Early in his career, Hackman gave an uncharacteristically silly performance as a blind hermit in Young Frankenstein. When the monster escapes and runs amok around town, the blind man invites it ...

In 1974, Mel Brooks gave the world Young Frankenstein—a movie that would set the bar for all future horror comedies to come. 1. Studio Executives tried Tricking Director Mel Brooks into Shooting ...

The students of the Davies High School Theatre Department brought Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein: The Musical to life with a production filled with humor, heart, and high-energy performances.

How Young Frankenstein turned Mary Shelley’s literary classic into comedy gold As Mel Brooks’s revisionist monster comedy turns 50, Geoffrey Macnab looks at the making and legacy of a truly ...

Danny Goldman, the actor who voiced Brainy Smurf and played the persistent medical student whose prying questions drove Gene Wilder's irate doctor to stab his own leg with a scalpel in the opening ...