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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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Dr. Frankenstein: Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags?
Igor: [doing a Groucho Marx] Certainly, you take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban.
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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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Dr. Frankenstein: Hearts and kidneys are tinkertoys! I'm talking about the central nervous system!
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[Frankenstein, Igor and Inga in front of HUGE castle doors.]
Dr. Frankenstein: What knockers!
Inga: Oh, thank you doctor!
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Igor: My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course the rates have gone up.
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Trivia:
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- The clock rings 13 times at the beginning of the film.
- When Dr. Frankenstein descends the stairs into the basement of the castle there is a gargoyle on the wall made to look like director Mel Brooks.
- Teri Garr, who plays Inga, was called in when Madeline Kahn, whom Mel Brooks had originally wanted for the role, turned it down and asked if she could play Elizabeth instead. Garr auditioned for the part of Inga, and added the German accent which won her the role.
- When Victor finds his grandfather's private library, he finds a book titled "How I Did It." This is actually a joke for those people who have read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In the book, Frankenstein, Shelley never reveals how Victor reanimated dead flesh. The screenwriter obviously knew this and inserts the "How I Did It" book as a joke.
- A couple who are talking on the train near the beginning of the film are having the same conversation in English, then in German.
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