judy Stevens: I put the toast in the oven.Judy Stevens: [Condescendingly and sarcastically] Didn't that take an awful lot of courage, darling? After all, you never know who you'll find dead in an oven!
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Atmosphere is important in any horror film and this movie has it in spades. Unfortunately, that's all it has. Really very little to recommend here. Karloff is good in this movie but completely wasted in this effort and far too campy and hammy to really chill the audience. The monster itself is also a huge problem. Not so much when we first see the monster but as it progresses in its various stages of creation, it just gets sillier and sillier. The music tries to scare up a few chills whenever the monster appears but it is all really wasted. The best thing about the movie as I previously stated is the atmosphere. I especially like movies that have isolated creepy castles in them that are filled with secret passageways and hidden laboratories from which all those mad scientists conduct their business. The opening sequence of the film is by far the best part of the movie but the surprise ending tries to come close only that it is really telegraphed all throughout the movie and really isn't much of a surprise when you think about it. Although this is by far not the worst Karloff film it is not the best either. It's really too bad that Karloff, if he wanted to spoof the Frankenstein character he played, that he should have offered to play the part in ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN.