Another Mel Brooks film.

The great-grandson of Baron Frankenstein goes to
Translyvania and discovers his ancestor's lab and
creates his own monster.

This film was pretty funny...not as funny as "Blazing Saddles" though.

BEST LINES:

"Werewolf!"
"There wolf!"

"What knockers!"

An oldie but a goodie...."Walk this way."

Igor: Dr. Frankenstien?

Frederick: That's Fronkensteen.

Igor: I thought It was Frankenstein

Frederick: It's pronounced Fronkensteen.

Igor: Do you pronounce your first name Froederick?

Frederick: No it's Frederick.

Igor: It's not Froederick Fronkensteen.

Frederick: NO it's Frederick Fronkendteen.

Igor: Ok

Frederick: You must be Igor.

Igor: It's pronounced eye-gore


It's something like that.
I love this movie

Roll, roll! Roll in the hay!

Blind Hermit:Wait! I was gonna make espresso!

Compare Peter Boyle then and now. In his early work (this film and "Joe") he was great. He is kinda slummin' it in "Raymond", although he has earned the right to slum.
I think there should be a board for "The Producers", one of the funniest films ever made.

In keeping with the "then and now" Peter Boyle comment, he was absolutely GREAT in "The Dream Team", where he portrayed a mental patient with "God Syndrome". One of the great lines, "This is the body and blood of Christ ... and a d**m fine Beau Guille!

He was also very good in the XFiles "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose".

One of my favorite scenes is the "Putting on the Ritz" dance scene.

I got the DVD. One of the best of the deleted scenes involves the reading of Baron Bofort Frankenstein's will. Look carefully at the guy playing the lawyer officiating at the reading. He played General Bulcarter (sp?) on "Hogan's Heroes".

I still love "Blucher!" (Horses whinny on the background.)

When they first come to the light switches at the top of the stairs to the lab, Igor says, "Here are some nasty-looking switches, but I'm not going to be the first." Dr. Fronkensteen throws one. There's a minor explosion and Frederick yells at Igor, "•••• your eyes!" Igor, idiot grin on his face, responds, "Too late." On the commentary track Mel Brooks says it doesn't get that big a laugh. He says "•••• your eyes" is an old Victorian era British reference. Does anyone know about that?

I believe that "•••• your eyes" is like saying, "d**n you."

Could be. But Brooks was giving the impression that it had a meaning that was going over the audience's head. He felt it should've gotten a bigger laugh. Guess I'm expecting more to it than there is. Personally, I think it's funny.

Everyone has, I'm sure, caught on that the name of the man whose brain Eye-gore was originally supposed to retrieve is an allusion to Mel Brooks? Hans Delbrooks.

It was just a bad pun.

What, "Delbrooks"? Mel does say on the DVD's commentary track that it was meant as a reference to himself.

No, I was talking about "D*mn your eyes". Yes, it was a common Victorian impression, meaning "D*mn you!", but Brooks also took the obvious pun from it too.

Oh, okay. Thanks.

Many years ago, I was at a model contest (for scale plastic models, not for babes) wherein door prizes were given out to randomly selected entrants; the prizes were new model kits. One was announced as follows: "...and to this lucky winner goes this model of the German cruiser Blucher." Several observers throughout the room whinnied; everyone caught the reference. I guess you had to be there...

By the way, I believe there was a Hans Delbruck (sp?) who wrote a multi-volume history of warfare in Europe many years (decades?) ago. I always thought of 'Young Frankestein' when I saw that name.

I haven't seen this film in a long time, but I remember one in-joke. A sign on a pub reads "Gasthaus Gruskoff," a reference to rhe film's producer, Michael Gruskoff.
Igor's hump keeps switching sides. When questioned about it, he denies it.
Gene Hackman was great as the blind man. For an actor previously known for serious roles (French Connection, Poseidon Adventure,) this film proved he could do comedy well.

