The scariest comedy of all time!
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
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Character
Comic, nostalgic, ironic and cool.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
Who loves it, who doesn't
69 profiled raters. Loved most by The Ironists; disliked most by The Genre Devotees.
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Cast
- Gene WilderDr. Frankenstein
- Peter BoyleMonster
- Marty FeldmanIgor
- Madeline KahnElizabeth
- Cloris LeachmanFrau Blücher
- Teri GarrInga
- Kenneth MarsInspector Kemp
- Richard HaydnHerr Falkstein
- Liam DunnMr. Hilltop
- Danny GoldmanMedical Student
Crew
- Mel BrooksDirector
- Gene WilderScreenplay
- Mel BrooksScreenplay
- Gerald HirschfeldDirector of Photography
- John MorrisOriginal Music Composer
- John C. HowardEditor
- Michael GruskoffProducer
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Pairings
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