Young Frankenstein Movie Documentary (with Mel Brooks)
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- Опубліковано 30 жов 2021
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Director, Mel Brooks, actresses, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr and others celebrate the movie, "Young Frankenstein" in this 2002 documentary: It's Alive; Creating A Monster Classic.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks. The screenplay was co-written by Brooks and Gene Wilder. Wilder also starred in the lead role as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein, and Peter Boyle as the monster. The film co-stars Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, and Gene Hackman. The film is a parody of the classic horror film genre, in particular the various film adaptations of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus produced by Universal Pictures in the 1930s. Much of the lab equipment used as props was created by Kenneth Strickfaden for the 1931 film Frankenstein. To help evoke the atmosphere of the earlier films, Brooks shot the picture entirely in black and white, a rarity in the 1970s, and employed 1930s' style opening credits and scene transitions such as iris outs, wipes, and fades to black. The film also features a period score by Brooks' longtime composer John Morris.
A critical favorite and box-office smash, Young Frankenstein ranks No. 28 on Total Film magazine's readers' "List of the 50 Greatest Comedy Films of All Time", No. 56 on Bravo's list of the "100 Funniest Movies", and No. 13 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 funniest American movies. In 2003, it was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the United States National Film Preservation Board, and selected for preservation in the Library of Congress National Film Registry. It was later adapted by Brooks and Thomas Meehan as a stage musical. The film received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay, the latter of which was a nomination shared with Wilder and Brooks. On its 40th anniversary, Brooks considered it by far his finest (although not his funniest) film as a writer-director. (wikipedia)
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MEL BROOKS (b. 1926) is an American actor, comedian, film producer, director and screenwriter. With a career spanning over 7 decades he is known as a creator of broad farces and parodies widely considered to be among the best film comedies ever made.[2] Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows (1950-1954) alongside Woody Allen, Neil Simon and Larry Gelbart. Together with Carl Reiner, he created the comic character The 2000 Year Old Man. He wrote, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970. In middle age, Brooks became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the top 10 moneymakers of the year they were released. His best-known films include The Producers (1967), The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 and was remade into a musical film in 2005. (wikipedia)
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Funniest movie ever
I took my 80-year-old grandmother, and she laughed out loud.
uh uh. its the fucking funniest movie ever made. 🤣 👍
100%
Couple it with Blazing Saddles and Men in Tights - and you have tri-masterpiece.
Definitely in my Top 25 of all time - up there with Casablanca, 12 Angry Men and others...
"He voss my... Boyfriend!!!"
Frau Blucher!
I was lighting the candles on my daughter's birthday cake the other day when my 8 year old son told me "Listen to me very carefully. PUT. THE. CANDLE. DOWN!" I was laughing so hard I almost dropped the cake. The movie is a work of genius, and that includes the entire cast.
STARTING YOUNG! HELL YEAH 👍
That's hilarious!
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OMG, too funny!
I love that ! My boys are 11 (twins) and they love it ... unbelievable movie that’ll never get old
When my wife and I were married in 1990 we rented Young Frankenstein for our wedding night. It set the tone for our marriage and we've been laughing through the last 31 years. I love this film.
Update: It's now nearly 34 years of marriage and we're still laughing. Mel created briliant film that is for all seasons.
Bless your hearts & great humor! Go for another 31 years of horror-produced laughter, rolling, rolling, rolling on the floor!
Did you get a little “roll and roll and roll”??
@@paultheaudaciousbradford6772 I don't know about you, but I would have traded the kids AND the old lady for a roll with Teri Garr!
Mary Shelley wrote the book on her honeymoon.
That's awesome that comedy has guided your marriage. Awesome way to go!
Can we take a minute to admire and thank the funny and beautiful Teri Garr
She was also incredibly sweet when I met her in person.
Aye, very, VERY beautiful woman, and presumably a wonderful spirit as well.
Especially as she shows us how to live with MS.
4 sure @@oscresson
Yes,yes,yes
Marty Feldman was a one-man Monty Python.
A very accurate description.
None shall pass.
And in my opinion far funnier
Those peepers. awesome!
Didn't Feldman get his start writing for one of the early absurdist British variety shows?
