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  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Chad gives Daniel sh!t before the tournament.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    You're the best............around.............
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    ....and the credits roll.
    Great ending. Been at least a decade since I've watched that.
    Now I want to find the other two films.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    After viewing a Bond tonight, I'm now in the mood for some classic Universal Monster horror.

    FRANKENSTEIN (1931)

    I'm really in the mood for FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN, but somehow do not have a copy left in my possession. Hmm.


    Edward Van Sloan prologue. He looks older and slightly heavier here than just a few months earlier in DRACULA.

  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I love the early 1930's. Great music in the titles. The only music in the film, really.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Karloff is un-credited. He gets a question mark like the FRWL Blofeld instead.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Grave yard scene.
    Shot at Universal Studios.
    Wonderful atmosphere.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Dwight Frye and Colin Clive.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The Blu-ray is beautiful. Wonderful restoration.

  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I love Colin Clive as Frankenstein. Called Henry here. Victor is given to another character.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Fritz climbs the gallows to cut the body down. I always liked that moment.

    He is so different as Fritz compared to Renfield. Great performance.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    We must find another brain!!!!!!

    Here is the moment later spoofed so well in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.

    Fritz sneaks in to the lab classroom to steal a brain.
    Abnormal brain of a criminal mind.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Here we meet Elizabeth, Frankenstein's fiancee played by Mae Clarke. Most famous for her grapefruit scene with Jimmy Cagney in THE PUBLIC ENEMY.

    For whatever reason, she's replaced by Valerie Hobson in BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN.

    John Boles plays Victor Moritz, Frankenstein's buddy who seems to fancy Elizabeth for himself.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Ah, the amazing lab equipment of Kenneth Strickfaden used for the sets here.
    An amazing set, Frankenstein's laboratory.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Many casual film-goers confuse the character Fritz with Ygor.
    Possibly because YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN spoofs the idea of Frankenstein having an assistant named Igor.
    In the original Universal films, Ygor was a completely different character.

    To me that's like confusing General Gogol with Felix Leiter.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Frankenstein's fiancee, and friends arrive at the lab (an old watch tower) to see what he's up to.

    Here begins the classic and iconic creation sequence.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    In this version he brings the Monster to life in front of everyone. In the novel, I believe it's in his flat in Geneva as he is a college student.

    In the novel the Monster is described as having black hair, and yellowish skin that barely covers the arteries and insides. I picture a transparent flesh in the novel.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Jack Pierce created the Monster's make up for this film and the other Universal films until ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, where Bud Westmore took over and used Pierce's designs.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    In this film the Monster's squarish skull was a wig with cotton used around the edges to create that sharp edge. He would later built a fuller head piece for Karloff, Chaney, Jr, Lugosi and Glenn Strange.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Karloff had a bridge of molars removed that sunk his cheeks in. Pierce accentuated it with shading. He kept the shading for later actors, and that evolved into a sort of mole.

    The electrodes were battery plus and negative sides that were glued to the neck.

    In addition, Pierce added wax to Karloff's eyelids to weigh them down.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The greasepaint used for the Monster was actually SKY GRAY. A distinct shade of gray originated by Jack Pierce and manufactured by Max Factor to give the Monster a dead look.

    Most film books, Wikipedia, etc etc will describe the make up as green. Most Universal merchandise will color the Monster green as well. That distortion of facts has gone on for so many decades green is the accepted hue.

    A few weeks ago there was quite a heated discussion on a Frankenstein Facebook page regarding the Monster's make up coloring. Several film historians, (who knew many involved in these films) chimed in and all confirmed the gray tones. One even presented a recorded interview with Jack Pierce himself who confirmed the Monster's sky-gray hue.

    Interestingly, there is home movie color footage of Karloff on the set of SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, clowning around with Jack Pierce. It's available on various documentaries, and on Youtube. It was cheaply transferred to video by Sara Karloff with Fotomat and, yes does look a bit greenish in the crappy transfer.
    Pierce later used the same greasepaint for CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS (1962).

    Worth checking out if only to see what the Monster's make up coloring would have looked like on set.



  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The Monster meets little Maria by the lake. Actually Lake Malibu.


    The Jack Pierce interview also confirmed the Monster's clothes as being all black.

    That's something I've wondered for years.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The Monster is about to interrupt Frankenstein's wedding.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Elizabeth screams and the Monster growls. Great scene!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The villagers are all gathering to hunt down the Monster.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    And The Monster burns in the windmill.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    One of my all time favorite films.

  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I've always been fascinated by black and white cinematography. The colors used for make up, clothes, and sets to get the right contrasts intrigue me to no end.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Let's see if I can hit 6000 posts.

    BILLY THE KID VS DRACULA (1966)
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Count Dracula (JOHN CARRADINE) has hitched a ride in the old west and initiated an attack war party.
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