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Young Frankenstein
A young man working as a neurosurgeon, he spent his whole life in the hope of one, the legend of his grandfather Frankenstein. The doctor tried repeatedly to prove to people that he was honest about his grandfather and that he was not as crazy as others thought. After a while, luck serves him to find the doctor himself a heir to a large castle for the grandfather of the deceased, and then discovers that mystery is hidden in the process that saves the dead body.
10 March 1905, Camberwell, London, England, UK
7 July 1904, Evesham, Worcestershire, England, UK
25 June 1908, New York City, New York, USA
2 August 1913, New York, USA
30 October 1939, New York City, New York, USA
18 September 1907, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
24 June 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
20 January 1896, New York City, New York, USA
30 April 1926, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
31 July 1921, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
August 13, 1926 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
24 September 1927, Lee-on-Solent, England, UK
30 January 1930, San Bernardino, California, USA
16 October 1912, San Antonio, Texas, USA
14 March 1900, Mexico
27 February 1921, Yonkers, New York, USA
3 December 1918
June 20, 2015
... Brooks reveal(s) himself a true obsédé and an honorable heir to the eerily delicate comic-horror tradition of James Whale.
October 16, 2013
One of Mel Brooks' most brilliant and immortal cinematic works to date...
October 23, 2004
It shows artistic growth and a more sure-handed control of the material by a director who once seemed willing to do literally anything for a laugh. It's more confident and less breathless.
January 02, 2011
Brooks' corniness yields plenty of belly laughs.
June 18, 2016
The Brooks of 'Young Frankenstein' isn't really skewering the conventions of the horror movie - he's paying tribute to them, and using them as scaffolding for his particular brand of goofy, Borscht Belt burlesque.
August 17, 2012
Thus funny, well acted parody of Unievrsal horror films of the 1930s is without a doubt Mel Brooks' best picture.
January 15, 2013
Wilder's hysteria seems perfectly natural. You never question what's driving him to it; his fits are lucid and total. They take him into a different dimension -- he delivers what Harpo promised.
April 25, 2014
It's a wonderful, iconic comedy. Mel Brooks' masterpiece!
May 20, 2003
Some of the gags don't work, but fewer than in any previous Brooks film that I've seen, and when the jokes are meant to be bad, they are riotously poor. What more can one ask of Mel Brooks?
June 04, 2007
More about the myth of Karloff than the monster, this Mel Brooks pastiche is probably his best early film.
October 03, 2015
It is good-natured, lowbrow, backlot, hit-or-miss humor, but with no cumulative effect beyond its succession of hard-worked jokes.
June 24, 2006
For a really delightful parody, James Whale's own Bride of Frankenstein is far better value.