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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (Original title)
Dates: 1969 (Copyright), 08 June 1969 (Release)

Countries: United Kingdom, USA

Directed by: Terence Fisher

Synopsis: Frankenstein blackmails a young asylum doctor into releasing the mad Dr Brandt so that he can learn the secret of his brain freezing technique.

Genres:
Horror, Science Fiction

Subject:
Frankenstein
Releases
Date: July 1969Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 97 mins Length: 8771 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Warner-Pathé Distributors

Credits (32)
©: Hammer Film Productions, A Hammer Film Production: Hammer Film Productions, Presents: Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Released through [GB prints]: Warner-Pathé Distributors, Distributed by [US prints]: Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Produced by: Anthony Nelson Keys, Production Manager: Christopher Neame, Assistant Director: Bert Batt, Continuity: Doreen Dearnaley, Casting Director: Irene Lamb, Screenplay by: Bert Batt, From an original story by: Anthony Nelson Keys, Bert Batt, Director of Photography: Arthur Grant, Camera Operator: Neil Binney, Special Effects: Studio Locations Limited, Editor: Gordon Hales, Supervising Art Director: Bernard Robinson, Construction Manager: Arthur Banks, Wardrobe Mistress: Lottie Slattery, Wardrobe Supervisor: Rosemary Burrows, Make-up: Eddie Knight, Hair Stylist: Pat McDermott, Music Composed by: James Bernard, Musical Director: Philip Martell, Sound Supervisor: Tony Lumkin, Sound Recordist: Ken Rawkins, Sound System: RCA Sound System, [Boom Operator]: Harry Fairbairn, Sound Editor: Don Ranasinghe, Produced at: Associated British Elstree Studios
Cast (18)
Peter Cushing (Baron Frankenstein), Veronica Carlson (Anna Spengler), Simon Ward (Karl Holst), Freddie Jones (Professor Richter), Thorley Walters (Inspector Frisch), Maxine Audley (Ella Brandt), George Pravda (Doctor Brandt), Geoffrey Bayldon (police doctor), Colette O'Neil (mad woman), Harold Goodwin (burglar), Frank Middlemass, George Belbin, Norman Shelley, Michael Gover (Anna's lodger), Peter Copley (principal), Jim Collier (Doctor Heidecke), Allan Surtees, Windsor Davies (police sergeant)