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The man born William Henry Pratt on November 23, 1887 in Camberwell, London, England became better known by his stage name, Boris Karloff. The youngest of nine children, he went on to find fame in the horror genre as the Frankenstein Monster, The Mummy, and many other roles. He perhaps is best remembered for his role as The Grinch in the Dr. Seuss animated television special, The Grinch that Stole Christmas. A Mad Scientist who creates The Monster and is engaged to Elizabeth. Those originally considered for the cast included Leslie Howard as Henry Frankenstein and Bette Davis as Elizabeth. Director James Whale insisted on Colin Clive for the role of Henry. The leading character of Mary Shelley's book, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, was renamed Henry because it was decided Victor would sound too "severe" and "unfriendly" to American audiences at the time. The character of Henry Frankenstein was created by director James Whale and screenplay writers Garrett Fort and Francis Edward Faragoh based on a character originally developed by author Mary Shelley.

This film was a return to the greatness that Universal had enjoyed with the financial success of Frankenstein, once again joining Karloff with director James Whale. Also joining the sequel is Colin Clive, reprising his role as Henry Frankenstein, with supporting cast members Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Septimus Pretorius and Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of the bride and Mary Shelley. Hey, everyone! This is an idea that's been brewing in my mind for quite sometime. I've connected the classic Frankenstein novel to its famous film versions and to other early works featuring mad scientists. This was not at all intended to be such a long entry, but I figured that I needed to explain the various adventures of Victor's descendants in some detail or it'd be confusing for those who don't know their classic horror movies. I hope you like it! Let me know if there's any way you feel this can be improved, whether it's adding, deleting, or just changing something. Let's discuss! In his early film roles, Karloff often portrayed Arab or Indian villains; it was not until the film Frankenstein (1931) that he finally caught his big break, and it was his silent performance as the Monster that propelled him to true stardom. For your approval is Boris Karloff’s Top Ten Films.The 18th century gave rise to the Enlightenment, a movement that in some quarters was opposed to the church-run universities of which Ingolstadt was a prime example. The Jesuits gradually left the university as it sought to change with the times, until the university finally had become so secular that the greatest influence in Ingolstadt was Adam Weishaupt, founder of the secret society of the Illuminati. On November 25, 1799, the elector Maximilian IV announced that the university's depleted finances had become too great a weight for him to bear: the university would be moved to Landshut as a result. The university finished that year's school term, and left Ingolstadt in May 1800, bringing to a quiet end the school that had, at its peak, been one of the most influential and powerful institutes of higher learning in Europe. In 1826 King Ludwig I moved the university to the capital Munich ( Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). The modern successor of Bavaria's oldest university is the WFI - Ingolstadt School of Management (founded in 1989 as part of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), one of Germany's foremost business schools. Or so they believed. In fact, it survived the arson of the mill that was supposedly its tomb. Henry’s former mentor, who originally asked him to make another reanimated person, used the still-living monster to pressure Henry into making him a mate. The creation intended to be the creature’s bride did not like her proposed partner, and he brought down the castle where the revelation was made in an attempt to kill himself, Pretorius, and the bride made for him. That was the last Henry had of making men, but his two children, Wolf and Ludwig, would each have their own experiences with similar pursuits that resulted in similar horror. The article states that the film was "very loosely based on" the novel, but wasn't it in fact more or less an accurate translation of a popular stageplay running at the time? Granted, the play would have been loosely based on the novel, but in the interest of accuracy shouldn't the play be credited as the source? 12.22.250.4 22:51, 26 October 2006 (UTC) Reply [ reply ] You are right, but that point is clarified further down in the same paragraph. David L Rattigan 09:37, 27 October 2006 (UTC) Reply [ reply ] The novel has been adapted several times, with stage productions appearing as early as the 1820s. Many of the playwrights changed or added parts of the plot, often borrowing from one another. Universal's take on Frankenstein was no exception, so it would be justified to call it "based on motifs of the novel". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.180.68.33 ( talk) 10:39, 4 January 2010 (UTC) Reply [ reply ]

This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) The character of Henry Frankenstein was created by director James Whale and screenplay writesr Garrett Fort and Francis Edward Faragoh based on a character originally developed by author Mary Shelley. In the novel, he has a fairly small part—he is Victor Frankenstein's teacher at medical school. In the 1931 Universal film Frankenstein, Dr. Waldman was played by Edward Van Sloan. In Kenneth Branagh's 1993 film, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Waldman was portrayed by John Cleese. Both film versions expand his role, making him a mentor to Victor ( Henry Frankenstein in the 1931 film).

