Country: UK
Year: 1958
Duration: 94'
The baron is condemned to death, and escapes by taking the place of a priest and continues his experiments. The second episode of the series directed by Fisher and interpreted by Peter Cushing, this film is a small masterpiece: gothic setting, the scientist seen as a romantic hero, no moral judgment. One can sense that the Frankenstein series will top the Dracula series in Hammer's future.
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.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Jimmy Sangster, George Baxt (non accreditato), Hurford Janes (dialoghi aggiunti).
Director of photography: Jack Asher.
Music: Leonard Salzedo.
Art director: Bernard Robinson.
Editor: Alfred Cox.
Sound: Jock May.
Cast and characters: Peter Cushing (Victor Frankenstein), Francis Matthews (dottor Hans Kleve), Eunice Gayson (Margaret Conrad), Michael Gwynn (Karl), John Welsh (Bergman), Lionel Jeffries (Fritz).
Producer: Anthony Hinds per Hammer Film Productions.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Jimmy Sangster, George Baxt (non accreditato), Hurford Janes (dialoghi aggiunti).
Director of photography: Jack Asher.
Music: Leonard Salzedo.
Art director: Bernard Robinson.
Editor: Alfred Cox.
Sound: Jock May.
Cast and characters: Peter Cushing (Victor Frankenstein), Francis Matthews (dottor Hans Kleve), Eunice Gayson (Margaret Conrad), Michael Gwynn (Karl), John Welsh (Bergman), Lionel Jeffries (Fritz).
Producer: Anthony Hinds per Hammer Film Productions.