Frankenstein's Daughter

Plot synopsis:
The movie opens on a scene at night with a man kissing a woman on a sidewalk. Suzie Lawler (Tally Todd) rebuffs her lothario, so he storms off in his car. As Suzie turns to walk home she sees the visage of a cavewoman in a nightgown. She screams, not recognizing her girlfriend, Trudy Morton (Sandra Knight). Trudy is dazed and confused. She has black bushy eyebrows and thick dark teeth. We zoom in on her face as the title is shown. Credits roll in white font over a black background.Trudy wakes up in her bed. She thought she had a nightmare and is relieved it is over. Her uncle, Carter Morton (Felix Locher) enters and reminds her, "It's late dear. I thought you had a date for tennis." She confesses she didn't sleep well, "It seems so real, as though it actually happened." Carter dismisses himself and Trudy gets ready for her tennis date. Oliver Frank (Donald Murphy) waits downstairs for his collaborator to start work. Carter unlocks the door to the lab. An impatient Oliver reminds Carter again, "If you'd let me have a key I could have begun work an hour ago." Carter argues with Oliver over their approach. Finally Carter asks point-blank, "Oliver, do you want to quit? Say so. Just say you quit and go." They don their lab coats, Carter resigned to be stuck with Oliver Frank until this line of research is completed. His goal is a formula that wipes out all disease in mankind, "Man will be ageless." Oliver throws cold water on Carter's dream, "I'm afraid you're on the wrong track. Your formula may work on internal cells, but it causes violent disfigurement to sensitive exposed skin areas."At the tennis courts, Suzie tells her boyfriend, Don (Harold Lloyd, Jr.) and Trudy's boyfriend, Johnny Bruder (John Ashley) about the monster woman she saw the evening before. Trudy arrives and is told about Suzie's horror story. Trudy warns, "Nightmares are nothing to laugh about. I had one myself, last night." The story intrigues Trudy and she asks for more details. Trudy begs off playing tennis, obviously upset. Johnny asks Trudy what's the matter. She tells Johnny, "It's as though Suzie and I had the exact same dream." She recounts the evening's events. She stayed home, had some fruit punch with Oliver Frank, felt tired, and then went to bed.Carter pronounces his latest test as no good. Of course, Oliver tells him, "Well, I could have told you that. Even if it did work it would have only been temporary." Carter has to remind him of their working relationship. Elsu (Wolfe Barzell), the gardener, interrupts to tell Carter he has completed some household chore. Carter suspects Elsu is a spy. Oliver suggests throwing out the latest test formula, but Carter overrules him, "I'm sure if I could get some Digenerol as a catalyst, it would work." He promises to get some from the Rockwell Labs, but Oliver cautions him not to do anything that brings police scrutiny. Trudy is in the living room reading Screen Stars magazine. Elsu comes in and presents her a flower. She is uneasy and repelled by the unwanted attention from the gardener. Uncle Carter throws him out. Elsu encounters Oliver on his way out. Oliver asks, "Tonight?" Elsu quietly replies, "There will be an automobile accident." He chuckles and promises to get it. Carter leaves to get his Digenerol, leaving the unctuous Oliver to paw at Trudy. She rebuffs his attentions with a cute remark about her plans for the evening, "In the pool for a swim. And I'd suggest you take a cold shower." Oliver returns to the lab door, and using a key he had made, starts work on a body. Elsu arrives, letting himself in through a secret entrance behind a bookcase. He is carrying a bundle wrapped in a towel. Oliver tells him he needed an entire head, not the part he secured. It is revealed that Oliver's real last name is actually Frankenstein. He instructs Elsu to return the body to the storage room. Judy swims in the pool as Oliver mixes up a potion. He offers her some "fruit punch" as a peace offering. He convinces her to drain her glass. She immediately gets woozy and heads for her bedroom. She starts to transform before she falls into bed. Transformation complete she gets up and sees her reflection in her makeup mirror. She lunges at Oliver in the doorway. By now her eyes are bugged out and her skin wrinkled and leathery. Oliver used too much of the formula.Police Lt. Boyle (John Zaremba) is on the phone in his office. He is taking a report from a man reporting a monster woman wearing a bathing suit. Boyle tells Police Detective Bill Dillon (Robert Dix) about the call. Boyle gets another call from a woman reporting the same monster in a bathing suit. The pair go to investigate. Oliver