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Frankenstein (1984)

Country of Origin: UK / USA
Date(s) of Broadcast: 1984
Number of Seasons: N/A
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times:
Format: colour videotape
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Yorkshire Television / Film-Theatre Video Inc
Executive Producers: Lou Moore, Bob Rubin
Producer: Bill Siegler
Associate Producer: Carol Williams
Unit Manager: Mary Rotherham

SCRIPT
Script: Victor Gialanella
Novel: Mary Shelley

DIRECTION
Director: James Ormerod
Original Stage Production Director: Tom Moore

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: Peter Squires
Cameras: Stuart Hinchcliffe
Electrical Supervisor: Mal Irwin

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
VT Editors: Lance Tattersall, Mike Pearson
Vision Mixer: Sue James
Vision Control: Jim Arnfield

MUSIC
Music: Alan Parker

SOUND
Sound: Dave Whiteley

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up Supervisor: Mary Griffiths
Costume Designer: Charlotte Holdich

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Jeremy Bear
Graphics: Brian Beardmore

MISCELLANEOUS
Technical Supervisor: Dave Holmes
Production Assistant: Carole Tudor
Stage Managers: Annette Roche, Alan Sandbrook
Production Associate: Timothy J. Fee

LOCATIONS
Locations: Ripley Castle, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK; Rudding Park Estate, Yorkshire, England, UK

CASTING
Casting Director: Malcolm Brury

CAST
Robert Powell (Victor Frankenstein)
David Warner (creature)
Carrie Fisher (Elizabeth)
John Gielgud (De Lacey)
Michael Cochrane (Henry Clerval)
Susan Wooldridge (Justine)
Terence Alexander (Alphones Frankenstein)
Graham McGrath (William Frankenstein)
Edward Judd (Metz)
James Coyle (Scholz)
Arnold Peters (Busch)
Roberta Taylor (Gerta)

PLOT SUMMARY

Dr Victor Frankenstein becomes obsessed with creating a new life from body parts pilfered from the recently deceased. His experiments seem to be successful - but the creature is terrified and unpredictable and when it flees into the woods, it sets in motion a chain of events that will lead to its downfall, and that of its creator.

AVAILABILITY

USA
Television Distributor: Showtime Networks Inc
Video Distributors: Lightning Video; Live Video

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Frankenstein (1910)
Frankenstein (1931)
Frankenstein (1968)
Frankenstein (1973)
Frankenstein (1993)
Frankenstein (1994)
Frankenstein 90 (1984)
Frankenstein General Hospital (1988)
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
Life Without Soul (1915)
Il mostro di Frankenstein (1920)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

The Dark Side no.55 pp.26-27 (UK)
review

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

book into film; frankenstein; monsters; blindness; hermits; artificial humans; scientists; surgery


Last Updated: 17 November, 2008

 


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