Frankenstein 1970
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| Directed by | Howard W. Koch |
| Produced by | Aubrey Schenck George Worthing Yates |
| Screenplay by | Richard H. Landau |
| Story by | Aubrey Schenck Charles A. Moses |
| Based on | characters from Frankenstein (1818 novel) by Mary Shelley (uncredited) |
| Starring | Boris Karloff |
| Music by | Paul Dunlap |
| Cinematography | Carl E. Guthrie |
| Edited by | John A. Bushelman |
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Aubrey Schenck Productions
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| Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures |
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Running time
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83 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $110,000 |
Frankenstein 1970 is a 1958 science fiction horror film, shot in black and white CinemaScope, starring Boris Karloff and featuring Don "Red" Barry. The independent film was directed by Howard W. Koch, and written by Richard Landau and George Worthing Yates, produced by Aubrey Schenck. It was released in some areas in 1958 on a double bill with Queen of Outer Space.
Baron Victor von Frankenstein (Boris Karloff), suffered torture and disfigurement at the hands of the Nazis as punishment for not cooperating with them during World War II. Horribly disfigured, he nevertheless continues his work as a scientist. Needing funds to support his experiments, the Baron allows a television crew to shoot a made-for-television horror film about his monster-making family at his castle in Germany.
This arrangement gives the Baron enough money to buy an atomic reactor, which he uses to create a living being, modeled after his own likeness before he had been tortured by the Nazis. When the Baron runs out of body parts for his work, however, he proceeds to kill off members of the crew, and even his faithful butler, for more spare parts. Finally, however, the monster turns on the Baron, and they are both killed in a blast of radioactive steam from the reactor. After the reactor is shut down and the radiation falls to safe levels, the monster's bandages are removed, revealing the Baron's own face prior to his being disfigured by the Nazis, and an audio tape is played back, in which the Baron reveals that he had intended for the monster to be a perpetuation of himself, as he was the last of the Frankenstein family line.
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