1:10:00
No one can explain the presence of this
lever - unless it's the lever to heaven.
1:10:05
Lanchester said she cultivated her hiss
1:10:07
by observing angry swans
at Regent's Park in London.
1:10:11
The Production Code Administration
saw Whale's original cut on March 20th
1:10:15
and demanded changes.
1:10:17
Subsequently, the picture was previewed
at 92 minutes on April 6th,
1:10:21
and in this form reviewed
by the Hollywood Reporter.
1:10:23
Breen approved it on April 15th.
1:10:26
Mere days before the April 19th,
San Francisco, Good Friday opening,
1:10:30
Whale relented on the script's
"positively final fade-out",
1:10:33
and reshot the ending
so that Henry and Elizabeth would live.
1:10:36
Yes, there was going to be
a Son of Frankenstein.
1:10:40
Waxman's unresolved
musical ending now had a coda,
1:10:43
cracked from the creation cue.
1:10:45
James Whale's biographer, James Curtis,
tells us that Whale had the last laugh.
1:10:50
Taking friends to a revival showing
in the late 1940s,
1:10:53
the director was snickering
at his ironic creation
1:10:56
when an irate moviegoer
whipped around in her seat.
1:10:59
"If you don't like the show" she
commanded, "you can damn well leave."
1:11:05
65 years later,
no one in the audience is leaving.