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The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1942
Running Times: 67 mins
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Producer: George Waggner
SCRIPT
Script: Scott W. Darling
Story: Eric Taylor
Characters: Mary Shelley (uncredited)
DIRECTION
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Assistant Director: Charles S. Gould
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Elwood Bredell, Milton R. Krasner
EDITING
Editor: Ted J. Kent
MUSIC
Music: Hans J. Salter
Music Director: Charles Previn
Orchestrator: Charles Maxwell (uncredited)
SOUND
Sound Director: Bernard B. Brown
Sound Technician: Charles Carroll
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Gowns: Vera West
Make Up: Jack P. Pierce
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Jack Otterson
Associate Art Director: Harold MacArthur
Set Decorator: Russell A. Gausman
CAST
Cedric Hardwicke (Dr Ludwig Frankenstein)
Lon Chaney Jr (The Frankenstein Monster)
Ralph Bellamy (Erik Ernst)
Lionel Atwill (Dr Theodor Bohmer)
Bela Lugosi (Ygor)
Evelyn Ankers (Elsa Frankenstein)
Janet Ann Gallow (Cloestine Hussman)
Barton Yarborough (Doctor Kettering)
Doris Lloyd (Martha)
Leyland Hodgson (Chief constable)
Olaf Hytten (Hussman)
Holmes Herbert (magistrate)
Richard Alexander (Vision)
Lionel Belmore (councillor)
Harry Cording (Frone)
George Eldredge (constable)
Dwight Frye (villager)
Lawrence Grant (mayor)
Otto Hoffman (villager)
Brandon Hurst (Hans)
Michael Mark (councillor)
Jimmy Phillips (Indian)
Ernie Stanton (constable)
Julius Tannen (Sektal)
Teddy Infuhr, William Smith (boys - uncredited)
SYNOPSIS
Ygor rescues the Frankenstein monster from a sulphur pit and together
they confront the Baron's son, Ludwig. He wants to dissect the monster
but Ygor has other plans - he wants Ludwig to transplant his own brain
into the monster's body. A visit from the ghost of his father persuades
Ludwig to do as Ygor asks, but he hasn't reckoned with the double-crossing
Dr Bohmer...
CAPSULE REVIEW
The third sequel to Frankenstein (1931) maintains
the quality, with a good performance from Lugosi
as the scheming Ygor and assured direction from Kenton. Chaney doesn't
do so well as the monster - nothing was ever going to replace Karloff's
definitive portrayal - though his final moments, speaking with Ygor's
insane voice, are genuinely chilling
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Realart Pictures Inc / Universal Pictures
Video Distributor: MCA Universal
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Sweden
Rating: 15
USA
Rating: unrated
TIMELINE
1942
March
13: USA - theatrical release
October
30: Sweden - theatrical release
1986
March
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)
1996
February
UK - television broadcast (on The Sci-Fi Channel)
2001
February
Saturday 24: USA - television broadcast (on American Movie Classics)
2002
January
10: USA - television broadcast (on American Movie Classics)
POSTER TAGS
You can't keep a good monster down!
All new thrills!
New Thrills as the Monster Stalks Again!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Il terrore di Frankenstein - Italian title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Frankenstein (1931)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
SEQUELS
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
House of Dracula (1945)
House of Frankenstein (1944)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Coming Soon (1982)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Classic Images no.161 (November 1988) pp.51-53
(USA)
illustrated article (Pentagram Revues: Ghost of Frankenstein
by Blackie Seymour)
Classic Images no.162 (December 1988) pp.32-33,
C12-C14 (USA)
illustrated article (Pentagram Revues: Ghost of Frankenstein Pt.
II by Blackie Seymour)
Film Score Monthly no.41 / 42 / 43 (January
/ February / March 1994) p.29 (USA)
soundtrack review (Classic corner: Hans J. Salter's Frankenstein
by Jeffrey Ford)
Kinematograph Weekly no.1831 (21 May 1942)
(UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.9 p.72
(UK)
credits, review
Reid's Film Index no.23 (1996) pp.47-49
(USA)
illustrated article (by George Aachen)
Starburst vol.5 no.4 (March 1984) pp.30
- 31 (UK)
illustrated article (The Frankenstein Chronicles Part IV by
Phil Edwards)
Today's Cinema vol.58 no.4724 (19 May 1942)
(UK)
review
Today's Cinema vol.70 no.5608 (11 February
1948) (UK)
review
Monsters From the Vault 1 pp.5-6
Scary Monsters 14 pp.16-19
BOOKS
Aurum Encyclopedia of Film: Horror (2nd edition)
p. 79
credits, review
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films II p.161
credits
Universal Horrors
article (by Michael Brunas, John Brunas and Tom Weaver)
KEYWORDS
battering
rams; frankenstein monster; ghosts; shepherds; storms; electricity;
scientists
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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