THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Director - Terence Fisher, Screenplay - Jimmy Sangster, Based on the Novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Producer - Anthony Hinds, Photography - Jack Asher, Music - James Bernard, Music Director - John Hollingsworth, Makeup - Phil Leakey, Production Design - Bernard Robinson. Production Company - Hammer/Clarion Films. 1957.

Cast: Peter Cushing (Baron Victor Frankenstein), Robert Urquhart (Paul Krempe), Hazel Court (Elizabeth), Christopher Lee (The Creature), Valerie Gaunt (Justine), Melvyn Hayes (Young Victor), Paul Hardtmuth (Professor Bernstein)

Condemned to death for a series of brutal murders, Baron Victor Frankenstein tries in vain to convince his jailors that the crimes were not his, but those of a strange, half-human Creature he had created in his secret laboratory. Realizing that no one will believe him, Frankenstein asks for Paul Krempe, his former tutor and assistant to confirm his story that the strange Creature, composed of a highwayman's dead body, the hands of a dead sculptor and the brain of a brilliant scientist, had been brought to life by them. Paul, however, had become sickened when the experiment resulted in a grotesque Creature with homicidal tendencies and left the Castle, returning only for Frankenstein's wedding to his beautiful cousin, Elizabeth. Before the ceremony, however, Paul realizes that Elizabeth knows nothing of the experiment which Frankenstein was still carrying on, and urges her for her own sake, to cancel the wedding and leave the Castle. Elizabeth refuses and nearly becomes a victim of the Creature. She is saved by Victor and the Creature is destroyed. Paul visits Victor in prison but denies having knowledge of the Creature. The Baron is left condemned to pay for his crimes.

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