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A Hello to Ygor- and Goodbye to Karloff as the Monster- in "Son of Frankenstein"-Tonight!

Tonight on MeTV- it’s the film in Universal’s Frankenstein series that established a significant new character in the canon- presented the final appearance by a great actor in a role that made him a legend- and held the basis for some future fun in “Young Frankenstein”- as Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Basil Rathbone pick up where Henry Frankesntein left off in the 1939 classic- “Son of Frankenstein”!

The story opens on a semi-cheerful note-as Wolf Frankenstein, son of the original “maker of men” is excited to be returning to his father’s home town-a town named after the family- bringing his young wife along. Their precocious son is already waiting there for them, as they arr...

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