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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
April 16, 2016  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

TCM presents an unusually goofy double feature tonight: two horror-movie comedies that know enough about the subject they’re spoofing to have some very smart fun with them. First up: Mel Brooks and his 1974 black-and-white Young Frankenstein comedy classic, photographed as lovingly as the James Whale originals. Gene Wilder is perfect as the young doctor, and Peter Boyle is better than perfect, somehow, as his creature, especially when he’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz.”

 
 
 
 
 
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