Who should follow Dracula (Dracula, Go Home) but Frankenstein? Kin Platt's fantastic slapstick version [Frank and Stein and Me] of the classic merely changes the names and plot "to protect the innocent."

Thanks to his sister's mumps, Jack Hook, basketball player, is awarded Glop Oil's contest trip to Paris. Armed with his trusty basketball, Jack agrees to carry the mysterious stranger's birthday cake for his dear old mom in Paris. When the "cake" proves to be grass, Jack, on the run from customs agents and in search of comedic smugglers, Alphonse and Gaston, is rescued by black-bearded Dr. Stein who looks like Freud and acts like Frankenstein. Dr. Stein's horrifying "baby" Frank, created out of an ex-circus strongman and assorted concrete and iron, helps Jack capture the smugglers atop the Eiffel Tower and ends up with both a Glop Oil commercial contract and its beautiful representative.

I admire...