{"id":29575,"date":"2022-05-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29575"},"modified":"2022-05-01T19:05:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T23:05:18","slug":"the-ghost-of-frankenstein-1942-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29575","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Ghost of Frankenstein&#8221; (1942) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z050922zview_ghostoffrankenstein.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"770\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Ghost of Frankenstein <\/strong><\/em>(1942)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:&nbsp; <strong>Erle C. Kenton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writers:&nbsp; <strong>Scott Darling <\/strong>(screenplay), <strong>Eric Taylor <\/strong>(original story)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:&nbsp; <strong>Cedric Hardwicke, Lon Chaney Jr., Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers <\/strong>and <strong>Colin Clive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:&nbsp; <em>The King of all Monsters strikes again! No chains can hold him! No tomb can seal him in!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ygor (Lugosi) discovers Frankenstein&#8217;s monster (Chaney) buried under rubble of Dr. Frankenstein&#8217;s castle. Ygor and the monster journey to find Dr. Frankenstein&#8217;s son, Ludwig (Hardwicke), who is also a doctor. When they arrive in Ludwig&#8217;s town, the monster befriends a young girl.&nbsp; Townspeople fear the monster is going to hurt the child and attack the monster.&nbsp; Two villagers are killed before Ygor and the monster escape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ygor wants Ludwig Frankenstein to use his father&#8217;s notes and put Ygor&#8217;s brain in the monster.&nbsp; While Ludwig considers this, he is visited by his father&#8217;s ghost (Ha! THAT explains the title) who says to find a good brain for the monster.&nbsp; As villagers search for the monster, Ludwig prepares to operate, but whose brain will he use?&nbsp; And what will be the result?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have many fun memories of watching <em>The Ghost of Frankenstein<\/em> with my buddy late at night on <em>Sammy Terry&#8217;s Nightmare Theater<\/em>.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a fun movie for kids.&nbsp; You have Bela Lugosi (Dracula!) as Ygor and Lon Chaney, Jr. (Wolfman!) as the Monster.&nbsp; You get the monster fighting villagers on a rooftop, chained in a courtroom (What?) and breaking free, plus the mandatory laboratory scene with electrical arcs and rioting villagers.&nbsp; What&#8217;s not to like?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you see <em>The Ghost of Frankenstein<\/em> as an adult for the first time, your mileage may vary quite a bit from mine.&nbsp; I still enjoy <em>The Ghost of Frankenstein<\/em> even though we have Ygor and the monster as friends. They were bitter enemies before.&nbsp; Chaney plays the monster as if it is blind, which explains why the monster&#8217;s eyes are always closed and it walks with arms outstretched.&nbsp; This is never really explained in the movie. <em>The Ghost of Frankenstein<\/em> isn&#8217;t as good as <em>Frankenstein<\/em> or <em>The Bride of Frankenstein<\/em> (or even <em>Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein<\/em>) but I like it well enough to give it 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z050922zview_ghostoffrankenstein2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) Director:&nbsp; Erle C. 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