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Film / 1969
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Directed by
Terence Fisher
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 …
The story
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.
In the same saga
Frankenstein (Hammer) Collection
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Cast
Peter CushingBaron Victor Frankenstein
Veronica CarlsonAnna Spengler
Freddie JonesProf. Richter
Simon WardDr. Karl Holst
Thorley WaltersInsp. Fritsch
Maxine AudleyElla Brandt
George PravdaDr. Frederick Brandt
Geoffrey BayldonPolice Doctor
Colette O'NeilMad Woman
Frank MiddlemassGuest - Plumber
George BelbinGuest - Playing chess
Norman ShelleyGuest - Smoking pipe
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Michael GoverGuest - Reading newspaper
Peter CopleyPrincipal
Jim CollierDr. Heidecke
Allan SurteesPolice Sergeant
Windsor DaviesPolice Sergeant
Harry FielderVillager (uncredited)
Caron GardnerPasser-by (uncredited)
Victor HarringtonJournalist (uncredited)
Harold GoodwinBurglar (uncredited)
Timothy DaviesPoliceman (uncredited)
Jack ArmstrongReporter (uncredited)
Elizabeth MorganChristina (uncredited)
Dorothy SmithAnna's Neighbour (uncredited)
Pauline ChamberlainWoman in Street (uncredited)
Ernest FennemorePoliceman (uncredited)
Robert GillespieMortuary Attendant (uncredited)
Michael GoldieWarder (uncredited)
Arthur HowellBody in Glass Case (uncredited)
Daphne OxenfordLady In Garden (uncredited)
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