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Son of Frankenstein is a 1939 American horror film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. The film is the third in Universal Pictures' Frankenstein series and is the follow-up to the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein.
Son of Frankenstein: Directed by Rowland V. Lee. With Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill. Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature.
Dec 18, 2021 · Son of Frankenstein is a 1939 American horror film that was directed by Rowland V. Lee. The film is the third in Universal Pictures' Frankenstein series and is the follow-up to Bride of Frankenstein.
The memory of horror provoked by the man-made monster still endures when Baron von Frankenstein, accompanied by his wife Elsa and young son, arrives from America at his ancestral home in a small European mountain village to claim his late father's estate.
Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.
The son of Frankenstein is the son of the original Henry Frankenstein, or possibly an allusion to the monster himself, since he is the creation of the original scientist.
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Praised by critics as one of the best of the Frankenstein series, "Son of Frankenstein" stars Boris Karloff in the role that made him a screen legend.
