The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

This geocache is NOT at the above coordinates; that is a turnoff for Homestake Place, where the bride may have been looking for her first home as a happy (?) bride.

You must obtain the coordinates to the location of the container by watching the film in the title and finding the answers to the eight questions below. This is one of eight Classic Monsters geocaches, each of which can be solved and found independent of each other. There is also a final multi-cache that can be found by writing down the puzzle clue that is in each of the eight movie geocaches.

This series is meant to ease the burden of the stay-at-home orders in place to some extent; watch a movie you may not have seen ever before or recently, and work on finding a new geocache as well.

This cache was placed while following all Colorado guidelines and rules during the Coronavirus outbreak. As these conditions change frequently, please ensure that you follow all current guidelines while searching for this series of geocaches.

These are Classic Monster movies, not classic horror movies; when they were made, they may have shocked the audiences but by today's standards, they are not very scary at all.

This Classic Monsters series is named after 8 films, all produced by the same Hollywood film company, from 1931-1945. Seven of the eight are in black and white, also known as "monochrome", with Phantom of the Opera being produced in Technicolor. As such, a few of the Phantom questions are about colors seen in the film. There will also be a final cache, which you can get the coordinates for by keeping track of the puzzle clues that will be in each of the eight movie caches. These movies are not lengthy -- 7 of the 8 range from 70 to 79 minutes long, and Phantom of the Opera is 92 minutes. You DO NOT have to purchase anything to solve the puzzles to learn where the geocaches are -- they are available on several streaming and download services, as well as at many libraries.

So -- let's get started !

BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN THE LETTER CODE IN THE FRONT OF THE LOGBOOK WHICH IS USED IN THE “CLASSIC MONSTERS" FINAL CACHE which is still being worked on for now. Also, there is a Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (female zombie) trackable printed out and in the front of the logbook as well for discovery.

Welcome to the fifth Classic Monsters cache by the 3 Williams Kidz geo-team. The idea is that you will have to watch the movie to get the answers to the questions below; there are one, maybe two exceptions, for trivia’s sake. Since the entire script is available – and easily “searchable” -- online, I have tried to come up with questions that you cannot answer by searching the Internet.

Here are all the geocaches in the Classic Monsters series:

1. Dracula (1931)

2. Frankenstein (1931)

3. The Mummy (1932)

4. The Invisible Man (1933)

5. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

6. The Wolf Man (1941)

7. Phantom of the Opera (1943)

8. Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)

9. Classic Monsters FINAL cache

If you are willing to watch one of Hollywood’s finest classic movies, get your movie source ready, fire up the TV, maybe pop some popcorn, and have a pen and paper ready to answer the below questions, which YES -- ARE IN THE ORDER they are presented in the film. The questions should be EASY to answer as in these difficult times, the idea here is to just ENJOY the movie and then have the opportunity to get out and find a cache while meeting the state guidelines during the Coronavirus outbreak.

The cache is located at North 38 5A.BCD West 105 2E.FGH

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A: The monster has not died in the windmill fire! He returns and -- unfortunately drowns Maria's father Hans. Then we see a woodland animal that is a what?
If it is a deer, A=4; if it is a rabbit, A=3; if it is an owl, A=5

B: The creature sees his reflection in the river as he drinks water; what are the nearby farm animals ?
If they are sheep, B=0; if they are pigs, B=6; if they are cows, B=9

C: The creature has been captured and is ordered to be taken down to the old dungeon in chains. He is shackled and then the hammer pounds how many times on his leg restraint?
If 4 times, C=3; if 7 times, C=0; if 2 times, C=8

D: "He's loose, shoot him!" How many shots are fired?
If 2 shots are fired, D=9; if 4 shots are fired, D=7; if only 1 shot is fired, D=5

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E: The creature hears the blind hermit playing the violin. He bursts through the front door which has how many windows?
If there are 4 windows, E=1; if there are 6 windows, E=0; if there are 9 windows, E=2

F: The blind hermit teaches the creature that fire is both good and bad. The creature then wants to hear music, so he gives the hermit his violin. What does the creature do next?
If he sits on a very small stool, F=1; if he opens a window, F=4; if he picks up a cup, F=7

G: Baroness Elizabeth Frankenstein is preparing to depart the castle; she tells the butler to "Put the bags in the carriage, and I'll be out in a moment." How many bags are there?
If there are 2 bags, G=6; if there are 4 bags, G=3; if there are 6 bags, G=0

The following question is a bit of trivia, but is included here due to it’s importance in the film.

H: "She's alive!" Just after we hear this, we see the Bride ! The film’s namesake is in the film for how long??
If 8 minutes, H=5; if 16 minutes, H=9; if 3 minutes, H=1

FTF congratulations go to Granitegrabber !

Some trivia, from www.imdb.com:

Marilyn Harris, who played Maria, the girl The Monster accidentally kills in the original Frankenstein (1931), appears uncredited as another young girl. She is the leader of the group of young schoolgirls who encounter the Monster as he runs away from the blind man's burning house. Director James Whale deliberately gave her a one-word line ("Look!"), so she would be paid more by the studio as an actor with a speaking role, instead of as an extra.

