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Bride of Frankenstein
Warning! The Monster demands a Mate!
( Horror )


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MPAA Rating:
Approved

US Runtime: 75 min

Premiere Date:
Apr 22, 1935   [USA]
 
Director: James Whale
 
Writers: William Hurlbut   [adaptation]
John L. Balderston   [adaptation]
William Hurlbut
 
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.   [Producer]
 
Music by Franz Waxman
 
Cinematography: John J. Mescall
 
Edited by: Ted J. Kent
 
Production Company: Universal Pictures
 


Cast:

Boris Karloff
The Monster
Colin Clive
Dr. Henry Frankenstein
Valerie Hobson
Elizabeth Frankenstein
Elsa Lanchester
Mary Shelley/The Monster's Mate
Ernest Thesiger
Dr. Pretorius
Gavin Gordon
Lord Byron
Douglas Walton
Percy Shelley
E.E. Clive
Burgermeister
Lucien Prival
Albert the Butler
O.P. Heggie
Hermit
Dwight Frye
Karl
Reginald Barlow
Hans
Anne Darling
Shepherdess
Ted Billings
Ludwig
Kansas DeForrest
Little Ballerina (uncredited)
Edward Peil Sr.
Villager (uncredited)
Tempe Pigott
Aunt Glutz (uncredited)
Walter Brennan
Neighbor (uncredited)
Maurice Black
Gypsy (uncredited)
Frank Terry
A Hunter (uncredited)
Frank Benson
Villager (uncredited)
Lucio Villegas
Priest (uncredited)
 
Billy Barty
Tiny baby (uncredited)
Joan Woodbury
Little Queen (uncredited)
Sarah Schwartz
Marta (uncredited)
Mary Stewart
Neighbor (uncredited)
Norman Ainsley
Little Archbishop (uncredited)
Helen Parrish
Communion Girl (scenes deleted)
Edwin Mordant
The Coroner (uncredited)
Torben Meyer
Strangled Man (uncredited)
Elspeth Dudgeon
Gypsy's Mother (uncredited)
J. Gunnis Davis
Uncle Glutz (uncredited)
Neil Fitzgerald
Rudy (uncredited)
Brenda Fowler
A Mother (uncredited)
John Curtis
A Hunter (uncredited)
John George
Villager (uncredited)
Grace Cunard
Villager (uncredited)
Marilyn Harris
Girl (uncredited)
Robert Adair
A Hunter (uncredited)
John Carradine
A Hunter (uncredited)
Arthur S. Byron
Henry VIII (uncredited)
Helen Jerome Eddy
Gypsy's Wife (uncredited)
Josephine McKim
Little Mermaid (uncredited)
Peter Shaw
Little Devil (uncredited)
 
 

Crew:

C. Bakaleinikoff
conductor
W.J. Dodds
assistant camera
Alan Jones
second cameraman
 
Carl Laemmle
presenter
Clifford Vaughan
orchestrator: musical score
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$397,000 (USA)
Color Info:
B&W
Sound Mix:
Mono
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Spherical
Film Negative Format:
35 mm
Printed Film Format:
35 mm
Shooting Dates:
02 Jan 1935 - 07 Mar 1935

Quotes:

  • The Monster: We belong dead!
     
  • Dr. Pretorius: We shall drink to our partnership. Do you like gin? It is my only weakness.
     
  • The Monster: Alone: bad. Friend: good!
     
  • Dr. Pretorius: To a new world of gods and monsters!
     
  • Mary Shelley: It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.
     

Trivia:

  • The musical soundtrack for this film proved so popular, it was used again in the Flash Gordon serials starring Buster Crabbe.
     
  • The "body count" in the original cut was 21. This was trimmed to 10 after pressure from the censors.
     
  • Director James Whale originally did not want to do a sequel to Frankenstein.
     
  • In the opening and closing credits the cast list says "The Monster's Mate" followed by a question mark.
     
  • When filming the scene where the monster emerges from the burnt windmill, Boris Karloff slipped and fell into the water-filled well. Upon being helped out, he realized he had broken a leg in the fall. The metal struts used to stiffen his legs (for the famous "monster lurch") helped keep the bones in place until they could be properly set.
     

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