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    Lady Frankenstein (1971)

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    By the early 1970s, Hammer were ramping up the sex and violence in their gothic horrors, but they could never go this far!

    Lady Frankenstein sidelines both the Baron (Joseph Cotten) and the creature, with his daughter (Rosalba Neri, billed here as Sara Bay) centre-stage as she transplants the brains of dad’s assistant into a hunky stablehand to “satisfy her strange desires” (as the promo poster puts it).

    With its mid-European setting and torch-wielding villagers, it’s firmly in the Hammer tradition, but with no holds barred: a scene where the creature hurls not a child but a naked woman into the river sums up the approach.

    The location work and sets impress, as do the echoey drones of the score. Rosalba Neri is an imperious, seductive lead, and despite the flesh on display, there’s some justification for directorial claims of feminist intent, given that she’s playing an assertive female surgeon.

    The cast includes former Mr Universe Mickey Hargitay (Mr Jayne Mansfield and father of Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay) as a police captain.

    Baron Frankenstein
    Joseph Cotten
    Tania Frankenstein
    Rosalba Neri (as Sara Bay)
    Dr Charles Marshall
    Paul Muller
    The Creature
    Riccardo Pizzuti (as Peter Whiteman)
    Tom Lynch
    Herbert Fux
    Julia Stack
    Renate Kasché (as Renata Cash)
    Farmer’s wife
    Ada Pometti (as Ada Pomeroy)
    Jim Turner
    Andrea Aureli (as Andrew Ray)
    John 
    Joshua Sinclair (as Johnny Loffrey)
    Simon Burke
    Richard Beardley
    Jack Morgan
    Petar Martinovitch (as Peter Martinov)
    Child
    Adam Welles
    Captain Harris
    Mickey Hargitay
    Peter
    Lorenzo Terzon (as Lawrence Tilden)

    Director
    Mel Welles

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