Frankenstein (1931)




Boris Karloff, Marilyn Harris - Frankenstein

Colin Clive - Frankenstein

Boris Karloff, Marilyn Harris - Frankenstein


Boris Karloff - Frankenstein

Boris Karloff - Frankenstein

Boris Karloff - Frankenstein




The twisted hunchback Fritz gathers corpses for his master, Henry Frankenstein, who assembles them into a patchwork body with the intention of bringing it to life using electricity. Elizabeth, Henry's fiancée, becomes worried about the excessive amount of time her fiancé spends in a watchtower and tries to bring him back to reality. Unfortunately, Henry has created a creature with the brain of a criminal (due to Fritz's mistake of dropping the healthy brain during the process) . On the day of Henry and Elizabeth's wedding, the monster shows up uninvited.


Vintage magazines

Photoplay , November 1931
Photoplay , December 1931
Photoplay , January 1932

Photoplay , January 1932
Photoplay , February 1932
Photoplay , February 1932


Books with substantial mentioning of Frankenstein

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Dawn B. Sova
Forbidden Films, Censorship Histories of 125 Motion Pictures
New York NY, 2001

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

John T. Soister
Of Gods and monsters, A critical guide to Universal Studios' science fiction, horror, and mystery films, 1929-1939
Jefferson, N.C., 1999

Gary J. Svehla and Susan Svehla (editors)
Boris Karloff
Baltimore, 1996

Neil Sinyard
Classic Movies
London, 1993

Scott Allen Nollen
Boris Karloff, A Critical Account of His Screen, Stage, Radio, television and Recording Work
Jefferson, NC, 1991

Peter van Gelder
Offscreen Onscreen, The inside stories of 60 great films
London, 1990

John Brunas, Michael Brunas, Tom Weaver
Universal Horrors, The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946
1990

William K. Everson
Klassiker des Horrorfilms
München, 1982

Richard Bojarski and Kenneth Beals
The Films of Boris Karloff
Secaucus, NJ, 1974

William K. Everson
Classics of the Horror Film, From the days of the Silent Screen to The Exorcist
Secaucus, NJ, 1974

David Zinman
50 Classic Motion Pictures, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
New York, 1970

Articles on Frankenstein

Elizabeth Nelson, It's Alive, The evolving archetypal image and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in: Luke Hockley (ed.), The Routledge international handbook of Jungian film studies, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY, 2018