The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - May 1, 1942

The Ghost of Frankenstein was the third sequel to 1931's Frankenstein and the first wherein Boris Karloff did not play the monster. This time around Lon Chaney Jr. wore the iconic make-up. He did okay, but was unable to bring forth the kind of emotion and character that Karloff had.

It is not a bad movie, per se. Just inferior to the three films that preceded it.

I also need to share this personal factoid, the film's utterly bonkers ending imprinted in my memory. Of all the Universal monster movies I watched as a child, the ending to The Ghost of Frankenstein proved to be the most memorable.