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	Son of Frankenstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Son of Frankenstein is the third film in Universal Studios' Frankenstein series and the last to feature Boris Karloff as the monster.
		Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone in Son of Frankenstein
		The story begins with Wolf Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone), the son of the monster's creator, relocating his wife and young son to the Frankenstein estate in the village that bears the family name.
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	Orbital Reviews: Son of Frankenstein (1939) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Son of Frankenstein immediately reveals itself as highly expressionistic when Frankenstein's son is aboard the train and the rain pummels the windows, the clouds circle overhead, and the darkness covers the terrain.
		The village in Son of Frankenstein is reminiscent of the one from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), the first German expressionist film, or Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), one of the most heavily expressionist early horror films in the United States, also a Universal release.
		Son of Frankenstein came to theaters in January 1939, becoming a huge success in its first engagements in theaters and beating all horror film records previously established.
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	Son of Frankenstein
		Originally intended to be filmed in colour, Son of Frankenstein, directed by Rowland Lee, was filmed in fl and white after it had turned out that Boris Karloff's mask did not photograph well in colour.
		Like Frankenstein's creation, the broken-necked Ygor, a kind of monster himself, is a society outcast because of his crimes and his ugliness.
		After Son of Frankenstein Boris Karloff never played the Monster again because he thought that the possibilities were exhausted for both Dr. Frankenstein and his creation.
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	Son of Frankenstein
		Rathbone's son of the doctor is much calmer and even-tempered than his father, but is the most interesting the closer he parallels him.
		Son of Frankenstein was slower and talkier (duller?) than either of the previous two films, including a lot of technobabble mumbo jumbo pretending to give a scientific explanation to the Monster.
		Frankenstein needed to be slapped seven or eight times in the movie.
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	DVD Review - The Son of Frankenstein/Ghost of Frankenstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first follow-up film was 1935’s "The Bride of Frankenstein," a shockingly original story full of overt and covert sexual imagery that return director James Whale was able to slip right under the noses of the Hollywood censors.
		"Son of Frankenstein" is worth a look if for no other reason than to see the wonderful expressionistic cinematography or Boris Karloff for the very last time in the role that made him a star.
		Both "Son of Frankenstein" and "The Ghost of Frankenstein" are enjoyable films although I personally prefer Boris Karloff as the monster.
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	Son of Frankenstein/Ghost of Frankenstein: Double Feature (1939 & 1942)
		Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer (Lionel Atwill), plots to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when the monster turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
		As seen in both 1939’s Son of Frankenstein and 1942’s The Ghost of Frankenstein, the new scientists we met were definitely Henry’s progeny.
		Son of Frankenstein appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
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	Classic-Horror Review of Son of Frankenstein (1939)
		After the death of his father, Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone) travels with his family to his newly inherited castle.
		He finds he is most unwelcome in the village surrounding his new home; the townspeople believe that the ghost of the original Frankenstein monster (Boris Karloff, in his last performance of the role) still haunts them.
		Son of Frankenstein revivified the briefly stagnant horror genre, allowing the cycle of monsters to continue for another nine years, until Abbott and Costello stumbled onto the scene.
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	Son of Frankenstein
		Frankenstein's son goes back to the castle where the events of the previous two movies took place, 25 years after the "explosive death of the monster." He meets Ygor (Bela Lugosi), who is described as a "mad shepherd." Ygor has the body of the monster.
		Frankenstein's son revives the creature in an attempt to clear his dad's name.
		Maybe he's only offering to do this to stay close to Frankenstein (it's obvious that he doesn't trust him entirely, but he is always a gentleman), but it gives the character more depth than you probably have a right to expect from such a role.
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Son of Frankenstein / The Ghost of Frankenstein
		Seeking to reboot its successful line of gothic horror films, in 1939 Universal released The Son of Frankenstein, the first sequel to the smash hits from earlier in the decade, Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein.
		Although it was the first Frankenstein film not directed by the masterful James Whale, The Son of Frankenstein is still generally regarded as the last great entry of the series.
		The Son of Frankenstein is notable for its dream-like, minimalist set design reminiscent of German expressionist films, and for Lugosi's animated turn as Ygor, whose only friend is the Monster.