We lost him for too early, he was only age 48--what a shame. So many good roles he would have made if he had lived, but when you smoke 5 packs a day, you can't not expect it to catch up with you sooner or later
RIP Peter Boyle, Cloris Leachman, and Madeline Kahn. Three absolute comic geniuses.
And Gene Wilder.
@@joelspringman7748 Oh God, you're so right. I keep forgetting he's gone.
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As far as I know, Mel Brooks is still alive, at 95 years old.
@@joelspringman7748 Yeah, God bless him. Pretty soon he'll be able to do the 2,000-year-old man routine for real, lol.
Marty Feldman, died in 1983.
My father was on the Special Effects crew on this classic.
He was in the industry for almost 30 years before passing way too young at 61.
I remember as a teenager Dad coming home and telling Mom and me about the scenes shot that day.
He laughed so hard that he could barely finish the story of what took place that day,
He's been gone 42 years, and those dinner time reflections are some of the best memories of my Dad.
I have the 25th Anniversary DVD, and in the additional chapters are stills of my Dad on set w/ Gene, Peter, Marty and Mel.
I was in the industry for 42 yrs, and met Terry shortly after I'd purchased the DVD of the film.
I introduced myself to her as the son of my my father, and she said
she remembered him.
She is as gracious, talented and beautiful as you see on screen.
I also had the fortune to work with Cloris, and see her away from set( we often dined at a restaurant near us both).
What a lady!
I just want to say thank you for this video, and making me cry in happy remembrance.
In gratitude ....
That's really nice.
@@joelspringman7748
Thank you, Joel.
Happy Holidays.
🙏
This movie worked so well because people like your father worked so hard to make it look BEAUTIFUL, which only made the silliness work even better. Bless his soul, because he made a movie that - had it not been "merely" a comedy - would get the respect that it TRULY deserves, regardless of genre.
Many thanks for sharing your story, Robby.
Best wishes...
@@bartcolen
Thank you
bartcolen
for your kind words.
I'm just so happy that on the anniversary DVD edition, besides enjoying the timeless comedy, I can see my dad.
He also did SFX
on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, and the first 8 yrs of M.A.S.H.
(60's and 70's TV).
The first four shows were often my summer playground as an 8-10 year old, sitting at the helm of the Seaview and the Jupiter 2, and picking up boulders bigger than I was on Land of the Giants.
Great memories.
🙏
Robby, your dad worked in all the tv shows I grew up with. He certainly help me to imagine those fantastic worlds and provide me with the vision and illusion to inspire my creativity.
I know he can listen to you, so please, tell him how much I still admire his work and say (a big) 'thank you' from me.
Lots of blessings.
As a kid grew up thinking Gene Wilder could do no wrong. Willy Wonka, Young Frankenstein, Stir Crazy and Blazing Saddles still hold a very dear place in my heart.
Don't forget Silver Streak, it was pretty funny as well.
@@robis40 Yes, I loved Silver Streak as well 👍
Keep thinking that.
@@robis40 But where was he any funnier than as the neurotic auditor Leo Bloom to Zero Mostel's heroically overbearing bully Max Bialystock in _The Producers_ ?
Blazing saddles is just goddamned epic. But... so’s Young Frankenstein.
Almost fifty years later I'm still amazed that Mel Brooks made two of the funniest movies in history and released them the same year.
I remember thinking that all comedies were supposed to be as funny as Mel Brooks movies
Reminds you of Stevie Wonder at the Grammys. :D
Every kid even in the 1970s watched classic 1930s and '40s Frankenstein movies on TV. Brooks used some of the set pieces from the original, and the story line, acting, music, and black and white film is still a little scary to watch, especially for a kid. This was perfect.
Seriously
@@sianwarwick633If only they could be.
Comedies today Wish they could be as funny as Mel Brooks.
"Could be worse! Could be raining!" That's been my mantra for life.
I ALWAYS think of that line when someone says it can’t get any worse. 😂😂😂
I will never get tired of watching Marty Feldman in this movie. Such a genius.
Born to play that role
I'm glad he got world-wide recognition - was funny for years in the UK
What hump..?
