AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 235, 18 September 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“SON OF FRANKENSTEIN” Mighty cast in greatest shock drama !, W.■ Should) a scientist who first creates human life be reviled as “playing with fire,” or should he lie acclaimed even though the result of bis experiment moves a monstrous killer ? Universal’s new blood-freezing drama, “.Soil of F rankenstom,” which screens Aron. Tues. and Wednesday at the Regent Theatre, raises the question when it -brings Basil Ratlibone to the screen in the Title role of the doctor who unleashes the infamous “Frankenstein” monster anew. Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi of “Frankenstein'’ and! “Dracula” fame personify hair-raising. characters in the drama, Karloff reaching new heights in shuddery human destruction as the monster and Lugosi presenting a. hideous portrayal aka snag-gle-toothed." bushy-bearded madman. Creator of* the haunting “Lights Out”, radio sho\v, Willis Cooper, supplied the screenplay for the streamlined shocker. “Son of Frankenstein,” which presents Ratlibone as heir to the Frankenstein life-creating experiments. Baron Wolf von Frankenstein brings tlie monster back to life, unwittingly paving the way for new and horrible .murders and placing even his ow.il wife and! baby son in peril. Lionel At-will, Josephine Hutchinson, Emma Dunn and Donnie Dunagaix have other roles in the picture, which was produced and directed by Rowland V. Lee.