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Well, I enjoy FRANKIE '70. It's got good cinematography, Boris Karloff hamming it up as a scarred mad doc creating a lumbering monster in a far-away castle, secret passageways and a hidden lab, hearts and eyeballs, a "surprise" ending....... for monsterkids, what's not to like?

The movie is a 2:35:1 scope film (which is probably how it will appear on DVD). So I'm not sure about the "TV-ish look".


I never saw a scope print, but that's got to be true of many. I guess by TV-ish, I mean flat even lighting and little in the way of camera movement and stage-like interiors. Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I wasn't dazzled by any cinematography.

Your description above, if you'll forgive, is somewhat sentimental it that it lauds the films components without ever turning a critical eye as to weather or not they add up to a good movie.

I know some who love just about every "Old Dark House" talkie from the 30's just because there is "a howling storm outside, suspicious servants, secret passages, and mad killer on the loose." That all sounds great in theory, but even so there's world of distance between something like Old Dark House and The Monster Walks.