Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Peter Cushing | ... | Baron Frankenstein | |
Veronica Carlson | ... | Anna Spengler | |
Freddie Jones | ... | Professor Richter | |
Simon Ward | ... | Karl | |
Thorley Walters | ... | Inspector Frisch | |
Maxine Audley | ... | Ella Brandt | |
George Pravda | ... | Doctor Brandt | |
Geoffrey Bayldon | ... | Police Doctor | |
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Colette O'Neil | ... | Mad Woman |
Frank Middlemass | ... | Guest - Plumber | |
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George Belbin | ... | Guest - Playing chess |
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Norman Shelley | ... | Guest - Smoking pipe |
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Michael Gover | ... | Guest - Reading newspaper |
Peter Copley | ... | Principal | |
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Jim Collier | ... | Dr. Heidecke |
Baron Frankenstein travels to a new town to meet Dr. Brandt with whom his has been corresponding and with whom he had hoped to collaborate. He arrives however to learn that Brandt is in a mental institution, having lost his mind completely. He takes a room in a boarding house run by the pretty young Anna who just happens to be engaged to Karl, a doctor who works at the asylum where Dr. Brandt is being kept. When Frankenstein learns that Karl has been stealing drugs, he blackmails him and Anna to work as his assistants. He is desperate to learn a secret that Brandt was going to share with him and kidnaps him with the intent of extracting that secret by transplanting his brain into another body. Written by garykmcd
I like "Curse of Frankenstein" a lot, but "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed" is better.
Peter Cushing is exceptional as the Baron - his cold-blooded, calculating and ruthless attitude is not seen to such an extent in any of the other Hammer Frankenstein films!
Credit must also go to Freddie Jones who exerts massive pathos as the unfortunate creature - almost as much as Boris Karloff's creature! It's a perfectly judged performance.
Terence Fisher is also on hand to provide his usual directional assuredness (NB. the scene at the beginning and the confrontational scene at the end!).
One of the last great Hammer films.