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(Cinderella, Flashdance, Vampire's Kiss)</B></div> <div> <B>Clerval.......Anthony Higgins (The Cold Room, Taste the Blood of Dracula)</B></div> <div> <B>Victor........Clancy Brown (Highlander, Pet Semetary II, Shoot to Kill)</B></div> <div> <B>Rinaldo.......David Rappaport (Mysteries)</B></div> <div> <B>Magar.........Alexei Sayle (Reckless Kelley, The Young Ones)</B></div> <div> <B>Bela..........Phil Daniels (Breaking Glass, Quadrophenia, Scum)</B></div> <div> <B>Countess......Veruschka</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Zahlus....Quentin Crisp (Orlando)</B></div> <div> <B>Josef.........Cary Elwes (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Glory, Hot Shots)</B></div> <div> <B>Paulus........Tim Spall (Gothic, Life is Sweet, The Sheltering Sky)</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Baumann..Geraldine Page (Native Son, The Pope of Greenwich Village)</B></div> <div> <B>Frankenstein..Sting (Brimstone and Treacle, Dune, Quadrophenia)</B></div> <div> <B>Tavern Keeper.Tony Haygarth </B></div> <div> <B>Pedlar........Ken Campbell</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: If you are looking for horror, you'll have to look elsewhere. In spite of that fact, this Frankenstein story is absolutely engrossing, and guess what! Sting doesn't wreck this film a bit. On the contrary, the brooding, self deluded Frankenstein will almost make you forgive and forget "Dune". How can you beat Clancy Brown as the Frankenstein monster? "Highlander", "Shoot to Kill", "Pet Semetary II"--Clancy Brown certainly has put together a scary resum‚. The circus owner is a delightful wag and you'll also surely enjoy hating Cary Elwes as Josef. Rinaldo's relationship with the monster carries the movie nicely. Rinaldo's death is a truly touching scene as is Victor's purchase of the glass necklace. "Prometheus unbound" by Shelley Shelley "She walks in beauty" he created a monster. Also a nice twist on the classic when the monster is betrayed by the blind man. The strong score is performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This film boasts a bounty of delightfully hateful, petty, and unlikable blackards. The three misfits were the only likable characters. But let's face it, one was lonely and the other two were made for each other. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: As an electrical storm rages above the castle Frankenstein, the Baron and his assistant raise a wrapped body via pulley to a large vacuum tube which transmits electricity to the body causing it to heave. Unfortunately, an unlucky bolt of lightning causes a second intense jolt to course through the body, destroying two monsters in progress and apparently dashing the completed monster's hopes for a mate. Suddenly, she stirs and the baron removes the bandages to reveal a beautiful young woman. Right away, trouble starts as the monster becomes enraged with jealousy at seeing the baron with his bride. After a brief altercation the tower is blown off the castle Frankenstein killing the assistant and allowing the frightened monster to escape. As the new day dawns, the baron is taking care of his beautiful new creation while the old monster stumbles out of the woods upon a group of boys abusing a dwarf named Renaldo, who is freed by the mere presence of the very large and ugly monster. Renaldo is headed for Budapest where he believes the monster could also get work in a circus. Clavall visits the Baron who tells him of his lightning struck guest whom he theorizes could be made as uneducated as a man with the proper care. That night as he sits by the fire his nude creature comes down the stairs where he names her Eva and assigns Mrs. Baumann to teach her civilized ways. While the vicious Mrs. Baumann raises Eva, the nameless monster is taught about sharing and friendship and dreams. The Baron meanwhile is tired of Clavall's constant harping on the sexual uses of his simple ward and they part angrily. While the boys rob a church poor box and Rinaldo uses his large friend to go where he pleases for the first time in his life, for example a bar where he is told he is unwelcome in which they drink and command like tyrants until the monster collapses and they are thrown in the river by angry patrons. As they walk, the monster is gripped by dizziness at precisely the moment Eva is spinning in the yard. When Rinaldo mends his shirt, he sees the scars and the monster tells him he's not a real man. Renaldo dismisses this as nonsense and gives him the name Victor. He tells him that when he's made his fortune he can go home with fine things for his bride and tells of his own dream to see Venice. Their mutual admiration brings about a beautiful friendship as the monster carries his friend through the streets of Budapest where Victor takes in the Punch and Judy show before they arrive at the circus where Renaldo works the trapeze and Victor drives tent pegs. Eva is plagued by questions of where she's from, and who her father is. After the baron comforts her she lays her head in his lap. Soon thereafter, Charles presents her to his society friends where he is a hit, particularly with one young officer, Josef Schildmann, at the residence of the countess, until she sees a cat and screams at it. Still she meets him by chance in the woods a short time later and they ride together. Her questions to the baron persist. She asks why the tower is bricked up and why as Josef told her,  he was thrown out of the university. The scurrilous circus owner decides that the trapeze act could work without the dwarf whom he despises and that "the ape would work for peanuts were it not for his greedy little friend. His assistant pulls a knife on the duo and then cuts Renaldo's chord half through before the duo is to perform early to replace a sick elephant. As Renaldo dies he tells Victor to take the gold and follow his heart back to the woman of his dreams. As Victor cries in  pain, Eva awakes in distress. As the monster prepares to leave he overhears of the plot to kill Renaldo and kills the assistant and heads for home. As he sleeps in the woods, Eva comes upon him and wants to give him a coin for luck but when they touch, they feel a spark. Victor gives her Renaldo's Venice pendant and when the Baron sees it, his jealousy of the young officer flares but as she's been trained as an equal, she upbraids him. Victor in his passion buys hideous cut glass jewels for Eva but throws them in the river when he sees the diamonds she dons for a costume ball where the baron uses his engineering acumen to delight and amaze the guests. Still, Josef is all Eva can see and they part for a separate room. When the circus gang spots Victor in the street they organize a lynch mob and the police and hunt him until a blind man betrays him and he is beaten and locked up. At the same time, Eva misses dinner as she's left for the evening in Captain Schildmann's carriage. In another of his rages, Frankenstein fires Mrs. Baumann and races to Schildmann's where he challenges him to a duel. When Eva insists "you didn't create me", Frankenstein spills the beans, making her scream which hurts Victor in his chains. Her greatest fear is that there is no one in the world like her. Her struggle with the Baron drives Victor to burst his chains and ride to the castle for the showdown.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>