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Overview

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Director:
Terence Fisher
Writers:
Hurford Janes (additional dialogue)
Jimmy Sangster (writer)
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Release Date:
1 June 1958 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Drama | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
The Terror Rises Again more
Plot:
We watch Baron Frankenstein escaping from the guillotine and going to Germany. There, he names himself Dr... more | add synopsis
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"They Shall Never Be Rid of Me! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Peter Cushing ... Dr. Victor Stein
Francis Matthews ... Dr. Hans Kleve
Eunice Gayson ... Margaret
Michael Gwynn ... Karl
John Welsh ... Bergman
Lionel Jeffries ... Fritz
Oscar Quitak ... Karl - the Dwarf
Richard Wordsworth ... Up Patient
Charles Lloyd Pack ... President of the Medical Council
John Stuart ... Inspector
Arnold Diamond ... Molke
Marjorie Gresley ... Countess Barscynska (as Margery Cresley)
Anna Walmsley ... Vera Barscynska
George Woodbridge ... Janitor
Michael Ripper ... Kurt
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Blood of Frankenstein (UK) (working title)
I Frankenstein (UK)
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Runtime:
89 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
UK:X (original rating) | Ireland:15 | Iceland:12 | Finland:K-15 (2002) | Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) (2002) | Finland:(Banned) (1958) | Norway:16 (1971) | Sweden:15 | USA:Unrated | West Germany:16 | UK:12 (video re-rating: 2002) | UK:15 (video rating: 1986) | Sweden:(Banned) (1958-1967)
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Cadogan Films more

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Trivia:
In correspondence from Hammer to the BBFC dated 30 July 1958, Hammer executives say that per the BBFC's request, the shot from "Reel 2" of Frankenstein dropping Karl's brain from a pan into a jar of fluid had been removed from the final print. This brief moment was a point of contention with the BBFC ever since the film had been submitted for certification during the script stage. However, the scene has existed in all known prints of the film ever since its distribution, even on Columbia's Super 8mm digest version. more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Peter Cushing's face appears during a very short sequence instead of Oscar Quitack's. This has been confirmed by Cushing himself and may be some kind of private joke. more
Quotes:
Legless Patient: [shouts] How can I do me dance without me legs?
Slensky: Got to learn to sing!
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991) more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
"They Shall Never Be Rid of Me!, 15 June 2007
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Author: thinker1691 from USA

If you have seen, Curse of Frankenstein, then you must follow up with this excellent sequel. The magic which is in the Hammer Films allows that aura to continue in this follow-up story. In this second chapter of the infamous doctor who nearly wills his creature to live, we see that he has somehow escaped death by guillotine. Once again, we have the superb talents of Peter Cushing, who played Dr. Victor Frankenstein, in the original and successful 1957 version. In that prequel, the good doctor was sentenced to death and last seen approaching the guillotine. In this follow-up film, we see, he has somehow survived execution, and has chosen a new name; Dr. Victor Stein. Arriving in a new city, he sets up practice but is shunned by the city's medical authorities, who send a representative to demand he join their union. Francis Matthews plays the envoy, Dr. Hans Kleve, a fine doctor and a member in good standing with the union. In time however, he suspects the mysterious visitor is not only an superior doctor, but perhaps the greatest medical genius ever and wants to join him as his assistant. What follows is the the perhaps the best adaption of the Shelley story as we learn that Hans proves Dr. Stein correct. Dr. Kleve proves to be an excellent pupil and Dr. Stein proves equally prophetic. They will never be rid of Dr. Frankenstein! A great film and earns its place as a classic****

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