Young Frankenstein (1974) on Netflix
Frederick Frankenstein, a physician who calls himself Fronkensteen, inherits his grandfather's castle in Transylvania. There he meets Igor, Inga and Frau Blücher, and finds the laboratory.
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Frederick Frankenstein lectures at an American medical school and pronounces his surname Fronkensteen, so keen is he to shed the reputation of his grandfather Victor. Word arrives that he has inherited the family castle in Transylvania, and he crosses the ocean to inspect it, leaving his fiancée Elizabeth behind. At the train station he is met by Igor, a hunchbacked servant whose own grandfather worked for Victor, and by a woman named Inga. The housekeeper Frau Blücher receives him at the estate. In the castle Frederick discovers the secret entrance to his grandfather's laboratory and reads his private journals, then chooses to take up the work of reanimating the dead.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Young Frankenstein (1974)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- A single ad-libbed line from Igor, "Walk this way," ended up inspiring the title of the Aerosmith song of the same name years later.
- Kenneth Strickfaden, who built the original lab equipment for the 1931 Frankenstein and had never been credited for it, agreed to lend that same equipment to Mel Brooks's production only after insisting he finally receive a credit this time.
- Director Brooks and producer Michael Gruskoff first tried to set up the film at Columbia Pictures, but the studio refused to approve a budget above $1.75 million when Brooks wanted at least $2.3 million and objected to shooting in black and white, so the pair took the project to 20th Century-Fox instead.
