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Shortly, the monster will stumble
into a group of children
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and be posed before
an icon of Jesus Christ.
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He beseeches the children,
and is again rejected by humanity.
:42:41
Marilyn Harris, the drowned Maria
of the first film, is the children's leader.
:42:45
Also fleeing in the gaggle
is child actress Carmencita Johnson.
:42:50
Whale upgraded Marilyn's silent bit
with one word of dialogue,
:42:53
making the part
a higher-paying speaking role.
:42:55
He would use Marilyn again
in Show Boat and The Road Back.
:42:59
Balderston's July 23rd script had
the angry monster wrestle and destroy
:43:03
a stone angel in the cemetery -
literally a fallen angel.
:43:06
Hurlbut's shooting script had the monster
come upon a crucified Nazarene,
:43:10
etched against a glowering sky.
:43:12
Seeing it as a living figure, tortured as he
has been, the monster toppled the effigy
:43:17
and attempted to free it from the cross.
:43:21
The Breen office told Whale
in no uncertain terms
:43:23
to find another monument.
:43:25
Whale salvaged the ghost of the intention
:43:28
by including the unmolested
Christ icon in the margin.
:43:31
Censor cuts in Frankenstein perverted
the poignant encounter with a little girl
:43:35
into an act of paedophilic depravity.
:43:37
As if Pretorius, the burgomaster
and Minnie
:43:40
jointly ran the Production
Code Administration,
:43:42
the most resonant Christian image
was twisted into an act of godlessness.