Young Frankenstein

Early in the 20th century, Frederick Frankenstein, a lecturing physician at an American medical school, is actively distancing himself from his grandfather Victor Frankenstein, the infamous mad scientist, pronouncing his surname as "Fronkensteen".{{sfnp|Picart|2003|p=46}} When Frederick inherits the family castle in Transylvania, he travels to Europe to inspect the property. At the Transylvania train station, Frederick is met by a hunchbacked, bug-eyed servant named Igor, whose own grandfather worked for Victor and who states his name is pronounced "Eye-gore". A young woman named Inga also greets him. Arriving at the estate, Frederick meets Frau Blücher, the dour, intimidating housekeeper. After discovering the secret entrance to Victor's laboratory and reading his private journals, Frederick resumes his grandfather's experiments in reanimating the dead.

Frederick and Igor steal a recently executed criminal's corpse. He sends Igor to steal the brain of a deceased "scientist and saint" named Hans Delbrück. Igor accidentally destroys Delbrück's brain and takes one labeled "Abnormal" instead. Frederick unknowingly transplants it into the corpse and brings the Monster to life. Frightened by Igor lighting a match, the Monster attacks Frederick and nearly strangles him before being sedated.

Unaware the Monster exists, the townspeople gather to discuss their unease at Frederick continuing his grandfather's work. Inspector Kemp, a one-eyed police inspector with a prosthetic arm and a heavy German accent, visits the doctor's and demands assurance that Frederick would not create another monster. Returning to the lab, Frederick discovers Blücher releasing the creature. She reveals the Monster's love of violin music, her own romantic relationship with Frederick's grandfather, and her planning out the events that inspired Frederick to create a monster as Victor did. The Monster becomes enraged by electrical sparks from a thrown switch and escapes the castle. While roaming the countryside, the Monster interacts with a young girl and a blind, hermetic monk.{{efn|These encounters are references to 1931's Frankenstein and 1935's Bride of Frankenstein, respectively.{{sfnp|Picart|2003|p=54}}}} Frederick recaptures the Monster and locks himself in a room with him. He calms the Monster's homicidal tendencies with flattery and a promise to guide him to success, embracing his heritage as a Frankenstein.

At a theater filled with prominent guests, Frederick shows "The Creature" following simple commands, then performs "Puttin' On the Ritz" with him. During the performance, a stage light explodes and frightens the Monster, who becomes enraged at the booing crowd, and charges at them when they throw rotten vegetables. He is captured and chained by police. Back in the laboratory, Inga attempts to comfort Frederick; they have sex on the suspended reanimation table.

The Monster escapes from prison the same night Elizabeth, Frederick's socialite fiancée, arrives unexpectedly. The Monster takes her captive, but she falls in love with him as he makes love to her. While the townspeople hunt the Monster, Frederick plays the violin to lure his creation back to the castle and recaptures him. Just as the Kemp-led mob storms the laboratory, Frederick transfers some of his stabilizing intellect to the Monster, who reasons with and placates the mob. Kemp gives the Monster a warm reception.

Sometime later, Frederick and Inga are wed and Elizabeth marries the now-sophisticated Monster. While in bed with Frederick, Inga asks what he got in return during the transfer procedure. Frederick growls wordlessly like the monster and embraces Inga while Igor plays the violin on the roof.

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• Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, the grandson of Victor Frankenstein
• Peter Boyle as the Monster, a creature made from the corpse of an executed criminal
• Marty Feldman as Igor, a hunchbacked servant of Frederick Frankenstein, and grandson of the original Igor who worked with Victor
• Cloris Leachman as Frau Blücher, the housekeeper of the Frankenstein estate
• Teri Garr as Inga, a young woman who becomes Frederick's assistant
• Kenneth Mars as Inspector Kemp, a one-eyed police inspector with a prosthetic arm
• Madeline Kahn as Elizabeth, Frederick's fiancée
• Richard Haydn as Herr Gerhardt Falkstein, a lawyer
• Richard Roth as Inspector Kemp's aide
• Monte Landis and Rusty Blitz as the Gravediggers
• Gene Hackman as Harold, the blind man
• Mel Brooks as:{{cite book |last1=Molinari |first1=Matteo |last2=Kamm |first2=Jim |year=2002 |title=OOPS! They Did It Again!: More Movie Mistakes That Made the Cut |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Epllswjb-vMC&pg=PA271 |via=Google Books |publisher=Citadel |isbn=978-0806523200 |access-date=September 20, 2018 |archive-date=March 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326182113/https://books.google.com/books?id=Epllswjb-vMC&pg=PA271 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.zimbio.com/Beyond+the+Box+Office/articles/oEyjYmZy4My/20+Things+Didn+t+Know+Young+Frankenstein|title=20 Things You Didn't Know About 'Young Frankenstein'|author=Joe Robberson|date=October 28, 2014|work=Zimbio|publisher=Livingly Media|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920172631/http://www.zimbio.com/Beyond+the+Box+Office/articles/oEyjYmZy4My/20+Things+Didn+t+Know+Young+Frankenstein|archive-date=September 20, 2018|access-date=September 20, 2018}}
• Werewolf
• Cat Hit by Dart
• Victor Frankenstein (voice)

