I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

Infobox_Film
name=I was a Teenage Frankenstein


director=Herbert L. Strock
caption=Original Theatrical poster
writer=Herman Cohen,
Aden Candell
starring=Whit Bissel, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton, Gary Conway, George Lynn
producer=Herman Cohen
production company=American International Pictures
released=1957
runtime=74 mins.
language=English
budget=
amg_id = 1:76045
imdb_id=0050531

"I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" is a film starring Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates and Gary Conway released by American International Pictures (AIP) in November 1957. It is the sequel or, rather, follow-up to AIP's box-office hit "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" released less than five months earlier. It was filmed in black and white, with the ending in color for a vivid effect.

Plot

Professor Frankenstein, a guest lecturer from England, talks Dr. Karltoninto becoming an unwilling accomplice in his secret plan to actually assemble a human being from the parts of different cadavers. After the recovery of a body from a dreadful automobile wreck, Professor Frankenstein takes the body to his laboratory-morgue, where in various drawers he keeps spare parts of human beings. The Professor also enlists the aid of Margaret, as his secretary to keep all callers away from the laboratory. Margaret, becoming suspicious of what is going on, decides to investigate and goes down to the morgue. She is panic-stricken by the monster who has been activated by electricity following the grafting of a new leg and arm. She dares not tell the Professor about her feelings, and keeps silent for the present.

Professor Frankenstein teaches the Monster to talk, and one night the Monster steals out of the laboratory and goes on a rampage when frightened by the sounds of street noises. He breaks into a girl's room, the girl becomes hysterical and starts screaming, and in his attempt to silence her, he kills her in panic and flees. The next morning the hunt for the murderer is on. Margaret, angry at the Professor, tells him that she knows about the Monster that did the murder. The Professor, taking no chances, has the Monster kill her and feeds her remains to a crocodile. Dr. Karlton, sent out of town, knows none of this. The Professor sends the Monster to a Lover's Lane, where he kills a teenager (also Gary Conway sans makeup). The face of the teenager is successfully transferred to the Monster. Professor Frankenstein tells Dr. Karlton of his plans to dismember his creation and ship him in various boxes to England -- there to put him together again. When they strap the Monster down again, he becomes suspicious and tears loose to throw Dr. Frankenstein into the crocodile pit, while Dr. Karlton runs for help. When Dr. Karlton arrives with the police, the Monster, who is maddened with fright, backs into the electrical dial board. Contact with the iron wrist bands electrocutes him, and he falls to the ground dead. Karlton tells the police that they should have seen him before, and that shot dissolves into a close up of the original mangled face, reminding the audience as well.

ee also

"How to Make a Monster"

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