Young Frankenstein (1974)

Young Frankenstein; 1974

Young Frankenstein (1974)

20th Century Fox
Comedy, Horror

USA / English 106 min. Buy Young Frankenstein at Amazon.com

Rating: 7 (3 votes)
7
Producer:
Michael Gruskoff
Director:
Mel Brooks
Writer:
Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Mary Shelley
Photography:
Gerald Hirschfeld
Musician:
Irving Berlin, Franz Schubert, John Morris

Plot

"Young Frankenstein" is a tongue-in-cheek comedy about the heir to the original Dr. Frankenstein. While the young Frankenstein initially refuses to admit to his background (stating that his surname is pronounced "Frahnkensteen") he finds he is willed his grandfather's estate. Once there, he finds Igor and a sultry mistress and is compelled to complete his grandfather's work. What then commences is a daring and hilarious attempt to find all the necessary parts to reanimate a corpse, without alerting the local police and townspeople. The creature is successfully reanimated, and as the young Frankenstein takes him to public displays (including having the creature dance to "puttin' on the Ritz") the creature begins to get into misadventures of his own. Completely misunderstood tragedies cause the townfolk to turn on both creator and creature leaving their lives hanging in the balance.

Cast

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein:Gene Wilder
The Monster:Peter Boyle
Igor:Marty Feldman
Inga:Teri Garr
Blind Hermit:Gene Hackman
Elizabeth:Madeline Kahn
Frau Blücher:Cloris Leachman
Hans Wilhelm Friederich Kemp:Kenneth Mars
Gerhard Falkstein:Richard Haydn
Mr. Hilltop:Lidia Kristen
Medical Student:Danny Goldman
Helga:Anne Beesley
A Villager:John Madison
Herr Waldman:Leon Askin

Media

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