Cat’s Cradle (book). Hoenikker is indeed a mad scientist, being the inventor of the catastrophic ice-nine. Henry set himself up in a private laboratory in an old watchtower in Goldstadt. There, he stitched together a human body, culled together from pieces taken from stolen corpses. Waldman, Elizabeth and Victor Moritz came to the tower to talk some sense into Frankenstein, but he refused to abandon his work. He invited them to pay witness to his experiments, to prove to them that he was not crazy and that he could in fact supplant the work of God. Frankenstein met with limited success and did in fact bring his creation to life. He soon learned however that this gigantic creature possessed an inferior brain and had the mental capacity of a small child or animal. Fritz hated the monster and took every opportunity to torment him. Ultimately however, the monster avenged himself by killing Fritz in the cellar of the watchtower. That evening, at the Goldstadt Medical College, Doctor Waldman lectures his class. He teaches them the differences between a healthy, normal brain and that of a deranged criminal. He concludes his lecture and says that he will leave the two samples behind for student inspection. After everyone leaves the lecture hall, Fritz sneaks into the classroom through a window. He takes the healthy brain and begins to walk away, but a loud noise frightens him and he drops it. Without thinking, he then takes the abnormal brain and scurries off.

The film opens on a storm night as Percy Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon) praise Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester) for her story of the Promethus Unbound, Frankenstein. Mary Shelley tells her audience that the monster was not destroyed and that there is more to tell; the scene shifts to the end of the 1931 film and continues from there. Second, I am not surprised that Dr. Waldman was instrumental in Pretorious's separation from University service. The 18th century gave rise to the Enlightenment, a movement that in some quarters was opposed to the church-run universities of which Ingolstadt was a prime example. The Jesuits gradually left the university as it sought to change with the times, until the university finally had become so secular that the greatest influence in Ingolstadt was Adam Weishaupt, founder of the secret society of the Illuminati. On November 25, 1799, the elector Maximilian IV announced that the university's depleted finances had become too great a weight for him to bear: the university would be moved to Landshut as a result. The university finished that year's school term, and left Ingolstadt in May 1800, bringing to a quiet end the school that had, at its peak, been one of the most influential and powerful institutes of higher learning in Europe. In 1826 King Ludwig I moved the university to the capital Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). The modern successor of Bavaria's oldest university is the WFI - Ingolstadt School of Management (founded in 1989 as part of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), one of Germany's foremost business schools.

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The beauty of this simplistic fairy-tale story, is in showing the Monster growing up in familiar human terms and only being a monster because society created him. In his innocence he’s like a baby reaching out for the sunlight filtering through the skylight, then he’s the adventurous child throwing flowers into the lake and in his mistaken notion tossing the girl he thinks is also a flower into the lake, and finally he’s misunderstood by the same society who created him and is labeled as a savage killer. Victor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was a fictional student at the University of Ingolstadt. In the 1931 film adaptation, the school is called Goldstadt Medical College. Goldstadt University is also featured in the novelization of Van Helsing (but in this, it is in Romania). Henry could not deal with his failure and came to realize that all he accomplished was the creation of a monster. He suffered a mental breakdown and passed out in his laboratory. His family brought him home and he spent the next several days convalescing. Professor Waldman elected to remain behind at the laboratory to watch over the monster. Henry put all thoughts of his work behind him and concentrated on his pending marriage to Elizabeth. Born in 1772 to a wealthy family living in Switzerland but hailing from Hesse in what is now Germany, Frankenstein excelled in medical studies at the Goldstadt Medical College within the University of Ingolstadt** . He combined his interest in biology with an unusual fascination with alchemy, possibly because the German castle his ancestors of nobility used to live in was also once the home of the famed alchemist Johann Conrad Dippel*** . He was deeply traumatized by the death of his mother from scarlet fever, which occurred shortly before he was due to leave for college, and he began to seek a scientific method for resurrection. Eventually he was able to develop a process for reanimating dead tissue, and after a particularly vivid nightmare one stormy night he decided to create his own human being****. Filming for Frankenstein began on August 24th, 1931 and concluded on October 3rd. It opened theatrically in the United States on November 21st.

