Young Frankenstein
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Short description
Young Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, a respected neurosurgeon, is embarrassed by his family name and the notorious experiments of his grandfather Victor. When he inherits the family castle in Transylvania, he travels there to settle the estate, meeting a hunchbacked servant named Igor, a lab assistant, and a stern housekeeper. Frederick has long dismissed his grandfather's work as nonsense, but discovering the old doctor's records of reanimation changes his mind, and he sets out to repeat the experiment with Igor's help.
Mel Brooks directed the film, his second in a run that also includes The Producers and Blazing Saddles. Gene Wilder stars as Frederick and co-wrote the screenplay with Brooks. Peter Boyle plays the creature, with Marty Feldman as Igor, Madeline Kahn as Elizabeth, Cloris Leachman as Frau Blücher and Teri Garr as Inga. The production cost about 3 million dollars and returned roughly 86 million worldwide, a strong multiple of its budget.
On IMDb the film holds 8 out of 10 from around 181,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 7.9 from more than 3,400 votes. A critics' rating of 8.8 from 74 reviews places it slightly above those audience scores. Roughly four decades after release, the comedy remains widely watched and highly rated by both audiences and critics.
What's left behind the scenes
- Madeline Kahn was initially supposed to play the role of Inga, but she turned it down. Brooks thought about it and decided to give her the role of Elizabeth. Then Kahn changed her mind and asked for the role of Inga back. It was too late – Brooks had already hired Teri Garr, who was given the task of mastering a German accent by the next day. And Teri successfully demonstrated it.
- On one of the jars containing brains, you can read the name Charles Certin. This is the name of an assistant artist who was just beginning his career in film at the time.
- The brain that the monster never obtained belonged to a man named Hans Delbrück. The real Hans Delbrück was a famous German historian and professor at the University of Berlin.
- Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, and Marty Feldman got into the film thanks to the shrewdness of their common agent.
- At the beginning of the film, the clock strikes 13 times.
- The band Aerosmith took the phrase “Walk This Way,” which appeared in the film, as the title of their biggest hit.
- The sound of the werewolf's howl in the film was imitated by the director himself – Mel Brooks.
- Mel Brooks directly parodied James Whale's classic film "Frankenstein" (1931). To achieve even greater parodic similarity, Brooks filmed his movie in the same castle where the original was shot.
- The surname of the producer, Michael Gruscoff, appears in the film as the name of a village hotel.
- In 2003, the Library of Congress added the film to the National Film Registry for its cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance.
- The skulls that Frederick and Inga discover in front of the castle were real human skulls, with the exception of the skull of someone who had died six months earlier – that skull was an artificial prop.
- A couple on the train converses in English, and then, for fun, repeats the same conversation in German.
- The scene where the monster carries Elizabeth through the forest parodies a similar scene from the film "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954).
- Brooks had so many jokes in reserve that, after the main scenes were staged, he couldn't stop and continued filming.
- The line "I can make espresso" was improvised by Gene Hackman, who played the Blind Man.
- Actor Leon Askin played a lawyer, but his role was completely cut from the film.
- As Frankenstein climbs the stairs to the second floor, you can notice an image of a gargoyle on the wall that suspiciously resembles Mel Brooks.
- When the film was released in theaters, the name of Gene Hackman (who played the role of the blind old man) did not appear in the credits.
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