FRANKENSTEIN (circa 1930/Universal) 2 reels. BW. US.
Credits: Dir: Robert Florey; Ph: Paul Ivano; Mu: Jack P. Pierce.
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Edward Van Sloan. The infamous lost test footage filmed on the set of DRACULA, with Lugosi made up as The Monster. Universal's executives disliked the Golem-esque make-up created by Pierce in collaboration with Lugosi, and Lugosi himself refused the part when he realised the role had no dialogue.

FRANKENSTEIN (1940/Pixilated Pictures) BW. US.
Credits: Dir: Glenn Alvey. From the novel by Mary Shelley.
The earliest known amateur version of the famous film, apparently copying Universal's Frankenstein scene for scene and distributed through the Interstate Theater Circuit in Texas.

FRANKENSTEIN'S NEW BRAIN (1942) see The Ghost of Frankenstein

FRAU IM MOND (1928/UFA.) 4356 metres. 125mins. BW. Silent. Germany.
Aka: BY ROCKET TO THE MOON; GIRL IN THE MOON; WOMAN IN THE MOON.
Credits: Dir: Fritz Lang; Prod: Fritz Lang & Erich Pommer; Sc: Fritz Lang & Thea Von Harbou; Ph: Curt Courant, Oskar Fischinger & Otto Kanturek; Backdrop Ph: Host Von Harbou; Art: Otto Hunte, Emil Hasler & Carl Vollbrecht; Sfx: Constantin Tschetwerikoff; Technical Advisors: Willy Ley & Hermann Oberth; Mus: Willy Schmidt-Gentner.
Cast: Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch, Klaus Pohl, Fritz Rasp, Gustl Stark-Gatettenbaur, Gustav von Waggenheim, Margarete Kupfer, Tilla Durieux, Herman Valentin, Max Zilzer, Mahmud Terja Bey, Borwin Walth, Max Maximillian, Karl Platen, Edgar Pauly, Alfred Lore tto, Heinrich Gotho, Alexa Von Porembsky, Gerhard Dammann, Jesephine the mouse.
The moon is a source of a valuable ore, so countries are racing to create a rocket ship and be the first to stake a claim on the planet. Two scientists are forced to journ ey to the moon by criminals anxious to mine the deposits. Realising that someone must stay behind for the rocket to successfully make it's return journey, the leading scientist, (Fritsch), decides it should be himself and drugs the drinks of the others.
A heavy handed allegory that plods along. Not the director's best work. Lang used the technique of a countdown purely for dramatic purposes, unaware that modern rocket launches would adopt the same system.
The Nazi authorities decided that th e film's depiction of the developement of a rocket propulsion system was too similar to Wernher von Braun's experiments with the V-1 and V-2 rockets during World War II, so they destroyed the model spaceship and every print of the film that they could find. Hermann Oberth became the Nazi's rocket propulsion expert and Willy Ley emigrated to America and became a regular contributor to the science fiction magazine "Galaxy".

THE FREAK OF FERNDALE FOREST (1910/Warwick Trading Co.) 1 reel. BW. Silent. UK.
A child is transformed into a hideous beast by a strange beggar.

THE FREAK BARBER (1905/R.W. Paul) 168feet. BW. Silent. UK.
Credits: Dir: J.H. Martin.
A barber cuts his customer's heads off and then dismembers himself.

FRENZY (1945) see Latin Quarter

FRIDAY THE 13TH (1940) see Black Friday

THE FRIGHTENED LADY (1932/Gainsborough/British Lion) 87mins. BW. UK.
Aka: CRIMINAL AT LARGE (US).
Credits: Dir: T. Hayes Hunter; Prod: Michael Balcon; Sc: Angus McPhail & Bryan Edgar Wallace; Ph: Bernard Knowles & Alex Bryce; Ed: Ralph Kemplan; Art: Norman Arnold. From the play "The Case of the Frghtened Lady" by Edgar Wallace.
Cast: Norman McKinnell, Cathleen Nesbitt, Emlyn Williams, Gordon Harker, Belle Chrystall, Finlay Currie, Cyril Raymond, D.A. Clarke-Smith, Percy Parsons, Julian Royce, Eric Roland.
Aisla, (Chrystall), is a guest at the home of the young Lord Lebenon, (Williams), whose mother, (Nesbitt), wishes for them to marry to continue the family name. The only problem is that Lord Lebanon is completely insane.
An effective adaptation of Wallace's thriller, remade again in 1940.

THE FRIGHTENED LADY (1940) see The Case of the Frightened Lady

THE FROLICS OF SATAN (1906) see Les Quatres Cents Farces du Diable

FROM DEATH TO LIFE (1911/Rex) BW. Silent. US.
A necromancing chemist accidentally turns his wife to stone.

THE FROZEN GHOST (1945/Universal) 61mins. BW. US.
Credits: Dir: Harold Young; Ex.Prod: Ben Pivar; A.Prod: William Cowan; Sc: Bernard L. Schubert, Luci Ward & Maurice Tombragel (uncredited); Ph: Paul Ivano; Ed: Fred R. Feitshans Jnr.; Art: John B. Goodman & Abraham Grossman; Tech: William Hedgcock; Mus: Hans J. Salter. From a story by Henry Sucher & Harrison Carter. An "Inner Sanctum Mystery" produced by arrangement with Simon Schuster Inc.
Cast: Lon Chaney Jnr., Martin Kosleck, Evelyn Ankers, Elena Verdugo, Milburn Stone, Douglas Dumbrille, Tara Birell, Arthur Hohl, Leland Hodgson, Pauline Drake, Bobby Barber, Polly Bailey, Bud Wolfe, Eddie Acuff, David Hoffman, William Haade.
Magician Alex known as "Gregor the Great", (Chaney), places his assistant Maura Daniel, (Ankers), in a trance during a live radio broadcast. A drunken skeptic, (Hohl), heckles Greg or who invites him on stage, but as the magician places the man into a trance, he keels over and dies. The death is blamed on a heart attack, but Gregor believes he has developed the power to kill with thought projection.
A cheap production spoiled by bad direction with a good story and a reasonable cast.
The fourth of the "Inner Sanctum" series and Universal's only attempt at a horror film involving a wax museum.
Originally double-billed with Jungle Captive (1945).