Watch Marty Feldmans laughter machine especially when he does the husband flying to see his girlfriend during the night
"Damn your eyes!" "Too late!"
When we got home from the grocery shopping recently, my wife asked for help with the bags. I said,”Sure, you take the blonde, and I’ll take the one in the toiban”. My wife responded with a funny look and didn’t say a word. She knew.
👌🏼😂
Aww... 😥 A missed opportunity.
"Not that one though- it's taffeta, darling.
Craziest thing about YF is that it was made in the same year as Blazing Saddles--two of the greatest movies of all time, made by the same guy in the same year!
It’s like victor fleming in 1939 directing Gone With the Wind and Wizard of Oz at the same time that same year! Amazing films all of them
Spielberg doing Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List at the same time deserves to be on this list.
Wow I never realized they were the same year! Those are 2 legendary movies. I don’t think either of them could be made in 2023.
Yup. I was SOOOOO "offended" by these movies that I couldn't stop laughing til the next day! Our society has become so easily "butt-hurt" that it would be impossible to make them today. DAMN!! I JUST CAN'T WAIT FOR THE WOKE DISNEY REMAKES!!!
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Two of the greatest comedies, to be sure.
When I was thirteen, I saw this film in a drive-in with my mother. It was raining when we watched it. When Gene and Marty did the graveyard scene and said "It could be raining." We both laughed ourselves hoarse! Great film!
I never tire of hearing Mel Brooks tell the story about how his mother tried to convince him that Frankenstein's monster wouldn't bother to eat him. It's such a quintessential Jewish mother story. It's fantastic.
"Could be worse, could be raining." That line's timing is classic!
So many of the actors passed away fairly young but Mel keeps going strong.
RIP Marty, Kenneth, Peter, Madeline, Cloris, and Gene.
NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN
Mel deserves a lifetime Oscar!
He deserves a statue on Hollywood Boulevard!
Most definitely!! The man is a comedic genius!!
👍
If he never got one...We the people are giving him one...For the laughs alone...Gene Wilder also...Top of the CLASS!!
@@vincentdinapoli9399 Mel Brooks won an Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen for The Producers in 1967.
No mention of Kenneth Mars(Inspector Kemp). Another brilliant performance completely overlooked.
"Before 'vee go round killing pee'ple, vee had better make DAMN sure he's following in his fodder's foot shtops!"
I was a band geek, I graduated from high school in 2003. We were on a band trip to national competition. So your in a place with 1500 strangers, all the same age. All pretty nerdy, but you could become friends with any group of strangers by randomly quoting young Frankenstein, blazing saddles, or Monte Python.
😮 so😅
I miss ALL of those actors. They made me laugh and helped put kindness at the heart of my soul. It is wonderful to sit back in this old rotting world with all its problems and laugh it away for an hour and a half or so. They made us happy
Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn, Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle - you all may be gone from this Earth but you will live on because this movie is immortal!
And Marty Feldman as I gore 😆
High Anxiety is underrated and overlooked
"Here's your paper! Here's your paper! Here's your damned paper!"
@michaelblumfield3933 That's the line that came into my head! LOL
Madeline wearing a plaid outfit with a matching plaid car! Hilarious.
And the fruit cup scene!
Having Harvey Korman made Mel's movies even better.
Count duh Money!
Count duh Money!
I was 7 when I saw this w/my Dad on a Saturday matinee - the line was a block long - they had cartoons & a 3 Stooges short (The Civil War one) - and we laughed out loud beginning to end - the entire audience was having a blast. One of the best cinematic experiences I ever had and one of the best films ever. Period.
My favourite scene is between the monster and the blind hermit. Both Peter Boyle and Gene Hackman play off one another so perfectly. Sometimes it is the most "serious" actors who can be the funniest .
"I was going to make espresso."
Teri Garr was perfection in her first role. Amazing.:)
A roll in the hay,
It wasn't her first role. She'd been acting for about 10 years already, doing small guest roles and bit parts. It was, however, the role that made her well known.
This wasn't her first role. This is the role that proved her a master of her art.
And she was hot! I wouldn't have minded a roll in the hay with her!
She was adored in the Star Trek episode Assignment: Earth, considered to be one of the best episodes. i think she had a lot to do with that high ranking.
