When it comes to mosquito bites, that telltale itch doesnât actually come from a bite, it comes from something thatâs a fair bit worse: literal blood-sucking.
After he creates his own monster (Peter Boyle), new complications ensue with the arrival of the doctor's fiancÃ©e, Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn). Cast: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars, Gene Hackman.
The Mel Brooks movie Young Frankenstein presents a fictional version of this. The character played by Gene Wilder, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, insists that his name be pronounced ending in /stin/, in an effort to distance himself from his mad-scientist grandfather, Victor Frankenstein, whose name has the traditional German pronunciation, ending in /staÉªn/.