The notoriety of this short adaptation of the Mary Shelley horror classic - in which an inebriated Lon Chaney Jr. thought that the live TV recording was a mere dress rehearsal! - far exceeds the actual ineptitude on display; only once during his murder of the maid - where he imitates the action of breaking a chair after safely putting the actual prop aside! - is it abundantly clear that he is estranged to the fact of it being the actual shoot. Actually, there had already been a couple of previous instances where Chaney lifts a chair in the air and carefully puts its back on the ground but I am not so sure that he was really supposed to vent his anger on the Frankenstein mansion's furniture! Chaney, reprising the role of the Frankenstein Monster once again ten years after his satisfactory turn in Universal's THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, is not bad (in the long run) sporting a bald, facially-scarred make-up redolent of the one worn by Freddie Jones in Hammer's FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED! (1969); the rest of the cast is both anonymous and unsympathetic but the whole shoddy and hurried affair is partially redeemed by an energetic scuffle between creator and creature in which the former throws the latter(!) from the tower window...even if Chaney clearly lands on a nearby mattress of some kind!!