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Date Posted: 07:35:51 09/23/11 Fri
Author: DAN
Subject: Re: Your favorite pick for Dr. Frankenstein
In reply to: Rick 's message, "Your favorite pick for Dr. Frankenstein" on 20:52:12 09/22/11 Thu

My picks are for the original Dr Frankenstein, not his sons as in "Son of Feankenstein" and "Ghost of Frankenstein."

Or later drive-in flicks like "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" "Frankenstein 1970" and "Frankenstein's Daughter."

Or comedy spoofs like "Horror of Frankenstein" and "Young Frankenstein"


Favorite picks in this order:

Colin Clive is my absolute favorite Dr Frankenstein.

Peter Cushing in the Hammer series.

Leonard Whiting in "Frankenstein: The True Story."

Kenneth Branagh: Frankenstein (1994) Robert De Niro was the creature.

In any of the other Frankenstein movies, I thought the Dr. Frankensteins were just fair.

Clive played Dr Frankenstein as an obsessed scientist wanting to create life and he was basically a good man.

While Cushing had the same drive, he was more of an evil man.

All the Hammer Frankenstein films were more about Dr Frankenstein than the creature.

The same creature never appeared again in any of the hammer series. Dr Frankenstein always created a new monster in each film.

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[> [> Re: Your favorite pick for Dr. Frankenstein -- Rick, 03:02:53 09/24/11 Sat [1]

In 1957, Hammer started working on the Frankenstein concept and was doing rewrites for the picture. Universal found out and threatened to sue for breech of copyright, under the reasons for borrowing themes from their 1930's films. In doing so, Hammer had to make original themes for the 1957 film and later, they licensed the rights to all of Universal's horror films. This is why Frankenstein was evil and new monsters were created for sequels, ditto, etc.

When it came time to remake The Wolf Man, they rejected Universal's concept and based "Curse of the Werewolf" on the 1933 novel, "Werewolf of Paris."




Rick


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