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	Basil Rathbone: Master of Stage and Screen - Son of Frankenstein
		Boris Karloff played the monster for the third and last time; he had played the role twice before; in the 1931 film "Frankenstein" and in the 1935 film "Bride of Frankenstein." Bela Lugosi played the mad shepherd Ygor very effectively, and Rathbone played Baron Wolf von Frankenstein, son of the monster's creator.
		It's not necessary to see "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein" to enjoy "Son of Frankenstein." Events from the first two films which are essential to understanding what's happening in this film are explained.
		When Inspector Krogh of the District Police visits to warn Dr. Frankenstein that the villagers are afraid of him, Frankenstein suggests that the stories about the monster are gross exaggerations.
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	Amazon.com: Son of Frankenstein / The Ghost of Frankenstein: DVD: Basil Rathbone,Boris Karloff,Bela Lugosi,Lionel ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Son of Frankenstein: Praised by critics as one of the best of the Frankenstein series, Son of Frankenstein stars Boris Karloff in the role that made him a screen legend.
		Son of Frankenstein is an impressive horror in which Karloff plays the Monster for the third and final time.
		Son of Frankenstein has its charms, but what I see here is the beginning of the stereotypical monster.
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	Son of Frankenstein
		Wolf Frankenstein, son of Henry Frankenstein, returns with his wife, to his fathers estate to claim his inheritance.
		Wolf tries to revive the monster and believes he fails but then some of the locals are found murdered soon after who just happened to be part of the jury that sent Ygor to the gallows.
		At Universal, she played the wife of Basil Rathbone in The Son of Frankenstein (1939), an experience she cherished primarily because of the warm camaraderie between her co-stars Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Lionel Atwill.
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	Son of Frankenstein
		SON OF FRANKENSTEIN had taken 46 days to shoot; the final cost would tally approximately $420,000.
		Rusted twisted pieces of the lightning-attraction apparatus used in "The Bride of Frankenstein" protrude from the mass of broken rock.
		It is a desolate spot, surrounded by jagged rocks and twisted dead trees, and the uncertain light from the blazing tree serves only to heighten the eeriness of the place.
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	Amazon.com: Son of Frankenstein / Movie: Video: Basil Rathbone,Boris Karloff,Bela Lugosi,Lionel Atwill,Josephine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Krogh, Josephine Hutchinson as Elsa von Frankenstein, Donnie Dunagan as Peter von Frankenstein, Emma Dunn as Amelia (the nursemaid), Edgar Norton as Thomas Benson (the butler), Perry Ivins as Fritz, Lawrence Grant as Burgomaster...
		The son of Frankenstein can hardly wait to see his father's old laboratory (suddenly, we are expected to believe that the big creation experiments all took place in a little round hut in the castle's backyard rather than in some dark, isolated, forbidding castle).
		The 1939 film "Son of Frankenstein" was Boris Karloff's third and final appearance in the role that made him famous, but as you can tell from the art on the cover of this VHS the title character is played by Basil Rathbone.
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	Frankenstein Superguide
		Yet, within its budget, Frankenstein remained fairly close to the original book with the notable exception that Shelly's monster despite his hideous form is superior to man in every respect including intellectually (and morally?) Shelly's monster is not a lumbering oaf to be pitied, rather an ubermensch to be feared.
		Son of Frankenstein, the last of the Boris Karloff trilogy, was in many ways equal, if not superior to "Bride".
		Frankenstein's creation was shot, burned, frozen, electrocuted and blown up a score or more times in America, Mexico and France and still Frankenstein's creation lives on, terrorizing maiming killing again and again.
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	Bride of Frankenstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the name "Frankenstein" properly refers to the doctor, not the nameless monster, the "Bride of Frankenstein" of the film's title is the monster's mate (as intoned by Dr. Pretorius at the film's climax), not Frankenstein's wife Elizabeth.
		Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff in "Bride of Frankenstein".
		The thinly disguised homosexual overtones may be a trademark of James Whale (particuarly the relationship between Frankenstein and Pretorious; as explained by film historian Scott MacQueen on the Bride of Frankenstein DVD commentary track) but also note the other potentially blasphemous imagery in the film: The monster's virtual crucifixion at the hands of the villagers.
