:09:01
the eccentricities of Basil Rathbone
in the Sherlock Holmes films.
:09:04
The Scottish-born actress is tossed
into the cistern here by Boris Karloff,
:09:08
and would be throttled by Lon Chaney
in The Mummy's Tomb.
:09:12
She survived a rematch with Karloff
in The Body Snatcher,
:09:14
only to see Boris bludgeon her wee
doggie and steal her son's corpse.
:09:18
That's Hollywood for you.
:09:20
Jack Pierce brilliantly extrapolated
Karloff's make-up in Bride,
:09:24
creating several stages of distress and
regeneration, all in narrative continuity.
:09:29
The wounded monster
healed progressively.
:09:31
Karloff seems fleshier because
he is more padded than in the first film.
:09:35
The need to speak means that he does
not remove his dental plate this time,
:09:40
forfeiting the cadaverous sunken cheek.
:09:42
Nor did Pierce paint him
with as many hollows.
:09:45
The hollow in the monster's cheek
became an annoying grace note
:09:48
until, in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,
it looked like Bela Lugosi's monster
:09:52
and llona Massey's heroine
both sported duelling beauty marks.
:09:58
Elizabeth, the true bride of Frankenstein,
played by a 17-year-old Valerie Hobson -
:10:02
truly a child bride.
:10:04
Whale would have liked Mae Clarke,
his original,
:10:07
but her frail health by 1935
made this impossible.
:10:10
D'Arcy Corrigan, who plays the morgue
attendant in Murders in the Rue Morgue,
:10:14
delivers the bad news to Valerie.
:10:16
He is flanked by the family of Whale's
longtime companion David Lewis.
:10:19
His mother, Fanny Levy,
is the chubby peasant,
:10:22
his father, Pon Levy,
the stout, bearded man.
:10:24
David's sister, Leah Bishan, is
the sweet-faced girl blinking back tears.
:10:29
Leah's daughter recalls Uncle Jimmy
helping the Levys survive the Depression
:10:33
with extra work in Bride,
One More River and The Road Back.
:10:39
How soon after Frankenstein
was a sequel planned?
:10:42
According to Robert Florey, that film's
disinvited director, almost immediately.
:10:47
Florey submitted an unsolicited
seven-page treatment,
:10:50
which was returned to him
without comment in February 1932.
:10:53
Frankenstein hit, a money machine,
and Carl Laemmle Junior wanted more.
:10:58
James Whale refused,
finding the entire premise repellent.