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Casting sheets show that Dwight Frye
was originally cast
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for his part here as Ghoul Number One.
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A screenplay anachronism
retained Fritz,
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the hunchback assistant
who had been killed in the first film.
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Dwight Frye Jr recalls that Whale
helped his father by creating roles,
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and Frye's Karl is an amalgam
of four characters in the Hurlbut script -
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Pretorius's servant, first Ghoul,
Nephew Glutz and Fritz.
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This is why Frye
has two different partners.
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Neil Fitzgerald, here in the crypt,
is Rudy, aka Ghoul Number Two.
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Ted Billings, as Ludwig,
will help to fly the kites at the climax.
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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.