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52: 'I Was a Teenage Frankenstein' - 1957 - Plot:
Professor Frankenstein (Whit Bissell), a guest lecturer from
England, talks Dr. Karlton (Robert Burton), into becoming
am unwilling accomplice in his secret plan to actually assemble
a human being from the parts of different cadavers. After
the recovery of a body from a dreadful automobile wreck, Professor
Frankenstein takes the body to his laboratory-morgue, where
in various drawers he keeps spare parts of human beings. The
Professor also enlists the aid of Margaret (Phyllis Coates),
as his secretary to keep all callers away from the laboratory.
Margaret, becoming suspicious of what is going on decides
to investigate and goes down to the morgue. She is panic-stricken
by this horrible monster who has been activated by electricity
following the grafting of a new leg and arm. She dares not
tell the Professor about her feelings, and keeps silent for
the present.
Professor Frankenstein teaches the Monster (Gary Conway) to
talk,and one night the Monster steals out of the laboratory
and goes on a rampage when frightened by the sounds of street
noises. He breaks into a girl's room, the girl becomes hysterical
and starts screaming, and in his attempt to silence her, he
kills her in panic and flees. The next morning the hunt for
the murderer is on. Margaret, angry at the Professor, tells
him that she knows about the Monster that did the murder.
The Professor, taking no chances, has the Monster kill her
and feeds her remains to a crocodile. Dr. Karlton, sent out
of town, knows none of this. The Professor sends the Monster
to a Lover's Lane, where he kills a teenager. The face of
the teenager is successfully transferred to the Monster. Professor
Frankenstein tells Dr. Karlton of his plans to dismember his
creation and ship him in various boxes to England -- there
to put him together again. When they strap the Monster down
again, he becmes suspicious and tears loose to throw Dr. Frankenstein
into the crocodile pit, while Dr. Karlton runs for help. When
Dr. Karlton arrives with the police, the Monster who is maddened
with fright, backs into the electrical dial board. Contact
with the iron wrist bands electrocutes him and his handsome
face disappears and the bruised gruesome original head appears.
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