Sven- Son of Frankenstein (1939)

 

Baron Wolf von Frankenstein returns to the family home to "reclaim" the name of Frankenstein.  He brings along his wife and young child (who was raised in Texas, apparently).  He runs into Ygor, who wants him to revive the monster.  Naturally, ol' Wolf can't resist, and the expected chaos happens.

I had seen most of the Universal monster movies growing up numerous times, but this one was only showed once, as far as I remember.  None of them were really shown in order, but at some point I had realized what those numbers after the movie meant- the year it was released.  So I could piece together a chronology.  Not that any of these movies had a strict chronology, but they did at least follow general timeline and sometimes had repeating characters.

This movie was almost 30 minutes longer than the first two Frankenstein movies.  It has an all star headlining cast, and Bela is great as Ygor.  He and Karloff had children born while the movie was being shot.  They bonded over being fathers.  Sven didn't get to do too much shtick due to the run time of the movie.  Next: House of Frankenstein!