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Calculated Shard: 84 (from laksa093)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa084.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/16/archives/young-frankenstein-a-monster-riot.html\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/16/archives/young-frankenstein-a-monster-riot.html\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1974\/12\/16\/archives\/young-frankenstein-a-monster-riot.html","crawl_time":1776379307,"first_indexed_time":1539398739,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,nytimes!www,\/1974\/12\/16\/archives\/young-frankenstein-a-monster-riot.html s443","src_root_hash":"4566504020376537684","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"‘Young Frankenstein’ a MonsterRiot - The New York Times","meta_descriptions":["Mel Brooks's comic bull's-eye."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Advertisement\nSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\nDec. 16, 1974\nCredit...\nThe New York Times Archives\nSee the article in its original context from\nDecember 16, 1974,  Page 48\nBuy Reprints\nTimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers.\nAbout the Archive\nThis is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.\nOccasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions.\nYOUNG FRANKENSTEIN,\ndirected by Mel Brooks; screenplay by Gene Wilder and Mr. Brooks; produced by Michael Gruskoff; director of photography, Gerald Hirschfeld; music, John Morris; editor, John Howard; distributed by 20th Century‐Fox. Running time: 104 minutes. At the Sutton Theater, 57th Street east of Third Avenue. This film has been rated PG.\nDr. Frankenstein Gene Wilder\nMonster Peter Boyle\nLour Marty Feldman\nElizabeth Madeline Kahn\nFrau Blucher Cloris Leachman\nInga Terl Garr\nInspector Kemp Kenneth Mars\nHerr Falkenstein Richard Hadyn\nBlindman Gene Hackman\nHe's young. He's clean‐cut. He's all‐American. You are certain he uses the correct deodorants and after‐shave lotions. He has a fiancée who's so fussy about her make‐up that when they say good‐by, they don't kiss, they gently rub elbows. The young man is a brain surgeon named Dr. Frankenstein, but When a medical student calls him that, he has a fit. “No, no,” he screams, “it's pronounced Fron‐ken‐shteen!” He doesn't want to be confused with his infamous grandfather.\nAs played by Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks's funniest, most cohesive comedy to date, this Dr. Frankenstein is a marvelous addled mixture of young Tom Edison, Winniethe‐Pooh and your average Playboy reader with a keen appreciation of beautiful botoms.\n•\nAt this point in time it isn't easy to make fun of Mary Shelley's durable old chestnut about the visionary doctor and the monster to whom he gave life. All of the jokes would seem to have been told. Hammer Productions' “Frankenstein,” movies employ deadpan humor. “Andy Warhol's Frankenstein,” released this year, was an all‐ out assault that used wild anachronisms and grotesque special effects.\nIt would be misleading to describe “Young Frankenstein,” written by Mr. Wilder and. Mr. Brooks, as astoundingly, witty, but it's a great deal of low fun of the sort that Mr. Brooks specializes in.\nAlthough it hasn't as many roof‐raising boffs as “Blazing Saddl'es,” it is funnier over the long run because it is More disciplined. The anarchy is controlled. Mr. Brooks sticks to the subject, recalling the cliches of horror films of the nineteen‐thirties as lovingly as someone remembering the small sins of youth.\nPerhaps the nicest thing about “Young Frankenstein” is that one can laugh with it and never feel as if the target film, James Whale's 1931 classic that starred Boris Karloff, is being rudely used.\nThe new movie, which has Young Frankenstein returning to the family castle and bringing to life a monster played by Peter Boyle, is a horror film compared almost entirely of hilarious interruptions, including the doctor's near‐fatal encounter with one of those mysterious bookcases that hides a secret door. It keeps turning around and hitting him in the back.\nThe doctor is helped in his endeavors by his loyal hunchback servant, Igor pronounced Eye‐gor), played by a nervily funny newcomer to films named Marty Feldman; by a pretty blond laboratory assistant (Teri Garr) who recalls (intentionally) every blond starlet who never quite made the big time and, of course, by Mr. Boyle in monster‐drag.\nMadeline Kahn, one of the best things in “Blazing Saddles,” is in top form as the doctor's bossy fiancée who eventually finds sexual fulfillment in the arms of the monster, and Gene Hackman turns up in a pricelessly funny it as the blind man who befriends the monster and after offering him a cigar carefully lights the monster's thumb.\nThe high point of the film is a sequence in which the young doctor takes his monster to a medical convention in Bucharest and demonstrates his accomplishment by joining the monster for several choruses of “Puttin' On the Ritz,” both dressed nattily in white tie and tails.