Frankenstein: the True Story; Page navigation. Frankenstein: the True Story The film is intelligently scripted by Christopher Isherwood and boasts a distinguished cast of supporting players. · Victor Frankenstein's medical experiments result in the shocking discovery that he can revive the dead. But when the creature he brings forth becomes a killer, is anyone safe? Find out in this gruesome, heart-pounding thriller created by legendary talents such as screenwriter Christopher Isherwood and makeup artist Roy www.doorway.ruor: Jack Smight. Directed by Jack Smight, written by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy and starring James Mason, John Gielgud and Jane Seymour, this 3-hour adaptation is truly above average. Renown film critic Leonard Maltin described it as the "thinking man's horror movie" as it concentrates more on the psychological aspects of the story than on pure horror effects.
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Frankenstein: The True Story () +1. American TV producer Hunt Stromberg Jnr. wanted to make a definitive version of the Frankenstein story which was faithful to Mary Shelley’s classic 19th-century novel. Given the green light by Universal, he recruited Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy to develop the script and selected Jack Smight as director. Besides painting thousands of portraits of politicians, film stars, and sundry everyday people who have sparked his interest, Bachardy also collaborated with Isherwood on television films (’s Frankenstein: The True Story has a cult following) and Broadway dramatizations (a short-running production of Isherwood's novel A Meeting by the River) as well as writing the tome Stars in My Eyes. Isherwood was the grandson and heir of a country squire, and his boyhood was privile He was also homosexual and made this a theme of some of his writing. He was born near Manchester in the north of England in , became a U.S. citizen in , and died at home in Santa Monica, California in January
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