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Frankenstein [1910]

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1910
Running Times: 16 mins
Length: 297.18 metres
Format: black and white [tinted]
Ratio:
Sound: silent

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Edison Company
Producer: Thomas A. Edison

SCRIPT
Script: J. Searle Dawley
Novel: Mary Shelley

DIRECTION
Directors: J. Searle Dawley

CAST
Charles Ogle [The Monster]
Augustus Phillips [Frankenstein]
Mary Fuller [Elizabeth]

SUMMARY

Medical student Frankenstein becomes obsessed with creating a perfect human being through alchemy. He's only partially successful however, ending up with a misshapen monstrosity. Frankenstein is so mortified by what he's done that he falls ill and the monster flees. But on Frankenstein's wedding night, the monster returns...

TIMELINE

1910
January

13: USA - production begins
19: USA - production ends

March
18: USA - theatrical release

LINKS

SEE ALSO
The Nightmare Before Christmas [1993]

REMAKES
Life Without Soul [1915]
Il mostro di Frankenstein [1920]
Frankenstein [1931]
Son of Frankenstein [1939]
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein [1948]
Frankenstein [1973]
Young Frankenstein [1974]
Frankenstein 90 [1984]
Frankenstein [1984]
Frankenstein General Hospital [1988]
Frankenstein Unbound [1990]
Frankenstein [1993]
Frankenstein [1994]

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

MonsterScene no.4 [March 1995] pp.6-7
article [Silent Screams by MJ Simpson]

BOOKS

Universal Filmscripts Series, Classic Horror Films Vol.1 - Frankenstein pp.18-21 [USA: MagicImage, ed. Philip J Riley (1989)]
facsimile of 'Dramatic Synopsis' and 'Dramatic Assembly'

KEYWORDS

book into film; frankenstein; monsters; scientists; wedding nights; alchemy

CONTRIBUTORS

Kevin Lyons; MJ Simpson

 


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