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  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The Baron (the great PETER CUSHING) looks worn out and unshaven. He's about to plead his case to a priest who may be able to prevent him from being executed.
    Very different from Universal's Frankenstein series in that this franchise focuses on The Baron.

  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Flashback!

    The kid playing the young Baron (MELVYN HAYES) is perfectly cast and a dead ringer for Cushiing.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Robert Urquart plays Paul- the Baron's tutor soon to become his assistant.
    Suave, debonair and dashing, he differs greatly from Fritz in the 1931 version.
    He reminds me a bit of Tim Holt.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Easily my favorite of the Hammer Frankensteins with FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN (1967), a close second.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The Baron and Paul have revived a dead puppy, and Frankenstein proposes they rob a gallows to begin an experiment to build a human from dead corpses and resurrect him.

    Paul thinks this is about as good an idea as I do of making Blofeld Bond's childhood foster brother.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Peter Cushing's performance here is superb. He pretty much has me convinced. Count me in!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Here's another difference. In this version, Frankenstein climbs the gallows himself with a ladder. In the 1931 version, he makes Fritz climb up the pole like Spiderman.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Quick shot of the decomposed half eaten face.

    The baron removes it with a scalpel. ...........and drops it into a HUGE tub of acid.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Paul is disgusted.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    This film, along with FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED (1970) give the Baron a more evil persona.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Valerie Gaunt plays Justine, the Baron's maid and mistress. She could have been a Bond girl, IMO.

    Hazel Court arrives as Elizabeth, Frankenstein's fiancee (and cousin).
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The Baron looks a bit like Sherlock Holmes in his inverness cape/coat.

    Cushing made an excellent Holmes a coupe years later.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The Baron arrives with a pair of severed hands. The scene is cleverly cut away fast enough so the audience doesn't get to examine the bloodied prop hands too closely.
    Looks more shocking this way.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Paul is pleading for The Baron to give up this experiment.

    Peter Cushing keeps his cool and tells him off.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I love the sets on these films. Same with the costumes.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Victor Frankenstein and Justine make out in a dark corridor. This idea was elaborated on to the extreme in Hammer's humorous remake THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN (1970) with Ralph Bates.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Justine is jealous of Elizabeth.

    Cushing is about 43 here.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Now he's purchasing a pair of eyeballs.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Too bad they're a different size and different colors.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Close up of Cushing examining the eye with a magnifying glass. Spoofed later in TOP SECRET.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Frankenstein and Paul's friendship is on the outs.

    All Victor needs is a brain for his creature. Instead of sending Paul out for an abbie -normal brain he murders a professor of science.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Paul attempts to stop Frankenstein from removing the professor's brain and smashes it against the wall in the struggle. The Baron is pi$$ed.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Now Paul attempts to convince Elizabeth to leave before she gets hurt.
    Meanwhile Victor carries on performing a little surgery on the brain and removing some broken glass.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    edited July 2018 Posts: 16,169
    .................and the Creature is revived and begins strangling the Baron.

    Hammer didn't have the rights to use Universal's iconic look so CHRISTOPHER LEE has a stitched up decaying gray/white face. Kind of looks like a Beatles hairstyle as well.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The Creature meets a blind man in the woods and instead of befriending him he kills him.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Lee looks intense. The make-up essentially looks like putty and greasepaint.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Paul shoots Lee in the face with a hunting rifle..............and the Creature is dead temporarily.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    These very early Hammer horrors had a confined feeling about them. Shot in fairly tight angles. By the '60's the films would open up a bit and some shot in scope.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Justine blackmails the Baron to agree to marry her.

    The Baron instead traps her in the laboratory with the now revived Creature. From here on Lee has a section of his head shaved.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I first saw this late one Friday night when I was in second grade. I had a tradition of scouring TV GUIDE for monster movies and this was on my favorite local station. I believe I saw it about 4 times on that station. They would also air many of the Universal monster films along with some other Hammer's.
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