Abstract

Abstract Answering from one’s visual recollections of the films, the answer to the question in the title is easy. Colin Clive (in James Whale’s and Universal Pictures’ 1931 modern-dress classic), Peter Cushing (in a string of Hammer-produced, Terence Fisher-directed gothics from 1957 onwards), James Mason (in the 1973 TV-movie, scripted by Christopher Isherwood), Gene Wilder (in Mel Brooks’s hilarious 1974 spoof Young Frankenstein), Kenneth Branagh (in the 1994 blockbuster, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein), and even the heroes in such delightfully zany send-ups as Frankenhooker (a story based on monstrous exploding prostitutes) and Frankenstein, the College Years are –– all of them –– half surgeons of genius, half mad scientists.

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