When Frankenstein's dwarf assistant Karl looks at his new body in the glass case in Frankenstein's lab, the hand of the body is moving.
'Peter Cushing' (qv)'s face appears during a very short sequence instead of Oscar Quitack's.
This has been confirmed by Cushing himself and may be some kind of private joke.
When Gerda leaves her boyfriend she is attacked by Karl after she descends a flight of steps.
Half way down the steps is a bright yellow, 20th century, metal mesh litter bin attached to the wall.
Just rewatched this flick. .
Somehow escaping the guillotine, Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) opens a practice in the town of Carlsbruck under the name of Dr. Stein (nope no-one twigs!
This film is a worthy sequel to the original, chiefly due to the Jimmy Sangster story.Victor Frankenstein has been executed for his inhumanity to mankind.
Hammer Studios were infamous at the proverbial striking-while-the-iron-is-hot during their decade reign over the horror genre (1957 - 1967, I would argue). Many of their films were filmed back-to-back using the same cast, film-makers and sets.
Terence Fisher returned to direct this sequel to "The Curse Of Frankenstein", which sees Peter Cushing return as Baron Victor Frankenstein, who, in a clever opening, escapes the guillotine and flees to a village in Germany, where he establishes a new identity as a doctor, who also does volunteer work for the poor at a nearby hospital. Visiting Dr.
The Curse of Frankenstein was the first version of the classic Mary Shelley story to be in colour, and was a great start to what would become a series of Frankenstein films from British Hammer (Horror) Studios, this was the first sequel, directed by Terence Fisher (Dracula, The House of the Baskervilles, The Mummy). Basically Baron Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) is sentenced to death, but escapes execution by guillotine, a priest is beheaded and buried in his place, years later Frankenstein is going by the alias Doctor Stein, becoming a successful physician in Carlsbruck.
This movie essentially picks up where the previous film, "The Curse of Frankenstein" ended with "Dr. Victor Frankenstein" (Peter Cushing) being led to the gallows as punishment for creating the monster that killed several innocent people.
"The Revenge of Frankenstein" begins where "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957) left off. It opens as Dr.
Dr Frankestein, Peter Cushing , escapes from guillotine being rescued by his servant and he then relocates to Carlsbruck, Germany, where he becomes a popular society physician, Dr Stein , but being panned by other doctors. Helped by another physician , Francis Matthews, restart the eerie, scary experiments by use parts of dead bodies.
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