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Monday, July 31, 2017

TPR’s Cinema Tuesdays Series Revives Mel Brooks’ 1974 Comic Masterpiece ‘Young Frankenstein’

Posted By Bryan Rindfuss on Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:00 AM

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Nutshelled in a four-star review by the late great Roger Ebert as “not only a Mel Brooks movie but also a loving commentary on our love-hate affairs with monsters,” 1974’s Young Frankenstein earned both critical acclaim and cult classic status while achieving something even rarer: a comedic remix drawn from both Mary Shelley’s early 19th-century novel Frankenstein and director James Whale’s 1931 cinematic adaptation of the same name (not to mention the 1935 sequel Bride of Frankenstein). Shot entirely in black-and-white (a stylistic gamble Columbia Studios tried desperately to prevent) in homage to Depression-era horror classics, the film stars Gene Wilder (who doubled as co-writer) as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein — a character The New York Times once described as “a marvelous addled mixture of young Tom Edison, Winnie-the-Pooh, and your average Playboy reader with a keen appreciation of beautiful bosoms.”

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20th Century Fox

Upon the passing of his mad scientist great-grandfather, Frederick inherits the family homestead in Transylvania — complete with hunchbacked servant Igor (Marty Feldman), sexy lab assistant Inga (Teri Garr) and bizarre housekeeper Frau Blücher (Cloris Leachman). Although previously intent on distancing himself from his great-grandfather’s practice of reanimating corpses, Frederick has a change of heart after discovering a handy instructional book (titled How I Did It) and gets to work on his own monster (Peter Boyle). Having inspired everything from Aerosmith’s hit “Walk This Way” to a big-budget Broadway musical, the comic masterpiece gets revived as part of Texas Public Radio’s Cinema Tuesdays series. $10-$15, 7:30pm Tue, Aug. 1, Santikos Bijou, 4522 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 614-8977, tpr.org.

Location Details Santikos Bijou

4522 Fredericksburg Rd.

San Antonio, TX

(210) 734-4552

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Tags: Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Peter Boyle, Bride of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Image, Video

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