Frankenstein - The True Story
by Jack Smight
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Actor: David McCallum, James Mason, Jane Seymour, Leonard Whiting, Nicola PagettDirector: Jack Smight
Brand: Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 183 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Frankenstein - The True Story
Movie Review: terrible
Summary: 1 Stars
Perhaps the longest adaptation of Frankenstein known to man. I think reading the novel would be faster than suffering through this film. The characters are boring the special effects sad, this film has no redeeming qualities. The monster is simply a man that begins to degrade as the film plods along. The end result is a guy with clay on his forehead. Stay away, do yourself a favor cause its terrible. Run time is like 3 hours of BLAH!
Summary of Frankenstein - The True Story
Victor frankensteins medical experimentations result in the shocking discovery that he can revive the dead. But when the creature he creates becomes a killer is anyone safe? Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/26/2006 Starring: Jane Seymour Leonard Whiting Run time: 183 minutes Rating: NrHints of sublime horror lurk in a big pile of camp lunacy in Frankenstein: The True Story. While a subtitle like The True Story might make you think this 1970s TV production hews close to Mary Shelley's classic novel, it's safe to say that Shelley's opus did not include crawling disembodied arms, sinister Chinese coolies, solar power, or the flabbergasting paisley dressing gown that Dr. Frankenstein wears for one brief but startling scene. In fact, The True Story deviates from Shelley's story in almost every detail. In this version, the young and handsome Dr. Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting, star of Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet) is lured into reviving the dead by the obsessive Dr. Clerval (David McCallum, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), who gruffly tosses off lines like "Fail? That is a word I shall teach you to forget!" and "This was specially prepared with chemicals--I'll explain what they are later." Clerval's untimely death doesn't stop Frankenstein from bringing his Creature to life in the form of the jaw-droppingly handsome Michael Sarrazin (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?). Alas, tissue degeneration soon sets in--but the oily, sinister Dr. Polidori (James Mason, Lolita) arrives to make things even worse with his plan for a female Creature in the form of the even more jaw-droppingly dewy and luscious Jane Seymour (later to becomeDr. Quinn, Medicine Woman). Most of Frankenstein: The True Story rattles along as enjoyable badness, but every so often an image flares up that's genuinely creepy--when Frankenstein's fiancee Elizabeth is menaced by an undead butterfly, the scene is laughable and eerie at the same time--and though Whiting is stiff, Mason and a parade of cameo stars (including John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Agnes Moorehead) inject the movie with the sort of sinister relish that animated the classic horror of the black and white era. --Bret Fetzer
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