Michael Gruskoff

Mel Brooks' own words telling all about the players, the filming, and studio antics during the production of this great comedy classic. The book is alive and teeming with hundreds of photos, original interviews, and hilarious commentary. Young Frankenstein was made with deep respect for the craft and history of cinema-and for the power of a good schwanzstucker joke. This picture-driven book, written by one of the greatest comedy geniuses of all time,...

A finely tuned parody of the old Frankenstein movies. Summoned by a will to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young Dr. Frankenstein soon discovers the scientist's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. Assisted by the hunchbacked Igor and the curvaceous Inga, he creates a monster who only wants to be loved.

In 1954, the era of live TV, a hapless production assistant is given the task of keeping his alcoholic film idol out of trouble long enough to appear on the King Kaiser Hour.

A remake of the German silent classic by F.W. Murnau, closely based on the novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker. Jonathan Harber, against the wishes of his wife, departs on a journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize a real estate deal. When he arrives at his destination, he encounters Count Dracula and a series of tragic events.

Honkytonk man (1982, 123 min.): Red Stovall is a hard-drinking drifter who sings for his supper in second-rate roadhouse bars through some of the loneliest, dustiest countryside ever ravaged by the Great Depression. Stovall, however, nurses the embers of a dream to audition at the legendary Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. Pink cadillac (1989, 122 min.): Jump bail and skip tracer Tommy Nowak will track you down before the ink on your fake...