The rest of the cast is listed on screen in opening credits under "with":

• Liam Dunn as Mr. Hilltop
• Danny Goldman as Medical student
• Oscar Beregi as Sadistic Jailor
• Arthur Malet as Village Elder
• Anne Beesley as Helga
• John Madison as Villager
• John Dennis as Orderly in Frankenstein's Class
• Rick Norman as Villager
• Rolfe Sedan as Train conductor
• Terrance Pushman as Villager
• Randolph Dobbs as Third Villager – Joe
• Norbert Schiller as Emcee at Frankenstein's Show
• Patrick O'Hara as Villager
• Michael Fox as Helga's Father
• Lidia Kristen as Helga's Mother
• Clement von Franckenstein as Villager screaming at the Monster
• Lou Cutell as Frightened Villager
• Ian Abercrombie as Second Villager
• Leon Askin as Cornelius Waldman (deleted scenes), a man who was seen during the reading of Victor Frankenstein's will

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In a 2010 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Mel Brooks discussed how the film came about:

{{blockquote|I was in the middle of shooting the last few weeks of Blazing Saddles somewhere in the Antelope Valley, and Gene Wilder and I were having a cup of coffee, and he said, 'I have this idea that there could be another Frankenstein.' I said, 'Not another! We've had the son of, the cousin of, the brother-in-law. We don't need another Frankenstein.' His idea was very simple: What if the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein wanted nothing to do with the family whatsoever. He was ashamed of those wackos. I said, 'That's funny.'{{cite news|last=Lacher |first=Irene |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-aug-01-la-ca-conversation-20100801-story.html |title=The Sunday Conversation: Mel Brooks on his 'Young Frankenstein' musical |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220044654/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/01/entertainment/la-ca-conversation-20100801 |archive-date=2019-02-20 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=August 1, 2010 |url-status=live |access-date=November 8, 2010}}}}

In one of the scenes of a village assembly, one of the authority figures says that he already knows what Frankenstein is up to, based on five previous experiences. This is a reference to the first five Universal films.{{cite AV media | medium=DVD | title=Young Frankenstein – Mel Brooks Audio Commentary }} In a Gene Wilder DVD interview, he says the film is based on Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Son of Frankenstein (1939), and The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942).

In a 2016 interview with Creative Screenwriting, Brooks elaborated on the writing process. He recalled,

Little by little, every night, Gene and I met at his bungalow at the Bel Air Hotel. We ordered a pot of Earl Grey tea coupled with a container of cream and a small kettle of brown sugar cubes. To go with it, we had a pack of British digestive biscuits. And step-by-step, ever so cautiously, we proceeded on a dark, narrow, twisting path to the eventual screenplay in which good sense and caution are thrown out the window and madness ensues.{{cite web| url=http://creativescreenwriting.com/mel-brooks-on-screenwriting/| title=Mel Brooks on Screenwriting| last=Swinson| first=Brock| date=January 14, 2016| publisher=Creative Screenwriting| access-date=January 21, 2016| archive-date=January 21, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121235340/http://creativescreenwriting.com/mel-brooks-on-screenwriting/| url-status=live}}

Brooks and Wilder disagreed over the sequence where Frankenstein and his creation perform "Puttin' on the Ritz". Brooks felt it was too silly to have the monster sing and dance, but eventually yielded to Wilder's arguments.

