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Young Frankenstein
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 6, 2005
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: Twentieth Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman & Cloris Leachman | |
Performer: | Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars & Gene Hackman | |
Directed by | Mel Brooks | |
Edited by | John C. Howard | |
Screenwriting by | Gene Wilder & Mel Brooks | |
Composition by | John Morris | |
Cinematography by | Gerald Hirschfeld | |
Produced by | Michael Gruskoff |
Entertainment Reviews:
...With sterling support from Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman and the superb Marty Feldman...
Total Film
Rating: 4/5 --
Some of the gags don't work, but fewer than in any previous Brooks film that I've seen, and when the jokes are meant to be bad, they are riotously poor. What more can one ask of Mel Brooks?
New York Times
...[With] some inspired comic performances from Peter Boyle and Gene Wilder...
Sight and Sound
It is good-natured, lowbrow, backlot, hit-or-miss humor, but with no cumulative effect beyond its succession of hard-worked jokes.
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Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 4/4 --
It shows artistic growth and a more sure-handed control of the material by a director who once seemed willing to do literally anything for a laugh. It's more confident and less breathless.
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Chicago Sun-Times
More about the myth of Karloff than the monster, this Mel Brooks pastiche is probably his best early film.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 5/5 --
This loopy send-up of classic chiller clichés from Universal's monster heyday is one of director Mel Brooks's best comedies, and it's also one of the genre's most thorough and successful fright film parodies.
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Radio Times
Product Description:
An affectionate parody that pays homage to the FRANKENSTEIN films (from the novel FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley) directed by James Whale in the 1930s, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is both a zany comedy and a cinematic tour de force. Written by director Mel Brooks and the film's star, Gene Wilder, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN has all the usual--and in this case slightly unusual--suspects: the reluctant scientist Frederick Frankenstein, who is actually the grandson of the infamous creature-creator (pronounced "Fronken-steen" and played by Wilder), his spoiled fiancée (Madeline Kahn), Igor the pop-eyed hunchback (Marty Feldman), his dizzy assistant (Teri Garr), the castle's hideous head housekeeper (Cloris Leachman), and, of course, the Monster (Peter Boyle). Highlights include the sets, which are the original ones used in the Whale films; the beautiful black-and-white cinematography; and the fine screenplay. Combining noirish elegance with uproarious sight gags and double entendres is a feat Brooks pulls off fabulously, directing the wonderful ensemble to act with sensitivity and humanistic feelings as well as with lunatic abandon. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is a treat from beginning to end.
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- UPC: 086162090707
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