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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.
- Rowland V. Lee
- 2 min
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Son of Frankenstein, American horror film, released in 1939, that featured Boris Karloff in his final role as the fabled monster. Following Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), it was the third film in Universal Pictures’ Frankenstein series, which was derived from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein.
In the film, Basil Rathbone portrayed Baron Wolf von Frankenstein—son of the monster’s creator—who returns to his late father’s estate with his wife (played by Josephine Hutchinson) and young son (Donnie Dunagan), seeking to restore his family’s reputation and honour. Upon discovering that the monster is still alive in a comatose state, Frankenstein revives the body in order to tame the monster and thereby prove to the public that his father’s intentions were not malicious. However, the elder Frankenstein’s deranged assistant, Ygor (Bela Lugosi), who was hanged for having stolen corpses but survived with a broken neck, takes the opportunity to exact revenge on the jurors who had convicted him: he commands the monster to murder them. When several of the jurors turn up dead, the village focuses its attention on Frankenstein, who in a fury kills Ygor. The monster, enraged by the loss of his only friend, then kidnaps Frankenstein’s son, but the child is eventually rescued when his father pushes the monster to his death in a pit of molten sulfur.
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•Studio: Universal Pictures
•Director and producer: Rowland V. Lee
•Writer: Wyllis Cooper
•Music: Frank Skinner
•Basil Rathbone (Baron Wolf von Frankenstein)
•Boris Karloff (The Monster)
•Bela Lugosi (Ygor)
•Lionel Atwill (Krogh)
•Josephine Hutchinson (Elsa von Frankenstein)
•Donnie Dunagan (Peter von Frankenstein)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Frankenstein. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published ...
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley
- 1818
1.37 : 1. Film Length. 11 reels. The legendary scientist's son is tempted to resume his father's horrible experiments.
- Rowland V. Lee, Fred Frank
- Basil Rathbone
Oct 27, 2021 · Lee shot for 46 days, wrapping on January 4, 1939. He’d kept his promise to Lugosi; the actor worked every week of filming, for a paycheck worth nearly $80,000 in today’s money. Son of ...
- William Fischer
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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. Wolf von Frankenstein returns to the Baronial manor from the United States with his wife Elsa and son Peter.
Son of Frankenstein was the third film from Universal that featured Frankenstein, following Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). The story opens some (unspecified) time after the events of Bride of Frankenstein, and Dr. Frankenstein from the previous two films is still feared by the local villagers even though he's been dead ...
