The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) "Main Titles" & "The Prologue" HD

"The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), Directed by James Whale. With Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Ernest Thesigher, Valerie Hobson, Una O'Connor.
It's A Universal Picture.

[@Estusstew]

3:43 I love how she tilts her head to the side and says “it will be published, I think.” It’s so adorable it gets me every time I see it. Very beautiful woman and such a pretty face.

[@lastoutlaw3882]

Well really same here

[@treystephens6166]

I’d hit that.

[@clutchcargo2419]

Elsa lanchester was a beauty - not the typical beauty - she was a beauty w/ a fantastic voice.

[@phyllispollack1]

She was so beautiful

[@deckofcards87]

It's ridiculous how much better this film is than the first Frankenstein

[@akavitsuma]

OMG 😳 what a beauty she is!

[@ingridaguero6460]

“It will be publish, I think.” And 200 years later it still is.

[@lastoutlaw3882]

The bride appears at the end only and the film was excellent

[@diesellove]

i didn't realize she played two parts. .and I've watched this a million times until now 🙈

[@JENDALL714]

For years the opening scene was cut after the original release because of the Hays code that was established after it was initially released. They thought her dress was too revealing and also her alone with 2 men at night indicated something else was going on. I saw this movie on TV many times, but never knew there was an opening scene, until I got the DVD, in fact when I first saw this scene on DVD, I thought I put the wrong movie on.

[@charles1203]

@@JENDALL714 it shows how times have changed.

[@davidratcliffe1]

@@JENDALL714 One of the men in the opening scene is her husband Percy Shelley the famous British poet Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

[@jefpuckett5708]

She had an absolutely unique and remarkable face.love her body of work.✝🗿🍃

[@WalterJoergLangbein]

And her hissssss, as the Bride of Frankenstein...

[@treystephens6166]

@@WalterJoergLangbein so chilling 🥶

[@mordredt02]

"Now wait just a minute. A hunchbacked assistant? An abnormal brain? A burning windmill? Why, those things weren't in my novel at all! What in God's name are you babbling about, Lord Byron?!"

[@victorm152]

‘‘Twas not you that wrote those things, but rather Hollywood”

[@snakes3425]

@@victorm152 Actually, the film was adapted from a play, not the book

[@BGNOLA]

Byron's hitting the opium again.

[@treystephens6166]

@@BGNOLA I’d love some opium.

[@BGNOLA]

Anyone else think Elsa is super hot as Mary Shelley?😘

[@matthewhansen9423]

100% correct brother

[@waynehaynes128]

What a doll she was. Yumm

[@BGNOLA]

@@waynehaynes128 wasted on Charles Laughton, that's for sure.

[@douglasfreeman3229]

I'd say! That Mr. Laughton was a lucky young fellow, for sure.

[@treystephens6166]

I Agree‼️ I was Greatly Disappointed she wasn’t in the film more. 😔

[@PatFrenchLeafsFan1]

I love that Universal logo!

[@jefpuckett5708]

You just knew that it was going to be some good movie viewing coming up shortly.

[@MrCJ-qz9dl]

So true

[@anthonyjohndonnelly5259]

Watch the scene at 5:01. Identical to when Henry Frankenstein and Pretorius hold the bride up when she stumbled !

[@pamelamays4186]

They need to bring that logo back.

[@iamtriston666]

She's beautiful.

[@davidratcliffe1]

Elsa Lanchester was Charles Laughton's wife

[@douglasfreeman3229]

Goodness, Elsa Lanchester looks gorgeous as Mary Shelley (and the Bride, to be honest). If I had been a teen in '35, she'd have been my pin-up girl!

[@jefpuckett5708]

Imagine... light from flame alone.

[@roycem4945]

the eating on the crypt scene terrifies me to this day - I can no longer watch it. The music in that scene is also the stuff of dark nightmares. Brilliant movie -

[@LPJISKOOL]

I always have loved this movie. It’s my favorite classic old Hollywood “scary” movie. It’s got a really tragic ending. All the monster wanted was to have a friend. At the end even the monster bride was afraid of him. Elsa Lanchester is an absolute beauty even when she’s playing the bride. I wish she was in more movies. Amazing movie and IMHO it is better then the first Frankenstein.

[@treystephens6166]

He had a friend in the blind man.

[@TinaICXCNIKA]

Thank You for this GEM!

