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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
 
Cinematography: Gerald Hirschfeld
 
Edited by: John C Howard
 
Production Companys: 20th Century Fox
Crossbow Productions
Gruskoff/Venture Films
Jouer Limited
 


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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:

  • [Froederick and Igor are exhuming a dead criminal.]
    Dr. Frankenstein: What a filthy job.
    Igor: Could be worse.
    Dr. Frankenstein: How?
    Igor: Could be raining.
    [It starts to pour.]
     
  • 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?!!!
     
  • 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?"
     
  • [Frankenstein, Igor and Inga in front of HUGE castle doors.]
    Dr. Frankenstein: What knockers!
    Inga: Oh, thank you doctor!
     
  • Dr. Frankenstein: Hearts and kidneys are tinkertoys! I'm talking about the central nervous system!
     

Trivia:

  • The clock rings 13 times at the beginning of the film.
     
  • 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 sound of the off-screen cat screaming when hit by a dart was director Mel Brooks.
     
  • The shot of the monster carrying Elizabeth in the woods is a subtle reference to a similar shot in Creature from the Black Lagoon.
     
  • 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.
     


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