Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with a 4K rerelease, Mel Brooks’s affectionate salute to 1930s horror, particularly that of Universal Studios, stands as a career highlight for everyone involved, and is now a classic in its own right. Co-written with Gene Wilder following their phenomenally successful collaboration on Blazing Saddles (1974), it follows physician Frederick ‘Fronkensteen’ (Wilder), intent on distancing himself from the reprehensible work of his ancestor. However, when Frederick inherits the family estate and discovers its secret laboratory and research archive, he soon finds himself following in the family footsteps, aided, and abetted by hunchbacked sidekick Igor (Marty Feldman), horse-frightening housekeeper Frau Blücher, and beautiful assistant Inga (Teri Garr) in creating a new monster (Peter Boyle). With further comic turns from the wonderful Madeline Kahn and, perhaps surprisingly, Gene Hackman, Young Frankenstein is a treat from beginning to end.