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The film was shot in the same castle and with the same props and lab equipment as the original Frankenstein (1931).
The howling wolf sound on the ride to the castle was made by director Mel Brooks.
When Victor finds his grandfather's private library, he finds a book titled "How I Did It." This is actually a joke for those people who have read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In her novel, Shelley never reveals how Victor reanimated dead flesh. Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder obviously knew this and added the "How I Did It" book as a joke.
When Dr. Frankenstein descends the stairs into the basement of the castle there is a gargoyle on the wall made to look like director Mel Brooks.
The assistant property master's name, Charles Sertin, is on the third brain on the shelf.
The clock rings 13 times at the beginning of the film.
Director Cameo: [Mel Brooks] the sound of the off-screen cat screaming when hit by a dart.
The idea of Frederick's dart hitting a cat was ad-libbed on set. When Gene Wilder threw his dart off camera, director Mel Brooks quickly screamed like a cat to create the illusion.
A couple who are talking on the train near the beginning of the film are having the same conversation in English, then in German.
Teri Garr, who plays Inga, was called in when Madeline Kahn, whom Mel Brooks had originally wanted for the role, turned it down and asked if she could play Elizabeth instead. Madeline Kahn decided to take the role after all, so Mel Brooks told her that if Garr could come back the next day with a German accent, he'd like her for Inga. She looked at Mel and said, "Vell, yes, I could do zee German ackzent tomorrow - I could come back zis afternoon" and the part was hers.
The cast and especially Mel Brooks had so much fun and were so upset when principal photography was almost completed, that Mel added scenes to continue shooting.
The scene in which the creature contemplates throwing the little girl into the lake ("No more flowers. What shall we throw in now?"), is a homage to a scene in Frankenstein (1931). In that version, this was cut from the film until its video release 50 years later.
The shot of the monster carrying Elizabeth in the woods is a subtle reference to a similar shot in Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).
The original cut of the movie was almost twice as long as the final cut, and it was considered by all involved to be an abysmal failure. It was only after a marathon cutting session that they produced the final cut of the film, which both Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks considered to be far superior to the original product. At one point they noted that for every joke that worked, there were three that fell flat. So they went in and trimmed all the jokes that didn't work.
When the monster is being brought back to life, the area around his eyes (and what appears to be his teeth) begin to glow. This was done with a plastic head created to look exactly like that of Peter Boyle. Some fake teeth, fake brain tissue, and a light were used to create the effect.
Due to make-up continuity problems, certain shots in "The Blind Man" scene had to be re-shot. In the shot where The Blind Man spills soup on the Monster, the "Hand" spilling the soup actually belongs to director Mel Brooks, not Gene Hackman.
Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman appear together in this film by virtue of the fact that their mutual agent had a deal with the movie studio.
When they started to film the "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene, no one was sure what the Creature should say. The first time out of the gate, however, Boyle came up with a strangled version of "Puiinin da reeez!"
The Blind Man's line "I was gonna make espresso" was not in the script, but was ad-libbed by Gene Hackman during shooting.
The Gasthaus, or guest house at the beginning of the riot scene is Gasthaus Gruskoff. Michael Gruskoff was the producer of the film.
Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks got into only one fight during the movie's production, but it was a big one with Mel throwing a huge temper tantrum, yelling and raging and eventually storming out of the studio. Shortly thereafter, Gene received a phone call from Mel, saying, "Who was that lunatic yelling and screaming on the set today? You should fire that bum!"
The experiment the medical student mentions, where Darwin preserved a worm in fluid until it came to life, is mentioned in Mary Shelley's foreword to the novel "Frankenstein". The Darwin in question was Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of the famous Charles Darwin.
The brain orignally intended for the monster was Hans Delbruck. Hans Delbruck was an actual person, a German historian, professor at the Univ. of Berlin, notable for going beyond technical problems and linking warfare to politics and economics.
Leon Askin played a lawyer (reading the last will) but was cut out.
Just like in the original Frankenstein (1931), greenish face makeup was used on the monster to make his features more prominent in the B&W film.
Gene Hackman was uncredited when the movie was originally released in theaters.
Originally in the script, after Igor drops the brain jar, he was to turn to the audience and quip: "Funny thing is, I tried!"
Director Cameo: ['Mel Brooks' ] the voice of the original Dr. Frankenstein when Frederick sees the laboratory for the first time
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