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Oct 20, 2026

Cindy RotzHOST
12:46
Yeah.
Marty GentiusHOST
12:47
The thing that got me confused, and it might have been my confusion alone, was Carl and Fritz.
Cindy RotzHOST
12:57
Who's that?
Marty GentiusHOST
12:57
Who? Let me check this out.
Marty GentiusHOST
13:11
Not Wilmer, but he was in The Maltese Falcon in a bit role.
Marty GentiusHOST
13:17
And then Frankenstein, of course.
Marty GentiusHOST
13:19
He plays Fritz in Frankenstein, and he plays Carl in The Bride of Frankenstein.
Cindy RotzHOST
13:26
I think I read something about that, that they wanted to bring him back.
Ryan Dean HalbrookPANELIST
11:09
So Dwight Frye...
Ryan Dean HalbrookPANELIST
11:10
So Dwight Frye played Fritz in the original, which Fritz is a dick.
Ryan Dean HalbrookPANELIST
11:13
We'll talk about Frankenstein at some point.
Ryan Dean HalbrookPANELIST
11:15
But Dwight Frye is so good.
BrianHOST
22:24
The set does a lot, and it brings you into the movie.
BrianHOST
22:28
And then you see Fritz and Henry Frankenstein, like, behind a gate just slowly pop out, and you're just kind of like, "What the hell is going on?" And if this is your first time...
BrianHOST
22:39
It's funny too because it almost looks like it's straight out of the fucking Haunted Mansion in the way that some of the animatronics, like, slowly pop up over the graves, but that's what they do.
BrianHOST
22:50
That's what's happening here.
BrianHOST
23:37
I don't think he actually is, but he has a specific name.
BrianHOST
23:40
And he starts shoveling dirt there on the body that's on the ground.
BrianHOST
23:45
So as he finishes covering the grave with dirt, he grabs his hat, grabs his smokes, and just leaves the scene, and that brings up Fritz, who happens to be our hunchback, right? Who you might call Igor or, in some cases, Igor, you know, just to make sure that everything is proper and properly pronounced in this.
BrianHOST
24:05
And, you know, he walks off, and here comes Franke- and, well, Frankie.
Mackenna GoodrichHOST
18:13
So although Frankenstein's hunchback assistant is often referred to as Igor in descriptions of all of these movies, he is not called Igor in the earliest films.
Mackenna GoodrichHOST
18:23
He is named Fritz in the first movie.
Mackenna GoodrichHOST
18:26
Aww.
Mackenna GoodrichHOST
18:27
And then he is Carl in The Bride of Frankenstein, Carl with a K.
Aubrey HofferHOST
19:40
Yeah.
Mackenna GoodrichHOST
19:41
Yeah, and often I think where they go in these is both.
Mackenna GoodrichHOST
19:46
But so, yeah, and so when we first see him as Fritz, he's hunchbacked and walks with the aid of a small cane.
Mackenna GoodrichHOST
19:51
And I think it's just very specific that, like, in both Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, it is Carl and Fritz who are technically separate characters, but they are both played by actor Dwight Frye.
Brant BumpersGUEST
16:42
Yep.
Uncle PatchesHOST
16:42
Uh, Dwight Fry as Fritz.
Uncle PatchesHOST
16:44
Now, Fritz would've been the Ygor character-
Brant BumpersGUEST
16:48
Yes.
Sinister CinemaHOST
16:48
Mm-hmm

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