Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)

Director:

Terence Fisher

Writer:

Anthony Hinds (writer)

Release Date:

15 March 1967 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Drama | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

The Ultimate in Evil!

Plot:

Baron Frankenstein has acquired the dead body of a young maiden, Christina, and all it lacks is the spark of life...

Plot Keywords:

Execution | Soul | Beautiful Woman | Genius | Doctor

Cast

Peter Cushing	...	Baron Frankenstein
Susan Denberg	...	Christina
Thorley Walters	...	Doctor Hertz
Robert Morris	...	Hans
Duncan Lamont	...	The Prisoner
Peter Blythe	...	Anton
Barry Warren	...	Karl
Derek Fowlds	...	Johann
Alan MacNaughton	...	Kleve
Peter Madden	...	Chief of Police
Philip Ray	...	Mayor
Ivan Beavis	...	Landlord
Colin Jeavons	...	Priest
Bartlett Mullins	...	Bystander
Alec Mango	...	Spokesman
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Patrick Carter	...	Guard (uncredited)
Kevin Flood	...	Chief Gaoler (uncredited)
Lizbeth Kent	...	First Woman (uncredited)
Howard Lang	...	Guard (uncredited)
John Maxim	...	Sergeant (uncredited)
Mark McMullins	...	Villager with Body (uncredited)
Stuart Middleton	...	Young Hans (uncredited)
Antony Viccars	...	Second Spokesman (uncredited)

Directed by
Terence Fisher

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Anthony Hinds		writer (as John Elder)

Produced by
Anthony Nelson Keys	....	producer

Original Music by
James Bernard

Cinematography by
Arthur Grant

Film Editing by
Spencer Reeve

Casting by
Irene Lamb

Production Design by
Bernard Robinson

Art Direction by
Don Mingaye

Makeup Department
George Partleton	....	makeup artist
Frieda Steiger	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Ian Lewis	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Douglas Hermes	....	assistant director
Joe Marks	....	second assistant director (uncredited)
Christopher Neame	....	third assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Thomas Goswell	....	draughtsman (uncredited)
Felix Sergejak	....	scenic artist (uncredited)

Sound Department
Roy Hyde	....	sound editor
Ken Rawkins	....	sound recordist
Gerry Humphreys	....	sound re-recording mixer (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Les Bowie	....	special effects
Ray Caple	....	special effects assistant (uncredited)
Ian Scoones	....	special effects assistant (uncredited)

Stunts
Peter Diamond	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Moray Grant	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Rosemary Burrows	....	wardrobe mistress
Larry Stewart	....	wardrobe master

Editorial Department
James Needs	....	supervising editor
Chris Brennan	....	second assistant editor (uncredited)
Elizabeth Redstone	....	first assistant editor (uncredited)

Music Department
Philip Martell	....	music supervisor

Other crew
Eileen Head	....	continuity

Production Companies

• Hammer Film Productions

Distributors

• Warner-Pathé Distributors (1967) (UK) (theatrical)
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1967) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1973) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (USA) (DVD)
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (USA) (VHS)
• Castle Pictures (1991) (UK) (VHS)
• Lumiere Pictures (1995) (UK) (VHS)
• Paradiso Home Entertainment (2005) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (1999) (UK) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (2003) (UK) (DVD)
• e-m-s the DVD-Company

Also Known As:

And Frankenstein Created Woman (UK) (working title)
Frankenstein Made Woman

Runtime:

86 min | USA:92 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | Finland:(Banned) (1967) | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video rating) (1991) | UK:12 (video re-rating) (2003) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:Unrated | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England, UK

Company:

Hammer Film Productions

Trivia:

In an interview in the TV Times, Keith Barron says that he turned down a horror film, and from his description of the role and the film, it sounds like the Derek Fowlds part in this film.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: When Christina meets Anton she is wearing white nail varnish, all the rage in the swinging 60's but not in the 19th century in which the Film is set.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The World of Hammer: Sci-Fi (#1.7)" (1994)

"One of Hammer's finest Frankenstein films!"

In a small town in a vaguely defined area of middle Europe, Baron Frankenstein and his muddle headed assistant Dr Hertz (Thorley Walters)succeed in isolating the soul from the human body and transplanting it into another. When Frankenstein's young assistant Hans (Robert Morris) is wrongly executed for the murder of his girlfriend's father he steals the corpse. Hans' girlfriend Christina (Susan Denberg) is hideously deformed and is taunted by three young men (the real killers), in despair over Hans' death she drowns herself and Frankenstein acquires her corpse as well. Frankenstein then transforms Hans' soul into Christina's body which he has operated on transforming her into a blonde beauty. As a result Christina becomes a beautiful woman with a split personality, half Hans, half Christina and sets about avenging herself on her father's murderers by luring them to secluded spots with the promise of sex but butchering them instead.

Following the box-office disappointment of "The Evil Of Frankenstein" (1964), in which Hammer dropped Terence Fisher in favour of Freddie Francis, the former was duly brought back for the fourth entry in the company's series. The result was one of the most accomplished with Fisher taking the somewhat confused script by Anthony Hinds (written under his usual John Elder pseudonym) and turned it into a Gothic fairytale, much in the same vein as James Whale's "The Bride Of Frankenstein" (1935) even though the plot bares no resemblance to that movie and Fisher refused to watch the Universal originals in preparation to making his own. He got sympathetic performances from Susan Denberg as the tragic Christina and Thorley Walters as Dr Hertz while Cushing was exemplary as Baron Frankenstein. Cinematographer Arthur Grant was renowned for the speed in which he could light a set, but occasionally some of his shots looked as if they could of been improved. However, at times he turned out some superb work for the company and here he does perhaps his best ever job behind the camera giving Bernard Robinson's economical sets a beauty that contrasts with the more sinister aspects of the tale. For instance the beautiful evening sky against the guillotine in which a young man has just been wrongly executed for murder suggests that for all the beauty of the small town and the weather, it overshadows a cruel and pitiless society.

Frankenstein Created Woman was released on a double-bill with John Gilling's "The Mummy's Shroud" in 1967.