Mostel plays a producer, who, with his accountant (Wilder), trys to produce a sure-fire flop play in a money making scheme, only to have it succeed and the backers demand their money.
A comic tribute to Frankenstein films, in which young Dr. Frankenstein is summoned to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, where he finds a step-by-step manual on how to bring a corpse to life.