Frankenstein (1931 film) the deliberately farcical "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948). Though it is unrelated to the Universal series, the later "Frankenstein 1970" has the scientist Frankenstein, here played by Karloff, animate the Monster using a nuclear reactor. Although Frankenstein's hunchbacked assistant is often referred to as "Igor" in descriptions of the films, he is not so called in the earliest films. In both "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein", Frankenstein has an assistant who is played both times by Dwight Frye who is crippled. In the original 1931 film the character is named "Fritz" who is hunchbacked and walks with the aid
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (, "Our Lady of Paris") is a French Romantic/Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The novel's original French title, "Notre-Dame de Paris", is a metaphor: it refers to Notre Dame Cathedral, on which the story is centered, and Esmeralda, the novel's main character who is "our lady of Paris" and the center of the human drama within the story. Frederic Shoberl's 1833 English translation was published as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (which became the generally used title in English), which refers to Quasimodo, Notre Dame's bellringer. Victor Hugo began