DO POP IN PUB. ALL ARE WELCOME

BBC2 England
11:40 pm Monday Dec 26th
COMEDY
105 min. US, Mel Brooks, 1974, Cert:PG

This is an enjoyably silly film from Mel Brooks that's a pastiche on the Frankenstein legend and those horror films of the Thirties. Gene Wilder is on form as the good doctor's descendant, who is destined to continue his namesake's work. Peter Boyle is excellent as the Monster, as is the delightfully off-the-wall Marty Feldman as the hunchback ('Hump? What hump? '). The most successful scene is a masterpiece of comic business between the Monster (Peter Boyle) and the blind hermit (an unbilled Gene Hackman). (T) (W/S) (B/W)