The Evil of Frankenstein
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Freddie Francis
Peter Cushing
Peter Woodthorpe
Duncan Lamont
Sandor Eles
Katy Wild
Film Details
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Synopsis
Baron Frankenstein returns with his young assistant, Hans, to his ancestral castle in Karlstaad, Yugoslavia, from which he had fled years earlier after angry villagers drove Frankenstein's monster into the mountains. While following a mute beggar into a cave, the two men discover the monster, preserved in the ice of a glacier. They thaw it out and revive it electrically but learn that its brain has been damaged. The Baron persuades Zoltan, a mesmerist appearing at a local carnival, to reactivate the brain through hypnosis, but Zoltan's treatment causes the monster to obey only him. Zoltan orders the monster to steal all the gold it can find and to punish two of his enemies, but it murders the two men; the Baron, furious at the hypnotist's misuse of the creature, throws him out. Zoltan then commands the monster to kill the Baron, but it kills him instead and wanders into the mountains. The Baron is jailed, but he escapes, while Hans and a beggar girl follow the monster and bring it back to the castle. When the Baron reaches his laboratory, he finds the monster drunk on brandy and starting to drink chloroform. In the process, the monster accidentally sets the laboratory on fire; Hans and the girl escape, but Frankenstein and his creation are still inside when the entire castle explodes.
Director
Freddie Francis
Cast
Peter Cushing
Peter Woodthorpe
Duncan Lamont
Sandor Eles
Katy Wild
David Hutcheson
James Maxwell
Howard Goorney
Kiwi Kingston
Caron Gardner
Tony Arpino
Timothy Bateson
Alister Williamson
Frank Forsyth
Kenneth Cove
Michele Scott
Anthony Blackshaw
David Conville
Derek Martin
Robert Flynn
Anthony Poole
James Garfield
William Phipps
Steven Geray
Maria Palmer
Crew
Roy Ashton
Don Banks
Les Bowie
Rosemary Burrows
Bill Cartlidge
John Elder
Hugh Harlow
Pauline Harlow
Anthony Hinds
John Hollingsworth
Roy Hyde
Ronnie Maasz
Philip Martell
Don Mingaye
James Needs
Ken Rawkins
Frieda Steiger
Don Weeks
John Wilcox
Film Details
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Trivia
When first shown on television in 1968, some theatrical scenes were replaced by less intense scenes filmed by another director and with extra actors included.
Notes
Released in Great Britain in May 1964; running time: 84 min. Additional sequences filmed in the United States. Sequel to The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). John Elder is a pseudonym for Anthony Hinds.