A short time later, Wolf von Frankenstein, his American bride Elsa and their son Peter came to live in Frankenstein Village. The villagers had enjoyed many years of peace without anyone invoking the hated family name, and they wished it to remain so. As the Frankenstein family disembarked the train at the station, they were met by the town Burgomaster and the reigning council members who pointedly told them, "We are here to meet you, not to greet you". Wolf tried to appeal to their better nature, telling them that he wished to be their friends and to restore honor to the name of Frankenstein, but the villagers had little interest in anything he had to say. It wasn't long before Wolf discovered the Frankenstein Monster and used him as a template to continue his father's work. Suffering a nervous breakdown, Henry was taken home by Elizabeth, Victor, and his father, Baron Frankenstein. Waldman remained at the laboratory for the purposes of destroying the Monster by dissection. The Monster built up an immunity to the sedatives and awoke before Waldman could begin. Seizing Waldman by the throat, he proceeded to strangle the old man to death.The film moves along briskly and soon a mate is ready for the monster. With Dr. Pretorius’ help, Henry is forced to re-create life again from the parts of the dead, and so with a return to the electricity filled lab, we once again are witness to an unholy process, but the bride does not seem too affectionate towards her mate. The bride (Elsa Lanchester) comes to life with a lurch and cat like moments, her hair a bouffant raised by lightning, her arms swaddled in bandages. She does not speak, but instead hisses her reply to the monster’s gentle call of “friend”. The Monster allows Henry and his bride to flee before pulling a switch that blows the castle and its inhabitants to kingdom come. Favorite scene: the monster to Pretorius and the Bride, he says “You stay. We belong dead.” An instant classic that bears repeat viewing. Victor Moritz is an analog of Henry Clerval, Henry's close friend from the original novel. His name is an amalgamation of Victor Frankenstein and Justine Moritz from the original novel. Also known as The Three Faces of Fear in Italian. This is an Italian-French horror film directed by Mario Bava and features three separate tales each with an introduction and end piece by Boris Karloff. Modern sources list the following additional credits: Elec eff Raymond Lindsay; Elec Frank Graves; Spec eff John Fulton ; Tech adv Dr. Cecil Reynolds; Mus Bernhard Kaun and Giuseppe Becce; Mus dir David Broekman. Modern sources include in the cast Pauline Moore ( Bridesmaid), Ted Billings ( Villager), Inez Palange ( Village lady), Paul Panzer ( Mourner), Cecil Reynolds ( Waldman's secretary), and note that Francis Ford also played a villager and medical school doctor. Some modern sources note that the set design of the windmill sequence was inspired by a building in Los Angeles that housed a local bakery, Van de Kamp, which displayed a large windmill as its corporate logo. The plot is very simple and in its basic structure is a love story; in 1921 an Egyptian expedition uncovers the tomb of Im-ho-tep, a man that was buried alive because he was trying to raise his dead lover, the princess Ankh-es-en-amon ( Zita Johann). Buried with Im-ho-tep was the Scroll of Thoth which promises to resurrect the dead and reunite the separated lovers. Ten years later, Im-ho-tem is wandering Cairo as a modern day Egyptian, Ardath Bey (Karloff); he is looking for the reappearance of his lost love and he meets Helen Grosvenor (Zita Johann), a woman that bears a striking resemblance to Ankh-es-en-amon. Ardath Bey believes that Grosvenor is the princess reborn again and he plans to kill her and mummify her, thus reclaiming his long lost love. While under a trance, Grosvenor remembers her past life and prays to a statue of the goddess Isis; the statue comes to life and emits a powerful beam that destroys the Scroll of Thoth and hereby also renders The Mummy to a heap of dust.