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Just as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are the most complex and impressive of all the classic Universal monster movies, Frankenstein The Legacy Collection is the most impressive of the three Legacy Collection DVD sets. Not only do you net five classic Frankenstein’s monster films, you also are treated to more numerous and distinguished extra features here than in the Dracula and Wolf Man Legacy Collection releases.
It is difficult to compare and dissimilarity the different Universal monsters; my personal predilection draws me to Dracula, but I daresay Frankenstein’s monster is the most successful, memorable, and influential of the Dracula - Frankenstein’s monster -Wolf Man triad. The first two Frankenstein films are nothing short of intelligent (although I collected regret that they did not truly recreate the monster of Mary Shelley’s imaginative vision), with the sequel, Bride of Frankenstein, actually going one better than the novel. When you deem of Universal’s Dracula, you assume of Bela Lugosi; when you deem of The Wolf Man, you deem of Lon Chaney, Jr. When you judge of Frankenstein, however, you assume of Boris Karloff as the monster, Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein, Elsa Lanchester as the Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale as the ingenious director, Jack Pierce as the legendary alarm make-up artist, etc. Virtually every last detail of the first two Frankenstein films is perfect, unforgettable, and remarkably complex - the vision, the style of presentation, the iconic performances, the make-up, the special effects, everything. Not even Dracula is as memorable in half as many ways as both Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are.
Little more need be said of the first two Frankenstein films; they are the best of the Universal classics, and their complexity and appeal acquire them more fantastic and impressive with each day that passes. But what of the other three films included here? Well, Frankenstein isn’t what he stale to be under Whale’s direction. A lot of people seem to like Son of Frankenstein, but I seek this is as the beginning of the great, tiring, Frankenstein’s monster stereotype that has stripped the monster of common culture of the innocence and broad human pathos that defined him early on. The film is most primary for being Karloff’s last performance in the role he made his maintain, as the spacious dread actor wisely wished to have no piece in the now-inevitable dumbing-down of the monster. Featuring Basil Rathbone as Baron Wolf von Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi as Ygor, the broken-necked madman who befriends and to some degree controls the monster, and Lionel Atwill as the show-stealing Inspector Krogh, Son of Frankenstein robs the creature of his ability to inform and thus denies him the provocative vestige of humanity bestowed upon him in the unsurpassed Bride of Frankenstein.
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The Ghost of Frankenstein continues the sage begun in Son of Frankenstein, this time introducing yet another Frankenstein son in the design of Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein (played most engagingly by Sir Cedric Hardwick) . Incredibly, both Ygor (Lugosi) and the monster (now played by Lon Chaney, Jr.) survived the slay of the previous film, and the pair state out to catch yet another son of Frankenstein in hopes of restoring the monster’s strength (long baths in boiling sulphur followed by radical ice therapy can salvage a monster down) . Not surprisingly, the monster stirs up a microscopic distress in town, and Ludwig’s attempt to undo his father’s crucial mistake by replacing the monster’s brain with a solid, non-criminal brain ultimately goes awry, thanks to Ygor and Ludwig’s traitorous assistant Dr. Bohmer (Lionel Atwill) . I actually found Ghost of Frankenstein to be a major improvement on the Son of Frankenstein storyline, although most fans seem to retract Son of Frankenstein over this film.
House of Frankenstein boasts all three of the Universal monster heavyweights: Frankenstein’s monster (now played by Glenn Peculiar), the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney, Jr.), and Count Dracula (played by John Carradine - the world’s worst Dracula) . It also features Boris Karloff in the role of the enraged scientist who causes all sorts of misfortune. A sequel of sorts to Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein is a major disappointment in my eyes; only the Wolf Man character gets a decent treatment in this fun but rather insignificant film.
