Event | Film and Video Screenings Film screening: Young Frankenstein (1974)

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (Gruskoff/Venture – Crossbow Productions – Jouer Ltd. / Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974). Directed by Mel Brooks. Story and Screenplay by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder. With Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr. (105 min, black & white, 35mm print from the Twentieth Century-Fox Collection)

“One of the funniest (and most quotable) movies of all time” per Leonard Maltin, this spoof of classic Frankenstein films is perfection at its finest: memorable characterizations by a top notch cast, superb cinematography by Gerald Hirschfeld which recreates the look and mood of Universal’s horror films of the 1930s, remarkable sets, including the original laboratory equipment used in the 1931 Frankenstein film, a memorable “pastiche” score by John Morris, and a witty script which Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder developed from an outline Wilder had written before Brooks became involved with the project. In the words of Roger Ebert “[…] the movie is a sendup of a style, and not just of the material. […] It looks right, which makes it funnier. And then, paradoxically, it works on a couple of levels: first as a comedy, and then as a weirdly touching story in its own right.” Selected for the National Film Registry in 2003.

Seating is on a first-come first-serve basis.  Doors open at 6:30 pm.