Young Frankenstein- Directed by Mel Brooks - 1974 - Starring Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Cloris Leachman and Teri Garr

 

Young Frankenstein- Directed by Mel Brooks - 1974 - Starring Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Cloris Leachman and Teri Garr 

Fifty years ago Mel Brooks, with an incredibly talented cast, gave the world one of the funniest most brilliant comedies ever done, Young Frankenstein.

Inspired by Mary Shelly's novel, the movie begins with the grandson of Victor Frankenstein, played by Gene Wilder,giving a lecture at an American medical college in New York.  A student asks him about his feelings on his grandfather's work focusing on bringing corpses back to life. He is so against his work that he insists his name be pronounced differently.  He tells the class his grandfather's work was total nonsense.  In the class room is a man has come five thousand miles, from Transylvania to bring him the will of his great grandfather, Baron Von Frankenstein.  He has inherited the castle where his grandfather worked,

After a bizarrely repressed goodbye at the train station with his finance, played perfectly by Madeline Kahn, he sets out  for Transylvania. In nezrly every seen in the movie there are marvellous comic moments (" pardon me boy is this the Transylvania station")

At the Transylvania Station he is picked up by Igor, played by Marty Feldman and accompanied by Terri Garr playing his lab assistant. 

I do not wish to reveal more of the plot to first time viewers of the movie.

I love this movie.  In these darking times I needed this movie.