THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Director - Terence Fisher, Screenplay - Jimmy Sangster, Additional Dialogue - H. Hurford Janes, Producer - Anthony Hinds, Photography - Jack Asher, Music - Leonard Salzedo, Makeup - Phil Leakey, Production Design - Bernard Robinson. Production Company - Hammer. 1958.
Cast: Peter Cushing (Dr Victor Frankenstein/Dr. Stein/Dr. Franck), Francis Matthews (Hans Kleve), Michael Gwynn (Karl), Eunice Gayson (Margaret Conrad), Oscar Quitak (Dwarf Karl), Richard Wordsworth (Slensky).
In 1860, Baron Frankenstein is led to the guillotine to meet his demise for commiting murder, although they were commited by a creature he had created. Suddenly, a demented and deformed prison guard named Karl races on the scene and shoves the Priest under the blade, and the Baron makes his escape to continue his experiments.
Immediately upon his freedom, the Doctor sets up practice in a village known as Carlsburg under the name Dr. Stein. At his small hospital, Frankenstein falsely diagnosis his very ill patients as needing amputations in order to survive. Using the severed organs, the Doctor develops a new body better than his previous creature. Surprisingly, he is identified as being Baron Victor Frankenstein by an inquisitive Dr. Hans Kleve. Upon his discovery, Frankenstein displays his latest creation suspended in a glass case to Hans.
In a very intricate experiment, the Baron transplants the brain of Karl into the body and makes his creation come to life. Except for stiches on the forehead, the new body looks perfect. However, Karl is soon overcome with a hunger for human flesh. He fights this urge but it drives him to madness. In addition, the body becomes infected by the brain, and Karl becomes deformed again.
In the climax, Karl reveals that the Doctor is Baron Frankenstein at a social party, then falls dead. When Frankenstein returns to the hospital, the patients, who have heard the news, become an angry mob and kills the Baron. Before his death, the Doctor instructed Hans on how to transplant his brain into an unused body in his laboratory. In the final scene, a mustached Dr. Franck sets up practice in a new village, making Frankenstien alive and well and a creature of his own experiments. (Plot summary from Robert Marrero’s Horrors of Hammer book.)
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Disclaimer: Revenge of Frankenstein was copyrighted 1958 by Hammer Film Productions Ltd. and released by Columbia Picture Corp.; renewed 1987 by Columbia Tri-Star. Used for non-commercial purposes; All rights reserved. No rights given or implied. Do NOT use without permission.
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