Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and written by Brooks and Gene Wilder. The story is a parody of classic horror films, particularly the various film adaptations of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein produced by Universal Pictures in the 1930s. The cast includes Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars, and Gene Hackman.
The film was a critical and box office success, grossing over $86 million worldwide on a $2.78 million budget. It received two Academy Award nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay for Wilder, and has since been regarded as one of the greatest comedy films of all time. In 2003, it was ranked 28th on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 funniest American movies.
The film follows the story of Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed medical lecturer who inherits his grandfather's castle and laboratory in Transylvania. He becomes obsessed with continuing his grandfather's experiments in reanimating the dead and succeeds in bringing a corpse to life, but things quickly get out of hand. With the help of his hunchbacked assistant Igor, his fiancée Inga, and the housekeeper Frau Blücher, Frederick struggles to control his creation and prevent it from causing further havoc in the town.
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