Frankenstein [videorecording] / directed by James Whale.
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FilmPublisher number: 8291424 | Universal PicturesPublication details: [U.K] : Universal Studios, 2012Description: 1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (ca. 70 min.) : b&wDDC classification: 791.437 Cast: Cast includes: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke.Summary: James Whale's classic version of Mary Shelley's ghost story made a star of Boris Karloff as the tragic monster. Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) has become alienated from his friends and bride-to-be through his obsessive determination to create life. Frankenstein has created a monster out of body parts acquired by his dwarfish assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye), and succeeds in giving it life during an electrical storm. However, due to a mistake by Fritz, the creature possesses the brain of a killer, and after the dwarf torments it to breaking point Frankenstein's creation escapes and goes on the rampage, terrorising the local community.
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Paul Hamlyn Library | Paul Hamlyn Library | Floor 1 Mobile shelves | 791.4372 FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 05449294 |
Playback requires Blu-ray disc player.
Bonus features include: The Frankenstein files: how Hollywood made a monster; Karloff: the gentle monster; monster tracks: interactive pop-up facts about the making of Frankenstein; Frankenstein archives; Boo! - short film; feature commentary with film historian Rudy Behlmer; feature commentary with historian Sir Christopher Frayling; 100 years of Universal: restoring the classics; trailer gallery.
Film made in 1931.
Based on the novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Adapted play by John L. Balderston from a play by Peggy Webling.
Cast includes: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke.
James Whale's classic version of Mary Shelley's ghost story made a star of Boris Karloff as the tragic monster. Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) has become alienated from his friends and bride-to-be through his obsessive determination to create life. Frankenstein has created a monster out of body parts acquired by his dwarfish assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye), and succeeds in giving it life during an electrical storm. However, due to a mistake by Fritz, the creature possesses the brain of a killer, and after the dwarf torments it to breaking point Frankenstein's creation escapes and goes on the rampage, terrorising the local community.
BBFC code: PG.
Blu-ray.
In English, French, Italian, German and Spanish with subtitles in English for the hard of hearing, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish.
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