Details

Release year: 1939

Storyline

Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.

Top credits

Directors

Rowland V. Lee

Writers

Cast

Boris Karloff — The Monster
Basil Rathbone — Baron Wolf von Frankenstein
Bela Lugosi — Ygor
Lionel Atwill — Inspector Krogh

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Did you know

• Boris Karloff used a harness when he carried Donnie Dunagan so that the little boy would not fall. Dunagan has related how much he enjoyed working with Karloff.

• Because of the decline in Bela Lugosi's career, he was originally cast for a very low fee. Rowland V. Lee felt that Lugosi was being taken advantage of, and he fattened up his part by writing more dialogue for Ygor, so that Bela be paid more appropriately.

• Frank Skinner's musical score for this film, with its slightly off-key horns and plucked strings replicating a human heartbeat, was endlessly recycled in Universal horror movies throughout the 1940s.