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Young Frankenstein

Cast

Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle View All

Crew

Gene Wilder (Screenplay), Mel Brooks (Screenplay), Mel Brooks (Director) View All

Release: Dec. 15th, 1974

Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.

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Citizen Rules
Director: Mel Brooks Writers: Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks Cast: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Terri Garr, Peter Boyle, Cloris Leachman Genre: Comed.

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Gideon58
1974's Young Frankenstein is Mel Brooks' dead solid perfect parody of the Frankenstein films, Bride of Frankenstein in particular, in which we meet Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder)who is the grandson of the Frankenstein of folklore, who inherits his grandfather's castle and eventually becomes ob....

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