Frankenstein/The Bride of Frankenstein

A double bill of classic James Whale

horror. 'Frankenstein' is Whale's 1931 version of Mary Shelley's ghost story which made a star of Boris Karloff as the tragic monster. Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) has become alienated from his friends and bride-to-be through his obsessive determination to create life. Frankenstein has created a monster out of body parts acquired by his dwarfish assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye), and succeeds in giving it life during an electrical storm. However, due to a mistake by Fritz, the creature possesses the brain of a killer, and after the dwarf torments it to breaking point Frankenstein's creation escapes and goes on the rampage, terrorising the local community. Whilst his 1935 sequel 'The Bride of Frankenstein' begins with the work's author, Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester), revealing to Lords Byron and Shelley that there is still more of the tale to be told... Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) is recuperating from the events of the first film, believing his creation (Boris Karloff) to have been destroyed in a fire, when he receives a visit from his former mentor Dr Praetorius. Praetorius wishes Frankenstein to resume his experiments, but the latter refuses. When Praetorius discovers the monster, alive and now able to communicate, he uses it to kidnap Frankenstein's wife, thus blackmailing him into creating a mate. Followed by 'Son of Frankenstein' (1939).

Director: James Whale
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jnr
Writer: Garrett Fort
Writer: John L. Balderston
Writer: William Hurlbut
Writer: Francis Faragoh
Music: Franz Waxman
Music: David Broekman
Character: Frankenstein's Monster
Character: Baron Frankenstein
Actor: Boris Karloff
Actor: Mae Clarke
Actor: Colin Clive
Actor: John Boles
Actor: Edward van Sloan
Actor: Lionel Belmore
Actor: Dwight Frye
Actor: Elsa Lanchester
Actor: Michael Mark
Actor: Valerie Hobson
Actor: Marilyn Harris
Actor: John Carradine
Actor: Frederick Kerr
Actor: E.E. Clive
Actor: Gavin Gordon
Actor: O.P. Heggie
Actor: Una O'Connor
Actor: Ernest Thesiger
Actor: Douglas Walton