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Whale went over the top here,
and wisely eliminated the main business.
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The tyke is described as "looking like
it might develop into Boris Karloff."
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"I think this baby will grow into something
worth watching", quipped Pretorius.
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The censors softened Pretorius's
reference to scripture as "fairy tales"
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to "Bible stories".
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Thesiger restores blasphemy
with his inimitable reading of the line.
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A book novelisation
was prepared in England in 1936
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by author Michael Harrison,
writing as Michael Egremont.
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Harrison recalls consulting the script and
a single screening - but once was enough.
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In his story, Harrison coyly enunciates
the flamboyant homosexuality
:24:07
that Thesiger brings to the character.
:24:09
Quote: "I disobey the Biblical injunction
'be fruitful and multiply'."
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"'You"' he tells Henry,
"'have the choice of natural means,
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but as for me, I am afraid
there is no course open to me
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but the scientific method.'
He chuckled throatily."
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Curtain down on act one.
:24:25
Bride of Frankenstein has three neat acts,
each lasting about 25 minutes.
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Karloff portrays the monster as a lost soul
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desperately seeking contact
with humanity and desiring friendship.
:24:45
He's met by a population that responds
with nothing but cruelty and anger.