The Ghost of Frankenstein

Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.

Cast

Cedric Hardwicke

as Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein / Dr. Henry Frankenstein (ghostly image)

Ralph Bellamy

as Erik Ernst

Lionel Atwill

as Dr. Bohmer

Bela Lugosi

as Ygor

Evelyn Ankers

as Elsa Frankenstein

Lon Chaney Jr.

as The Frankenstein Monster

Janet Ann Gallow

as Cloestine Hussman

Barton Yarborough

as Dr. Kettering

Doris Lloyd

as Martha the Housekeeper

Leyland Hodgson

as Chief Constable

Reviews

John Chard

Your father was Frankenstein. Your mother was lightning. Of course the problem with the Frankenstein sequels, of the Universal Studios kind, was that they had to follow the genre firework that was "Frankenstein (1931)" and the monolithic titan that followed that one in 1935, "The Bride of Franken...

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