Young Frankenstein (1974)
 


PG,1hr 48min
Genres:Comedy,Sci-Fi
Released: December 15, 1974
Director:Mel Brooks
Distributor:20th Century Fox
 
Starring:
Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr, Gene Hackman,
Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman
 
Lending his burlesque touch to 1970s genre revision, Mel Brooks
followed his hit "western" Blazing Saddles with this parody of 1930s
Universal horror movies. Determined to live down his family's reputation,
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (co-screenwriter Gene Wilder) insists on
pronouncing his name "Fronckensteen" and denies interest in replicating
his grandfather's experiments. But when he is lured by Frau Blucher
(Cloris Leachman) to discover the tantalizingly titled journal "How I Did It"
in his grandfather's castle, he cannot resist. With the help of voluptuous
Inga (Teri Garr), wall-eyed assistant Igor (Marty Feldman), and a purloined
brain, Frankenstein creates his monster (Peter Boyle). Igor, however, stole
the wrong brain, and the monster tears off into the countryside, encountering
a little girl and a blind hermit (Gene Hackman). Frankenstein finds the monster
and trains him to do a little "Puttin' On the Ritz" soft-shoe, but the monster
escapes again, this time seducing Frankenstein's uptight fiancée Elizabeth
(Madeline Kahn) with his, ahem, sweet mystery. His love life and experiment
in shambles, Frankenstein finally finds a way to create the being he had
planned. Shooting in gleaming black-and-white, with sets and props from the
1930s and appropriate fright music by John Morris, Brooks' cheeky attitude
towards the Hollywood past attracted a large audience, turning it into one
of the most popular 1974 releases after (what else?) Blazing Saddles.
~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide


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