and Elsu prepare an antidote to give Trudy. Boyle and Dillon check on the woman (Charlotte Portney) who reported the creature. Her face is scratched and bloody. After she finishes her story, Boyle pulls his gun and searches for the creature. They spot Trudy and fire their weapons at her. She runs and topples some trash cans. The commotion draws Oliver with his antidote. Oliver captures Trudy. The next morning the local newspaper headline screams, "Woman Monster Menaces City!" Carter asks Oliver about the story. He is incredulous, telling Oliver, "Rubbish. Like the myths and the legends of the Dark Ages. These are headlines to sell newspapers my boy." The mention of Frankenstein gets a rise out of Oliver. Carter shows Oliver his new acquisition, a bottle of Digenerol. Trudy wakes, now back to normal, but still wearing her one piece bathing suit.Mr. Rockwell (Voltaire Perkins) is in Boyle's office to report a robbery at Rockwell Labs. He explains that, "That drug is very dangerous. It degenerates tissues and cells. In the wrong hands it could seriously disfigure anyone who might take it internally." He intimates it may be the cause of the monster. Carter and Oliver are working when Elsu enters the lab via the bookcase entrance. To distract attention, Oliver bumps Carter, who drops the bottle of Digenerol, breaking it. Carter is furious. Suzie rings the doorbell at the Morton residence. Oliver answers the door. Suzie inquires about Trudy. She walks around back where Trudy is on the chaise by the pool. She shows Trudy the paper and monster story. Suzie gets mad when Trudy claims to be the monster. Jealous, Suzie figures to even the score by getting involved with Oliver Frank. Little does she know how dangerous this will be for her. Johnny arrives as Suzie departs. Suzie starts her seduction of Oliver by making a date for 8:00 that evening. Trudy begs Johnny to believe her story.Suzie meets with Oliver that evening. He comes on too strongly for her and gets his face slapped for his efforts. He is furious and threatens to kill her. She decides to call the date off, but Oliver won't take no for an answer. She reveals she wasn't supposed to go out and no one knows she's with Oliver. His demeanor changes from angry to maniacal. "Where can we get the brain," he asks himself, "I need a brain. I need a brain." Suzie runs down the road. Oliver follows in his car. He strikes and kills his victim. Oliver and Elsu carry her body into the lab. She is wrapped in a blanket. He tells Elsu he intends to graft Suzie's head on the other body. He tells the corpse, "Tonight you'll be alive again, you vixen." As he and Elsu finish their work, Johnny and Trudy arrive home from their date. Judy thinks she hears someone in the lab and checks. They finish up and Elsu proclaims the creation, "Frankenstein's Daughter." Trudy tries to sleep but hears electrical equipment downstairs. She calls to her uncle Carter. She phones Johnny at home to report noises. She locks her bedroom door and goes to sleep.Boyle and Dillon meet on another report of a burglary at the Rockwell Labs. More Digenerol was stolen by an elderly man. Carter arrives home in a sorry state. He is winded and calls weakly for his niece while clutching his chest in pain. He calls again, then collapses on the stairs. Oliver and Trudy both respond to the old man's cries for help. Oliver's creation (Harry Wilson) wakes and moves its' hands and arms. It gets up off the gurney and wanders around the lab. We zoom in on creatures face and bandage covered head. Half the face resembles ground meat, the "good half" a very ugly man in lipstick. The neck bolts glint in the dim light from the lab equipment. It wanders out of the lab into the entry of the house. We can clearly see the rubber suit, and black rubber gloves on its hands. Coiled electrical wires run from the neck to the wrists. It tears off the curtain on the front door, breaks a window and pulls the door open to escape. Oliver and Trudy respond to the commotion. They enter the lab and Oliver mumbles, "Then she's alive."Two workmen at the Associated Storage Company are loading crates. Mack (George Barrows) is working late and complains about his burnt dinner. His supervisor (Bill Coontz) hears a noise and investigates. He is carrying a crowbar for protection. The monster approaches him. He backs up and strikes the monster with his crowbar. It strikes back sending the warehouseman running for the door. The monster catches him and crushes his body in the closing door. Mack finds his coworker dead, and immediately calls the police.Before Bill Dillon can leave for the evening, Lt. Boyle gets a phone call and tells him to stick around. The warehouseman reports the