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- (Explaining this process, Brooks once loftily declared, “My movies rise below vulgarity.”) “Young Frankenstein” is as funny as we expect a Mel Brooks comedy to be, but it’s more than that: It shows artistic growth and a more sure-handed control of the material by a director who once seemed willing to do literally anything for a laugh.
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Young Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of the count who started it all, returns by rail to his ancestral home. As the train pulls into the station, he spots a kid on the platform, lowers the window and asks, "Pardon me, boy; is this the Transylvania Station"?
Brooks' corniness still yields plenty of belly laughs. Read Common Sense Media's Young Frankenstein review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Twentieth Century Fox
- Mel Brooks
Made with obvious affection for the original, Young Frankenstein is a riotously silly spoof featuring a fantastic performance by Gene Wilder. Read Critics Reviews
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- Mel Brooks
- PG
- Gene Wilder
- One of Igor’s Best Moments Inspired A Hit Aerosmith Song
- Hans Delbrück Was A Real Person
- Several Props Had Previously appeared in The Masterful 1931 Frankensteinfilm
- Teri Garr Based Her Character’S Voice on Cher’s Hairdresser
- Brooks Hired Kenneth Mars After The Actor Signed Off on An Odd Costuming Choice
- A Huge Percentage of The Movie Had to Be Deleted
- Wilder Was Constantly Cracking Up During Takes
- Leachman Was Asked to Reprise Her Role For The 'Young Frankenstein' Musical
- Throughout The Shoot, Brooks Offered Wilder Directing Advice
“Walk this way!” Marty Feldman’s Igor instructs his master, who proceeds to copy the hunchback’s shuffling gait. Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler found this line hilarious and repurposed itas the title of a track about high school lovers.
As Frederick readies his monster, he sends Igor to fetch a very special brain which rests in a jar labeled “Hans Delbruck: Scientist and Saint”. The actual Hans Delbrück (1848-1929) was an accomplished military historian whose son, Max, won a Nobel Prize for his work with viruses.
Taking his feature-length tribute to the next level, Brooks included much of the faux lab equipmentused in that earlier picture.
Garr made several appearances on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hourand used Cher's German wig-stylist as a model for ditzy lab assistant Inga’s heavy accent.
The two had already collaborated in 1968’s The Producers, and while casting Young Frankenstein, Brooks offered Mars the role of grumpy Inspector Kemp, but not before pitching an eccentric wardrobe gimmick that ultimately wound up on-screen. “He [said],” Mars later reminisced, “‘Let me ask you this… if you’re wearing an eye patch and you’ve got a mo...
“For every joke that worked, there were three that fell flat,” says Brooks, who whittled Young Frankenstein down to its current runtime after observing several mixed reactions from test audiences. This cut material included a clip in which Frederick’s relatives listen to a recorded will left by his great grandfather Beauvort von Frankenstein whose ...
According to Cloris Leachman, “He killed every take [with his laughter] and nothing was done about it!” Shots would frequently have to be repeated as many as fifteen times before Wilder could finally summon a straight face. But, to be fair, he certainly wasn’t the only one who couldn't always keep it together. Young Frankensteinsees Marty Feldman’s...
After getting eliminated from ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, Brooks offered the 82-year-old actress a chance to take a second stab at playing Frau Blücher for his on-stage Young Frankenstein musical,but the show’s run ended before her schedule freed up.
Knowing his star dreamed of one day sitting in the director’s chair, Brooks made a point to give him as many pointers as possible before shooting concluded. Wilder reminisced, “Mel would say, ‘Do you know the trouble I’m in because I didn’t shoot that close-up? Don’t do that.’ I would say, ‘To whom are you talking?’ ‘You, when you’re directing.’” T...
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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.
Dec 15, 1974 · With Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn. An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
Dec 15, 2014 · Mel Brooks’ new Frankenstein comedy, written and starring Gene Wilder, is closer in spirit to the 1948 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein travesty than either the 1931 Karloff version or the...
