May 17- Frank, Meet Wolfie- Wolfie, Meet Frank
Tonight, get your final Svengoolie look at another classic confrontation from the Universal horror library-as we give one last showing to “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man!”
Continuity-wise, this film falls between “Ghost of Frankenstein” and “House of Frankenstein”- and, yes, our Universal schedule does unfortunately out this one out of sequence, with “Ghost” coming up next week…but, it won’t keep you from enjoying the story that also picks up where “the Wolf Man” left off- as grave robbers accidentally revive Larry Talbot- who’s plagued by amnesia, but eventually realizes who- and what- he is! He heads out to find the only person who has ever tried to help him end his curse- Maleva the gypsy woman-who decides the only person she knows of who might be able to cure him would be- one Dr. Frankenstein!
Needless to say, they get to the old Frankenstein castle, and –
frozen down below- is the Frankenstein Monster-and he’s still alive! Larry tracks down the daughter of Frankenstein, to try to persuade her to provide him with her father’s lab notebook-
and, before long, the Monster is running loose, Larry’s getting hairy, and a new young doctor can’t resist the lure of doing a total jumpstart of the Monster, just because it would be so cool to see him at full strength (bad idea, Dr. McDummy…)-
and finally, we see the showdown grudge match that pits the Big Green Machine against the Fuzzy Freakazoid- in “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf man!”
This one is notable for the fact that Bela Lugosi-who had previously turned down the role of the Monster because he didn’t want to be buried under the make-up- finally DOES play the Monster- and, thanks to some omitted dialogue that revealed the Monster is currently blind due to occurrences in “Ghost of Frankenstein,” plus the removal of any dialogue the Monster was supposed to have- doesn’t quite make the definitive Monster. Lon Chaney Jr. is back, and it seems like he never left the Larry Talbot role-as he settles further into the “poor me/I want to die” attitude that permeated most of the rest of his portrayals of the Man who Turns Wolf.
Once again- PLEASE catch this tonight, because this is our final showing of the film- then, away it goes, back to the shelf where whichever cable network that has the exclusive rights
will leave it unshown, except maybe around Halloween. Seems as useful as the Monster being frozen in that big wall of ice beneath the Frankenstein manor…
Continuity-wise, this film falls between “Ghost of Frankenstein” and “House of Frankenstein”- and, yes, our Universal schedule does unfortunately out this one out of sequence, with “Ghost” coming up next week…but, it won’t keep you from enjoying the story that also picks up where “the Wolf Man” left off- as grave robbers accidentally revive Larry Talbot- who’s plagued by amnesia, but eventually realizes who- and what- he is! He heads out to find the only person who has ever tried to help him end his curse- Maleva the gypsy woman-who decides the only person she knows of who might be able to cure him would be- one Dr. Frankenstein!
Needless to say, they get to the old Frankenstein castle, and –
frozen down below- is the Frankenstein Monster-and he’s still alive! Larry tracks down the daughter of Frankenstein, to try to persuade her to provide him with her father’s lab notebook-
and, before long, the Monster is running loose, Larry’s getting hairy, and a new young doctor can’t resist the lure of doing a total jumpstart of the Monster, just because it would be so cool to see him at full strength (bad idea, Dr. McDummy…)-
and finally, we see the showdown grudge match that pits the Big Green Machine against the Fuzzy Freakazoid- in “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf man!”
This one is notable for the fact that Bela Lugosi-who had previously turned down the role of the Monster because he didn’t want to be buried under the make-up- finally DOES play the Monster- and, thanks to some omitted dialogue that revealed the Monster is currently blind due to occurrences in “Ghost of Frankenstein,” plus the removal of any dialogue the Monster was supposed to have- doesn’t quite make the definitive Monster. Lon Chaney Jr. is back, and it seems like he never left the Larry Talbot role-as he settles further into the “poor me/I want to die” attitude that permeated most of the rest of his portrayals of the Man who Turns Wolf.
Once again- PLEASE catch this tonight, because this is our final showing of the film- then, away it goes, back to the shelf where whichever cable network that has the exclusive rights
will leave it unshown, except maybe around Halloween. Seems as useful as the Monster being frozen in that big wall of ice beneath the Frankenstein manor…
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