crime. The pair go to investigate. Carter and Trudy sit and talk in the living room. Oliver and Elsu return after looking for their creation. There is a knock at the door and Trudy, expecting Johnny, answers it. Oliver's creation returns home. Trudy screams and faints. Elsu explains, "I told you she'd come back. She needs to be revitalized." Oliver helps Trudy to her feet just as Johnny arrives. They help Trudy to the living room. Oliver tries to convince Trudy, then Johnny, she saw nothing. Johnny tells Trudy that Suzie has disappeared. Elsu sits, with now now chained creature, in it's room. Oliver gives his creation an injection.Trudy has the gang over for a barbeque, Page Cavanaugh and his trio perform "A Special Date" musical number. Trudy and Johnny prepare dinner for the gang. Don scares Trudy with a rubber monster mask. His punishment is to sing. Oliver plans Carter's demise. He taunts Carter, then starts to strangle him when the police conveniently arrive at the house. Boyle questions Carter and Oliver about the Lab break-in. Oliver tells Boyle that Carter broke in to the lab and stole the Digenerol. Boyle leaves with Carter, not under arrest, but wanted for more questioning. Oliver and Elsu continue to work on their monster, but Elsu is starting to get cold feet. He feels the experiment was successful and is now over. Johnny and Trudy set the date for their wedding. Oliver gleefully tells Trudy her uncle was arrested. After Johnny departs to get his father, a lawyer, to see Carter and the police, Oliver makes his move on Trudy. He proudly reveals his real identity as Oliver Frankenstein, and boasts, "And while your uncle was wasting his time on a trivial experiment, I was completing a masterful one." She rebuffs him and he drags her to the lab to see his creation. She faints and Oliver and Elsu place her on the gurney. "You've always treated me as a monster, Trudy. Now you're going to be one," he tells her. Elsu objects to his plans for Trudy, and threatens to go to the police. Oliver orders his monster to kill Elsu. Trudy wakes and exits the lab as Elsu meets his fate.Johnny meets with Boyle. Boyle tells him that Carter had a relapse and is in the police ward of the hospital. The doctor will only let him meet with his lawyer. Trudy arrives at Boyle's office and reports the monster and Oliver's true identity and Elsu's death. A phone call reveals that Carter has died. Boyle and Dillon pay a visit to the Morton home. They question Oliver and ask for his identification. Boyle knows Oliver is lying, so Dillon stays and waits for the gardener to return to question him. Boyle returns to headquarters. Dillon walks upstairs when he hears a noise, then back down to see Oliver secret himself into the lab. He follows Oliver to the back room behind the bookcase. He pulls his gun and enters the monster's room. Oliver and the creature are waiting. Oliver proudly tells Dillon that he's looking at Suzie Lawler, then laughs explaining that, "She's not as pretty as she was." He releases the monster and orders it to kill the detective, which it does. Trudy and Johnny drive to the Morton residence. Trudy answers the phone. Boyle asks about Dillon. Trudy sees the lab door open, and the pair investigate. They spot the secret entrance and explore. The monster struggles to escape its' shackles and succeeds. It walks downstairs and chases Johnny and Trudy into the lab. Oliver is waiting for them. He tells them that Dillon and Elsu are dead at the hands of his creation. He threatens, "You know Trudy, you escaped me once, but I don't think you can do it again." He orders the monster to kill the pair. Oliver tries to escape but the arrival of Boyle thwarts his attempt. While Johnny fends off the monster using the gurney, Boyle shoots it from the window. A flask of acid thrown by Johnny at the monster misses its intended target, but hits Oliver. His melted face is shown before he hits the floor screaming in agony. The monster goes to check on its master. Johnny and Trudy embrace as they watch the monster accidently set itself on fire. It screams as it tries to extinguish the flames. Johnny and Trudy meet Boyle in the foyer and tell him the monster is on fire in the lab. Boyle witnesses the death throes of the creature now fully engulfed in flames. It burns like a tire fire. Boyle tells the pair, "It's all over now. I'll call the department." They exit the house.Johnny and Trudy are by the pool. Trudy towels off her fiancé. Don stops by with the newspaper, anxious to have them read the story. Johnny it not interested and tells him to leave. Don falls into the pool. We close with Johnny and Trudy kissing and telling Don once again, "You can leave anytime."

