{"id":9819,"date":"2010-11-15T15:23:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9819"},"modified":"2010-11-15T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T17:06:01","slug":"frankenstein-films-of-the-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/11\/15\/frankenstein-films-of-the-1930s\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankenstein films of the 1930s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mutantskeleton\/sets\/72157625204495309\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9820\" title=\"Boris Karloff as Frankenstein\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Boris-Karloff-as-Frankenstein.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frankenstein_(1931_film)\">Frankenstein<\/a><\/strong> films of the 1930s are still the\u00a0definitive\u00a0screen versions of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frankenstein\">Mary Shelley&#8217;s novel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did they provide us with a screen icon, but they made a star out of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boris_Karloff\">Boris Karloff<\/a> and helped launch <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Universal_Monsters#1930s_.28The_Golden_Age.29\">Universal Studio&#8217;s golden age<\/a> of horror movies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mutantskeleton\/sets\/72157625204495309\/\">Aeron Alfrey<\/a> has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mutantskeleton\/sets\/72157625204495309\/\">some photo stills<\/a> from the various Frankenstein films of that era, as well as those that followed in the subsequent decades, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Frankenstein (1931)<\/li>\n<li>The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)<\/li>\n<li>Son of Frankenstein (1939)<\/li>\n<li>The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)<\/li>\n<li>House Of Frankenstein (1944)<\/li>\n<li>Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (1949)<\/li>\n<li>Young Frankenstein (1974)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fmutantskeleton%2Fsets%2F72157625204495309%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fmutantskeleton%2Fsets%2F72157625204495309%2F&amp;set_id=72157625204495309&amp;jump_to=\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=71649\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=71649\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fmutantskeleton%2Fsets%2F72157625204495309%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fmutantskeleton%2Fsets%2F72157625204495309%2F&amp;set_id=72157625204495309&amp;jump_to=\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Frankenstein fans in the UK will be pleased to learn that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danny_Boyle\">Danny Boyle<\/a> will be directing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/theatre\/theatre-news\/7044683\/Danny-Boyle-to-make-National-Theatre-debut.html\">a stage version of the novel<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/\">National Theatre<\/a> in London.<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/97558\/Its-alive\">Metafilter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frankenstein_(1931_film)\">More on the 1931 Frankenstein film<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00006RHV0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B00006RHV0\">Buy Frankenstein on DVD<\/a> at Amazon UK<\/p>\n<p><!--noadsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slide show of images from the Frankenstein films of the 1930s <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[1673,1671,1672],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}