Young Frankenstein (1974)
Gene Wilder as the grandson who insists his name is pronounced “Fronkensteen”.
Treat the Universal films as the source, and make a loving comedy of them in black and white.
You know the old Universal films and want to laugh at them with someone who loves them.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the castle, the laboratory, the hunchbacked assistant and the angry village, from the 1930s films rather than the novel.
Changes: the genre, to comedy. Much of the lab equipment on screen is the original gear from the 1931 film.
Whose story is it?
Frederick Frankenstein’s, and his creation’s.
How much time does it ask?
1 hr 45 min, Mel Brooks directing; Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Teri Garr.
Twentieth Century Fox, 1974, rated PG. Shot in black and white.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Apple TV · Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch
More Frankensteins: Frankenstein (1910) · Frankenstein (1931) · Bride of Frankenstein (1935)