Trivia / The Curse of Frankenstein

• Breakthrough Hit: The film launched Hammer Horror.
• Creator Backlash: Sally Walsh, who played the child Elizabeth, hated working on the film, as she was only four and couldn't understand what was going on. Years later her mother said she still hated her experience.
• Dawson Casting: Peter Cushing was 44 when he starred in this film. The beginning of the film suggests that Victor first began his tutleage when was still young enough for Paul to initially mistake Victor for the young son of the Baron, rather than the Baron himself. Young Victor is played by a much younger actor than Cushing and the lines suggest that he is still in his teens at the time. Assuming that about 10 years passes between this and the present (and given the barely noticeable aging of Paul), the Victor Frankenstein as played by Cushing should have been about in his mid to late 20s at most.
• Deleted Role: Patrick Troughton appeared in a brief role as a mortuary attendant. Although his name is credited on some early publicity material, his scenes were cut from the finished film.
• No Budget: According to screenwriter Jimmy Sangster, his awareness of cost influenced him to not write scenes involving the villagers storming the castle that was typically seen in the Universal horror films "because we couldn't afford it".
• Real-Life Relative: Hazel Court's daughter Sally Walsh plays Young Elizabeth.
• Reality Subtext: Hazel Court's costumes were part of a real Victorian wardrobe that was handed down over the years.
• Star-Making Role: For Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
• Those Two Actors: This is the movie that introduced Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee to each other. The pair became lifelong friends and starred in 22 movies together. This started when Lee complained that he didn't have any lines in the film, and Cushing said "You're lucky! I've read the script."
• Throw It In!: When the Creature is shot in the woods, Christopher Lee was yelling in pain for real - as fake blood had gone into his eye.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The film was originally set to be a black and white film with Boris Karloff as Dr. Frankenstein and Bernard Bresslaw as The Creature. Universal threatened to sue if they copied anything from their version, so the film was done in colour with a different actor in the lead.
  • A brief shot depicting the prop head being dissolved in acid had to be cut from the film to avoid an X rating.

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