Tags: insanity, murder

Review:
As much fun as I knew the family and neighbors were having outside, I couldn't have cared less; I was riveted to an old-fashioned television set watching FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER and adding this night to my memory banks.
A backyard barbecue scene again struck a chord, and was particularly appropriate on this festive evening where a noisy shindig was actually occurring a few feet away, just outside my own screen door.The movie starts with a pre-credits sequence: Sandra Knight is prowling the neighborhood in cheap (but effective) monster make-up, with bushy eyebrows and decaying buck teeth.
The next morning, Knight awakens as a normal-looking girl with no memory of what went on the previous evening, though when she meets Sally for tennis, her friend insists that she saw some sort of monster last night.
This strange revelation triggers memories of bad dreams for Knight, and she soon thinks that she could have been the creature in question.Meanwhile, Knight's elderly Uncle (played with hilarious ineptitude by the always-funny Felix Locher) is experimenting with a formula to render man ageless.
He has acquired a young assistant named Oliver Frank (short for Frankenstein, of course) who is supposedly aiding him, but who would rather see the old man dead so he can gain full use of the laboratory to concentrate on his own masterful experiment.
When the automation comes to life, it's actually a male actor (Harry Wilson) who portrays her with a toasty-looking face (reportedly, nobody bothered to tell makeup artist Harry Thomas that the monster was to be female, so he solved the dilemma by smearing some lipstick on its kisser!) Amidst the rampages of Frankenstein's Daughter, we are treated to the aforementioned evening backyard barbecue.
What a cast, Felix Locher, real life father of actor Jon Hall, as a dedicated but misguided scientist; Donald Murphy as yet another "last of the Frankenstein's" (the third one the movies offered us in the space of a single year!); Harold Lloyd Jr as the comedy relief, Sandra Knight (future Mrs. Jack Nicholson) as both the girl in distress AND the fill-in monster; and last but not least John Ashley as the hero.
This 1958 movie stars Donald Murphy as Oliver Frank (short for Frankenstein), grandson of the original monster maker.
Unbeknownst to Dr. Morton, Oliver is using the lab for not just legitimate experiments, but to try to carry on the "family business", creating a human being from body parts.Sandra Knight portrays Trudy Morton, Dr. Morton's teenage niece.
To make a long story short, Oliver creates a woman monster using the head of Trudy's va va voom friend Suzy (played by 1957 Playmate of the Year, Sally Todd) who was killed by Oliver in a jealous rage, and various other body parts, mostly male.
Campy Fun. Frankenstein's Daughter (1958) * 1/2 (out of 4) Dr. Frankenstein's grandson (Donald Murphy) moves to L.A. where he becomes an assistant but in his off time he is creating another brutish monster.
As it stands, this is a mildly entertaining film that has a few 'so bad it's good' laughs but in the end there's just not enough going for it to be rewarding in its running time.
What does work are the monsters, which includes the one the doctor is making but we also have a second one involving a young woman (Sandra Knight) who is being drugged by the bad doctor, which transforms her into a beast.
The make up effects are rather silly looking but they do create a couple interesting monsters, although it's very hard to believe that actress Sally Todd is behind the main one.
Now, what really kills the film is that the two monsters get very limited screen time as most of it focuses on the doctor, the young woman and her boyfriend.
