Lady Frankenstein (1971)

aka’s: La Figlia Di Frankenstein/Daughter Of Frankenstein/
Madame Frankenstein

When Dr. Frankenstein (Joseph Cotten) is killed by a monster he created (Riccardo Pizzuti), his daughter (Rosalba Neri) and his lab assistant Marshall (Paul Muller) continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall’s brain into the muscular body of a retarded servant (Marino Masé) in order to prolong the aging Marshall’s life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr. Frankenstein, then it comes for Marshall and the doctor’s daughter.

Joseph Cotten died on February 6, 1994, of pneumonia, a complication of throat cancer at the age of 88.