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The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Country of Origin: UK/USA
Year of Production: 1964
Running Times: 84m/86m
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: Eastmancolor
Ratio:
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Directed by: Freddie Francis
CREW
PRODUCTION
Copyright: © MCMLXIV Universal Pictures Company Incorporated
Production Company: A Hammer
Film production
Produced by: Anthony Hinds
Production Manager: Don Weeks
SCRIPT
Screenplay by: John Elder (real name: Anthony Hinds)
DIRECTION
Assistant Directors: Bill Cartlidge, Hugh Harlow (uncredited)
Continuity: Pauline Harlow
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John Wilcox
Camera Operator: Ronnie Maasz
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Supervising Editor: James Needs
MUSIC
Music Composed by: Don Banks
Music Supervisor: Philip Martell
Musical Director: John Hollingsworth (uncredited)
SOUND
Sound Recordist: Ken Rawkins
Sound Editor: Roy Hyde
RCA Sound Recording
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make up Artist: Roy Ashton
Hair Stylist: Frieda Steiger
Wardrobe Mistress: Rosemary Burrows
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Les Bowie
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Don Mingaye
LOCATIONS
Produced at Bray Studios, England
CAST
Starring
Peter Cushing
(Baron Frankenstein)
Also Starring
Peter Woodthorpe (Zoltan)
Duncan Lamont (Chief of Police)
with
Sandor Eles (Hans)
Katy Wild (beggar girl)
David Hutcheson (Burgomaster)
James Maxwell (priest)
Howard Goorney (drunk)
and
Kiwi Kingston (Creature)
Anthony Blackshaw, David Conville (policemen)
Caron Gardner (Burgomaster's wife)
Uncredited
Kenneth Cove (Curé)
Alistair Williamson (landlord)
Frank Forsyth (manservant)
Michelle Scott (little girl)
Tony Arpino (bodysnatcher)
Timothy Bateson (hypnotised man)
Robert Flynn, James Garfield, Derek Martin, Anthony Poole (roustabouts)
Patrick Horgan (David Carrell)
Steven Geray (Dr Sergado (US TV version only))
Maria Palmer (Rena's mother (US TV version only))
William Phipps (Rena's father (US TV version only))
Tracy Stratford (Rena as a child (US TV version only))
PLOT SUMMARY
Frankenstein and his assistant Hans return to the Baron's castle in
Karlstad after an absence of many years to resume their work. Frankenstein
is led by a young deaf-mute girl to the body of his first creation frozen
in a block of ice. Frankenstein revives the creature and calls upon
the services of shady hypnotist Zoltan to help him control the monster.
But Zoltan is determined to use the creature for his own ends...
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Universal Pictures
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: banned in 1965
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: X
USA
Rating: unrated
TIMELINE
1964
May
8: USA - theatrical release
31: UK - theatrical release
June
13: USA - copyrighted (copyright no. LP37901)
November
23: Sweden - theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
He's never been more shocking! shocking! shocking!
Lightning raises the dead
Shock...shock...
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Empreinte de Frankenstein, L' - French
title
Frankensteins Ungeheuer - German title
Rivolta di Frankenstein, La - Italian title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Curse of Frankenstein,
The (1957)
Revenge of Frankenstein,
The (1958)
SEQUELS
Frankenstein
Created Woman (1967)
Frankenstein
Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Horror of Frankenstein,
The (1970)
Frankenstein
and the Monster from Hell (1974)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Scary Monsters 1996 Yearbook p.4 (USA)
illustrated review
BOOKS
The Hammer Story pp.80-81
illustrated article, review (by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes)
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies
1991 - 1992 p.125
credits, review
Illustrated Frankenstein Movie Guide pp.65-66
credits, review (by Stephen Jones)
Nightwalkers pp.27-29
illustrated review
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
deaf mutes, fairs,
flashbacks, Frankenstein,
hypnotism, laboratories,
monsters, police,
revenge, sequels,
sideshows
Last Updated:
13 June, 2009
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