The extras in this collection are astounding. For starters, you glean theatrical trailers for all the films except Son of Frankenstein, poster and photo galleries for Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, and a discussion by Van Helsing director Stephen Sommers of the pervading influence of Universal’s Frankenstein’s monster in the apprehension movie industry. Frankenstein comes with a commentary by film historian Rudy Behlmer, while Bride of Frankenstein features commentary by film historian Scott MacQueen (one of the best commentaries I’ve heard) . Then there are two necessary feature documentaries: The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster looks encourage through the history of the Universal Frankenstein movies, while She’s Alive! Creating the Bride of Frankenstein examines the making of Bride of Frankenstein. Both of these features include extraordinary interviews with the daughter of Boris Karloff and the son of Dwight Frye. Finally, there is a short film called Boo! I was clueless as to what this could be, and I am aloof unsure of its origins, but it is basically a slightly humorous small film featuring footage from Nosferatu, Frankenstein, and at least one other film.
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This collection is not perfect (beware in particular a risky shrimp bump in the casing beneath each DVD, as each one is unprejudiced dying for the chance to scratch a disc) . Unruffled, considering how great material is included here, the Frankenstein Legacy Collection DVD dwelling is a bargain that all Frankenstein fans would do well to snatch up. Of course, if you are fervent in Dracula and the Wolf Man as well as Frankenstein’s monster, contemplate into getting the all-inclusive Monster Legacy Collection.
I’ve been posting my film reviews on IMDb (Internet Movie Database), so if you’re animated of my opinions on the command, peruse what I have to say there. I unprejudiced wanted to write this to give you a warning about buying the DVDs: There’s a honorable chance that you’ll have to exchange your grasp, even multiple times.
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As others have illustrious, there are two discs. One single sided that tends not to have any problems (Frankenstein and Bride are on that one), and the other double sided that tends to arrive lose during shipping and become scratched (it contains Son, Ghost, House and the bulk of the extras) .
So far, I’ve gone through five copies of the station and I have yet to accept one that works for all of the films. And the jam doesn’t seem to honest be scratches. The fourth copy I received didn’t have a scratch on it, but Ghost of Frankenstein tranquil got stuck at about the 35 exiguous price. There seems to be a manufacturing jam with the discs. So I’m not convinced that the scratches are causing the jam. After all, I’ve bought other titles as extinct DVDs from my local rental area that examine like a truck drove over them on a gravel road, and they played delicate.
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I initially bought the box spot containing the Frankenstein, Dracula and Wolf Man Legacy collections, and each one had at least one film that was marred. I’ve received the second copies of Dracula and the Wolf Man, but I haven’t watched all of the films in them again yet; there’s a well-behaved chance the second copies will have glitches there, too, since the packaging/manufacturing is identical, as it also is on Universal’s Mummy, Creature from the Dismal Lagoon and Invisible Man Legacy Collections. I recently bought my first sets of those three, as well, but I haven’t watched any of them yet. I’m almost petrified too. At this point, I tend to see the films with a nervous anticipation akin to checking yourself for a tumor, and you sustain finding one. Not exactly an exquisite experience, even though I adore the films.
You’d consider by now I’d learn and wouldn’t even be bothering–after at least 7 dreadful sets (the five Frankensteins and the one Dracula and Wolf Man) but I want these films on DVD! I unprejudiced want a copy that works!
Last time Universal released them (the slow 1990s or early 2000s) they were only on the market for 18 months before they pulled the hump. I didn’t rob them then, and I regretted it. They pulled the stagger to eventually release these more budget-priced but cheaply made replacements that won’t work! I would have gladly spent twice the amount or more for these films if I could impartial have DVDs that don’t accumulate stuck.
I’m far from the only one experiencing this pickle, and for some others who haven’t notorious the scrape yet, I’m wondering if they tried watching all of the films–wait until a year down the road or so when they finally deem, “Let’s give House of Frankenstein a chance” and then inspect that it gets stuck. With the amount of returns Universal must be getting, it seems like maybe they’d revamp the packaging/manufacturing as soon as possible. They must be losing money on these, or stop to it. Maybe by my 50th time returning Frankenstein, I’ll derive one with recent packaging that isn’t flawed.