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The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) was a Drama - Fantasy Film directed by Erle C. Kenton and produced by George Waggner.

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The Eric Taylor Script For THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN

By Dan Day, Jr. on Jul 13, 2024 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

One of the many impressive things about the SCRIPTS FOR THE CRYPT: THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN book is that it contains a reproduction of an entire early script for the film, written by Eric Taylor. (Taylor is credited on THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN for the original story.) This script is significantly ... Read full article


Book Review--SCRIPTS FROM THE CRYPT: THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN

By Dan Day, Jr. on Jun 30, 2024 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

The 16th volume in the SCRIPTS FROM THE CRYPT series from Bear Manor Media focuses on THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, Universal's 1942 follow-up to SON OF FRANKENSTEIN. What makes this book particularly noteworthy is that it's nearly 400 pages, a treasure trove of facts, trivia, commentary, analysis, sti... Read full article


The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942, Erle C. Kenton)

on Jul 13, 2013 From The Stop Button

The Ghost of Frankenstein is pretty bad stuff. Running less than seventy minutes, it’s unbearably boring from the twenty-five minute mark, once the picture focus on Cedric Hardwicke. Ghost opens with villagers pursuing Bela Lugosi’s evil hunchback. Though awful, Lugosi’s at least a... Read full article


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Quotes from

Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein: [the Monster taps the child's forehead, then his own] He wants the brain of that child!


Ygor: Better death... than a life like this.


The Monster: [with Ygor's voice] I am... Ygor.


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During breaks in filming, Lon Chaney Jr. would often treat child cast members to ice cream.
Chaney would play the Monster a number of times later: footage from this film appears as stock shots in House of Dracula; he doubled Glenn Strange for three shots in Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein when Strange twisted his ankle; he played the role in a half-hour version of "Frankenstein" on TV's Tales of Tomorrow; and he appeared (masked) in two comedy sketches with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello on a 1952 The Colgate Comedy Hour show.
Lon Chaney Jr. was cast while he was still filming The Wolf Man.
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