FRANKENSTEIN is number 87 on the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies.
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Bela Lugosi, star of DRACULA (1931), turned down the role of the Monster. Lugosi and Karloff later became costars in many of Universal's popular 1930s horror films.
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Boris Karloff, an Englishman, was born William Henry Pratt. Karloff was a stage name.
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Certain previously censored and cut scenes, including the drowning of little Maria, were restored in 1987.
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FRANKENSTEIN bears little resemblance to the novel on which it is based. Frankenstein is even given the wrong first name (in the book he is Victor Frankenstein, and his friend is Henry). More of the novel's plot is covered in the film's sequel BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN.
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"It's alive! It's alive! It's alive! It's alive!"..."Now I know what it feels like to be God!"--Henry Frankenstein after creating the Monster.
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