A man who works as a neurosurgeon, Frankenstein's grandson, spent his entire life living on one thing, the myth of his grandfather, which nobody believed in. He repeatedly tries to be honest about his grandfather and tries to prove that he is not as crazy as others think of him. When luck serves him, the man finds himself the inheritor of a large castle from his deceased grandfather, and then discovers that mysterious secret that lies in the process that saves the dead body from the laboratory.
7 July 1904, Evesham, Worcestershire, England, UK
August 13, 1926 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
2 August 1913, New York, USA
16 September 1940, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 August 1902, New York City, New York, USA
4 April 1935, Chicago, Illinois, USA
October 30, 1961 in Orange County, California, USA
14 March 1900, Mexico
8 July 1934, London, England, UK
July 23, 1920
29 September 1942, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
14 December 1916, New York, USA
11 September 1934, Grays, Essex, England, UK
20 January 1896, New York City, New York, USA
28 June 1926, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
24 November 1899, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
November 25, 1918 in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, USA
27 February 1921, Yonkers, New York, USA
16 October 1912, San Antonio, Texas, USA
June 28, 1906 in Greece
28 May 1944, Sunninghill, Buckingham, England, UK
11 August 1908, Sparks, Nevada, USA
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
25 June 1908, New York City, New York, USA
11 June 1933, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
15 March 1907, Columbus, Ohio, USA
3 December 1918
June 18, 2016
The Brooks of 'Young Frankenstein' isn't really skewering the conventions of the horror movie - he's paying tribute to them, and using them as scaffolding for his particular brand of goofy, Borscht Belt burlesque.
June 04, 2007
More about the myth of Karloff than the monster, this Mel Brooks pastiche is probably his best early film.
June 24, 2006
For a really delightful parody, James Whale's own Bride of Frankenstein is far better value.
October 03, 2015
It is good-natured, lowbrow, backlot, hit-or-miss humor, but with no cumulative effect beyond its succession of hard-worked jokes.
October 23, 2004
It shows artistic growth and a more sure-handed control of the material by a director who once seemed willing to do literally anything for a laugh. It's more confident and less breathless.
October 16, 2013
One of Mel Brooks' most brilliant and immortal cinematic works to date...
August 17, 2012
Thus funny, well acted parody of Unievrsal horror films of the 1930s is without a doubt Mel Brooks' best picture.
April 25, 2014
It's a wonderful, iconic comedy. Mel Brooks' masterpiece!
June 20, 2015
... Brooks reveal(s) himself a true obsédé and an honorable heir to the eerily delicate comic-horror tradition of James Whale.
January 02, 2011
Brooks' corniness yields plenty of belly laughs.
January 15, 2013
Wilder's hysteria seems perfectly natural. You never question what's driving him to it; his fits are lucid and total. They take him into a different dimension -- he delivers what Harpo promised.
May 20, 2003
Some of the gags don't work, but fewer than in any previous Brooks film that I've seen, and when the jokes are meant to be bad, they are riotously poor. What more can one ask of Mel Brooks?