The creature he ultimately creates looks like a wrinkled mass of toadstools, while the monster's female brain "is conditioned to a man's world; therefore takes orders where [19th century ones] didn't." (This line always brings the house down in theatres!) Fifties stalwart John Ashley provides his usual sturdy support to the befuddled Trudy, director Richard Cunha remarkably brings in his fourth awesome film of 1958 ("She Demons," "Giant From the Unknown" and "Missile to the Moon" being the others), and the Page Cavanaugh Trio performs two swinging rock 'n' roll numbers.
Donald Murphy is excellent as the descendant of Frankenstein and cheap movie regular John Ashley does his best Ricky Nelson imitation as the boyfriend of the girl Frankenstein experiments on.
If you enjoy bad movies, then Frankenstein's Daughter is a film that you should see.
But the franchise of Frankenstein got away from Universal and when Frankenstein got a daughter she was just the subject of a horribly bad movie, not a good horror picture.Sandra Knight's uncle Felix Locher is a scientist doing some home experiments with a new lab assistant Donald Murphy aiding him.
Murphy thinks why not try a female brain and the brain he gets is a friend Locher's niece Sandra Knight, Playboy centerfold Sally Todd.This one ranks right down there among the worst films ever made.
But she does kill on command and the end confrontation between Murphy and his creation and Knight and boyfriend John Ashley will have you rolling up the aisles.It occurred to me that since he only got the idea for a female brain and the original monster was a male, Frankenstein may have created the first deliberately made transgender individual.
as a kid in Paterson new jersey i loved channel 11's chiller theater,the claymation hand coming out of the grave grabbing the letters that spell chiller,anyway Frankensteins daughter is a wonderfully cheesy b-movie that scared me as a kid,but now its one of my favorite cheesy monster films.the monster is supposed to be a woman but looks like a man monster with lipstick.the spooky music was used in missile to the moon the same year which was a remake of the 3d movie cat-women of the moon.harold Lloyd Jr plays a descendant of Dr Frankenstein,so he decides to create a monster in the basement of his doctor employer,whose niece(Sandra knight)is unknowingly used as a guinea pig for Dr franks experiments.she turns into a bug eyed big toothed monster that looks amazingly like one of the she demons.no surprise it was made at the same studio as she demons,Astor films.
john Ashley the king of b-movies from the 50's and later star of the Filipino monster movies plays the girls boyfriend.i actually thought this was better then the usual b-movies.Sandra knight went on to star in the terror with her future husband jack Nicholson,and the legendary Boris karloff.7 out of 10.a good bad movie..
Now, as an adult, it's fun to pop these movies in and have a good laugh at the sometimes over-the-top performances cheesy sets and 'special' effects.Watching the movie this time, I was aware of its incredibly slow pacing, which seemed to be exacerbated by the incredible awful performance of Felix Locher as Carter Morton.
He's so bad that he makes everyone else look brilliant!This film has several 'horrors' on offer - the two 'monsters,' Locher's performance, and two dreadful teenage musical numbers.
Who is the person behind the ugly mask??One thing I like about these type of monster and horror movies is that the good guys always somehow defeat the monsters.
****SPOILERS**** Reviving the timeless adventures of the Frankenstein boys grandson Oliver Frank , Donald Murphy, who shortened his name from the famous Frankenstein, tries to succeed where his old man and grandpa failed, to create life, this time with the help of a female brain.Getting a job as an assistant to Dr. Carter Morton, Felix Locher, Oliver with the aid of his helper the Morton's creepy gardener Elsu, Wolf Barzell, who Oliver brought with him collect body parts, plans to finish what grandpa started; create life out of the dead.
A moment later the police knock on the door looking for a old man, Dr. Morton, who was seen in the neighborhood running from the Rockwell Labs with a bottle of Digeneral that he just stole, what a stroke of luck for Oliver.
Elsu just about had enough with the insane Oliver when he wanted to turn Trudy into another dead girl walking This has crazy Oliver turns the monster, who looks like a cross between a 1950's spaceman and Santa Clause, on Elsu who ends up killing him.
John Ashley was his usual good-guy lady-killer, not in the criminal sense of the word, self and Donald Murphy did over do it a bit as the crazed Oliver Frank, Frankenstein, with his insane actions as well his groping, Ollie just couldn't keep his hands off both Suzie and Trudy, of the girls in the movie.
