I'm not sure I saw it, but I remember seeing a "Frankenstein movie" in the past and it has a whole section in the antarctic (and this is not counting the 1994 version with Bobby Deniro).
I seem to remember laughter at the end, but I could be mistaken. Also something about trying to ressurrect the girl toward the end or something.
Is this that movie?
I think the one you are thinking of was Frankenstein Unbound. It had Raul Julia as Frankenstein. Nicely done in my humble opinion. Here is the IMDB page on it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099612/
Hope this helped.
Larry
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This one ends with Viktor(the monster) breaking out of prison for killing a circus manager who murdered a friend he makes in the movie. He goes back to the mansion just in time to save Eva from being raped by Frankenstein and he pushes Frankenstein off of the roof of the castle.
No Sparkling Wiggles here!
Could you be thinking about the 1973 TV movie "Frankenstein: The True Story?" It starred Leonard Whiting as Dr. Victor Frankenstein and Michael Sarrazin as The Creature, who started out handsome and appealing, but started to physically degenerate. I believe it showed over two nights.
SPOILERS AHEAD:
A female creature (Jane Seymour) was created, not as a bride for The Creature but as a more refined version of re-animated corpse. The Creature destroyed her.
Dr. Frankenstein and his fiancee set sail for the Americas to escape The Creature, but The Creature stowed away on the ship. (Dr. Frankenstein really should have named him!) I remember Tom Baker (the fourth Doctor Who) played the ship's captain. The crew abandoned ship, the Creature steered the ship to the North Pole (or was it the South Pole?), fiancee ended up frozen to the deck. Frankenstein and The Creature made their peace and strolled off together into a snow cave which collapsed and presumably killed them both.
(I'm not making this up!) Could this be the version you remember?