Tonight’s entry in TCM’s The Essentials is a whale of a film. James Whale, that is. He directed this 1935 instant sequel to Frankenstein, and it’s this version, not the original, that includes some of the most iconic scenes associated with Boris Karloff’s creature features. (And, therefore, some of the very best scenes lampooned in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein.) Give special mention and attention, too, to Elsa Lanchester, who does double duty as Frankenstein author Mary Shelley and as the titular monster, presented in all her bird-like, lightning-coiffed glory.