FRANKENSTEIN (1910)

Directed by: J. Searle Dawley

Based on the novel by: Mary Shelley

Produced by: Thomas Edison

Starring: Charles Stanton Ogle, Augustus Phillips, Mary Fuller

16 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster. A fight ensues but the monster, seeing himself in a mirror, is horrified and runs away. He later returns, entering the new bride's room, and finds her alone.

The first filmed version of the Frankenstein story.

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