The Ghost of Frankenstein (Universal Pictures, 1942)

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Film Daily, February 27, 1942

UK Trade Advertisement

Lawrence Journal-World, March 25, 1942

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 26, 1942

The New York Times, April 4, 1942

THE SCREEN

That Monster’s Back

Don’t look now, gentle reader, but Frankenstein’s monster is loose again. Out of that deadly bed of sulphur into which he was last seen to plunge, Universal has hauled the foul creature and set him to roving once more on the scabrous screen of the Rialto in a film called “The Ghost of Frankenstein.” Gorgons, hydras and chimeras dire! Aren’t there enough monsters loose in this world without that horrendous ruffian mauling and crushing actors? For that, as a matter of fact, is about all he does in this film, except to submit to an operation whereby the sinister Dr. Lionel Atwill removes the brain from Bela Lugosi and pops it into him.

To be sure, the replenished monster is being consumed by fire when we see him last, but the thought that he may yet return for further adventures with his body and Lugosi’s sconce fills us with mortal terror. That is the most fearful prospect which the picture manages to convey.
That Monster’s Back

THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, screen play by W. Scott Darling; from an original story by Eric Taylor; directed by Erle C. Kenton; produced by George Waggner for Universal Pictures. At the Rialto.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein, . . . . . Sir Cedric Hardwicke
The Monster . . . . . Lon Chaney Jr.
Dr. Theodore Bohmer . . . . . Lionell Atwill
Erik Ernst . . . . . Ralph Bellamy
Ygor . . . . . Bela Lugosi
Elsa . . . . . Evelyn Ankers
Cloestine . . . . . Janet Ann Gellow
Dr. Kettering . . . . . Barton Yarborough
Martha . . . . . Doris Lloyd
Chief Constable . . . . . Leyland Hodgson
Russman . . . . . Olaf Hytten
Magistrate . . . . . Holmes Herbert