THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1942) **1/2 Bela Lugosi, facing political persecution in the town of Frankenstein, goes elsewhere and blackmails a psychiatrist named Frankenstein. He convinces Frankenstein's associate that if he (the associate) tricks him (Dr. Frankenstein) into putting his (Bela's) brain into the monster's (Lon Chaney, Jr.) body he'll (the associate) become head of the local medical board. See what happens when they give Bela lots of lines! One of Evelyn Ankers' dresses looks like it has hands coming up over her breasts, anticipating that entirely glorious thing worn by Barbara Streisand in The Owl and the Pussycat.
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