THIS WEEK'S #FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY #ON-SET #SNAPS! On set this week, snaps are taken from the roll of #HAMMERFILMS 1969, 'FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED' starring #PeterCushing, #VeronicaCarlson and Simon Ward, all directed beautifully by #TERENCE FISHER!
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed was a 1969 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Films, starring Peter Cushing, Freddie Jones, Veronica Carlson and Simon Ward.[2] The film is the fifth in a series of Hammer films focusing on Baron Frankenstein, who, in this entry, terrorises those around him in a bid to uncover the secrets of a former associate confined to a lunatic asylum
THE PLOT: Baron Frankenstein returns to his lab to find a thief stealing his equipment. Frankenstein abandons his lab, moves on and stays at a boarding house run by Anna Spengler. Anna's fiance Karl Holst is a doctor at the local insane asylum where Frankenstein's former fellow scientist Dr. Frederick Brandt now resides. After discovering Karl has been stealing narcotics in order to support Anna's ailing mother, Frankenstein blackmails Karl into helping him kidnap Brandt so he can get the secret formula of his experiment. Frankenstein and Karl kidnap Brandt and bring him into the house. Meanwhile, Brandt has a heart attack, prompting Frankenstein and Karl to transplant Brandt's brain into the asylum's administrator Professor Richter's body.
WHILE THE CREATURE RECOVERS, Frankenstein and the lovers relocate to a
deserted manor house when the police begin to close in. In the lab, the
creature awakes and is horrified by his appearance. He scares Anna, who
stabs him, causing him to escape. Frankenstein returns and finds the
creature gone. In a rage, he fatally stabs Anna and goes after the
creature. The creature makes it to his former home, but his wife refuses
to accept him as her husband. Wanting revenge on Frankenstein and
knowing the Baron will eventually track him there, he allows his wife to
go free and pours liquid paraffin around the house. . . .
FRANKENSTEIN SOON ARRIVES, with Karl following. Inside the house, the creature makes fires to trap him. Frankenstein finds the papers of discovery and flees, but is ambushed by Karl, and they fight. The creature emerges and carries a screaming Frankenstein into the burning house . . .
THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH is a strange one. The prologue of 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' involves a murder, which you presume is either carried out by The Baron himself or an aid. At no time, do you see WHO has the fatal weapon of the sickle, that carries out the deed, BUT we presume it IS The Baron. Usually, a selection of shots, where you see something like this, the actual role actor, isn't needed on set, as a stand in or unnamed actor, whose face isn't actually see, is used for those shots. The question is, was Peter Cushing actually there using the blade for the shoot OR are these posed, along with a crew, for the publicity camera man?
PLEASE JOIN US FOR ANOTHER ALBUM of #Frankenstein #PeterCushing ON-SET Behind the scenes SNAPS next FRIDAY!
