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 Ghost of Frankenstein feature. The title of the film refers to the fact that Dr. Henry Frankenstein, creator of The Monster in the first Universal "Frankenstein" film, appears (played by Hardwicke) as a ghostly apparition to advise Ludwig. The footage of the Monster scrambling to escape the fire was later reused at the end of "House of Dracula", even though Glenn Strange plays the Monster in that film. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The Ghost of Frankenstein The Ghost of Frankenstein is a 1942 American horror film, and the fourth in a series of films produced by