Frankenstein 1970 (1958)

Starring Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund, Don Barry, Charlotte Austin
Directed by Howard W. Koch
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)

A television crew films a special commemorating the 230th anniversary of Frankenstein at the ancestral castle, unaware that their host, the latest Baron Frankenstein, is planning the monster's rebirth.

Boris Karloff gives perhaps his hammiest performance, portraying Frankenstein's descendant with a hunched over gait and a twisted eye, who has gotten the TV crew (who knows how) to set him up with an atomic reactor with no questions asked, that he will use to resuscitate the monster.  And of course some murders for vital organs for the creature will be committed along the way.  You can't help but smile as he leers at his guests, and he's gifted with grandiose speeches that he utters with an evil relish.  There's more than a few logic gaps in the script by Richard Landau & George Worthing Yates, but I enjoyed the supporting cast, with Rudolph Anders as the friend who suspects what the Baron is doing but doesn't connect the dots until too late, and Norbert Schiller as the likable but too loyal butler Shuter.  This film isn't in the same league with Karloff's showcases as the Monster, but it's certainly an entertaining romp.