The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) @ EOFFTV


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	The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) Country of Origin: UK Year of Production: 1958 Running Times: 86m 11s (UK - video)/90m (USA - theatrical)/93m 35s (UK - theatrical) Length: Format: 35mm Colour Format: Technicolor Ratio: Sound: mono DIRECTION Director: Terence Fisher CREW PRODUCTION Production Company: Hammer Film Productions Limited Executive Producer: Michael Carreras Producer: Anthony Hinds Associate Producer: Anthony Nelson-Keys Production Manager: Don Weeks SCRIPT Script: Jimmy Sangster, George Baxt (uncredited) Additional Dialogue: Hurford James DIRECTION Assistant Director: Robert Lynn PHOTOGRAPHY Director of Photography: Jack Asher Camera Operator: Len Harris EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION Supervising Editor: James Needs Editor: Alfred Cox MUSIC Music: Leonard Salzedo SOUND Sound Recording: Jock May Sound System: RCA Sound Recording COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP Make Up: Phil Leakey Hair: Henry Montsash Wardrobe: Rosemary Burrows DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION Production Designer: Bernard Robinson OTHER CREW Continuity: Doreen Dearnaley LOCATIONS Locations: Bray Studios, Berkshire, England, UK CAST Peter Cushing (Baron Frankenstein) Francis Matthews (Dr Hans Kleve) Eunice Gayson (Margaret) Michael Gwynn (The Creature) Oscar Quitak (Karl) John Welsh (Bergman) Lionel Jeffries (Fritz) Richard Wordsworth (up patient) Charles Lloyd Pack (president) John Stuart (inspector) Arnold Diamond (Molke) Margery Gresley (Countess Barscynska) Anna Walmsley (Vera Barscynska) George Woodbridge (janitor) Michael Ripper (Kurt) Ian Whittaker (boy) Avril Leslie (girl) UNCREDITED CAST Alex Gallier (priest at execution) John Gayford (footman) George Hirste (smoking patient) Raymond Hodge (official at exhumation) Gerald Lawson (legless patient) Eugene Leahy (Klein) Michael Mulcaster (Harry the tatooed patient) Gordon Needham (male nurse) Julia Nelson (Inga) Robert Brooks Turner (Joseph the groom) Freddie Watts, Middleton Woods (patients) PLOT SUMMARY Frankenstein escapes the guillotine and flees to Carlsbruck where he passes himself off as Dr Victor Stein and makes a living as a general practitioner. Three years later, while working in the town's hospital for the poor (where he carries on his experiments), he is recognised by a visiting physician, Dr Hans Kleve and the two decide to work together on creating a new artificial man. Using donors from the hospital, Frankenstein has built a new body into which he agrees to transplant the brain of his hunchbacked assistant Karl. Once completed and given life, the new creature is left in the care of the poor hospital where a well-meaning nurse releases it. As the new Karl tries to destroy his old body, a sadistic janitor savagely beats the creature and his brain is badly damaged, triggering cannibalistic urges... CAPSULE REVIEW The Revenge of Frankenstein is an altogether more ambitious undertaking than its predecessor, not only defining the shape of the subsequent Frankenstein series but also consolidating the look and feel of the Hammer house style previously established in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958. Again the winning combination of director Terence Fisher, cinematographer Jack Asher and production designer Bernard Robinson resulted in a visually stunning piece which quite belies its tiny budget. Though not as widely acclaimed as its predecessor, it remains one of the best films that Hammer ever produced. (Full Review) AVAILABILITY UK Video Distributor: Columbia/Tri-Star Home Video (CVRP178 - on double bill with Curse of the Mummy's Tomb) USA Theatrical Distributor: Columbia Pictures CENSORSHIP HISTORY Finland Rating: banned in 1958 Sweden Rating: 15 UK Rating: X (1957 - with unspecified cuts); 15 (1986 - uncut) USA Rating: unrated TIMELINE 1958 June 1: USA - theatrical release July 31: UK - rated X by the BBFC (for theatrical release - with unspecified cuts) August 27: UK - theatrical release November 17: UK - theatrical release 1967 February 13: Sweden - theatrical release 1986 August 8: UK - rated 15 by the BBFC (for video release) 1993 August 9: UK - video release (Columbia/Tri-Star (CVRP178 - on double bill with Curse of the Mummy's Tomb)) POSTER TAGS Remember that the screams you hear will be your own! This could be you after THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN New And Greatest Frankenstein Monsterpiece!! We Dare You To See It! We Double-Dare You To Forget It! If you go alone... you'll find yourself running all the way home! ALTERNATIVE TITLES Blood of Frankenstein - working title Frankensteins Rache - German title Ich bin Frankenstein - German title La vendetta di Frankenstein - Italian title LINKS SEQUEL TO The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) SEQUELS The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) SEE ALSO The Flesh and the Fiends (1959) KEYWORDS brain transplants, dismemberment, experiments, eyeballs, Frankenstein, grave robbing, guillotines, hospitals, hunchbacks, laboratories, monsters, reanimation, scientists, sequels, skeletons Last Updated: 20 October, 2008