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Dwight Frye's reading of the tombstone
gives the story a definite anchor in time.
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He tells us the girl died in 1899.
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Corruption is complete, and now,
years later, only her bones remain.
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As Universal's press book stated in 1935,
"The time of the story is the present" -
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though clearly an alternate universe.
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Déjeuner sur le crypte. The drunken
doctor blows smoke in the face of death,
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just as Henry tossed dirt
at the grim reaper in the original film.
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Franz Waxman titled this cue
"Danse Macabre",
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using organ and padded xylophone
to mock the skeletal décor
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in three-quarter time.
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This is the role of a lifetime
for Ernest Thesiger.
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A true eccentric, his performance
draws much from his private persona.