Gene Wilder
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
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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.
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- Comedy
- Mel Brooks
- 1974-12-15
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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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) is a lecturing physician at an American medical school and engaged to the tightly wound socialite Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn).
Dec 19, 2021 · One of the many highlights of the film, as Frankenstein causes lightning to channel down the huge electrical terminal into the body of his creation. Here the electrical discharge is real; it's 500,000 volts jumping to the nearest object, the dummy, and not to Gene Wilder.
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Jun 1, 2024 · Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder strongly believed the film should imitate the look of director James Whale’s classic black-and-white 1930s films Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, which meant shooting in black and white.
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Brooks’s targets are James Whale’s “Frankenstein” (1931) and “Bride of Frankenstein” (1935), the first the most influential and the second probably the best of the 1930s Hollywood horror movies. Brooks uses carefully controlled black-and-white photography that catches the feel of the earlier films.