I adore this movie, even my kids- who were born in the late nineties - can quote it. What a cast and what a director, we’ve lost Gene, Cloris, Madeline, Kenneth, Marty, Peter and a few others now, but thanks to this movie they will never be forgotten…
pauljonze, beautifully said and so true.
One of the most perfect movies ever made, period.
Easily the funniest of all Brooks's movies. I watch it every October, and laugh like it's the first time. I love love love this movie. A classic!
I can quote this movie line for line. This movie gives me so much joy. I never get tired of watching it over and over.
im in tears before they even say the lines. this is my death bed movie 😁
Almost all Brooks movies hit me that way but Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, and Spaceballs get quoted most.
"I'm gonna blow this N..."
BEST LINE EVER, in a movie! Blazing Saddles,
I can recite from memory. Even the bits CBS
added in the '80's. Young Frankenstein, rates
a VERY CLOSE second! 1 and 1A.
steve
@@RICDirector how dare you not mention " The Producers " 😉
@@jamestiscareno4387 Because I don't quote it much? :P Forgive me! :P
It's a toss up as to whether Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles are my favorite comedies. Both are absolutely brilliant.
I mean mine is Spaceballs! But 2 and 3 are Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles!
This is a movie you MUST force your kids to watch so they can see what true comedy is all about! Simply the best ever
I saw this in the theater in 74 at 13 with my sister and parents. The last movie we saw as a family. I loved it and laughed more every time I watched it. My parent are gone now but I remember them when I watch this wonderful film. Thank you so much Mel.
They're still with u Bro!🙏🏼👍🏻
Wonder memories 🥰
Teri Garr and Madeline Kahn. Thank GOD, for Mel Brooks.
My favorite movie EVER... I watch it once a year on average. This cathartic masterpiece resets my sense of humor and allows me to get through life in this topsy-turvy world.
Ah, "A YoungStein at heart..."
Amen !!!
I met Mel Brooks while I was doing cue cards for Hollywood Squares back in the day. A very nice man. He was promoting Young Frankenstein at the time.
I will forever love this movie. Not only did it entertain me as a child, it brought me and my family together. We would quote it all the time and I still put it on to this day. Rest in peace Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madelin Kahn, Cloris Leachman, and Peter Boyle. Brings me great sadness to know they're gone, but I'll never forget them.
I remember my mom laughing so hard at the scene where the monster mounts Madeline Kahn and she starts singing at the top of her lungs, "Mystery of life at last I found you", my mom couldn't stop laughing. 😄
Or... "Hallelujahhh!!!"
Don't remember that(I haven't seen it in awhile) but that's the same lines as Blazing Saddles with Cleavon Little.
then you simply must check the Italian dubbing!
sorry to say your comment is grossly outdated as that scene is rape being portrayed and this film has been canceled because of it. I can link the article
@@stevecosmolove1045 Please do.
You mean, I'm not the only one who memorized this movie as a kid, and can still recite all the lines along with it?
I know, right?! :)
Easily the funniest movie comedy of all time! Like so many others, I can recite every word! I attended a charade party once that quickly turned into a Young Frankenstein reenactment hilarity! Each person was assigned a character and we did the scenes over and over, literally peeing ourselves with laughter! 😂 Thank you Mel Brooks!
Ps: We did the same with Space Balls AND Blazing Saddles!
I fondly remember Gene Wilder comforting Cleavon Little by explaining how many people learned to become racists because they were "simple people; you know - morons!"
Vootschteps!! Vootschteps!! Kenneth Mars gets forgotten sometimes. And he’s a good darts player!
The darts scene is just hilarious! 😂
My daughter was two when she watched this with me. She was absolutely mesmerized with it but she was afraid of the monster. I told her that his name was Peter Boyle and when the movie was done, Peter and the other actors would go get french fries and tell jokes. Worked brilliantly. I did the same for Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz. My daughter is 23 and still refers to Peter Boyle by his name.
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A sweet story. The Wizard Of Oz scared the Hell out of me when I was a kid...... Now, on to " The Producers "
I did that too with my kids but said they had a salad with a vinaigrette dressing after the scene 😂
Used to, go, see Peter Boyle at Second City in Chicago.
