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Frankenstein - 1970 (1958)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1958
Running Times: 83 mins
Format: black and white 35mm CinemaScope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Allied Artists Productions Inc
Producer: Aubrey Schenck

SCRIPT
Script: Richard H. Landau, Charles A. Moses, Aubrey Schenck, George Worthing Yates
Characters: Mary Shelley (uncredited)

DIRECTION
Director: Howard W. Koch
Assistant Director: George Vieira

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Carl E. Guthrie

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: John A. Bushelman

MUSIC
Music: Paul Dunlap

SOUND
Sound: Francis E. Stahl

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up Supervisor: Gordon Bau
Make Up: George Bau

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Electrical Effects: Richard Owens

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Jack T. Collis
Set Decorator: Jerry Welch
Property Master: George Sweeney

CAST
Boris Karloff (Baron Frankenstein)
Don 'Red' Barry (Douglas Row)
Jana Lund (Carolyn Hayes)
Tom Duggan (Mike Shaw)
Charlotte Austin (Judy Stevens)
Norbert Schiller (Shuter)
Rudolph Anders (Wilhelm Gottfried)
Irwin Berke (Inspector Raab)
Mike Lane (Hans)
John Dennis (Morgan Haley)
Franz Roehn
Joe Ploski
Otto Reichow

PLOT SUMMARY

Baron Victor Von Frankenstein, having fallen on hard times, decides to allow a television crew to make documentary about his infamous ancestors. But he uses th emoney he makes to buy a nuclear reactor which he needs to complete his own creation, using his butler's brain and body parts stolen from the murdered TV crew.

AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures Corporation

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

USA
Rating: unrated

TIMELINE

1958
July

20: USA – theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

The One...The Only KING OF MONSTERS as the new demon of the atomic age!

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Frankenstein - US TV title
Frankenstein 1960 - working title
Frankenstein 1975 - working title
Die Hexenküche des Dr Rambow - German title

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Frankenstein (1931)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)

KEYWORDS

castles; frankenstein; frankenstein's monster; nazis; television


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