
Frankenstein's Daughter
Frankenstein's Daughter is an independently made 1958 American black-and-white science fiction/horror film drama, produced by Marc Frederic and George Fowley, directed by Richard E. Cunha, that stars John Ashley, Sandra Knight, Donald Murphy, and Sally Todd. The film was distributed by Astor Pictures and was released theatrically as a double feature with Missile to the Moon.
Plot
Teenager Trudy Morton, who lives with her uncle Carter Morgan, has nightmares in which she is a monster running about the streets. Her boyfriend Johnny Bruder dismisses them. Unbeknownst to Trudy, she actually does turn into a monster at night, thanks to Carter's lab assistant Oliver Frank. He lives with them and has been spiking Trudy's fruit punch with the formula that he and Carter are developing at the home lab. Carter's goal is to eliminate all disease so that people can live forever; Oliver's goal is different: with the help of Elsu the gardener, he is assembling a "perfect being", for Oliver Frank is actually Oliver Frankenstein, grandson of the original Dr. Frankenstein.
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author | H. E. Barrie |
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director | Richard E. Cunha |
editor | Everett Dodd |
genre | drama horror science fiction |
keywords | arrest attack frankenstein monster frankenstein\'s monster frightened woman hiding place kill learn melt mentally ill morning newspaper story overactive imagination police station run scar secret door |
musicBy | Nicholas Carras |
producer | Marc Frederic |
publisher | Astor Pictures |
theme | science fiction horror |