Due to his overwhelming fame as a "thriller" actor, Boris Karloff was billed simply as "Karloff" - no first name needed.

Not long before filming began, Colin Clive broke a leg in a horse riding accident. Consequently, most of Henry Frankenstein's scenes were shot with him sitting.

Boris Karloff protested against the decision to make The Monster speak, but was overruled. Since he was required to speak in this film, Karloff was not able to remove his partial bridgework as he had done to help give the Monster his sunken cheek appearance in the first Frankenstein (1931). That's why The Monster appears fuller of face in the sequel.

Elsa Lanchester said that her spitting, hissing performance was inspired by the swans in Regent's Park, London. "They're really very nasty creatures," she said.

Valerie Hobson, who plays Dr. Frankenstein's fiancé/bride in the film, was only 17 years old when she appeared in the film (Colin Clive, who portrayed Henry Frankenstein, was 35.)

When filming the scene where the monster emerges from the burnt windmill, Boris Karloff slipped and fell into the water-filled well. Upon being helped out, it was discovered that he had dislocated a hip in the fall. The hip was strapped into place and Karloff soldiered on. He continued to receive massage and heat treatments for the hip for the rest of the shooting of the film.

Boris Karloff sweated off 20 pounds laboring in the hot costume and makeup.

The tiny mermaid in Dr. Pretorius' bottle was Josephine McKim, a member of the 1924 and 1928 U.S. Women's Olympic Swim Teams and one of the four members of that team to win the 1928 gold medal in the 400-Meter Freestyle Relay. McKim was also Maureen O'Sullivan's body double in the wonderful nude swimming scene of the previous year's Tarzan and His Mate (1934).

The film was shot entirely in the studio.

Elsa Lanchester was only 5'4" but for the role was placed on stilts that made her 7' tall. The bandages were placed so tightly on her that she was unable to move and had to be carried about the studio and fed through a straw.

2007: The movie's line "We belong dead" was voted as the #63 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere magazine.

According to Elsa Lanchester, her Bride make-up took three hours for her face alone, and Boris Karloff's took five.

Elsa Lanchester was not the only person to have a dual role in this film. In addition to her role as Minnie, Una O'Connor also appeared in the prologue, as Shelley's maid who is holding the leash as the dogs go off screen.

Elsa Lanchester's shock hairdo was held in place by a wired horsehair cage.

Elizabeth's line at the beginning of the film, "I was told to beware my wedding night." is a direct mirrored reference to the original novel, in which the Monster warns Dr. Frankenstein to beware his wedding night.

The scene in which the monster encounters the Gypsy camp was filmed shortly before the scheduled release date as a substitute for a scene that had been edited out after sneak previews because of censorship concerns. Since the scene was filmed long after the completion of principal filming - and after the film's musical score had been completed - the Gypsy camp scene is the only segment of the movie that has no musical score.

Contrary to popular belief, Henry Frankenstein was not a doctor. He left medical school because he felt they couldn't teach him what he needed to know. In neither Frankenstein nor Bride of Frankenstein is Henry referred to a doctor. Only Herr, or Baron. The only Frankenstein that was a Doctor was Wolfgang Frankenstein in The Son of Frankenstein, as played by Basil Rathbone.

The name of Little Maria's father has been changed from "Ludwig" in the original Frankenstein (1931) to "Hans" in this film.

Elizabeth was played by brunette Valerie Hobson who replaced blonde Mae Clarke from the original Frankenstein (1931) due to Clarke's illness at the time. This change of hair color is a bit jarring since The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) picks up right where the original leaves off.

James Whale and the studio psychiatrist selected 44 simple words for the Monster's vocabulary by looking at test papers of ten-year olds working at the studio.

Colin Clive and Boris Karloff are the only actors to play they same characters they played in the original Frankenstein (1931).

The title "Bride of Frankenstein" is an ambiguous title which could refer to either the Valerie Hobson or Elsa Lanchester characters, as both the Colin Clive and Boris Karloff characters are given the name "Frankenstein" within the movie.

Jack P. Pierce did the make-up for both Boris Karloff as the Monster and Elsa Lanchester as the Bride. Since Karloff's make-up took four hours and Lanchester's took between three and four hours, this left only limited time when the two were able to work together, so the two rarely appear in the same shot.

Principal photography took 46 days to complete. The picture eventually ran $100,000 over budget, coming in at $400,000.

John Carradine is one of the two hunters that appear at the hermits cabin proclaiming the hermits guest is in fact the monster.

Many argue that Frankenstein ought to be called "the monster" and not "Frankenstein", however this second film's title, The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) settles this debate once and for all: the monster is nicknamed by his creator's last name, and is simply known as "Frankenstein", since "the bride" was created for him, and not for his doctor creator.

The bottle of wine that Pretorius has in the tomb, around 0:48:48, has the year 1912 on its label.

The tune played on violin by the blind hermit which enthralls the monster is "Ave Maria."

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