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
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein from the studio if they could be ready by Thanksgiving. American International Pictures commissioned Herman Cohen to make "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" and "Blood of Dracula". Cohen says the two films were written and put in front of the cameras in only four weeks, "so I had to really, really cut down" in terms of production values. "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" was filmed in black-and-white, with the ending in color for a vivid effect. The film was shot at Ziv Studios. Cohen says that the alligator they hired for the movie had been used to dispose of bodies