Doctor Franken (1980) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1980 · 100 mins · English

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Directed by

Jeff Lieberman, Marvin J. Chomsky

Starring

Teri Garr, Robert Vaughn, Rudolph Willrich, Josef Sommer, Addison Powell, Ted Sorel

Set in a present‑day Manhattan brownstone, this modern retelling of the Frankenstein myth follows a driven New York surgeon, played by Robert Vaughn, who clandestinely brings tissue and organs from his experimental research hospital back to his apartment. There he painstakingly assembles the fragmented body of an unnamed patient using grafts from multiple donors, probing the limits of science and morality.