{"id":34969,"date":"2024-01-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34969"},"modified":"2024-01-07T19:45:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T00:45:38","slug":"son-of-frankenstein-1939-starring-boris-karloff-basil-rathbone-bela-lugosi-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34969","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Son of Frankenstein&#8221; (1939) starring Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone &#038; Bela Lugosi \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z010824zview_sonfrankenstein.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"756\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Son of Frankenstein <\/strong><\/em>(1939)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Rowland V. Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Wyllis Cooper\u00a0<\/strong>based on characters created by <strong>Mary Shelley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Boris Karloff<\/strong><strong>, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill <\/strong>and <strong>Josephine Hutchinson.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>AFTER 20 YEARS Driven by the same crazy ambition that made his father create the terrifying monster that stalks in the night! See his juggernaut of destruction loosed upon the world! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (Rathbone), son of Henry Frankenstein, has brought his wife and young son back to live in Castle Frankenstein.\u00a0 Baron hopes to rebuild the family reputation, but is surprised to find that the villagers still harbor deep resentment.\u00a0 The haven&#8217;t forgotten the murders and destruction brought about by his father&#8217;s creation.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf meets Ygor (Lugosi), a strange, deformed man who survived being hung for robbing graves.\u00a0 When Ygor shows Wolf that his father&#8217;s creation lies in a coma below the castle, Wolf decides to revive the creature.\u00a0 The operation is a success.\u00a0 Sadly the creature will on follow the commands of Ygor.\u00a0 Unknown to Wolf, Ygor has scores that he plans to settle using the monster.<\/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)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director Rowland V. Lee felt that producers had low-balled Bela Lugosi&#8217;s salary.\u00a0 Since the script wasn&#8217;t complete as filming started, Lee continued to pad Lugosi&#8217;s part.\u00a0 This increased Lugosi&#8217;s pay and created one of his best non-Dracula roles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Surprisingly, this is the first <em>Frankenstein<\/em> film that shows the electrodes in the monster&#8217;s neck being hit with electricity to bring him to life.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em><strong>Son of Frankenstein <\/strong><\/em>(1939) earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/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\/2024\/z010824zview_sonfrankenstein2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Son of Frankenstein (1939) Director:\u00a0 Rowland V. 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