Young Frankenstein

By EW Staff
Published on June 30, 1998 04:00AM EDT
Teri Garr, Gene Wilder, ...

Mel Brooks’ spoof of the Universal monster movies is his most stylish and subtle film. The cast is a corker: coscreenwriter Gene Wilder as young Doc Frank; Madeline Kahn, in an Elsa Lanchester hairdo, as his fiancee; klutzy monster Peter Boyle; and Marty Feldman as Igor, the humpback valet in total denial about his hump.

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