| After
Doctor Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein
came the third film in the series, the original title of which is Son
of Frankenstein. And that’s precisely what it’s about.
The doctor’s son, called Wolf, also a doctor, naturally, comes to
the family mansion with the intention of moving in with his wife and kid.
There they meet the sinister Ygor, no more and no less than Bela Lugosi
in a movie about Frankenstein, the part gossip would have it he didn’t
want to play because his face would disappear beneath the monster’s
makeup. Boris Karloff is also there, given that the creature is not completely
dead, but is only waiting for a new Frankenstein to bring it back to life.
And who better to do so than Basil Rathbone? And just in case we were
missing anything, Lionel Atwill plays the peculiar Inspector Krogh, who
is in charge of solving the case. The best there is. |
