Young Frankenstein

Mel Brooks' affectionate parody of Universal's Frankenstein series of the 1930s is so lovingly filmed in the Gothic style of the originals (even using fine-grain black-and-white stock) that at times it artistically surpasses its role models. Gene Wilder plays Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, a neurosurgeon determined to distance himself from his notorious forebears. Inheriting the family castle in Transylvania, Dr. F is met at the train station by Igor (Marty Feldman), the hunchbacked, cock-eyed...