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Life Without Soul - Wikipedia

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Life Without Soul
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Directed by	Joseph W. Smiley
Written by	Jesse J. Goldburg
Produced by	John I. Dudley
Starring	Percy Standing George De Carlton
Distributed by	Ocean Pictures
Release date	November 21, 1915 (1915-11-21) ^[1]
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent film English intertitles

Life Without Soul (1915) is a lost horror film, directed by Joseph W. Smiley and written by Jesse J. Goldburg. This film is an adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The film is about a doctor who creates a soulless man. In the end, it turns out that a young man has dreamed the events of the film after falling asleep reading Shelley's novel.

This version is considered a lost film and the second film version of Frankenstein.^[2] The first version was the Edison Manufacturing Company's 12-minute short film Frankenstein (1910), written and directed by J. Searle Dawley.

Production

This full-length film (broken into five parts), was produced by the Ocean Film Corporation and featured English-born actor Percy Darrell Standing wearing little to no make-up as the 'Brute Man'. The story is about the Brute Man killing the sister of his creator (Dr. William Frawley) on her wedding night. Frawley pursues his creation across Europe finally killing him by shooting him. Frawley then dies of exhaustion. A framing device reveals that the story is being read from a book.^[3] The film was reissued in 1916 by the Raver Film Corporation with added scientific documentary footage detailing the reproduction methods of fish.^[4]

Cast

Percy Standing as The Creation (aka Brute Man)
George De Carlton as Frankenstein's Father
Lucy Cotton as Elizabeth Lavenza
Pauline Curley as Claudia Frawley
Jack Hopkins as Henry Claridge
David McCauley as Victor Frawley, as a child
Violet De Biccari as Elizabeth, as a child
William A. Cohill as Dr. William Frawley

References

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^ "British Film Institute database entry". Archived from the original on 2008-09-18. Retrieved 2007-09-30.
^ Life Without Soul at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
^ Stephen Jones. The Essential Monster Movie Guide. Billboard Books. 2000. Pg. 224

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Characters

Films

Universal series

Frankenstein (1931) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Son of Frankenstein (1939) The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) House of Frankenstein (1944) House of Dracula (1945) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Characters	Igor Doctor Septimus Pretorius Wolf Frankenstein Bride of Frankenstein Ludwig Frankenstein

Hammer series

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)

Toho series

Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965)
The War of the Gargantuas (1966)

Parodies

Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Frankenstein all'italiana (1975)
Frankenweenie (1984)
Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Frankenhooker (1990)
Monster Mash (1995)
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999)
Monster Mash (2000)
Frankenström (2001)
Frankenthumb (2002)
Igor (2008)
The Bride of Gingy (2010)
Frankenweenie (2012)
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy (2014)
Monster Family (2017)
Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

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