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Plot Summary:
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An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body. |
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Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
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Tech Info:
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- Budget:
- $2,800,000
- Revenue:
- $86,273,333
- Camera:
- Panavision Cameras and Lenses
- Color Info:
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B&W
- Laboratory:
- DeLuxe
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 1.85 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Spherical
- Film Negative Format:
- 35 mm
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm
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Quotes:
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Igor: It's times like this that I remember what my old dad used to say.
Dr. Frankenstein: What was that?
Igor: "What the hell are you doing in the bathroom all day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?"
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Dr. Frankenstein: For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!
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Dr. Frankenstein: Hearts and kidneys are tinkertoys! I'm talking about the central nervous system!
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Dr. Frankenstein: Igor, would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?
Igor: And you won't be angry?
Dr. Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry.
Igor: Abby someone.
Dr. Frankenstein: Abby someone. Abby who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Dr. Frankenstein: Abby Normal?
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.
Dr. Frankenstein: Do you mean to tell me that I put an abnormal brain into an, 8 foot tall, 300 pound, GORILLA?!!!
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Dr. Frankenstein: That music...
Frau Blucher: Yes! It's in your blood - it's in the blood of ALL Frankensteins! It reaches the soul when words are useless. Your grandfather used to play it to the creature HE vas making!
Dr. Frankenstein: Then it was you all the time!
Frau Blucher: Yes!
Dr. Frankenstein: You played that music in the middle of the night...
Frau Blucher: Yes!
Dr. Frankenstein: ...to get us to the laboratory!
Frau Blucher: Yes!
Dr. Frankenstein: That was YOUR cigar smoldering in the ashtray!
Frau Blucher: Yes!
Dr. Frankenstein: And it was you... who left my grandfather's book out for me to find!
Frau Blucher: Yes!
Dr. Frankenstein: So that I would...
Frau Blucher: Yes!
Dr. Frankenstein: Then you and Victor were...
Frau Blucher: YES! YES! Say it! He vas my... BOYFRIEND!
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Trivia:
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- A couple who are talking on the train near the beginning of the film are having the same conversation in English, then in German.
- The scene in which the creature contemplates throwing the little girl into the lake ("No more flowers. What shall we throw in now?"), is a homage to a scene in the 1931 film version of Frankenstein. In the 1931 version, this was cut from the film until its video release 50 years later.
- The original cut of the movie was almost twice as long and was considered by all involved to be an abysmal failure. It was only after a marathon cutting session that they produced the final cut of the film, which both Wilder and Brooks considered to be far superior to the original product. At one point they noted that for every joke that worked, there were three that fell flat. So they went in and trimmed all the jokes that didn't work.
- The cast and especially Mel Brooks had so much fun and were so upset when principal photography was almost completed, that Mel added scenes to continue shooting.
- The assistant property master's name, Charles Sertin, is on the third brain on the shelf.
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