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Frankenstein 1970
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Directed by Howard W. Koch
Produced by Aubrey Schenck
Written by Mary Shelley
George Worthing Yates
Aubrey Schenck
Charles A. Moses
Richard H. Landau
Starring Boris Karloff
Don Barry
Music by Paul Dunlap
Cinematography Carl E. Guthrie
Editing by John A. Bushelman
Distributed by Aubrey Schenck Productions
Release date(s) US – July 20, 1958
Running time 83 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Frankenstein 1970 is a 1958 science fiction horror film, starring Boris Karloff and Don 'Red' Barry. This independent film was directed by Howard W. Koch, and its alternative titles were Frankenstein 1960 and Frankenstein 1975. Released on a low budget, the film was originally intended to be named Frankenstein 1960 but it did not sound futuristic enough. In October 2009, Warner Brothers released the DVD "Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics" which includes Frankenstein 1970 as one of the four films and features an audio commentary by co-star Charlotte Austin and historians Tom Weaver and Bob Burns.

Plot[]

Boris Karloff plays the role of Baron Victor Von Frankenstein, who suffered at the hands of the Nazis as punishment for not cooperating with them during World War II. He suffers much disfigurement but continues his work as a scientist. The baron allows a television crew to film a made-for-television horror film about his monster-making family at his castle in Germany. The crew gives him enough money to buy an atomic reactor and uses it to create a hulking monster, which proceeds to kill off members of the crew for more spare parts.

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