\n“Young Frankenstein,” which opened yesterday at the Sutton, was photographed in black and white with fastidious attention to the kind of slightly fake details you'll find only in a studio‐made movie over which tremendous care has been taken. It has an affectionate look to it, especially in the laboratory equipment that is said to be a reproduction of the stuff used in the Whale film.\nSome of the gags don't work, but fewer than in any previous Brooks film that I've seen, and when the jokes are meant to be bad, they are riotously poor. What more can one ask of Mel Brooks?\nRelated Content\nEditors’ Picks\nBrian Rea\nEvan Joseph Studios\nTrending in The Times\nRick Scuteri\/Associated Press\nMarta Monteiro\nLea Suzuki\/The San Francisco Chronicle, via Getty Images\nCharlie Padgett\nMatt Chase\nIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy\nGetty Images\nMoveli\nEthan Swope\/Associated Press\nThe New York Times\nAdvertisement\nSKIP ADVERTISEMENT","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to content](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1974\/12\/16\/archives\/young-frankenstein-a-monster-riot.html#site-content)[Skip to site index](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1974\/12\/16\/archives\/young-frankenstein-a-monster-riot.html#site-index)\n\nSearch & Section Navigation\n\nSection Navigation\n\nSearch\n\n[Log in](https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fsubscription%2Fonboarding-offer%3FcampaignId%3D7JFJX%26EXIT_URI%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F1974%252F12%252F16%252Farchives%252Fyoung-frankenstein-a-monster-riot.html&asset=masthead)\n\nFriday, January 2, 2026\n\n[Today’s Paper](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/todayspaper)\n\n‘Young Frankenstein’ a MonsterRiot\n\nhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1974\/12\/16\/archives\/young-frankenstein-a-monster-riot.html\n\n- Share full article\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1974\/12\/16\/archives\/young-frankenstein-a-monster-riot.html#after-top)\n\nSupported by\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1974\/12\/16\/archives\/young-frankenstein-a-monster-riot.html#after-sponsor)\n# ‘Young Frankenstein’ a MonsterRiot\n- Share full article\n\nBy Vincent CanBY\n\n- Dec. 16, 1974\n\n![‘Young Frankenstein’ a MonsterRiot](https:\/\/s1.nyt.com\/timesmachine\/pages\/1\/1974\/12\/16\/79884992_360W.png?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nCredit...The New York Times Archives\n\nSee the article in its original context from   \nDecember 16, 1974, Page 48[Buy Reprints](https:\/\/store.nytimes.com\/collections\/new-york-times-page-reprints?utm_source=nytimes&utm_medium=article-page&utm_campaign=reprints)\n\n[View on timesmachine](https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1974\/12\/16\/79884992.html)\n\nTimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers.\n\nAbout the Archive\n\nThis is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.\n\nOccasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions.\n\n**YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN,** directed by Mel Brooks; screenplay by Gene Wilder and Mr. Brooks; produced by Michael Gruskoff; director of photography, Gerald Hirschfeld; music, John Morris; editor, John Howard; distributed by 20th Century‐Fox. Running time: 104 minutes. At the Sutton Theater, 57th Street east of Third Avenue. This film has been rated PG.\n\nDr. Frankenstein Gene Wilder\n\nMonster Peter Boyle\n\nLour Marty Feldman\n\nElizabeth Madeline Kahn\n\nFrau Blucher Cloris Leachman\n\nInga Terl Garr\n\nInspector Kemp Kenneth Mars\n\nHerr Falkenstein Richard Hadyn\n\nBlindman Gene Hackman\n\nHe's young. He's clean‐cut. He's all‐American. You are certain he uses the correct deodorants and after‐shave lotions. He has a fiancée who's so fussy about her make‐up that when they say good‐by, they don't kiss, they gently rub elbows. The young man is a brain surgeon named Dr. Frankenstein, but When a medical student calls him that, he has a fit. “No, no,” he screams, “it's pronounced Fron‐ken‐shteen!” He doesn't want to be confused with his infamous grandfather.\n\nAs played by Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks's funniest, most cohesive comedy to date, this Dr. Frankenstein is a marvelous addled mixture of young Tom Edison, Winniethe‐Pooh and your average Playboy reader with a keen appreciation of beautiful botoms.\n\n•\n\nAt this point in time it isn't easy to make fun of Mary Shelley's durable old chestnut about the visionary doctor and the monster to whom he gave life. All of the jokes would seem to have been told. Hammer Productions' “Frankenstein,” movies employ deadpan humor. “Andy Warhol's Frankenstein,” released this year, was an all‐ out assault that used wild anachronisms and grotesque special effects.