Hollywood Stories: Young Frankenstein Follies

Mel Brooks and the cast of the famous comedy almost went overboard with their ad-libbing.

Author Stephen Schochet is a professional tour guide in Hollywood who years ago began collecting little known, humorous anecdotes to tell to his customers. His new book Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes About the Stars and Legends of the Movies! The book contains a timeless treasure trove of colorful vignettes featuring an amazing all-star cast of icons including John Wayne, Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Jack Nicholson, Johnny Depp, Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Errol Flynn, and many others both past and contemporary. Tim Sika, host of the radio show Celluloid Dreams on KSJS in San Jose has called Stephen, "The best storyteller about Hollywood we have ever heard." Available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or wherever books are sold. For more information go to http://www.hollywoodstories.com

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[kirkindysolospock]

'Some hasty editing by Brooks removed the flat jokes which cut the film's length in half...'

Hasty editing? I'm sure people worked their tails off on the editing. Just watch the outtakes of Young Frankenstein available on youtube. The impromptu nature of the filming is what produced such a great film.

The conclusion that this narrator states irks me, with 'flat jokes'.

What's great about youtube is to be able to respond to things that don't fly, like this piece.

[htales]

Sorry your irked but hasty means "rapid in action or movement" not that anybody didn't work hard. Absolutely no insult was meant toward the filmmakers.

[htales]

From imdb:

"The original cut of the movie was almost twice as long as the final cut, and it was considered by all involved to be an abysmal failure. It was only after a marathon cutting session that they produced the final cut of the film, which both Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks considered to be far superior to the original product. At one point they noted that for every joke that worked, there were three that fell flat. So they went in and trimmed all the jokes that didn't work."

[Jamiesyme999]

I knew the story felt like it was missing alot

[kleetus92]

@Digressor666 That would be a good seller for a 40 year anniversary!

[martiniuturtlini]

@kirkindysolospock if it's hasty would have taken even more energy and effort to edit because hasty meant move very quickly which meant they had to rush a lot; sorry i replied to such an old post

[coyotecrow4]

Frau Blucher!!! (whinny!!) Didja know that Blucher means 'glue' in German. Thats why the horses hated her name. Mel did it as kind of an in-joke.

[blunderboy1964]

@htales understood i think though that Marathon works better than hasty. though correct, it makes it appear Brooks and Wilder were saying "ah hell just cut that out" instead of the poring over the scenes they did to make this the classic it is

[USPSAman]

shit i would loved for the movie to have been 3 hours. I would have been hilarious.

[LibertineDeSade]

This was one of my favorite movies as a child. And I distinctly remember laughing hysterically at the parts where Dr. Frankenstein questions Igor about his hump. "What hump?" And then when it moved! OMG, that would set me off every time!

[chubbylilloser]

I would love to see the 3 hour version!... i dont think theres ever been a 3 hour comedy lol

[Digressor666]

I honestly wanna see the 3 hour cut.

[Sydpart2]

Man I kind of want to see the original edit...