{"id":34347,"date":"2023-11-01T07:32:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T11:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34347"},"modified":"2023-11-01T07:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T11:32:56","slug":"frankenstein-1931-directed-by-james-whale-starring-colin-clive-mae-clarke-boris-karloff-dwight-frye-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34347","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Frankenstein&#8221; (1931) directed by James Whale, starring Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff &#038; Dwight Frye \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z110123zview_frankenstein.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"748\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Frankenstein <\/strong><\/em>(1931)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>James Whale<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>Garrett Fort, Francis Edward Faragoh <\/strong>based on FRANKENSTEIN by<strong> Mary Shelley<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye <\/strong>and <strong>Marilyn Harris<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The Man Who Made A Monster!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Story:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Clive) dreams of creating a living being from body parts stolen from cadavers.\u00a0 Frankenstein&#8217;s hunchbacked assistant, Fritz (Frye) steals the corpses of\u00a0 recently hung criminals.\u00a0 When Frankenstein achieves success, his creation becomes uncontrollable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although based on Mary Shelley&#8217;s famous novel, the movie uses her story as a springboard.\u00a0 The &#8220;monster&#8221; looks different than Shelley described thanks to make-up artist Jack P. Pierce.\u00a0 Universal copyrighted the look through 2026.\u00a0 In the novel the &#8220;monster&#8221; is intelligent and able to carry on conversations.\u00a0 It was quite a shock for me as a kid reading the novel after seeing the movie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Boris Karloff isn&#8217;t listed in the opening credits, and is covered by heavy makeup throughout the film, <em>Frankenstein<\/em> made him a star!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.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\/2023\/z110123zview_frankenstein2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankenstein (1931) Director:\u00a0 James Whale Screenplay by: \u00a0Garrett Fort, Francis Edward Faragoh based on FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley Starring: Colin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34350,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34347\/revisions\/34350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}