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The Ghost of Frankenstein: Perhaps the last creation of the
classic horror film era, The Ghost of Frankenstein delights fans
with its sly humor and deliciously mischievous portrayals - Lon
Chaney, Jr. as the monster, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the twisted
son of Dr. Frankenstein, and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's
dutiful assistant, Ygor. Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague,
Dr. Bohmer (Lionel Atwill), plots to trans Ygor's brain so
he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes
sour when the monster turns malevolent and goes on a rampage. Son
of Frankenstein: Praised by critics as one of the best of the
Frankenstein series, Son of Frankenstein stars Boris Karloff in
the role that made him a screen legend. Returning to the
ancestral castle 25 years after the death of the monsters, the
son of Dr. Frankenstein (Basil Rath) meets Ygor (Bela
Lugosi), a mad shepherd who is hiding the creature.
Hoping to clear the family name, he revives the creature and
tries to rehabilitate him. His noble goals are dashed when Ygor
sends the creature on a killing spree that spreads new panic in
the village.
Bonus Content:
Disc 1 - The Ghost of Frankenstein:
* Theatrical Trailer
* Production Notes
* Cast and Filmmakers
*
Disc 1 - Son of Frankenstein:
* Production Notes
* Cast and Filmmakers
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Son of Frankenstein Basil Rath comes to Transylvania to
inherit his her's estate in this second sequel to
Frankenstein. The townspeople are suspicious, but young
Frankenstein has no interest in reviving his her's work--until
he discovers the monster hidden away in the castle, inert but
very much intact and watched over by Ygor (Bela Lugosi), a
sinister, snaggletoothed peasant with a broken neck. Convinced to
revive the creature and vindicate his her's name, Frankenstein
toils away in the lab not realizing that Ygor plans to use the
monster to revenge himself on the jury that sentenced him to
hang. Boris Karloff makes his final appearance as the Monster,
now little more than a mute, lumbering robot under the hypnotic
control of Ygor. Rath is a dignified, suave scientist and a
marvelous match to Lugosi's mad Ygor, a richly malevolent
performance that dominates the film. Lionel Atwill makes a
marvelous addition to the Frankenstein gallery as the
wooden-armed constable, a legacy of the monster's rampage 25
years before. (Mel Brooks's loving lampoon Young Frankenstein, a
veritable remake of this film, features the constable and his
lumber limb in a major role.) Universal abandoned horror films in
1936, but the success of this sequel single-handedly revived the
genre. Though lacking the gothic splendor and macabre humor of
James Whale's originals, Rowland V. Lee's handsome production
remains an intelligent, well-made classic of the genre and
Universal's last great horror film. Lugosi returns as Ygor in The
Ghost of Frankenstein.
The Ghost of Frankenstein The monster lives! Again! Picking up
where Son of Frankenstein left off, Bela Lugosi's gnarled Ygor
survives yet another rampage by angry, torch-carrying villagers
and frees the monster (The Wolf Man himself, Lon Chaney Jr.,
taking over from Boris Karloff) from his sulfur grave. The latest
cinematic Frankenstein scion, brain surgeon Ludwig (Cedric
Hardwicke), wants to dissect the creature, but the ghost of his
her convinces him to save it by giving it a new, "good" brain.
Ygor has his own devious plan and enlists Ludwig's shady
assistant (Lionel Atwill) in a brain-sw scheme.
Ably directed by the pedestrian Erle C. Kenton, The Ghost of
Frankenstein gives up the gothic mood and moral quandaries of the
original films for the busy, action-packed plots that defined
Universal horror films of the 1940s. The human characters are all
rather dull (except for Lugosi's animated, eye-rolling
performance), and Chaney has none of Karloff's pathos or subtlety
under the make-up, but the film opens with a spectacular bang as
the villagers dynamite the castle, and skips from one inspired
scene to another. The monster rejuvenates himself during an
electrical storm with a jolt of lightning, mutely undergoes a
courtroom cross-examination (by a ridiculously intent Ralph
Bellamy), and finally goes on a blind rampage in the fiery
climax. Frankenstein's monster returns (this time with Lugosi as
the creature) in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. --Sean Axmaker
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From the Back Cover
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The Ghost of Frankenstein: Perhaps the last creation of the
classic horror film era, The Ghost of Frankenstein delights fans
with its sly humor and deliciously mischievous portrayals-Lon
Chaney, Jr. as the monster, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the twisted
son of Dr. Frankenstein, and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's
dutiful assistant, Ygor. Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague,
Dr. Bohmer (Lionel Atwill), plots to trans Ygor's brain so
he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes
sour when the monster turns malevolent and goes on a rampage. Son
of Frankenstein: Praised by critics as one of the best of the
Frankenstein series, Son of Frankenstein stars Boris Karloff in
the role that made him a screen legend. Returning to the
ancestral castle 25 years after the death of the monster, the son
of Dr. Frankenstein (Basil Rath) meets Ygor (Bela Lugosi), a
mad shepherd who is hiding the creature. Hoping to clear
the family name, he reviews the creature and tries to
rehabilitate him. His noble goals are dashed when Ygor sends the
creature on a killing spree that spreads new panic in the
village.
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