First off, I would agree that it's correct to start a related thread on 'the other side' since it's about the music and this one isn't. I'm sure if it was the other way 'round someone would grumble about stuff being off-topic.
But I've always been a massive fan since my pre-teens (I made an audio recording of House of Frankenstein during this period so was always SO well acquainted with the dialogue and music), of the Universal horrors, and FMTWM is such pleasure with no guilt attached. I too would love to see a cut with the talking Monster scenes in, as it would make sense of what is in the climax to the previous picture.
I don't have time to do it right now, but I have the original screenplay to FMTWM and will type out the scenes where the Monster was supposed to talk so everyone can at least read how not very good it was, even comical at times.
It was a mistake to do the brain switch in GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN and so therfore a mistake to perpetuate it in FMTWM. With the way the series already ignored major points in its continuity, the gimmicky ending of GOF should have, as it turned out in the final edit in fact, just been ignored.
However, what I do wish they had done in the final edit of FMTWM is had a line from Chaney stating that the Monster was nearly blind, which would then makes sense of Lugosi's movements as the Monster, and also make it clear that in the climax the Monster's vision is restored by Dr. Mannering.
I also wish they'd made sure Maleva had a proper exit from the movie, but that's another matter.
Hey Ray, I love the fact that the singer of the song during the Festival of the New Wine is none other than Adia Kuznetzoff, the chef from the Laurel and Hardy classic, Swiss Miss. I remember the last time I saw FMTWM (soon after I got the dvd Legacy sets), and was totally surprised by this musical number, which I'd forgotten or overlooked despite being fairly familiar with the movie since childhood. And I felt gutted for Adia's character with his jolly smile and performance when Larry Talbot blasts him. I felt the same way the other day when I watched it again after itching to do so with all this talk of the film.
Hey Ray, I love the fact that the singer of the song during the Festival of the New Wine is none other than Adia Kuznetzoff, the chef from the Laurel and Hardy classic, Swiss Miss. I remember the last time I saw FMTWM (soon after I got the dvd Legacy sets), and was totally surprised by this musical number, which I'd forgotten or overlooked despite being fairly familiar with the movie since childhood.
I think back during the sixties and into the seventies, local stations cut the Festival of the New Wine out of the movie. I've talked to many fellow fans who swear they never saw it until they bought it on video cassette in the late eighties.
If anyone ever does a re-recording of FMTWM's score, they after to find a singer who can do Adia Kuznetzoff perfectly.
Hey Ray, I love the fact that the singer of the song during the Festival of the New Wine is none other than Adia Kuznetzoff, the chef from the Laurel and Hardy classic, Swiss Miss. I remember the last time I saw FMTWM (soon after I got the dvd Legacy sets), and was totally surprised by this musical number, which I'd forgotten or overlooked despite being fairly familiar with the movie since childhood. And I felt gutted for Adia's character with his jolly smile and performance when Larry Talbot blasts him. I felt the same way the other day when I watched it again after itching to do so with all this talk of the film.
I just couldn't get over the alps!
I've always wanted to cut the two pictures together for a little one-reeler ADIA KUZNETZOFF AND THE BOYS MEET FRANKENSTEIN! Hmmm....
Wow, Ray that's just too good. Of course what we have are the Abbott and Costello films. And I saw most of the A&C films with the monsters apart from meet the Mummy in my primary school years, and loved 'em. I've never felt the need to watch their films beyond those. And still to this haven't seen the Mummy one. BUT, and it's a big but, the Frankenstein one is wonderful, and Jekyll and Hyde is on a par.
I think back during the sixties and into the seventies, local stations cut the Festival of the New Wine out of the movie. I've talked to many fellow fans who swear they never saw it until they bought it on video cassette in the late eighties.
My memory says that as a youngster back then I was very affected by the scene that most surely hit local TV viewings. This was all confirmed by my recent Legacy viewing. It was eerie. "You too can live eternally" is what played in the mind's ear (with his bulging grin in the mind's eye) and now the memory is confirmed and refined.
And I felt gutted for Adia's character with his jolly smile and performance when Larry Talbot blasts him. I felt the same way the other day when I watched it again after itching to do so with all this talk of the film.
What also becomes clear is how the scene had something of an antecedent from the original vis-a-vis the father carrying little Maria. Terrible thing, really, when a festival of joy and celebration is trampled upon. Talbot rained on their parade but you could hardly blame him.
That all struck me as a kid. Now five decades later and within a day or two after watching, I read a news article about yet another joyous wedding celebration in Iraq or Afghanistan or wherever shattered by suicide bombing. Ugh. Gutted is right.
OK I have a question. In the climactic showdown, what if Wolfie bit Frankie? Now I'm not saying in the electrode or anything, I'm talking old fashioned chomp on the arm, peck of the cheek, whatever. Frankie can't die unless...no, I won't spoil the TCM viewing for millenials [oh goodness it's b&w I can't watch]..., so now we'd have a FrankenWolf Monster. Imagine the franchise! Would he transform into an all-fourser like Bela or a hybrid like Lawrence? Could a silver bullet do him in or would it end up nothing more than an annoying mosquito bite?
FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN will make its premiere on Turner Classic Movies Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 9:15 EST.
Yessir, it'a big night tonight!
But the presidental debate promises to be the greater horror show.
(UPDATE) 9:19 EST TCM is NOT showing the 4K restoration of FMTWM unfortunately. You'll have to buy the Blu-ray to check that out, but what TCM is showing still looks good in HD.
Just got through watching THE BLACK CAT on DVD again. Looking up Lugosi and Karloff on Wiki, I see that Karloff was 5'11" and Lugosi was either 6'1 or 6'2". So Lugosi was actually the taller Frankenstein Monster!
]..., so now we'd have a FrankenWolf Monster. Imagine the franchise! Would he transform into an all-fourser like Bela or a hybrid like Lawrence? Could a silver bullet do him in or would it end up nothing more than an annoying mosquito bite?