MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mel Brooks
Genres: Comedy
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Lending his burlesque touch to 1970s genre revision, Mel_Brooks followed his hit "western" Blazing_Saddles with this parody of 1930s Universal horror movies. Determined to live down his family's reputation, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (co-screenwriter Gene_Wilder) insists on pronouncing his name "Fronckensteen" and denies interest in replicating his grandfather's experiments. But when he is lured by Frau Blucher (Cloris_Leachman) to discover the tantalizingly titled journal "How I Did It" in his grandfather's castle, he cannot resist. With the help of voluptuous Inga (Teri_Garr), wall-eyed assistant Igor (Marty_Feldman), and a purloined brain, Frankenstein creates his monster (Peter_Boyle). Igor, however, stole the wrong brain, and the monster tears off into the countryside, encountering a little girl and a blind hermit (Gene_Hackman). Frankenstein finds the monster and trains him to do a little "Puttin' On the Ritz" soft-shoe, but the monster escapes again, this time seducing Frankenstein's uptight fianc

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