SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939) **1/2 With Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff on the payroll I have absolutely no idea why we get stuck with so much Basil Rathbone. I mean he's ok, but c'mon. Is it a monster movie or fringe psychodrama on apologism? Bela is incredibly cute and fuzzy as the evil Ygor whose head is barely attached after being hung. He's got a better character, more lines, funnier close-ups, better drugs...no wonder Karloff refused to ever play Frankenstein again. Lionel Belmore creates a cottage industry with his cautiously liberal inspector with a prosthetic arm and outstanding monocle but whose results aren't in the same league as Clousseau. The bureaucrats are nicely done and representatively cowardly and bumbling.
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