Unlike in many of his other films, Brooks does not appear onscreen in a significant role in Young Frankenstein, though he recorded several voice parts and portrays a German villager in one short scene. In 2012, Brooks explained why:

I wasn't allowed to be in it. That was the deal Gene Wilder had. He [said], 'If you're not in it, I'll do it.' [Laughs.] He [said], "You have a way of breaking the fourth wall, whether you want to or not. I just want to keep it. I don't want too much to be, you know, a wink at the audience. I love the script.' He wrote the script with me. That was the deal. So I wasn't in it, and he did it.{{cite journal| url=https://www.avclub.com/mel-brooks-on-how-to-play-hitler-and-how-he-almost-die-1798235157| title=Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs| journal=The A.V. Club| date=December 13, 2012| first=Steve| last=Heisler| access-date=February 18, 2020| archive-date=September 28, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928202504/http://www.avclub.com/articles/mel-brooks-on-how-to-play-hitler-and-how-he-almost,89843/| url-status=live}}

Brooks and producer Michael Gruskoff originally agreed to a deal with Columbia Pictures, but Columbia would not agree to a budget of more than $1.75 million, whereas Brooks wanted at least $2.3 million. Columbia also was not happy making it in black and white, so Brooks and Gruskoff instead went to 20th Century-Fox for distribution when they agreed to a higher budget.{{cite book|title=All About Me!|publisher=Century|year=2021|pages=232–233|last=Brooks|first=Mel|author-link=Mel Brooks|isbn=978-1-529-13507-7}}

Principal photography began on February 19, 1974, and wrapped on May 3, 1974.{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archives-on-the-set-of-young-frankenstein-20181016-htmlstory.html |title=From the Archives: On the set of 'Young Frankenstein' |website=Los Angeles Times |date=October 31, 2018 |access-date=November 1, 2019 |archive-date=November 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101020407/https://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archives-on-the-set-of-young-frankenstein-20181016-htmlstory.html |url-status=live }} To recreate the visual style of the original Universal horror films, Brooks shot in black and white, employed vintage-style opening credits, used wipes and irises for scene transitions, and even used the original Kenneth Strickfaden lab equipment from the 1931 Frankenstein.

Marty Feldman added a comic twist to his character by swapping which side the hump on his back was located; when Doctor Frankenstein asks him about it, Igor replies simply: "What hump?" Wilder wrote the role specially for Feldman.{{cite web |title=Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009pgsc |publisher=BBC Two |date=August 13, 2011 |access-date=November 18, 2015 |archive-date=April 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425145626/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009pgsc |url-status=live }}

Young Frankenstein was a box-office success upon release. The film grossed $86.2 million on a $2.78 million budget.

Young Frankenstein received acclaim from critics and currently holds a 95% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 73 reviews, with an average rating of 8.60/10. The consensus reads, "Made with obvious affection for the original, Young Frankenstein is a riotously silly spoof featuring a fantastic performance by Gene Wilder."{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/young_frankenstein/|title=Young Frankenstein|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=June 30, 2024|archive-date=November 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171126202119/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/young_frankenstein|url-status=live}}

Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "Mel Brooks' funniest, most cohesive comedy to date," adding, "It would be misleading to describe 'Young Frankenstein,' written by Mr. Wilder and Mr. Brooks, as astoundingly witty, but it's a great deal of low fun of the sort that Mr. Brooks specializes in."{{cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/16/archives/young-frankenstein-a-monster-riot.html |title= 'Young Frankenstein' a Monster Riot |last= Canby |first= Vincent |date= December 16, 1974 |page=48 |website=The New York Times |access-date=September 6, 2020 }} Roger Ebert gave the film a full four stars, calling it Brooks' "most disciplined and visually inventive film (it also happens to be very funny)."{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/young-frankenstein-1974 |title=Young Frankenstein |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |website=RogerEbert.com |access-date=December 5, 2018 |archive-date=December 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230133726/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/young-frankenstein-1974 |url-status=live }} Gene Siskel gave the film three stars out of four and wrote, "Part homage and part send-up, 'Young Frankenstein' is very funny in its best moments, but they're all too infrequent."Siskel, Gene (December 25, 1974). "'Young Frankenstein': Fitfully funny". Chicago Tribune. Section 4, p. 7. Variety declared, "The screen needs one outrageously funny Mel Brooks film each year, and Young Frankenstein is an excellent followup for the enormous audiences that howled for much of 1974 at Blazing Saddles.'""Film Reviews: Young Frankenstein". Variety. December 18, 1974. 13.

Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times praised the film as "a likable, unpredictable blending of slapstick and sentiment."Champlin, Charles (December 18, 1974). "Portrait of a Young Monster". Los Angeles Times. Part IV, p. 1.
Gary Arnold of The Washington Post, who disliked Blazing Saddles, reported being "equally untickled" with Young Frankenstein and wrote that "Wilder and Brooks haven't dreamed up a funny plot. They simply rely on the old movie plots to get them through a rambling collection of scene parodies and a more or less constant stream of puns, double entendres and other verbal rib-pokers and thigh-slappers."Arnold, Gary (December 21, 1974). "Monstrous Spoof". The Washington Post D1, D5. Tom Milne of the UK's The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote in a mixed review that "all too often Brooks resorts to the most clichéd sort of Carry On smut" and criticized Marty Feldman's "grotesquely unfunny mugging," but praised a couple of sequences (the flower-throwing scene and the Monster's encounter with the blind man) as "very close to brilliance" and called Peter Boyle as the Monster "one of the undiluted pleasures of the film (and the only actor ever to suggest that he might play the part as well as Karloff)."{{cite journal |last=Milne |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Milne |date=April 1975 |title=Young Frankenstein |journal=The Monthly Film Bulletin |volume=42 |issue=495 |pages=90–91 }} Leonard Maltin gave it three and a half of four stars: "One of the funniest (and most quotable) movies of all time, a finely tuned parody of old FRANKENSTEIN pictures{{nbsp}}... "{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |title=Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide |date=2015 |publisher=Plume Book |isbn=978-0-14-751682-4 |edition=3rd}} Leslie Halliwell gave it two of four stars: "The most successful of Mel Brooks' parodies, Mad Magazine style; the gleamingly reminiscent photography is the best of it, the script being far from consistently funny, but there are splendid moments."{{cite book |last1=Halliwell |first1=Leslie |title=Halliwell's Film Guide |date=1989 |publisher=Grafton Books |isbn=0-06-016322-4 |edition=7th}}

In his book Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914–2008, Bruce G. Hallenbeck lauded many of Young Frankenstein{{'}}s scenes as classic comedy moments, and also praised the attention to detail the film shows in paying heartfelt homage to the classic horror films it references. He summed up that "Young Frankenstein is a movie for film buffs, but written, directed, and performed in such a way that average Joes and Josephines can enjoy it just as much for its outrageous and wacky humor."

Igor's line "Walk this way" in the film inspired the song of the same name by Aerosmith.Sarah Rodman. [http://www.aeroforceone.com/index.cfm/pk/view/cd/NAA/cdid/312697/pid/302766 Walk their way] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928020242/http://www.aeroforceone.com/index.cfm/pk/view/cd/NAA/cdid/312697/pid/302766 |date=September 28, 2007 }}. July 28, 2003. According to Gene Wilder, the joke was added while shooting the scene by Mel Brooks, inspired by the old "talcum powder" joke.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Qj4o440R7ywC&pg=PA151&lr=&sig=yjGIB4ms88aZ_rYyzwnru0mkei4 Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323081338/https://books.google.com/books?id=Qj4o440R7ywC&pg=PA151&lr=&sig=yjGIB4ms88aZ_rYyzwnru0mkei4 |date=March 23, 2017 }}, p. 151; Gene Wilder, Macmillan, 2005. A partially contradictory account appears in eyE Marty, Feldman's posthumously published autobiography: Feldman recalls spontaneously doing the "walk this way" shtick to make his colleagues laugh, with Brooks then insisting, despite Wilder and Feldman's reservations, that it stay in the film.{{cite book|last1=Feldman|first1=Marty|title=eyE Marty: The Official Autobiography of Marty Feldman|date=2016|publisher=Rare Bird Books|page=187}}

