Starring: Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Mae Clark.
Henry Frankenstein (Clive) has an idea for a new experiment.
With the help of his assistant Fritz (Dwight Frye), Frankenstein digs up a
corpse and with the aid of a brain (from a criminal, following the damage of
the ‘normal’ brain) and electricity, Dr Frankenstein creates his own monster
(Karloff).
Masterful lighting and set-design distinguish this early
horror classic from English director James Whale based on the classic novel by
writer Mary Shelley, fellow Brit Boris Karloff also shines with brilliance as a
towering yet unavoidably sympathetic monster in a film so enduring elements of
its sets were used for the affectionate parody, Young Frankenstein, almost forty-five
years later.
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