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	Son of Frankenstein
		Indeed, the family is so unpopular that Castle Frankenstein has lain abandoned all these years, home only to a squatting fugitive madman named Ygor (Bela Lugosi, in what is beyond question the finest screen performance of his career), who chose it as his hideout specifically because no one else dared come near the place.
		Sure enough, the killings resume the moment Frankenstein revives the monster, and Krogh (who has hitherto been actively protective of the baron and his family) begins to suspect that the coincidence of timing between Frankenstein’s arrival in town and the beginning of a new rash of murders is no coincidence at all.
		Son of Frankenstein has little time for or interest in the mad-science angle that was the core of the plot in Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein.
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	Son of Frankenstein/The Ghost of Frankenstein DVD review on AudioRevolution.com
		The horror ante is upped mostly in dialog: the Monster kills a very particular way (bruising his victims' necks, which somehow causes their hearts to explode); also, it turns out it was cosmic rays that brought him to life in the first place, altering the pieced-together body in pretty unconvincing but extravagant ways.
		Universal has packaged "Son of Frankenstein" with its immediate sequel, "The Ghost of Frankenstein." It's a good package, but both films are a little short on extras.
		"The Ghost of Frankenstein" is quick and efficient (and a half-hour shorter than "Son"); it's entertaining enough, but the rather flat photography and heavy use of standing sets show that Universal was interested in making a profitable sequel more than they were in living up to the standards of the first three Frankenstein movies.
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	Rich Scrivani on "Son of Frankenstein"
		The mountain village of Frankenstein is a collection of bent and skewed municipalities, houses and cottages, Caligariesque and forbidding.
		While I'm not attempting to laud SON as the best of Universal's Frankenstein films (that honor seemingly lodged firmly in BRIDE's court), and since by definition sequels usually fall short for lack of artistic merit, I do feel that its strengths, of which there are many, have been grossly overlooked in favor of its flaws.
		It is in the third act that SON OF FRANKENSTEIN weakens.
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	Son of Frankenstein
		Wolf Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone) and the butler, Benson, are staring at a painting of Henry Frankenstein.
		Their son, Peter (Donnie Dunnagan), is in the elder Frankenstein's lap.
		Ygor tells the doctor, "Your father made him....and Frankenstein was your father too." "You mean to imply....", the doctor says, "....that this is my brother?" Ygor smiles, "But his mother was lightning." "Electricity!", the doctor exclaims.
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	goatdog's movies - Son of Frankenstein, 1939
		The inevitable downward slide of the Frankenstein franchise began with this, the second sequel to the 1931 film.
		I liked how Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone), the titular son of Frankenstein, is upset about this very fact, a little bit of an ironic wink at the audience.
		Rathbone is acceptable as the son, but he's a bit too cultured, not unhinged enough, to really work as a mad doctor.
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	Son of Frankenstein (1939) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Goofs: Continuity: When Wolf von Frankenstein is arguing with Krogh in the castle lobby (73 minutes), he removes his hat and throws it at the high-backed chair to the left of the fireplace.
		Frankenstein's coat, which was thrown on the floor to the left of the chair also shifts position (to the seat of the chair, in this case).
		Quotes: Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: It appears that my father thought that he could extract from lightning some super-violet ray of life-giving properties.
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	The Armchair Empire - Action Figure Reviews: Son of Frankenstein (Universal Studios Monsters)
		And let’s be totally clear about this, Frankenstein is not the name of the monster.
		Son of Frankenstein actually refers to the creator’s son, not the son of the monster – although there are circles debating who is more monstrous: the creator or the creature.
		Although it’s debatable which Frankenstein’s monster is better – the original or the son, both from Sideshow – that kind of thinking never stopped people from snatching up 15 variations on Luke Skywalker.
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	Son of Frankenstein
		I LOVE Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein (The Bride slightly less than the original).
		In any event, Son of Frankenstein gets a bad rap and I suspect it is because of rampant and unreflected auteurism more than the actual quality of the movie.
		When Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder composed their love letter to the Frankenstein movies, they took bits and pieces from all of them, but it was THIS movie, not The Bride and not the original film, from which they took the most.
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