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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.
Shot entirely in black and white, and evoking film noir, the Transylvanian backdrop further enhances the campy Gothic mood. Dr. Frankenstein, played by Gene Wilder, is a respected American medical lecturer, and the grandson of the legendary mad scientist of the same name, first introduced in the Mary Shelley novel. After the young Frankenstein inherits his grandfather's estate, he relocates to Transylvania, to the very Frankenstein castle. There, with the help of Inga (Teri Garr), he discovers his grandfather's private laboratory journals. Inspired and inveigled into his namesake's legacy, he commences his grandfather's work.