Review – The Ghost of Frankenstein

This episode picks up where Son of Frankenstein left off. And it does so right away. In less than five minutes the torch-wielding villagers are already storming Castle Frankenstein to blow it up and do away with the (presumably dead) monster and his hunchback sidekick. Of course blowing up the place merely frees the creature from his sulfur pit tomb, and off he goes in search of another Frankenstein. Fortunately there doesn’t seem to be a shortage of them, with Cedric Hardwicke (Seti in The Ten Commandments) stepping in as the original mad scientist’s other son. Lon Chaney Jr. steps into the creature’s big, clunky boots; he should have spent more of his career playing roles that don’t have any lines. By the time the final reel plays out, the plot has gone through a number of twists and turns, some interesting and some less so. Mildly amusing