This film marked the first revival of the horror genre after the British ban. It was facilitated by the popularity of Dracula and Frankenstein being re-run as a double feature. Universal gathered together reliable players to make the picture. Boris Karloff made his third and final appearance as the Creature, Lionel Atwill played a police inspector and Bela Lugosi made his belated debut in the franchise as Ygor.
Frankenstein's son Wolf ( Basil Rathbone ) returns with his wife and son to the ancestral home to widespread hostility from the villagers, already disconcerted by the murders of prominent citizens. When Wolf visits his father's laboratory he discovers Ygor, a deformed man after surviving a hanging who has been harbouring the now comatose creature. Family pride persuades Wolf to revive him but he finds to his cost that the creature doesn't dance to his tune.
This film is significantly longer than its predecessors and does drag in places. For a supposedly clever scientist, it does take Wolf an awfully long time to work out what's really going on . Nevertheless it looks good and the stars don't disappoint.
Josephine Hutchinson ( as Elsa Frankenstein )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Though she's not particularly good here, Josephine had a long career stretching from the twenties to the seventies. Despite being married three times she was a bisexual. She died in 1998 aged 94.
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