My Dad absolutely LOVED Margaret Hamilton "and her little dog too," and could make me laugh every time he said that ;)
But then he took me to see "Old Yeller," where I couldn't stop crying, especially since he looked just like our dog at the time.
Ms. Madeline Kahn was a comedic genius--they ALL were. But her work, always left me gasping for air!
A classical singer she more sang than spoke her lines. Unique and masterful delivery.
She was terrific in Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, and an appearance on Saturday Night Live. I understand her life eventually took a hard turn downward, but I've always found it hard to believe that she didn't become an absolute comedy icon whose name would be forever on people's lips. She REALLY was good! She had enough talent to work forever.
@@dingfeldersmurfalot4560 She had family demons to fight, i.e. her mother. Her mother never was in her corner because SHE thought she was the star of the family. She was also brilliant when she was a guest star on "The Carol Burnett Show." She played in a "Family" Skit as Mavis, the star of "Cat Women on Mars." It was a scream!
Her role as Lily Von Shtupp in Blazing Saddles was genius!
She was magical beyond description. It takes great talent to sing out of pitch the way she did as Lily Von Shtupp (My favorite character in Blazing Saddles). Everything she did, she just made it memorable. And, for me, it wasn't just the big things she did, even though they were so good. It was the little things she did that made scenes so much funnier than if she didn't do them.
Fuck cancer. That's all I have to say about that.
My dad always fell asleep at movies, except this one and blazing saddles. Tears rolled down his cheeks from laughing
~~ Mel Brooks could make grown men do that - but of course, especially in those two films he had a secret weapon - by the name of Gene Wilder ..
Apnea bro
@@hansjuker8296 He worked like a dog all his life, he was exhausted.
This is one of the top three movies I quote on a daily basis. Friends that see this movie suddenly go “wait a minute, is that why you said lightning was just an atmospheric discharge, nothing to worry about?!”
Just read Mel Brooks’ autobiography. The funniest, loveliest man. Whole cast on the movie were hilarious. Incredibly special.
Read it last month and enjoyed reading about each movie and how casting came about.
Kind of a horrorshow, also
Ikr? And imagine his love life. He married one of thr greatest actresses of her time, Anne Bankcroft! Her performance in the Miracle Worker was absolutely amazing & she won an Oscar for it! That & she was Mrs Robinson ! 😂
I shared this movie with my then 10 yr old for the first time and he's 28 now and it's still his favorite movie and mine as well and we make it a point to watch it together from time to time and both throw out quotes from the movie all the time. Pure Comedic Genius!
That movie's a classic! Still just as funny today as it was nearly half a century ago. And not only excellent comedy, but even just as a piece of filmmaking, it's superb. Cinematography, production-design, pacing, film-economy, self-discipline, it has many valuable lessons from which today's filmmakers could definitely learn. There literally isn't a wasted frame anywhere in the entire movie.
I remember seeing that Mel Brooks wondered about making a movie in black-and-white. That throwback makes YF even MORE of a classic than evah!!
I was 13 years old and my parents forbid me to see this movie! haha So I went to the theatre while staying overnight at a friends house. Looking back - that made the movie even better.
I've watched it countless times since. One of the funniest of all time.
It must have been torture having seen the movie and not being able to deliver any of the catch phrases in front of your parents 😆
Mel Brooks & Gene Wilder, a perfect team of two geniuses that created a "monster" of a comedy movie that will stand for generations to come. Everything about it is remarkable. Probably the most perfect funny movie ever made and my favorite one for sure.
I still say lines from this fabulous movie. One of my favorites is “WAIT! I was going to make espresso!!” - whether it fits in the conversation or not. Most people get it & laugh. Those who don’t are missing out.
Gene Hackman's cameo was a stroke of genius. Personally, I often come out with the line "You know, I never forget my old dad...when these things would happen to him... the things he'd say to me".
cigaAAaars!
My favorite lines are. "Where did you get this brain?". "Uh--abbe somebody, abbe-normal". And "put the candle back. " There were so many good lines.
You just can't overstate the greatness of Gene Wilder the actor. The Waco kid The Frisco Kid nobody could have done that better
My friend, my brother, and I saw this at the theater. My friend literally fell out of his seat laughing. How many of us comment, "Wow, what knockers" when we see a door knocker??
