I thought I’d talk briefly about two movies – SON OF FRANKENSTEIN and TOWER OF LONDON – the Baz made for Universal between November 1938 and October 1939. The quotations are courtesy of Cinegeek. “In the scene where Bela slowly tells Basil “He does things for me” and there I am all stretched out on this dais – well we all just doubled up, including everyone else on the set, the entire cast, crew and even Rowland, who said he didn’t mind the extra takes for the chuckles it gave everyone!” –Boris Karloff In contrast to many of the episodes and events we’ve been looking at here, this seems to have been quite a busy and fun time for him. In fact it was in many ways his creative peek, or at least his most prolific period as a movie actor. SON OF FRANKENSTEIN was filmed almost alongside THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, and Basil must have gone straight into HOUND from completing SON just after Christmas 1938. TOWER OF LONDON started filming August 1939, …