CAST::
Peter Cushing (Baron Victor Frankenstein),
Robert Urquhart (Paul Krempe), Hazel Court (Elizabeth), Christopher Lee
(The Creature), Valerie Gaunt (Justine), Melvyn Hayes (Young Victor),
Paul Hardtmuth (Professor Bernstein)
PRODUCTION:
Director – Terence Fisher, Screenplay – Jimmy Sangster, Based on the Novel Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley, Producer – Anthony Hinds, Photography – Jack Asher,
Music – James Bernard, Music Director – John Hollingsworth, Makeup –
Phil Leakey, Production Design – Bernard Robinson. Production Company –
Hammer/Clarion Films.
SYNOPSYS:
In a jail cell waiting to be hanged,
Baron Victor Frankenstein tells his story to a priest. At a young age,
he inherited his father’s estate and he and his tutor Paul Krempe
pursued a fascination with medical science. Frankenstein then conceived a
plan to revive a body from the dead. He used the corpse of a hanged
highwayman and built the perfect body using parts pieced together from
other bodies, including pushing the aging Professor Bernstein off a
balcony in order to get a good brain. Krempe parted ways with
Frankenstein in horror at what he was doing. In attempting to perfect
his experiment, Frankenstein was forced to increasingly more ruthless
extremes.
