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Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks. The screenplay was co-written by Brooks and Gene Wilder. Wilder also starred in the lead role as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Peter Boyle portrayed the monster.
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Dec 15, 1974 · Mel Brooks' masterpiece horror comic spoof of all those Universal Frankenstein flicks of the Thirties expertly capturing the set design (actually from the 1931 classic!) and overall look of those timeless films.
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- Comedy
- Mel Brooks
- 1974-12-15
It looks right, which makes it funnier. And then, paradoxically, it works on a couple of levels: first as comedy, and then as a weirdly touching story in its own right. A lot of the credit for that goes to the performances of Gene Wilder, as young Frankenstein, and Peter Boyle as the monster.
Gene Wilder shines as the young Dr. Frankenstein, who inherits his family's spooky castle, and Marty Feldman steals the show as the hilarious hunchback Igor.
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- Mel Brooks
- PG
- Gene Wilder
- 1 min
- Studio Executives tried Tricking Director Mel Brooks into Shooting the Film in Color. By the mid-‘70s, black and white cinema was an endangered species.
- Star and Co-Writer Gene Wilder Convinced Brooks to Forgo his Usual Cameo Appearance. Like Alfred Hitchcock, Brooks usually gave himself a part in his own films, from Blazing Saddles’ loopy governor to the wine-selling Rabbi of Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
- Early On, We Hear the Exact Same Conversation Repeated in Both English and German. En route to Romania, our protagonist catches a train to New York, whereupon he hears an American couple bickering.
- One of Igor’s Best Moments Inspired a Hit Aerosmith Song. “Walk this way!” Marty Feldman’s Igor instructs his master, who proceeds to copy the hunchback’s shuffling gait.
Jan 25, 2023 · But humor isn't all that makes a comedy. Even with the breakneck pace Brooks and his contemporaries ran at, you can't keep an audience laughing all the time, and you need a little...
Sep 20, 2021 · It is a blend of brilliant wit and physical comedy with an incredible cast of Wilder, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Peter Boyle, Cloris Leachman and Madeline Kahn that has stood the test of time. It...