\n\nIt would be misleading to describe “Young Frankenstein,” written by Mr. Wilder and. Mr. Brooks, as astoundingly, witty, but it's a great deal of low fun of the sort that Mr. Brooks specializes in.\n\nAlthough it hasn't as many roof‐raising boffs as “Blazing Saddl'es,” it is funnier over the long run because it is More disciplined. The anarchy is controlled. Mr. Brooks sticks to the subject, recalling the cliches of horror films of the nineteen‐thirties as lovingly as someone remembering the small sins of youth.\n\nPerhaps the nicest thing about “Young Frankenstein” is that one can laugh with it and never feel as if the target film, James Whale's 1931 classic that starred Boris Karloff, is being rudely used.\n\nThe new movie, which has Young Frankenstein returning to the family castle and bringing to life a monster played by Peter Boyle, is a horror film compared almost entirely of hilarious interruptions, including the doctor's near‐fatal encounter with one of those mysterious bookcases that hides a secret door. It keeps turning around and hitting him in the back.\n\n## Editors’ Picks\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/04\/multimedia\/02ST-VOWS-LEUKEMIA-01-mghp\/02ST-VOWS-LEUKEMIA-01-mghp-thumbLarge.jpg)Rushing to Her Father’s Hospital Bedside, with a Wedding in Tow](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/02\/style\/arianna-lacerte-josh-kipnis-wedding.html)\n\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/12\/31\/multimedia\/30FD-BRIEF-REVIEW-Zimmi-04-htbg\/30FD-BRIEF-REVIEW-Zimmi-04-htbg-thumbLarge.jpg)Dolores, Crevette, Zimmi’s and Markette Reviewed](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/30\/dining\/review-dolores-crevette-zimmis-markette.html)\n\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/02\/business\/01trippedup-bedbug-illo\/01trippedup-bedbug-illo-thumbLarge.jpg)Help! 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It has an affectionate look to it, especially in the laboratory equipment that is said to be a reproduction of the stuff used in the Whale film.\n\nSome of the gags don't work, but fewer than in any previous Brooks film that I've seen, and when the jokes are meant to be bad, they are riotously poor. 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Boilerpipe Text	Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Dec. 16, 1974 Credit... The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from December 16, 1974, Page 48 Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, directed by Mel Brooks; screenplay by Gene Wilder and Mr. Brooks; produced by Michael Gruskoff; director of photography, Gerald Hirschfeld; music, John Morris; editor, John Howard; distributed by 20th Century‐Fox. Running time: 104 minutes. At the Sutton Theater, 57th Street east of Third Avenue. This film has been rated PG. Dr. Frankenstein Gene Wilder Monster Peter Boyle Lour Marty Feldman Elizabeth Madeline Kahn Frau Blucher Cloris Leachman Inga Terl Garr Inspector Kemp Kenneth Mars Herr Falkenstein Richard Hadyn Blindman Gene Hackman He's young. He's clean‐cut. He's all‐American. You are certain he uses the correct deodorants and after‐shave lotions. He has a fiancée who's so fussy about her make‐up that when they say good‐by, they don't kiss, they gently rub elbows. The young man is a brain surgeon named Dr. Frankenstein, but When a medical student calls him that, he has a fit. “No, no,” he screams, “it's pronounced Fron‐ken‐shteen!” He doesn't want to be confused with his infamous grandfather. As played by Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks's funniest, most cohesive comedy to date, this Dr. Frankenstein is a marvelous addled mixture of young Tom Edison, Winniethe‐Pooh and your average Playboy reader with a keen appreciation of beautiful botoms. • At this point in time it isn't easy to make fun of Mary Shelley's durable old chestnut about the visionary doctor and the monster to whom he gave life. All of the jokes would seem to have been told. Hammer Productions' “Frankenstein,” movies employ deadpan humor. “Andy Warhol's Frankenstein,” released this year, was an all‐ out assault that used wild anachronisms and grotesque special effects. It would be misleading to describe “Young Frankenstein,” written by Mr. Wilder and. Mr. Brooks, as astoundingly, witty, but it's a great deal of low fun of the sort that Mr. Brooks specializes in. Although it hasn't as many roof‐raising boffs as “Blazing Saddl'es,” it is funnier over the long run because it is More disciplined. The anarchy is controlled. Mr. Brooks sticks to the subject, recalling the cliches of horror films of the nineteen‐thirties as lovingly as someone remembering the small sins of youth. Perhaps the nicest thing about “Young Frankenstein” is that one can laugh with it and never feel as if the target film, James Whale's 1931 classic that starred Boris Karloff, is being rudely used. The new movie, which