Son of Frankenstein (Excerpt)

Year Published: 1939

Country of Origin: United States

Description: 16mm Film - Son of Frankenstein - USA 1939 (Excerpt) Directed by: Rowland V. Lee Written by: Wyllis Cooper Cinematography by: George Robinson Music by: Frank Skinner Starring: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson, Donnie Dunagan, Emma Dunn, Edgar Norton, Perry Ivins, Lawrence Grant, Lionel Belmore, Michael Mark, Caroline Frances Cooke, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Lorimer Johnston, Tom Ricketts, Ed Cassidy, Dwight Frye, Betty Chay, Harry Cording, Jack Curtis, Jack Harris, Russ Powell, Clarence Wilson, Ward Bond Baron Wolf von Frankenstein, son of Henry Frankenstein, relocates his wife Elsa and their young son Peter to the family castle. Wolf wants to redeem his father's reputation but finds this will be more difficult than he thought after he encounters hostility from the villagers, who resent him for the destruction his father's monster wreaked years ago. Wolf's only other friend is the local police Inspector Krogh, who wears an artificial arm because Frankenstein's creature ripped out his real arm when he was a child. While investigating his father's castle, Wolf meets Ygor, an embittered blacksmith who survived being hanged for graverobbing and has a deformed neck as a result. Wolf finds the monster's comatose body in the crypt where his grandfather and father were buried; his father's sarcophagus bears the phrase 'Heinrich von Frankenstein: Maker of Monsters' written in chalk. He decides to revive the monster to prove his father was correct and to restore honor to his family. Wolf uses a torch to scratch out the word 'Monsters' on the casket and writes 'Men' beneath it. Wolf revives the monster but it only responds to Ygor's commands and commits a series of murders, the victims of which were jurors at Ygor's trial. Krogh strongly suspects Wolf has created a murderous monster similar to his father's due to marks on the victims' bodies but Wolf denies it and tries to frame Ygor as the murderer. Krogh doesn't believe Ygor is the killer and so arrests Wolf for the disappearance of the Frankenstein family butler, Benson. Krogh then orders Wolf not to leave the castle. Nevertheless, Wolf is determined to throw Ygor off of his property and begins searching the castle for him. Later Wolf finds Ygor in the castle's laboratory and shoots him after Ygor threatens him with a hammer. Ygor collapses, apparently dead. The monster abducts Wolf's son in revenge but cannot bring himself to kill the child. Krogh and Wolf pursue the monster to the laboratory where a struggle ensues during which the monster tears out Krogh's false arm. Wolf swings on a rope and knocks the monster into a pit of molten sulfur beneath the laboratory, saving his son. Wolf leaves the keys of the Frankenstein castle to the villagers, who turn out to cheer the family as they leave by train. Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone) tritt das Erbe seines Vaters auf dessen alten Ländereien an, wird jedoch von der Bevölkerung nicht sehr freundlich begrüßt. Der Schmied Igor (Bela Lugosi), den man offensichtlich schon einmal erhängt hat, führt ihn in das Laboratorium, wo er das Monstrum (Boris Karloff) vorfindet. Er versucht es wiederzubeleben, scheitert jedoch daran. Trotzdem kommt es plötzlich zu einer Mordserie in den umliegenden Ortschaften, allesamt Geschworene der Verhandlung, die Igor damals zum Tode verurteilt hatten. Der Verdacht fällt natürlich auf Frankenstein...

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