Young Frankenstein became available on DVD on November 3, 1998.{{cite web| url=http://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/Young-Frankenstein-DVD/11029/| title=Young Frankenstein DVD| work=blu-ray.com| access-date=January 9, 2017| archive-date=June 11, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611001626/http://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/Young-Frankenstein-DVD/11029/| url-status=live}} The film was then released on DVD for the second time on September 5, 2006.{{cite web| url=http://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/Young-Frankenstein-DVD/3157/| title=Young Frankenstein DVD| work=blu-ray.com| access-date=January 9, 2017| archive-date=April 11, 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411173626/http://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/Young-Frankenstein-DVD/3157/| url-status=live}} The film was then released on DVD for the third time on September 9, 2014, as a 40th-anniversary edition along with a Blu-ray release.{{cite web| url=http://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/Young-Frankenstein-DVD/90863/| title=Young Frankenstein DVD| work=blu-ray.com| access-date=January 9, 2017| archive-date=June 10, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610225058/http://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/Young-Frankenstein-DVD/90863/| url-status=live}}

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Brooks adapted the film into a musical of the same name, which premiered in Seattle at the Paramount Theatre and ran from August 7 to September 1, 2007.{{cite web |url=http://www.theparamount.com/YoungFrankenstein/ |title=The Paramount official site |publisher=Theparamount.com |access-date=January 20, 2011 |archive-date=August 10, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810055511/http://www.theparamount.com/YoungFrankenstein/ |url-status=live }} The musical opened on Broadway at the Lyric Theatre (then the Hilton Theatre) on November 8, 2007, and closed on January 4, 2009. It was nominated for three Tony Awards, and starred Roger Bart, Sutton Foster, Shuler Hensley, Megan Mullally, Christopher Fitzgerald, and Andrea Martin.{{cite news| url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/112585.html| title=Puttin' on the Glitz: Young Frankenstein Opens on Broadway| work=Playbill| date=November 8, 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071110071151/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/112585.html| archive-date=November 10, 2007}}

The musical version was to be used as the basis of a live-broadcast event on the ABC network in the last quarter of 2020, with Brooks producing, but it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite web | url = https://deadline.com/2020/01/young-frankenstein-live-abc-mel-brooks-tca-announcement-fall-premiere-1202824439/ | title = ABC & Mel Brooks Will Team For 'Young Frankenstein Live!' This Fall – TCA | first = Greg | last = Evans | date = January 8, 2020 | access-date = January 8, 2020 | work = Deadline Hollywood | archive-date = January 8, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200108192747/https://deadline.com/2020/01/young-frankenstein-live-abc-mel-brooks-tca-announcement-fall-premiere-1202824439/ | url-status = live }}

Nominations{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1975|title=The 47th Academy Awards (1975) Nominees and Winners|access-date=October 2, 2011|work=oscars.org|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402004005/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1975|url-status=live}}

• Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder (1975)
• Academy Award for Best Sound, Richard Portman and Gene Cantamessa (1975)

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

• 2000: AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – #13{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs100.pdf |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=July 17, 2016 |archive-date=June 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624052741/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs100.pdf |url-status=live }}
• 2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:
• "Puttin' on the Ritz" – #89{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Songs |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/songs100.pdf |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=July 17, 2016 |archive-date=March 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110313151657/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/songs100.pdf |url-status=live }}
• 2005: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
• Igor: "What hump?" – Nominated{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/quotes400.pdf |title=AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes Nominees |access-date=July 17, 2016 |archive-date=June 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624052532/http://afi.com/Docs/100Years/quotes400.pdf |url-status=live }}
• 2005: AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – Nominated{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/scores250.pdf |title=AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores Nominees |access-date=July 17, 2016 |archive-date=November 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106023410/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100years/scores250.pdf |url-status=live }}
• 2007: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – Nominated{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100YearsMovies_ballot_06.pdf |title=AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies Nominees (10th Anniversary Edition) |access-date=July 17, 2016 |archive-date=October 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008220747/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100YearsMovies_ballot_06.pdf |url-status=live }}

• List of American films of 1974
• List of films featuring Frankenstein's monster

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James Van Hise. "Films Fantastique presents Young Frankenstein". Rocket's Blast Comicollector #146 (Nov. 1978), pp. 6–14. On the writing, pre-production and filming of the picture.

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• Young Frankenstein essay [https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/young_frankenstein.pdf] by Brian Scott Mednick at National Film Registry
• "Young Frankenstein" essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 {{ISBN|0826429777}}, pp. 713–714 [https://books.google.com/books/about/America_s_Film_Legacy.html?id=deq3xI8OmCkC America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry]
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