Rare "behind the scenes" production shot featuring Director Freddie Francis bending down while stepping in mud and holding a Hammer script as Katie Wild (Rena, deaf-mute girl) is watching in the background.
The Evil of Frankenstein is a 1964 film directed by Freddie Francis. The third installment in Hammer's Frankenstein series, it stars Peter Cushing, Katie Wild, Sandor Elès and Kiwi Kingston. The script for the film by Anthony Hinds was based on a story synopsis that Peter Bryan submitted in May 1958 for the aborted Tales of Frankenstein television series. The film breaks continuity from the preceding film, The Revenge of Frankenstein.
A flashback creates a prior history that is wholly unrelated to the last Sangster script and is instead plundered from Universal's Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman." The film was in production from October 14th to November 16th, 1963 at Bray Studios in Windsor, Berkshire and on location at Black Park Country Park in Wexham, Buckinghsamshire. The film was made during Hammer's six-year co-production pact with Columbia Pictures. This led to the company to make a few productions a year with Universal Pictures, with The Evil of Frankenstein being the only film that Hammer made that was financed by Universal in 1963.
The film's version of the Monster is noted for resembling the one in Universal Pictures' original Frankenstein series of the 1930s and 1940s, including the distinctive laboratory sets as well as the flat-headed look of Jack Pierce's monster make-up which had been designed for Boris Karloff. Earlier Frankenstein films by Hammer had studiously avoided such similarities for copyright reasons. However, a new film distribution deal had been made between Hammer and Universal.
As a result, Hammer had free rein to duplicate make-up and set elements. Additional scenes for American television were filmed on January 14th, 1966 at Universal Studios in Los Angeles adding a new subplot featuring Steven Geray, Maria Palmer and William Phipps, who had not appeared in the original version. The Evil of Frankenstein had its premiere in London on April 19th, 1964 at the New Victoria Theatre. It received a general release in the country in May 31st, 1964. It later received a release in the United States by Universal Pictures on May 8th, 1964.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that the monster made "a welcome return to tradition in a close approximation of Boris Karloff's celebrated make-up" and that the Baron's lab equipment was "as photogenic as ever.
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