BORIS KARLOFF – FRANKENSTEIN (1931) Monster Reaching for Sunlight Universal Horror Photo
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BORIS KARLOFF as Frankenstein’s Monster raises his face and enormous hands toward the sunlight in this extraordinary black-and-white image associated with FRANKENSTEIN (1931). Karloff’s dark costume nearly disappears into the surrounding shadow as the illumination isolates his unmistakable Jack Pierce makeup, upturned face and expressive reaching hands, recalling one of the film’s most poignant visual expressions of the Monster’s curiosity and childlike wonder.
Directed by James Whale and produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. for Universal Pictures, FRANKENSTEIN stars Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein, Karloff as the Monster, Mae Clarke as Elizabeth, Edward Van Sloan as Dr. Waldman and Dwight Frye as Fritz. In the celebrated sequence, Henry opens an overhead skylight and the newly animated Monster rises toward the sunlight, stretching out his hands as though attempting to grasp it before the opening is closed and the light disappears. Karloff’s remarkably physical, largely wordless performance and Jack Pierce’s defining Monster makeup helped establish an image that became inseparable from Universal Horror.
Carefully restored from archival photographic materials and professionally lab-developed, this museum-quality photograph is presented uncropped, preserving the complete image area contained in the original studio-issued archival material. Karloff’s uplifted face, dramatically illuminated hands and unmistakable Monster silhouette make this an especially powerful image for collectors of FRANKENSTEIN, Boris Karloff, Universal Monsters and classic horror cinema.
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