Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, and director Rowland Lee moved from SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939) over to this film, which tells the story of Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Rathbone) as he schemes and murders his way onto the throne of England. The general outline of the story was familiar to me from Shakespeare's Richard III (~1591), but the ( Read more... )

When we last saw Henry Frankenstein,[*] he and his wife Elizabeth were fleeing the exploding ruin of his hilltop laboratory, leaving the Monster, the Bride, and Dr. Pretorius rocketing to perdition behind them. Now Henry's son, Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone), returns to the village with his wife and son to reclaim his birthright and ( Read more... )