FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN- CASTLE FILMS VERSION.

     FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN: Castle Films Edition.
     A short review.
     Back in the days before video and DVD disks if you wanted to own a copy of a movie you needed a movie projector and a reel (or reels) of film.
      Feature motion pictures on films cost too much for most collectors. So many film fans bought digest versions of feature movies. A feature of say 90 minutes would becut down to about ten minutes on a 200 foot reel.Castle Films was a popular seller of these type of digest movies. Many can be seen on You Tube these days.
     With FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943; With Lon Chaney Jr and Bela Lugosi) Castle films gutted the film of most of it's center.
     The film begins with a spooky graveyard. Two graverobbers break into the family tomb of the wolf man and accidentally bring him back to life.
     When the dead Chaney comes back to life and transform to the wolf man the Castle Films editors clipped in a shot from later in the film of the Wolf man transforming at the hospital. It looks as if the shot is taking place in the tomb.
     The film then jumps ahead to the last few minutes of the feature film. The wolf man falls into the cellar ofthe ruins of the estate of the Frankenstein family and encounters the Frankenstein monster. 
    Lugosi is barely in this cut down version. A stunt man fills in for Lugosi for most of the action scene.
     The editors at Castle Films get the film down to 9 minutes.
   (Review copyright Teel 2011) First printed on Scribd.com