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Frankenstein 1931 turns 90 this fall


RochesterRob

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Glenn Strange was playing the Frankenstein monster, but during shooting one day he tripped over a camera cable and broke his ankle. Lon Chaney Jr. (playing the Wolf Man) wasn't working that day, so he put on the Frankenstein makeup/outfit and filled in for Strange, in the scene where Dr. Mornay gets thrown through the window. So Chaney wound up playing two monsters in this movie.

 

Beyond the Frankenstein role, Strange was best known to later audiences in the role of Sam Noonan, the bartender at the Long Branch Saloon in the long-running TV series, Gunsmoke (1955).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  Watched House of Frankenstein last night.  I really did not have much else going on.  Interesting how the series evolved (or devolved) into what at the time was considered a B movie.  Boris Karloff by the mid-1940's had lost a fair amount of luster as a horror icon and most likely appeared in H of F for a paycheck.  The science was always kind of wobbly in these movies but somebody was obviously obsessed with electricity without knowing much about it.  100,000 volts even at a fraction of an amp would be enough to fry anything it made contact with into a crisp.  Then Karloff's character (the proverbial mad scientist) rambles on about a musical chairs type bit involving what brain was going into what body.   Anyways, lesson not learned by Hollywood given the Batman movies late in the 1990's.

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