Directed by:
Jimmy SangsterCinematography:
Moray GrantComposer:
Malcolm WilliamsonCast:
Ralph Bates, Dennis Price, Jon Finch, Joan Rice, Veronica Carlson, David Prowse, Kate O'Mara, James Cossins, James Hayter, Bernard Archard, Neil Wilson (more)Plots(1)
Teenage prodigy Victor Frankenstein tells his father of his ambition to go to university in Vienna. The Baron objects, so Victor coldly sabotages his shooting rifle. The gun explodes in the Baron's face, killing him. Victor uses his inheritance to decamp to Vienna. Six years pass, and Victor leaves after getting the Dean's daughter pregnant; returning home with fellow student Wilhelm, he rescues his friend Elizabeth and her father, an eminent professor, from two highwaymen. He kills one, and covertly beheads him. Hidden away from housekeeper and 'bedwarmer' Alys, he and Wilhelm set about researches into the revival of dead tissue. The grisly career of the notorious Victor Frankenstein has begun. This bold experiment in horror comedy was directed by Jimmy Sangster in 1970, and is one of the most unusual of all the Hammer horrors. Ralph Bates stars as the young Victor Frankenstein and Dave Prowse (later to embody Darth Vader in Star Wars) plays his monster. (StudioCanal UK)
(more)Cast
Ralph Bates
UK
Best movies:
Fear in the Night (1972)
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Dennis Price
UK
Best movies:
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The V.I.P.s (1963)
Ten Little Indians (1965)
Jon Finch
UK
Best movies:
Much Ado About Nothing (1984) (TV movie)
Death on the Nile (1978)
Frenzy (1972)
Joan Rice
UK
Best movies:
One Wild Oat (1951)
His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
Veronica Carlson
UK
Best movies:
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
The Ghoul (1975)
David Prowse
UK
Best movies:
Kate O'Mara
UK
Best movies:
Corruption (1968)
The Tamarind Seed (1974)
The Vampire Lovers (1970)
James Cossins
UK
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
Follow Me! (1972)
James Hayter
India
Best movies:
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Night and the City (1950)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
Bernard Archard
UK
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Password is Courage (1962)
The Hiding Place (1975)
Neil Wilson
UK
Best movies:
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
The Early Bird (1965)
Norbert Schiller
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Geoffrey Lumsden
UK
Best movies:
A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)