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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783227467
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783227469
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 17, 1999
Running Time: 71 minutes
Sales Rank: 27319
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: November 21, 1931
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Description:
Boris Karloff stars as the screen's most memorable monster in what many consider to be the greatest horror film ever made. Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster (Karloff) out of lifeless body parts. It's director James Whale's adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel blended with Karloff's compassionate portrayal of a creature groping for identity that makes Frankenstein a masterpiece not only of the genre, but for all time.
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'It's alive! Alive!' shouts Colin Clive's triumphant Dr. Frankenstein as electricity buzzes over the hulking body of a revived corpse. 'In the name of God now I know what it's like to be God!' For years unheard, this line has been restored, along with the legendary scene of the childlike monster tossing a little girl into a lake, in James Whale's Frankenstein, one of the most famous and influential horror movies ever made. Coming off the tremendous success of Dracula, Universal assigned sophomore director Whale to helm an adaptation of Mary Shelley's famous novel with Bela Lugosi as the monster. When Lugosi declined the role, Whale cast the largely unknown character actor Boris Karloff and together with makeup designer Jack Pierce they created the most memorable monster in movie history: a towering, lumbering creature with sunken eyes, a flat head, and a jagged scar running down his forehead. Whale and Karloff made this mute, misunderstood brute, who has the brain of a madman (the most obvious of the many liberties taken with Shelley's story), the most pitiable freak of nature to stumble across the screen. Clive's Dr. Frankenstein is intense and twitchy and Dwight Frye set the standard for mad-scientist sidekicks as the wild-eyed hunchback assistant. Whale's later films, notably the spooky spoof The Old Dark House and the deliriously stylized sequel The Bride of Frankenstein, display a surer cinematic hand than seen here and add a subversive twist of black comedy, but given the restraints of early sound films, Whale breaks the film free from static stillness and adorns it with striking design and expressionist flourishes. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating:  - UNIVERSAL BLOWS SO BAD, WORST DVD PRODUCER?
i mean come on now, this is the second set that has arrived fallen apart,,,the book edition, in this and Dracula were unglued!Wow, i mean if it isn't the fiasco of the loose flippers in the Legacy set , its this mess.Karloff and Lugosi deserve better than the treatment they get from Universal, who seem only interested in making a quick buck!Universal sucks so bad it isn't even funny, the only reason i buy these is to show my loyalty to Karloff and Lugosi and the like and to honor them, not Universal ... Read More
Rating: - Frankenstein -- It's Alive!
Frankenstein
I picked up Frankenstein 75th Anniversary edition and watched it avidly. Here we have the complete film. I did not know until recently that the film was edited and had remained edited for many years. When the Doctor cries out that he knows what it feels like to be God, the Christians cut that out. And the scene when the Monster throws the girl in the lake, that was cut out as too ghastly. "Saw" is worse but I digress.
I don't want to criticize an icon of ... Read More
Rating: - Innocence and sensitivity have no place in this world
Classic story of the mad scientist and the monster that stole his last name.
Bela Lugosi turned this role down because it contained no lines. Lucky for Karloff, who beautifully conveyed the part with an engaging sensitivity while maintaining an ultimate level of mystery. The creature's silence only adds to the horror of what man is capable of.
The two scenes forever emblazoned in the annals of monster movies--the "It's alive!" and the girl by the lake--are unequaled. They truly stand out ... Read More
Rating: - Universal monster classic.
This is the first universal Frankenstein movie released in 1931 and was directed by James Whale, the movie is a horror classic while not scary it still is a gothic horror masterpiece. Borris Karloff does a great job of portraying the monster even though it does look cliched cause of the constant parodies and cartoons you have to realise that this film was the first to have the monster appear this way with the electrical bolts on his neck.
The monster while being a vicious creature also has a ... Read More
Rating:  - Well deserves its classic status.
Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
The first is still the beat in the case of the many film adaptations of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus. James Whale's 1931 classic has it all: a fantastic script, top-notch effects for its day, atmosphere in spades, a superlative stable of acting talent, and a director who was willing to take some risks. The result was a blockbuster, pulling in twelve million during the Depression (on a budget of less than $300,000, no less), and ... Read More
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