has Young Frankenstein returning to the family castle and bringing to life a monster played by Peter Boyle, is a horror film compared almost entirely of hilarious interruptions, including the doctor's near‐fatal encounter with one of those mysterious bookcases that hides a secret door. It keeps turning around and hitting him in the back. The doctor is helped in his endeavors by his loyal hunchback servant, Igor pronounced Eye‐gor), played by a nervily funny newcomer to films named Marty Feldman; by a pretty blond laboratory assistant (Teri Garr) who recalls (intentionally) every blond starlet who never quite made the big time and, of course, by Mr. Boyle in monster‐drag. Madeline Kahn, one of the best things in “Blazing Saddles,” is in top form as the doctor's bossy fiancée who eventually finds sexual fulfillment in the arms of the monster, and Gene Hackman turns up in a pricelessly funny it as the blind man who befriends the monster and after offering him a cigar carefully lights the monster's thumb. The high point of the film is a sequence in which the young doctor takes his monster to a medical convention in Bucharest and demonstrates his accomplishment by joining the monster for several choruses of “Puttin' On the Ritz,” both dressed nattily in white tie and tails. “Young Frankenstein,” which opened yesterday at the Sutton, was photographed in black and white with fastidious attention to the kind of slightly fake details you'll find only in a studio‐made movie over which tremendous care has been taken. It has an affectionate look to it, especially in the laboratory equipment that is said to be a reproduction of the stuff used in the Whale film. Some of the gags don't work, but fewer than in any previous Brooks film that I've seen, and when the jokes are meant to be bad, they are riotously poor. What more can one ask of Mel Brooks? 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He's all‐American. You are certain he uses the correct deodorants and after‐shave lotions. He has a fiancée who's so fussy about her make‐up that when they say good‐by, they don't kiss, they gently rub elbows. The young man is a brain surgeon named Dr. Frankenstein, but When a medical student calls him that, he has a fit. “No, no,” he screams, “it's pronounced Fron‐ken‐shteen!” He doesn't want to be confused with his infamous grandfather. As played by Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks's funniest, most cohesive comedy to date, this Dr. Frankenstein is a marvelous addled mixture of young Tom Edison, Winniethe‐Pooh and your average Playboy reader with a keen appreciation of beautiful botoms. • At this point in time it isn't easy to make fun of Mary Shelley's durable old chestnut about the visionary doctor and the monster to whom he gave life. All of the jokes would seem to have been told. Hammer Productions' “Frankenstein,” movies employ deadpan humor. “Andy Warhol's Frankenstein,” released this year, was an all‐ out assault that used wild anachronisms and grotesque special effects. It would be misleading to describe “Young Frankenstein,” written by Mr. Wilder and. Mr. Brooks, as astoundingly, witty, but it's a great deal of low fun of the sort that Mr. Brooks specializes in. Although it hasn't as many roof‐raising boffs as “Blazing Saddl'es,” it is funnier over the long run because it is More disciplined. The anarchy is controlled. Mr. Brooks sticks to the subject, recalling the cliches of horror films of the nineteen‐thirties as lovingly as someone remembering the small sins of youth. Perhaps the nicest thing about “Young Frankenstein” is that one can laugh with it and never feel as if the target film, James Whale's 1931 classic that starred Boris Karloff, is being rudely used. The new movie, which has Young Frankenstein returning to the family castle and bringing to life a monster played by Peter Boyle, is a horror film compared almost entirely of hilarious interruptions, including the doctor's near‐fatal encounter with one of those mysterious bookcases that hides a secret door. 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The high point of the film is a sequence in which the young doctor takes his monster to a medical convention in Bucharest and demonstrates his accomplishment by joining the monster for several choruses of “Puttin' On the Ritz,” both dressed nattily in white tie and tails. “Young Frankenstein,” which opened yesterday at the Sutton, was photographed in black and white with fastidious attention to the kind of slightly fake details you'll find only in a studio‐made movie over which tremendous care has been taken. It has an affectionate look to it, especially in the laboratory equipment that is said to be a reproduction of the stuff used in the Whale film. Some of the gags don't work, but fewer than in any previous Brooks film that I've seen, and when the jokes are meant to be bad, they are riotously poor. 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