Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed ★★½ 1969

Evil Dr. Frankenstein (Cushing) gets interested in brain transplants but discovers the expert, Dr. Pravda, he hoped to work with has gone mad and is in an asylum. He forces a young medical couple to help him free Pravda but the man is accidentally killed. Nevertheless, Frankenstein transplants Pravda's brain into the body of an asylum inmate that Frankenstein has murdered. These things never work out as intended. Followed by “The Horror of Frankenstein.” 97m/C VHS, DVD . GB Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Maxine Audley, Simon Ward, Thorley Walters, George Pravda, Colette O'Neil; D: Terence Fisher; W: Bert Batt; C: Arthur Grant.

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