Country: UK
Year: 1969
Duration: 95'
The fourth episode directed by Fisher and with Cushing's increasingly emaciated and intense presence. The baron opens a transplant clinic, he could be rich and happy but the sacred fire of research still burns within him. Which is better, the crazy but ingenious baron or the gray mediocrity of those who combat him?
Biography
film director
Terence Fisher
Terence Fisher (London, UK, 1904-1980) started working in cinema as an editor and production director first, and then as a filmmaker, directing a wide variety of movies. After meeting in the Fifties the production company Hammer, he came up with a whole new genre of B movies mixing fantasy and horror, which made him famous.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Curse of Frankenstein (La maschera di Frankenstein, 1957), Horror of Dracula (Dracula il vampiro, 1958), The Revenge of Frankenstein (La vendetta di Frankenstein, 1958), The Hound of the Baskervilles (La furia dei Baskerville, 1959), The Mummy (La mummia, 1959), The Brides of Dracula (Le spose di Dracula, 1960), The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll (Il mostro di Londra, 1960), The Phantom of the Opera (Il fantasma dell'Opera, 1962), The Gorgon (Lo sguardo che uccide, 1964), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (Dracula, principe delle tenebre, 1966), Frankenstein Created Woman (La maledizione dei Frankenstein, 1967), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (Distruggete Frankenstein!, 1969), Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (Frankenstein e il mostro dell'inferno, 1973).
Terence Fisher, Antony Darnborough:
The Astonished Heart (Lo spirito, la carne, il cuore, 1950), So Long at the Fair (Tragica incertezza, 1950).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Terence Fisher.
Plot: Anthony Nelson Keys.
Screenplay: Bert Batt.
Director of photography: Arthur Grant.
Music: James Bernard.
Art director: Bernard Robinson.
Editor: Gordon Hales.
Cast and characters: Peter Cushing (Victor Frankenstein), Veronica Carlson (Anna Spengler), Maxine Audley (Ella Brandt), Freddie Jones (professor Richter), Simon Ward (dottor Karl Holst), George Pravda (dottor Frederick Brandt).
Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys.
Production company: Hammer Film Productions.
Plot: Anthony Nelson Keys.
Screenplay: Bert Batt.
Director of photography: Arthur Grant.
Music: James Bernard.
Art director: Bernard Robinson.
Editor: Gordon Hales.
Cast and characters: Peter Cushing (Victor Frankenstein), Veronica Carlson (Anna Spengler), Maxine Audley (Ella Brandt), Freddie Jones (professor Richter), Simon Ward (dottor Karl Holst), George Pravda (dottor Frederick Brandt).
Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys.
Production company: Hammer Film Productions.