Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Mel Brooks
Produced by	Michael Gruskoff
Screenplay by	Mel Brooks Gene Wilder
Based on	Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Starring	Gene Wilder Peter Boyle Marty Feldman Cloris Leachman Teri Garr Kenneth Mars Madeline Kahn
Music by	John Morris
Cinematography	Gerald Hirschfeld
Edited by	John C. Howard
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	December 15, 1974 (1974-12-15)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2.78 million
Box office	$86.2 million

Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American horror comedy film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The supporting cast includes Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn and Gene Hackman. The screenplay was written by Wilder and Brooks.

The film is an affectionate parody of the classic horror film genre, in particular the various film adaptations of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein produced by Universal in the 1930s. Most of the lab equipment used as props was created by Kenneth Strickfaden for the 1931 film Frankenstein. To help evoke the atmosphere of the earlier films, Brooks shot the picture entirely in black-and-white, a rarity in the 1970s, and employed 1930s' style opening credits and scene transitions such as iris outs, wipes, and fades to black. The film also features a period score by Brooks' longtime composer John Morris.