Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
Cast
Peter Cushing
Baron Victor Frankenstein
Veronica Carlson
Anna Spengler
Freddie Jones
Prof. Richter
Simon Ward
Dr. Karl Holst
Thorley Walters
Insp. Fritsch
Maxine Audley
Ella Brandt
George Pravda
Dr. Frederick Brandt
Geoffrey Bayldon
Police Doctor
Colette O'Neil
Mad Woman
Frank Middlemass
Guest - Plumber
George Belbin
Guest - Playing chess
Norman Shelley
Guest - Smoking pipe
Michael Gover
Guest - Reading newspaper
Peter Copley
Principal
Jim Collier
Dr. Heidecke
Allan Surtees
Police Sergeant
Windsor Davies
Police Sergeant
Harry Fielder
Villager (uncredited)
Caron Gardner
Passer-by (uncredited)
Victor Harrington
Journalist (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin
Burglar (uncredited)
Timothy Davies
Policeman (uncredited)
Jack Armstrong
Reporter (uncredited)
Elizabeth Morgan
Christina (uncredited)
Dorothy Smith
Anna's Neighbour (uncredited)
Pauline Chamberlain
Woman in Street (uncredited)
Ernest Fennemore
Policeman (uncredited)
Robert Gillespie
Mortuary Attendant (uncredited)
Michael Goldie
Warder (uncredited)
Arthur Howell
Body in Glass Case (uncredited)
Daphne Oxenford
Lady In Garden (uncredited)
Crew
Terence Fisher
Director
Bert Batt
Screenplay, Story, Assistant Director
Anthony Nelson Keys
Story, Producer
Gordon Hales
Editor
Arthur Grant
Director of Photography
Bill Westley
Second Assistant Director
Neil Binney
Camera Operator
Irene Lamb
Casting
Lotte Slattery
Wardrobe Master
Rosemary Burrows
Wardrobe Supervisor
Pat McDermott
Hairstylist
Eddie Knight
Makeup Artist
Bernard Robinson
Supervising Art Director
Don Ranasinghe
Sound Editor
A.W. Lumkin
Sound Supervisor
Ken Rawkins
Sound Recordist
Harry Fairbairn
Boom Operator
James Bernard
Original Music Composer
Philip Martell
Music Director
Michael Finlay
Painter
Arthur Banks
Construction Manager
Derek Suter
Electrician
Peter Diamond
Stunts
Terence Maidment
Stunts
Mary Shelley
Characters
Doreen Dearnaley
Continuity
Christopher Neame
Production Manager
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