Igor: Could be worse.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: How?
Igor: Could be raining.
Posted on 10/31/2016 9:07:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
‘Young Frankenstein” is one of those movies that, when it crops up on TCM, you drop everything and laugh yourself silly till the credits roll.
You know all the lines by heart: “What hump?” “No tongue!” “Put . . . the . . . candle . . . back.”
But here, from Brooks’ delightful new book, “Young Frankenstein: The Story of the Making of the Film,” are a few behind-the-scenes tidbits you probably don’t know.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Dull and tedious thy name is martell.
I remember it ... but I never saw it.
I'll tell you what I did see, and remember - The Man in the Street Interview on the Steve Allen Show. It was a running gag with Don Knotts, Tom Poston, and the other guy ... sorry . Tom Poston stole the show with his "What is your name?" Schtick. ( He suddenly couldn't remember it. ) I think he did the same thing every time. Not sure. Don Knotts was always nervous. The line I remember was, "And where do you work sir?" ... "A dynamite factory." - hilarity ensued. I was just a kid! but everybody loved that stuff, I think.
( Looking it up, that was Louis Nye, but there were two more guys, of whom I have no recollection. )
Gene Hackman had a bit part as the blind guy.
Now I want to see the “two-hour-and-22-minute failure.”
Great read. Great director, writers, and actors! I sooo miss those days. $2.4 million won’t give you the home you think it would in Brentwood. Much less a major film in this day and age. And Hollywood today lacks EVERYTHING it took to make great films like this back then.
Don't laugh yet. As strange as it may seem, Carlos Danger just might be the savior of our nation. Mysterious ways and all that.
I’ve found that fans of Young Frankenstein tend to be also fans of the classic 1930’s Universal horror movies — YF is almost an homage to that group of films.
As for Don Knotts, I thought that his Barney Fife was pure comedic genius, but the only movie of his I ever liked was “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.”
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An exceptional little two-man skit:
Gene Hackman as the blind hermit and Peter Boyle as Frankenstein's monster.
This is a skit that would stand on its own even apart from the movie. Pure genius.
There was a movement to ban any future reproduction, sale or distribution of it, I don’t know if they succeeded.
Bookmark.
Well, are you ready?
Yes, Doctor.
Elevate me.
Now? Right here?
Yes, yes, raise the platform.
Oh. Ze platform. Oh, zat, yah, yah... yes.
:-)
That is an interesting hypothesis.
Back when I was in junior high, there was an independent station (now Fox) in San Francisco that had a Saturday night show, "Creature Features." It would play two B movies back to back, and between them include an episode of one of the old serials like Flash Gordon. On Monday, in school, the movies played on "Creature Features" were all anyone talked about.
According to Wikipedia, in the San Francisco Bay Area, the local show "Creature Features" beat out Saturday Night Live in that time slot. SNL was the number one show in the country at that time. I didn't even know about SNL, but I wouldn't miss Creature Features.
I love Young Frankenstein. I also love The Addams Family movie (but not the sequels--they lost the charm and became pure slapstick).
I totally remember Creature Features!
My dad raised me on that show.
“No tongues!”
We had Creature Feature in Omaha. Had a great local host, Dr. San Guinary. I watched those movies and scared myself every Saturday night. I just saw that “The Tingler” was on TCM so I recorded it. I remember that as one that really scared me back then.
Young Frankenstein is one of my all time favorite films.
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