Regardless of what any organization or anyone says, THE two funniest comedies ever are BLAZING SADDLES and YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. Period.
You'll get no argument from me on that.
@@johntiggleman4686 Nor me.
This is one of my favorite childhood movies. So is Blazing Saddles. Gene was hilarious, so seriously hilarious 😂. Mel is just amazing too.
The song Madelyn Kahn sang and the way she did it was hilarious, " I'm so tired",. I watched an old I think it was Marlene Dietrich and it was a war time drama and not supposed to be funny but I burst out laughing because Madelyn Kahn sounded just like Marlene Dietrich and Marlene was being serious she too was a cabaret singer/ prostitute. Madelyn Kahn was spot on and nobody realizes this because no one has ever seen or heard Marlene Dietrich sing. I just happened to catch a really old movie on some obscure channel. So now when I see that scene I laugh even harder.
My life has been so much better because of Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Tery Garr, Chloris Leachman and Marty Feldman! Thanks mom.
Any movie collection without "Young Frankenstein" isn't complete. An absolute must! My top list goes something like this: "Some Like iI Hot", "Sunset Boulevard" and "Young Frankenstein". All treasures of cinematic genius. Thank you Mel Brooks. You complete me! PS: Black & White Rules!
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
I have this movie in DVD and cassette. I treasure them both.
Saw it a year ago first time, bought it on Bluray the day after.
We had to sit through this movie twice. Missed half the movie the first time because we were laughing so hard. It could be worse...
Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were released less than a year apart. 1974 was a year of comedy greatness...
You take the blonde and I’ll take the one in the turban…OMG!!! I love ALL of Mel Brooks’ movies! ALL of them are hysterical!! I watch them all the time. And the way he loved his wife? Doesn’t get better… I wish I was related to him! Uncle Mel…🎵… has a great ring to it… Uncle Mel… sigh… I love him!!! Taffeta! Taffeta darling… No, my dress, it’s Taffeta… OMG😂😂😂😂😂😂‼️
And so many kids today don't even recognize that line?
Gene Wilder + a great script = CLASSIC!!!
Love this movie, it`s a timeless Masterpiece, that could`ve never been made today, just like Blazing Saddles.....another Masterpiece by Mel Brooks.
...from a time when Mel Brooks and those of his era created stories to be funny; that's obviously a far different time than anything recent. Comic book portrayals just don't have the depth in their casts or their stories to last. The films of Mel Brooks would draw a theater full of people as soon as the ads went up. I don't remember them all but then again I don't remember any that I didn't enjoy. The man was definitely a unique talent!
My daughter who is in now in her early 30’s, and I were in a grocery store when she was about 9 or so talking in the language of “Young Frankenstein .” Virtually everything we said to each other made perfect sense! We still laugh about that day together! Greatest comedy I ever saw! I’m a movie buff … love excellent movies. The first movie that I remember watching was “The Little Tramp” when I was about 3 years old (of course it was a rerun in the late 50’s or early 60’s in a theatre.) So sad. I remember Daddy being so upset at the movie for making me cry! And then watching “The Wizard of Oz” at home on our very own black and white TV he wanted to turn off the movie for frightening me! I’ve always loved good movies! Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder are tops with me! So many great movies! The old ones are the best to me!
The Wizard of Oz scared me too as a kid. Her family closes the trap door and can't hear Dorothy banging on it trying to get in out of the hurricane! Dorothy's dog is taken from her by that awful old lady and her family can't stop it. The colors are too loud and the music is frantic. And those monkey-bats are over the top! I could finally sit through it as an adult.
My first movie was Bambi, which was showing in the theatres. My dad took me and we sat through it twice. Later, Bambi was shown in the theatres again when my son (now 43) was 5, and we sat through it twice too. Movies have been important in my life, and I thank my father for introducing me to them and sitting through Bambi twice with me. He had been a prisoner of war in WWII, and we saw Bridge on the River Kwai together too.
What I love about this comedy version of Frankenstein is how true they remain to the original aspects of the story and characters.