Interestingly, Frankenstein has a secret workspace within where he is assembling yet another creature from dead body parts: missing only the head, he mows down the heroine's sluttish friend (who, in the very first scene, comes face to face with the one Knight herself had inadvertently become!) with his carbut no sooner has the monster been revived that it runs out of control and out of the house!
The rock'n'roll element comes into play here during a barbecue given at Knight's house (even if her uncle had just suffered a near-fatal heart attack!) and incorporates a couple of tunes sung by, of all people, Harold Lloyd Jr.(!) who, naturally, also handles the intentional comedy-relief angle throughout the film (but, as I said, the lab antics provide the real giggles here!).Also on hand are a couple of cops who have their hands full trying to cope with the many misdeeds (not to mention, egos and anxieties).
Donald Murphy's psychotic and mad-raving character Oliver Frank(enstein) is sheer opposite to the bone-headed and typically 50's teenagers, who like to play tennis and dance to atrocious song.
Well old Ollie has been working on a secret of his own.I noticed that the Frankenstein family not only put bodies together, they bred like rabbits.Ya' keep tripping over them everywhere.Ollie has been experimenting with a drug that changes Susie(the old man's niece) into a buck toothed, bushy eyed monster.Hmmm sounds like my Prom date.Also Ollie has been putting together, you guessed it, a body.
Damn if I know.Maybe Frankenstein's Looney Grandson was too long to fit on the marquee.The best way to watch this is if it has a horror host that breaks into the movie and makes fun of it.Better yet, watch it with your eyes closed.Or with the television off..
Frankensteins Daughter is one of the greatest b horror movies of all time.It has two of the ugliest, scariest monsters ever.The murder scenes are great.
If you want horror, laughs and an absolutely fun ending to your saturday night check out Frankensteins Daughter..
This is one of those pretty bad, but campy fun films from the 50's that filled double bills and entertained many of us as kids on t.v. chiller theater type shows.Oliver Frankenstein is the mad descendant, who is treading in forbidden territory.
By the way the monster creatures are obviously played by men in make-up.It's a very low budget, cardboard set kind of film that is lots of fun if you're in the right frame of mind..
Professor Carter Morton (Felix Locher) is trying to perfect a formula that will cure all known diseases (might as well go for broke); meanwhile, his assistant Oliver Frank (real surname: Frankenstein) is conducting his own experiments, testing the unfinished formula on Carter's unsuspecting niece Trudy (Sandra Knight), and fulfilling his family's legacy by building a monster.For a highly entertaining dose of '50s drive-in schlock, look no further than teen horror Frankenstein's Daughter, an unintentionally hilarious film with not one, but two monsters; the first is pretty teen Trudy, who is transformed into a hideous beast by the experimental formula slipped in her drink by Frank (Donald Murphy); the second is the grotesque creature assembled by Frank and HIS assistant Elsu (Wolfe Barzell).The Trudy monster has really bushy eyebrows, bug eyes, manky Austin Powers teeth, and really bad skin, but still has a rocking body; Frankenstein's monster has the body of a Russian shot putter and the head of Trudy's sexy blonde friend Suzy (1957 Playmate Sally Todd), but it looks as though, in being transplanted, her noggin took a bit of a bashing (to say the least).
The DVD cover of 1958's "Frankenstein's Daughter" makes it look like it's a goofy, campy horror/comedy, but that's not the case at all.
No matter, those first 55 minutes make "Frankenstein's Daughter" worth catching and the final act isn't all that bad; it's just not good, like the first two acts.They do a pretty good job on the female front, starting with Knight, who – interestingly – was the only woman to marry Jack Nicholson, which lasted from 1962-1968.
They could've AT LEAST given it breasts or made the mask look more female-ish.Still, in light of the goofy DVD cover, I was actually impressed by "Frankenstein's Daughter," the first two-thirds anyway.The movie runs 85 minutes and was presumably shot in the L.A. area.GRADE: C+.
