Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
The Most Frightening Frankenstein Movie Ever!
Overview
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
- Production
- Hammer Film Productions
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Cast
Peter Cushing
Baron Victor Frankenstein
Veronica Carlson
Anna Spengler
Freddie Jones
Prof. Richter
Simon Ward
Dr. Karl Holst
Thorley Walters
Insp. Fritsch
Maxine Audley
Ella Brandt
George Pravda
Dr. Frederick Brandt
Geoffrey Bayldon
Police Doctor
Colette O'Neil
Mad Woman
Frank Middlemass
Guest - Plumber
George Belbin
Guest - Playing chess
Norman Shelley
Guest - Smoking pipe
Peter Copley
Principal
Allan Surtees
Police Sergeant
Windsor Davies
Police Sergeant
Caron Gardner
Passer-by (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin
Burglar (uncredited)
Elizabeth Morgan
Christina (uncredited)
Robert Gillespie
Mortuary Attendant (uncredited)
Daphne Oxenford
Lady In Garden (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Terence Fisher
- Producers
- Anthony Nelson Keys
- Cinematography
- Arthur Grant
- Composer
- James Bernard
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John Chard
November 4, 2017
I fancy that I am the spider and you are the fly, Frankenstein. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed is directed by Terence Fisher and written by Bert Batt. It stars Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Simon Ward and Freddie Jones. Music is by James Bernard and cinematography by Arthur Grant. The fifth entry in Hammer Film's Frankenstein series is one of the best. Playing as a variant on the original Frankenstein sources, story finds Cushing's Baron Victor Frankenstein as an utterly repugnant indiv…
Wuchak
November 1, 2021
_**One of the best Frankenstein films**_ Hammer did 7 Frankenstein films in 17 years from the late 50s to early 70s: 1. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957); 2. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958); 3. The Evil of Frankenstein (1964); 4. Frankenstein Created Woman (1967); 5. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969); 6. The Horror of Frankenstein (1970); and 7. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974). Peter Cushing played Baron Frankenstein in every one of these except "The Horror of Franke…