My best memory of this film is that I saw it in the picture theater with my dad when I was 8 years old. For some reason it is the only movie I actually remember going to the movies with him, even though I know there were others. I’m 55 now, my dad long gone, and for some reason I remember that outing very well.
My friend and I saw this in a theater in SF when it was first released to theaters, and the full crowd was laughing throughout the entire movie. All of the audience left together in a good mood!
Reminds me of when my Dad and Mom took my brother and I to see Jaws at the theatre and Herbie the love bug at the drive-in I’d love to go back and do that again.
I had the exact same experience. The first movie I remember seeing in the theater, I was seven years old.
Awesome!!! We're about the same age...my dad was trying to take us to see Star Wars...hahahaha. He was shocked by the line....we went across town and saw Young Frankenstein instead. I'm so glad!!!
I was a terrible chicken as a kid. Everything scared me - so this helped to curb my fear of monsters a little. I went in afraid to look at the film and left laughing.
'for some reason'?
A masterpiece! We have a tradition in our family to watch it at New Year's Eve. And although we know the lines by heart, we still enjoy it like the first time!
Fabulous tradition !
I watched Bride of Frankenstein on TMC Halloween night - all I could think of was how brilliant YF truly is. The screenplay, sets, casting, acting, music - it's all spot on.
I was a small child when this came out. Like 5 or so and I saw it in the theater. Most of it went right over my head at the time, but I have seen it at least 50 times over the years and it never gets old. It is a masterpiece.
My last name is Stein. When I was in highschool, I would be given a hard time about it every once in awhile
But one day, when an upperclassmen was trying to get a reaction out of me by basically calling me a rock head, I slammed my right fist onto my thigh and said "My name...is FRANKENSTEIN"!
The whole room just fell apart laughing. And I didn't get near as much grief about my name after that.
This movie...this cast...this script...this screenplay...this lighting...this production...this musical score...this acting...?
RIP Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, and Gene Wilder...you are all in my memories as being part of one of the greatest comedies in the history of cinema. And to you Mel Brooks, at 96 years young? May you live long and enjoy your accomplishments!
Halloween is coming soon and I'll be ready for my tradition of watching the original 'Frankenstein', 'The Bride of Frankenstein', 'The Son of Frankenstein, and finally 'Young Frankenstein' in the coming days ahead.
I love, love, love this movie. I can watch it over and over because it never gets old.😄
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN - BEST MOVIE EVER!!! I've seen it a million times but never tire of it. "A little spongecake, a little wein..." Every line is precious!!!
My father was a comedian by trade, he rented this for me when i was about 11yrs old. he said "this is comedy", he questioned me at the end to make sure i hadn't missed any of the "in" jokes" can't thank him enough for that. its quotes been part of my vocab ever since :)
Every time I watch this excellent documentary I have to watch the Young Frankenstein film again. I've lost track of how many times I've watched this wonderful motion picture. I absolutely love it! 🤗
Masterpiece!!!!Gene is part of my childhood and the warmth he produced on screen is just phenomenal
Rest in peace maestro
My favorite Mel Brooks movie. Such talent. Anytime I saw that Gene Wilder was in a movie, I made sure to see it. I do wish there was a bit about Kenneth Mars as the inspector. He was so damn funny. His accent was thick as molasses. "TO THE LUMBER YARD!"
Wallowing in his granfadders voodschtops!!!
Especially when he's addressing the mob and says "He will regret the day that he was born!" in the heavy accent and they all say "Whaaat?" and he does the line over again completely without the accent.
Mel Brooks is an bsolute comic genius. Love Gene Wilder and the entire cast 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 🤣🤣🤣
Gene was also brilliant in the movie “The Worlds Greatest Lover”… hysterical… passed up way too often…😂😂😂😂😂
All the actors that played their roles to perfection, and are not with us anymore,😑 your careers will always be immortalized by this work of art of a movie! Rest in peace you shining stars!
The white streak in sara karloff's hair just blew my mind away.
You too?! I was mesmerized by it. I keep asking myself "Is it deliberate? Is it dyed?" Either way, it is sublime. Elsa Lanchester was such a trend-setter for horror fans!
"Seda-GIVE???!!!" Still cracks me up!
