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Young Frankenstein
The scariest comedy of all time!
( Comedy / Horror )


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US Runtime: 108 min

Premiere Date:
Dec 15, 1974   [USA]
 
Director: Mel Brooks
 
Writer: Gene Wilder
 
Producer: Michael Gruskoff   [Producer]
 
Music by John Morris
 
Cinematography: Gerald Hirschfeld
 
Edited by: John C. Howard
 
Production Companys: 20th Century Fox
Crossbow Productions
Gruskoff/Venture Films
Jouer Limited
 


Cast:

Gene Wilder
Dr. Fredrick Frankenstein
Peter Boyle
The Monster
Marty Feldman
Igor
Madeline Kahn
Elizabeth
Cloris Leachman
Frau Blucher
Teri Garr
Inga
Kenneth Mars
Police Inspector Kemp
Liam Dunn
Mr. Hilltop
Oscar Beregi Jr.
Sadistic Jailor
Arthur Malet
Second Village Elder
Richard A. Roth
Insp. Kemp's Aide
Monte Landis
Gravedigger
Rusty Blitz
Gravedigger
Anne Beesley
Little Girl
Gene Hackman
The Blindman
 
Norbert Schiller
Emcee at Frankenstein's show
Rick Norman
A Villager
John Madison
A Villager
Lidia Kristen
Villager's Wife
Michael Fox
Little Girl's Father
Randolph Dobbs
Third Villager
Johnny Dennis
Orderly in Frankenstein's class
Rolfe Sedan
Train conductor
Clement von Franckenstein
(uncredited)
Terence Pushman
A Villager (uncredited)
Berry Kroeger
First Village Elder (uncredited)
Lou Cutell
Frightened villager (uncredited)
Mel Brooks
Little Girl's Father (uncredited)
Ian Abercrombie
Second villager (uncredited)
 

Crew:

Stanford C. Allen
assistant editor
Phyllis Garr
wardrobe: women
Anthony Goldschmidt
title and graphic design
William D. Gordean
assistant editor
Dick James
wardrobe: men
John Morris
conductor
 
James Plannette
gaffer
Ray Quiroz
script supervisor
Ken Strickfaden
special thanks (lab equipment)
Jonathan Tunick
orchestrator
Richard Tim Vanik
camera operator
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Camera:
Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Color Info:
B&W
Laboratory:
DeLuxe
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Spherical
Film Negative Format:
35 mm
Printed Film Format:
35 mm

Quotes:

  • [Frankenstein, Igor and Inga in front of HUGE castle doors.]
    Dr. Frankenstein: What knockers!
    Inga: Oh, thank you doctor!
     
  • 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!
     
  • 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.
     
  • 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?!!!
     
  • Frau Blucher: Would the doctor care for a brandy before retiring?
    Dr. Frankenstein: No. Thank you.
    Frau Blucher: Some varm milk... perhaps?
    Dr. Frankenstein: No, thank you very much.
    Frau Blucher: Ovaltine?
    Dr. Frankenstein: Nothing! Thank you. I'm a little tired.
    Frau Blucher: Then I vill say... goodnight.
    Dr. Frankenstein: Goodnight!
     

Trivia:

  • 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 film was shot in the same castle and with the same props and lab equipment as the original Frankenstein.
     
  • 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.
     
  • The howling wolf sound on the ride to the castle was made by director Mel Brooks.
     
  • 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.
     


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