It's better than 'Teenages From Outer Space,' but that's not saying much.The eponymous monster, Frankenstein's Daughter, does not appear even vaguely female, instead looking like one of the lunch ladies from my grade school cafeteria, or perhaps the great thespian William Frawley.I suspect the producers of this film must have figured out that they had Fred Mertz Monster on their hands, because there is a really strange and tangential subplot which involves making a temporary monster out of a cute young bathing-suit clad ingénue.
This time the monster make up is good (by schlock-horror standards) and there is some interesting footage of a nice-looking bathing suit clad female body with a horrible monster face.The other interesting thing in this film is the creepy, murderous and sexually predatory Dr. Frankenstein.
There is also some obligatory teenage music and scenes by the swimming pool.As an adult connoisseur of schlock horror and bad movies, this film is mildly enjoyable.
FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER is my Top Fifties Fave Horror Film because it has fun but believable performances, Harry Thomas make-up, a monster that isn't male or female, and gave me nightmares as a kid when I saw it on a local Danville, Illinois television station (WDAN).
What "Frankenstein's Daughter" does have, however, are quite a few converging or otherwise tangential plotlines.In keeping with the spirit of Mary Shelley's parthenogenic myth of creating life without a mother, the film's only two main female characters are each turned into monsters by the grandson of Frankenstein.
All in all, "Frankenstein's Daughter" is worth a look for those who enjoy so-bad-it's-good schlock..
When he isn't hitting hard on Morton's granddaughter, Trudy (played by Sandra Knight, who can also be seen in "The Terror"), he's dosing her with a drug that makes her horrible looking.
As per formula (Teens to the rescue!), Trudy's boyfriend (played by John Ashley, who costarred in the equally funny "The Eye Creatures") destroys the monster, and Frank dies in the hilarious climatic scene in the laboratory.I downloaded a copy from The Internet Archive.
Drive in classic about a decedent of Frankenstein turning a woman into a monster.Painful bad movie used to be a staple on late night TV and in the drive ins across the country.
Don't get me wrong its great fun in a bad movie sort of a way, but at the same time there is no way to get around the fact that the film is a stinker.
Not good at taking constructive criticism, Dr. Frank tells his henchman, "From here on in, I decide what's evil."While the mad scientist works hard to spark life in his creature, old man Morton picks that inconvenient moment to have a heart seizure.
Working with him is his assistant "Oliver Frank" (Donald Murphy) who has very little regard for either Professor Morton or the experiment he is working on.
It's one of those bad movies which are good.The grandson of the original Dr Frankenstein continues the usual experiments and he creates a hideous she monster (though it looks more like a man).
As usual, it goes on the rampage and murders several people before being burned to death in Frankensteins lab at the end.The cast includes John Ashley, Sandra Knight (The Terror), Harold Lloyd Jr (son of the comedy star) and Sally Todd.This is a must for all bad movie fans.
Knight's beautiful teenage character, Trudy, lives with her Uncle who is assisted by Oliver Frank.
Frank gives Trudy a potion turning her into a monster but Knight's good looks still come through the makeup.
Frank eventually first dates, then kills a mutual lady friend of Trudy's and turns her brain into that of a Frankenstein monster.
FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER is a hammy horror B-movie that fits right in at the tail-end of the 1950s.
The film sees a descendant of the original Frankenstein now holed up in small town America, where his nefarious experiments transform a young woman into a snarling, scowling, and very ugly creature (played by a man, oddly enough).
The younger Dr. Frank is busy using the lab for his own experiments with dead female body parts and getting his love life satisfied with several young attractive women.*Special Stars- John Ashley, Sadra Knight, Donald Murphy, Sally Todd, Felix Locher *Theme- Tampering with nature will always be a mistake.*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W.
Frankenstein's evil and determined grandson Oliver Frank (a spirited and sinister performance by Donald Murphy) works with the kindly Prof.
The story flashes back to a laboratory with the abominable, undaunted, scheming Doctor Oliver Frank (Donald Murphy) and his assistant, the weathered foreign helper Elsu (Wolfe Barzell) who spends his days and nights searching for body parts to satisfy Dr. Frank's experiments to create a modern Frankenstein monster.