It’s apparently Frankenstein Day... or Mary Shelley’s birthday. Weird that they made her birthday Frankenstein Day.
Anyway, the book is 200 years old this year! But the movie, with Boris Karloff, which is amazing, came out in 1931.
We watched it for the 1930/1931 awards because there’s only one extant copy of East Lynne, and it’s in a super secret vault at UCLA. You can check out our episode on this phenomenal flick here: http://www.suzaneraslan.net/screen-test-of-time/2018/4/10/screen-test-of-time-ep-15-not-east-lynne