We celebrate the Blu-Ray Release of Charles Barton’s delightful “
” (1948). My late mother Coletta always claimed that she saw this and was frightened by it when she was pregnant with me, and further insisted my extreme nervousness as a child was a result of that pre-natal exposure to Dracula, The Wolf Man and Frankenstein’s monster. I accepted this as gospel for years, though more recently I’ve had trouble making the math work for my sometimes imaginative mom. “Meet Frankenstein” bowed at the old Loews Criterion in Times Square around July 29, when it earned two dismissive paragraphs (“assembly line comedy”) from the New York Times’ B.S. Crisler. Even allowing for a generous holdover — it was Universal’s No. 2 grosser of the year — was it really still working its way through NYC’s many sub-run theaters on a double feature by the time I was conceived in early 1949?
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