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Karloff was good but honestly, was there a better Frankenstein monster than the late Phil Hartman?

"FIRE BAD!"

Is it a coincidence that Karina Longworth's excellent podcast, You Must Remember This, is doing a series on Boris and Bela? My favorite tidbit from the latest episode is that Karloff formed the Screen Actor's Guild in response to his treatment during the filming of Frankenstein.

http://panoply.fm/podcasts/youmustrememberthis

You'd think the kid would want some candy or something.

In 1952, a private collector discovered a 1910 version of Frankenstein that Edison Studios produced and thought to be lost, because when people saw the 12-minute movie, it was considered sacrilegious and appalling to people.
It's interesting that Universal would consider remaking the short film into a full scale movie from the novel and then release it right before Christmas in 1931... a religious holiday.

This is not just a great horror film, but one of the best films ever produced on your planet.

DRACULA had saved Universal by making $700,000 ( $700,000 dollars in 1931 is worth $10,497,043.47 in 2017)
Does anyone know how much FRANKENSTEIN made the first year? We know it had made 1.4 million by Summer, which in today's money would be $23,151,013.70