Peter Boyle comedy "Young Frankenstein", in which, in an homage to "King Kong", the monster is placed onstage in top hat and tails, grunt-singing and dancing to the song "Puttin' on the Ritz". Boyle said at the time, "The Frankenstein monster I play is a baby. He's big and ugly and scary, but he's just been born, remember, and it's been traumatic, and to him the whole world is a brand new alien environment. That's how I'm playing it". Boyle met his wife, Loraine Alterman, on the set of "Young Frankenstein" while she was there as a reporter for "Rolling Stone". He
The Horror of Frankenstein also fun," comparing it favorably to "Kind Hearts and Coronets". He disliked the final act when the monster emerged, "with awkward horror pitted against rather bland sheepishness. But it was good fun while it lasted. Hammer almost had something special." "Variety" wrote that the film "has an occasional lighthearted touch which adds much to its enjoyment," praising Bates for a "nicely suave and sardonic performance as the ingenious, self-assured son of Count Frankenstein." Kevin Thomas of the "Los Angeles Times" called it "a talky affair" and lamented that the new Frankenstein was a less sympathetic character than the one Peter