Word: pretorius
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...John L. Balderston lift their monster (Boris Karloff) out of the water-filled cellar of the mill and send him out to terrify the countryside, break out of a dungeon, and make friends with a blind hermit who teaches him to smoke cigars and speak. Meanwhile one Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger), as convincingly lunatic a scientist as ever reached the screen, shows Baron Henry Frankenstein, the monster's creator, the Tom-Thumb King, Queen, Archbishop and Satan he has cultured from human seed until they can chatter and gesticulate in test-tube prisons in his Mephistophelian laboratory. Pretorius forces...