Thursday, November 3, 2005
No, no, FrankenSTIEN!
I just watched The Revenge of Frankenstein—Hammer Films, 1958, with the incomparable Peter Cushing as the good Baron. I did find it highly amusing however, that having escaped the guillotine at the start of the film, he proceeds to start a new practice in a good sized city as ‘Dr Stein’.
But wait, his twisted genius doesn’t end there. When he is almost killed by his patients and transplanted into the body of his latest creation at the end of the film, he then sets up shop in another city as ‘Dr Francken’.
Brilliant doctor—not so brilliant con-man.
Comments
When he was ‘Dr Stein’, do you think his full name was ‘Frank N. Stein’?
Posted by: anaglyph at November 4, 2005 2:21 PM
Indubitably.
Posted by: UniversalHead at November 4, 2005 2:36 PM
Your post prompted me to get out my copy of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and watch it again.
Igor and Frankenstein are hoisting a coffin from a grave:
Frankenstein: This is a foul business!
Igor: It could be worse.
Frankenstein: Oh? In what way?
Igor: It could be raining.
It starts to rain
…ah, how we laughed!
Posted by: anaglyph at November 7, 2005 4:08 PM
When I first saw the scene with the moving bookcase and the final line “now listen to me very carefully …” I almost wet myself laughing.
Posted by: UniversalHead at November 7, 2005 5:26 PM
Then there is the immortal:
Frankenstein: “Werewolf?”
Igor: “Therewolf!”
ha
Posted by: anaglyph at November 7, 2005 5:56 PM