Frankenstein

Dracula was a big success for Universal and producer Carl Laemmle Jr. set out to follow up the gothic romance with something similar in terms of tone and reputation. What he ended up picking was an adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel about man conquering nature to create life and the fallout that follows. Eventually the directing duties fell on James Whale based on a script credited to Garrett Fort and Francis Edward Faragoh (that Whale apparently rewrote a good deal). What Whale ended up c...