Frankenstein (1910)

Directed by

J. Searle Dawley

Genre

horror film, silent film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

13 min

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 231 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster from body parts in his lab. The monster comes to life and terrorizes its creator and his fiancee.

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What happens

Frankenstein is a 1910 American short silent horror film produced by Edison Studios. It was directed by J. Searle Dawley, who also wrote the one-reeler's screenplay, broadly basing his "scenario" on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. This short motion picture is generally recognized by film historians as the first screen adaptation of Shelley's work. The small cast, who are not credited in the surviving 1910 print of the film, includes Augustus Phillips as Dr. Frankenstein, Charles Ogle as Frankenstein's monster, and Mary Fuller as the doctor's fiancée. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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