I would put this in my top-ten list of funniest movies of all-time.
Yeah, this is probably Gene Wilder at his best. Marty Feldment is inspired ... but the best performance goes to Madeline Kahn - Dr. Frankenstein's fiance.
My favorite part was when Frederick was telling Inga and Igor about needing a creature of gigantic stature.
Inga: "He would have an enormous vonstuecher!"
Frederick: (stunned) "That goes without saying."
Inga: (excited) "Oof."
Igor: "He's going to be very popular."

Been rewatching the film and I caught this nit: Inspector Kemp's artificial arm is the right arm. However, just after the Monster has his way with Frankenstein's fiancee, Elizabeth, there's a cut to the Village Mob being led by Kemp. In this scene, it's suddenly his left arm that's artificial. I guess someone flopped the film footage so the characters would be going to the left of the screen.

Mel Brooks has two cameo appearances in the film. The first is on the train as it approaches the Transylavanian Station. He's the conductor who announces the Transylvania stop. He also appears as the MC at the exhibition, introducing Frankenstein and the Monster to the Neurological Society.

BTW, I've recently rewatched the 1933 version of King Kong and it occured to me that the "Putting On the Ritz" scene in this film is meant as an homage to the exhibition of Kong in the 1933 classic film.

"Blucher!"

Maybe the arm switching was deliberate...to make it funnier.

Maybe. But it's not done in such a way that it calls attention to itself, the way it would if it was meant to be a joke.

"Blucher!"

Still, jokes like that are funnier when they don't call attention to themselves, at least not in a blatant way. I thought the funniest joke (ie the only joke I actually found funny...) in Robin Hood: Men In Tights was the way Prince John's mole kept moving to different spots on his face. At least it was funny until one of the characters pointed it out.

Anyway, back to Young Frankenstein. This sounds like a simple case of reversing the image to me, not a joke.

That's what I thought, which is why I posted it as a nit.

"Blucher!"

Obviously. Just backing you up, buddy.

Thanks!

"Blucher!"

WHINNY!

I've been expecting that.

"Blucher!"

Cloris Leachman wanted to reprise her role of Frau Blucher when the Broadway version of this film opens later this year. Mel Brooks turned her down because of Ms. Leachman's age (she's 81, and would have to do eight shows a week). Last I heard, though, she's going to bat for the role. I hope she gets it. More here.

Yes! He... Vas... My... BOYFRIEND!!!!

The musical version of Young Frankenstein opened on Broadway last night, and the reaction is tepid. Regardless, tickets are going for $450 top, with scalpers getting prices in the four figures. Stick with the DVD of the movie, which you can probably buy for a song (or a lot less than $450.) More here (scroll down a bit.)

Andrea Martin appears as Frau Blucher.

From what I saw of it on NBC News, it doesn't look very good. It appears that Mel just took the script and set it to music.

Not even Andrea Martin could save this clinker.

There are (supposedly) a few new scenes (padding?), but (AFAIK) it closely follows the movie. Roger Bart, who plays Frederick, is no Gene Wilder. It will coast on Brooks' name, and the goodwill that The Producers generated in the crowd that attends the theater (certainly not me). By the way, the show is one of the few Broadway shows running, as there is a stagehands strike that has shut most other shows.
Will they make a movie out of the play? I doubt it, as the (awful) 2005 film version of The Producers laid a big egg at the box office.

When Frankenstein and the Inspector are playing darts, they are throwing five dart rounds. In the last round, Frankenstein throws one into the wall, three through the window, and possibly a fourth through the window (cat meows).

But as the Inspector leaves, there are at least 6 darts in the car tires: 2 in front, 3 in the rear, and one in the spare. Yet, at most four could have hit the car.

No logic in this one.

Roger Bart, who plays Frederick...

Off topic, but...Roger Bart now plays Doc Brown in the current Brodaway stage musical version of Back To The Future.

Great Scott!