[@keithdonald6583]

Elsa was a unique beauty in Hollywood so ‘one of a kind’ To me far more beautiful than the likes of Vivian Leigh or Greta Garbo .

[@user-kj1pq6zh3x]

i disagree. they were far more beautiful.

[@DanTDrac]

When she asks, "Do you want to know what happened next?" The actor playing Lord Byron just stood there. Did he forget his line or wasn't he allowed to speak?

[@marcdewey1242]

Elsa guest starred on an episode of I love Lucy,as a motorist who picks up Lucy and Ethyl while they were hitch hiking to Florida,and they mistake her for an ax murderer,they heard about on the radio.

[@deboraosei5517]

Wooooow

[@greenman5229]

wow the story took place in the future

[@ClubBrasil]

elsa was also in an elvis film easy come easy go with a crazy yoga song

[@michealmyers5531]

5:37 so chilling

[@ronaldw2700]

Elsa was very pretty.

[@verkaforever]

It's Katie Nana!

[@rachelthompson785]

😅

[@sd-py1xb]

Perfect film. No unnecessary cgi needed!

[@kingkold]

They had fun

[@Bongwater66]

...here are some of the best films about this incident: 1. 'Gothic' - Kenn Russell 1985 (with Gabriel Byrne as Byron / “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”) 2. 'Haunted Summer' - Ivan Passer 1987 (with Julian Sands as Shelley, fantastic!). 3. 'Rowing with the Wind' - Gonzalo Suárez 1988 (not a good choice in terms of actors, Hugh Grant as Byron??)... but the topic keeps fueling my mind... especially since I was personally present at the events of these places... 4. 'Mary Shelley' 2017 - Haifaa Al Mansour / (great fresh actors). cheers, Gregxxx........🦇

[@b.radleypro.369]

First she’s Mary Shelly, and then the Bride of Frankenstein.

[@susanmctavish6639]

I'm not a great artist, but I tried to draw her profile in that shot because it's soo beautiful.

[@jefpuckett5708]

Do you know if a fop is?look it up.

[@khj8716]

I had no idea that both male actors were American! 🤔

[@MatureMale-vv7qk]

Thanks goes out to Richard Fierro, an Army Vet HERO, for taking down the gunman at the Club Q!

[@Nick-ty9us]

She will be in a Disney movie in 1968

[@MatureMale-vv7qk]

This is a test 2

[@janoycresva276]

I don't understand the praise for these films at all, they literally have nothing to do with their source material but this one in particularly is worse. Ignoring the fact for one minute that this takes a hardly glanced over subplot of the original Frankenstein novel with the female the creature asked Frankenstein to make then tries to make an entire film out of it which further undermines the thing's existence. But the movie is literally called Bride of Frankenstein yet she only appears for a few minutes at the end with nothing for her to do other than to awkwardly jerk her head then scream before dying from electrocution. Like why is it so hard to be faithful to the source material? You're already going to be cutting out many portions of the novel when adapting it to film, but whatever can be retained has to be because if you don't, it's just disrespectful to the source material which is a classic because you're just leeching off the legacy of the original which is, again, disrespectful. The same issues present here are the same ones in the Haunting of Hill House TV series by Mike Flanagan that just uses the name of the original but is a completely different story with superficial similarities.

[@WillScarlet16]

Stop judging it solely on the source material and judge it as its own thing - this film is unique and daring enough to stand on its own without staying 100% true to the source.

[@janoycresva276]

@@WillScarlet16 That’s not how that works, because if it wasn’t based on any source material & was it’s own thing, it’d be a unique film. But since it IS based on previous source material, it has to be faithful to it otherwise it’s disrespectful. The 2004 miniseries is the only adaptation that got it right.

[@user-kj1pq6zh3x]

i liked the movie but i agree with you, the bride herself was such a big disappointment. she was killed right after she was born. but the rest of the movie was okay

[@janoycresva276]

@@user-kj1pq6zh3x There were also many allusions to the original novel like the blind hermit although that was also altered as in the novel, the blind hermit is actually just a blind man who is a grandfather living with his son, daughter in law & granddaughter. That’s why I’ll always say that the best Frankenstein adaptation is the 2004 miniseries with Donald Sutherland who we sadly lost this year on 20 June so 6 days ago now

[@user-kj1pq6zh3x]

@@janoycresva276 oh okay i'll watch it. RIP