glenn strange played the monster in the house of frankenstein.
glenn strange played the monster in the house of frankenstein.
who played the monster in the house of frankenstein?
glenn strange
the best-known image of frankenstein's monster in popular culture derives from boris karloff's portrayal in the 1931 movie "frankenstein," in which he wore makeup applied, and according to a format designed by, jack p. pierce and possibly suggested by director james whale. universal studios, which released the film, was quick to secure ownership of the copyright for the makeup format. karloff played the monster in two more universal films, "bride of frankenstein" and "son of frankenstein"; lon chaney, jr. took over the part from karloff in "the ghost of frankenstein;" bela lugosi portrayed the role in "frankenstein meets the wolf man;" and glenn strange played the monster in the last three universal studios films to feature the character – "house of frankenstein," "house of dracula," and "abbott and costello meet frankenstein." but their makeup replicated the iconic look first worn by karloff. to this day, the image of karloff's face is owned by his daughter's company, karloff enterprises, for which universal replaced karloff's features with glenn strange's in most of their marketing.
frankenstein's monster
when jackie falsworth finds an oversized nazi cap inside a box of souvenirs, captain america tells her of the mission of how they acquired the hat and who it originally belonged to. in early 1942, dr. basil frankenstein is a nazi scientist who is the descendant of victor frankenstein. basil frankenstein and his japanese assistant dr. kitagowa had moved to victor frankenstein's castle to continue his mission of creating an army of zombie nazi soldiers. however, word of basil frankenstein's activities leaked out to the allied forces and the human torch and toro went out to investigate. when human torch and toro didn't return, captain america, bucky, and namor went out to look for them. when the other invaders arrive, they find the villagers that live near castle frankenstein about to storm the castle. the villagers explained to the invaders about the arrival of human torch and toro and the info about the monster that had torn through their village. captain america and bucky went to castle frankenstein to investigate while namor held the angry mob at bay. captain america and bucky entered the castle and were overcome by the nazi clone of frankenstein's monster. upon captain america and bucky being brought before basil frankenstein, he revealed that he not only was making an army of nazi zombies for adolf hitler, he plans to transplant his brain into captain america's body. it turned out that basil frankenstein had been in a lab accident that paralyzed his hands and legs. due to basil frankenstein being in love with dr. kitagowa, basil wanted her to place his brain into captain america's body so that they can finally have a physical love. it was then shown that basil frankenstein had captured human torch and toro so that basil frankenstein can siphon human torch's energies so that he can make his nazi clone of frankenstein's monster bigger and stronger. in the nick of time, namor arrived into the castle and freed the invaders. during the battle with the nazi clone of frankenstein's monster, the creature was knocked into a wall of electrical equipment. this was enough to free the nazi clone of frankenstein's monster from basil's mental control where he grabbed basil and dr. kitagowa and took them to the castle's parapets. proclaiming that he was no longer basil frankenstein's slave, the nazi clone of frankenstein's monster wanted to return to death and jumped from the castle taking basil frankenstein and dr. kitagowa with him.
frankenstein's monster (marvel comics)