Need help with Hammer film

[YoungOnce]

Growing up, I remember seeing a Hammer Frankenstein film (at least I recalled it as a Hammer film) where they ended up on a ship in the arctic.

I recall a severed hand crawling about too.

Anyone know which film this was?

[ramsey37]

So far as I know, none of the Hammer Frankenstein films ended in the Arctic. You might be thinking of this movie:
Frankenstein: The True Story
It was a 1973 British TV movie, and does end up with Victor and the Monster dying in the Arctic.
George :feiertag-smiley-003

[Type3Toys]

There was also a Coopala directed version with Deniro as the monster. I love this one.
Anyway, this version also ends in the artic.

[Meule]

There was also a Coopala directed version with Deniro as the monster. I love this one.
Anyway, this version also ends in the artic.

But that one isn't that old :wink_y:

[YoungOnce]

Yes... this would have been in the 70's

Has anyone seen this anywhere on dvd?

[TEXASFETT]

Yes... this would have been in the 70's

Has anyone seen this anywhere on dvd?

You can try ebay,usually I find some out of prints horror movies on DVD format for good prices.

[Gorn Captain]

Well, the original book has its ending on the ice.
Not too sure where you got the severed crawling hand, though.

Are you sure you're not mixing up two movies?

Lemme torture my braincells and think....

[Vortigern99]

I second the notion that you must be thinking of the 1973 made-for-BBC Frankenstein. Bo Svenson plays the monster, Robert Foxworth the doctor. It carries the bookend Arctic sequence from the novel, but only in the final scene.

BTW, the DeNiro version was directed by Kenneth Branagh, not FF Coppola. (Coppola directed Bram Stoker's Dracula, which made so much money Hollywood decided they had to do Frankenstein, too... only not as well). It has the bookend Arctic sequence from the novel, but of course it was released in 1994, so you can't have seen it as a child.

(The 1993 made-for-TNT Frankenstein, with Patrick Bergen and Randy Quaid (!!!) is perhaps the best adaptation of the novel, replete with the Arctic bookends.)

[thunderbolt]

The True Story one is available, its in my Netflix que.

[YoungOnce]

It is possible that I'm mixing things up... I was only ten or eleven at the time I think... somewhere in the pre-teen years, back in the mid 70's...

Unless I have fabricated the thing, seems like I recall the severed hand being locked up, perhaps in a box or drawer, and it "escapes"... I can see it crawling along... I think that it might have been the doctor's first attempt at reanimation...I wish I could remember more.

But it definately had that gothic, Hammer feel...

[palitoy]

Both Frankenstein the True Story and the Bo Svenson Frankenstein have endings in the artic as I recall. Can't remember a crawling hand other than "Frankenstein conquers the world" though.

[knight errant00]

No, there's a crawling hand in "True Story" --I think it was Polidori's (David McCallum's) precursor experiment to the one he would do with Frankenstain that would result in the monster.

I remember seeing it as a kid and being startled when the hand suddenly grabbed Frankenstein's arm unexpectedly and McCallum exclaimed "It knows you!"

I'm pretty sure the movie in question is "Frankenstein: The True Story"

[YoungOnce]

Thanks for all the help. I have found it on Amazon and it's on it's way here. I'll soon know if this is the movie I remembered it to be.

Woo hoo! Maybe I'll save it for Halloween!