<P> The movie stars Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles and Karloff, and features Dwight Frye and Edward van Sloan . The Webling play was adapted by John L. Balderston and the screenplay written by Francis Edward Faragoh and Garrett Fort with uncredited contributions from Robert Florey and John Russell . The make - up artist was Jack Pierce . A hit with both audiences and critics, the film was followed by multiple sequels and has become arguably the most iconic horror film in history . </P> <P> In 1991, the Library of Congress selected Frankenstein for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ." </P> <P> In a European village, a young scientist, named Henry Frankenstein, and his assistant Fritz, a hunchback, piece together a human body, the parts of which have been collected from various sources, including stealing freshly buried bodies in a cemetery, and recently hanged criminals . Frankenstein desires to create human life through electrical devices which he has perfected . He sends Fritz to a school where Dr. Waldman, Henry's old medical professor, teaches, to steal a brain; Fritz drops the normal brain and has to take the brain of a criminal . </P> <P> Elizabeth, his fiancée, is worried over his peculiar actions . She cannot understand why he secludes himself in an abandoned watch tower, which he has equipped as a laboratory, refusing to see anyone . She and a friend, Victor Moritz, go to Dr. Waldman, and ask Waldman's help in reclaiming the young scientist from his experiments . Waldman tells them that Frankenstein has been working on creating life . Elizabeth, intent on rescuing Frankenstein, arrives just as Henry is making his final tests . He tells them to watch, claiming to have discovered the ray that brought life into the world . They watch Frankenstein and the hunchback as they raise the dead creature on an operating table, high into the room, toward an opening at the top of the laboratory . Then a terrific crash of thunder, the crackling of Frankenstein's electric machines, and the hand of Frankenstein's creature begins to move, prompting Frankenstein to shout' It's alive!' . </P>

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