The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN  (1957)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Terence Fisher
    Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court,
    Robert Urquhart, Valerie Gaunt, Noel Hood
Peter Cushing plays the mad doctor, with Christopher Lee as "The Creature", a lumbering giant stitched together with body parts picked up wherever the doc can find them. It's too much talk and not enough monster, but Lee finds a note of pathos in the Creature under all the grotesque makeup. Over the next 20 years, Britain's Hammer studio would become synonymous with horror in much the same way that Universal had been in the '30s and '40s. "The Curse of Frankenstein" was the first dance in a long-running monster's ball.