Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 75 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.
- hermit
- monster
- lightning
- cemetery
- mill
- halloween
- mad scientist
- sequel
- black and white
- comedic relief
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Boris Karloff
The Monster
Colin Clive
Henry Frankenstein
Valerie Hobson
Elizabeth
Ernest Thesiger
Doctor Pretorius
- Elsa Lanchester — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
- Gavin Gordon — Lord Byron
- Douglas Walton — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Una O'Connor — Minnie
- E. E. Clive — Burgomaster
- Lucien Prival — Butler
- O. P. Heggie — Hermit
- Dwight Frye — Karl
- Reginald Barlow — Hans
- Mary Gordon — Hans' Wife
- Anne Darling — Shepherdess
- Directed
- James Whale
- Written
- Robert Florey, Edmund Pearson, William Hurlbut
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 1,116 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, James Whale Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1931Frankenstein
Where it starts.
Bride of Frankenstein
1935 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