I absolutely cried all the way through this film when I first saw it in the cinema. Pure comic genius!
"Masterpiece" is not a big enough word for this work of art
IMO, this is Mel Brooks funniest movie ...and every cast member was brilliant
A very funny movie even today. It's one of those movies you will never forget. I saw it 4 times at the theater back in 1974. I have not done that since.
I'm 25 and hardly anyone my age knows this movie, and when I tried showing a couple friends it just didn't capture their interest like it did for me. Been watching this with my family since I was very young and it will go down as one of my all time favorites. "OVALITINE"
John Morris’s score was the perfect icing on this perfect cake of a film, as responsible as any other element for the success and longevity of Young Frankenstein. So deeply luxurious and evocative, it brought everything together and paired perfectly with the gorgeous B&W cinematography. That opening shot of the castle with the theme behind it is truly beautiful. Morris was the best film composer for comedies, I think, he played it straight but with a light touch. One of the all-time greats.
When i saw this in the theatre after it first came out the scene of the monster singing 'Putting on the Ritz' I almost passed out from laughing.
Gene Wilder insisted on the scene; Mel didn’t think it would work. I think it’s the best comedy in a century.
"Putting in the Ritz" was nothing but Wilder & Geneus!
I saw it for my birthday when I was little, and it remains one of my favorite films; and as I grew older and understood the genre of horror better, I loved it even more. It's a joy from start to finish, in every way.
You're just a "YoungStein" at heart.
My parents took my brother and I to see it in the theater. We all were in hysterics, laughing so hard it brought tears. 😂😂😂
It was not just a movie , it was magical .
I nearly wet my pants watching Peter Boyle singing Puttin' on the Rills and Gene Hackman as a blind man.
I LOVE this movie! I was, and still am, a huge fan of the old classic monster movies and the loving way this movie parodies and pays homage to the original 1931 movie is marvelous. The people in it are perfect, so very funny and talented. I don't know how many times I've watched it, but I have to re-watch it at least every Halloween!
It is actually condenses three of them into parody of absolute love and adoration. Every silly thing from originals is deliberately recreated and huge amount of gags was sprinkled in.
I saw this movie three times in theaters when it was new. Up until then I had never paid to see a movie even two times. It's that good.
One of the best movies, if not the best, in my opinion, a true masterpiece.
Everything said and shown in this video is spot on, everything was perfectly matched and timed in such a way that even after almost 50 years it's never old and still as funny as it can be.
I can't count how many times I have seen it and I can truly state that I know it by heart; from the first time I saw it in a theater, later on in VHS and then in DVD I still can't get enough and once in a while I have to watch it to feel better and go through the day with a smile.
It is my favorite too. Also, "History of the World Part 1".
I saw it with my dad for the first time. I was 10. I didn't get all the jokes, but I loved Marty. He simply had to look into the camera, and I'd burst into laughter.
Thanks, Mel!
Terri Garr was AMAZING back in the day. Gorgeous!
A fraulein Ginger Rogers??
Mel Brooks is one of VERY few celebrities I'd like to meet. You can see the warmth in his eyes - a lovely person.
This is one of my favorite movies. So much so, that when the stage play came to Houston, I asked my husband to take me to see it. It was brilliant. We laughed so hard but I was taken aback by the music and stage setup. It was magical.
We saw it in Galveston!!!
I love this movie so much, its HILARIOUS every sense is HILARIOUS, I've watch this movie so many times, I've lost count.
I'm always in tears it cause it just cracks me up everytime I watch it.
It never gets old to me, this is a movie that has stood the tests of time, its like a fine bottle of wine it tastes better the older it gets.
With young Frankenstein
The old this movie gets the funny it is.
This is a classic film, that's in a class of it's own.
Sure their are other comedy movies that are funny, but not like young Frankenstein, it's the best.
R.I.P to all the actors that have passed away from this movie, they are never forgotten, always remembered.
It never fails to please and delight. And Mary Shelley's concert put gets across better than all other versions.
I've had this movie memorised since i was 10. Love Mel, Marty, Gene and Madeline especially
I felt tears well up while watching this...simply because these people who made this are mostly gone......I love them for this film alone...
I'll forever miss new movies from them..