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The immediate necessity of a fresh heart
is a full incident retained from his script.
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Pretorius's line to Henry
about "once upon a time
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being burnt at the stake as wizards
for the experiment" is rather ingenuous.
:55:13
He fails to consider
that kidnapping, grave-robbing,
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corpse mutilation and murdering
young girls for their body parts -
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have I forgotten anything? - Might
merit the gallows, if not the stake.
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This line was spoken in Balderston's
script by a professor of anatomy,
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while energising dead frog parts
with a galvanic battery.
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In his screenplay,
Balderston shamelessly rehashed
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the medical-school business
of the first film,
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even to reviving
the deceased hunchback Fritz.
:55:39
Apparently nothing is impossible
when your boss is Dr Frankenstein.
:55:43
Fritz procures a desiccated specimen,
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enraging Henry, who demands a fresh
one, and offers the 1,000-crown bounty.
:55:49
Fritz obliges - in the Great Depression
people would do anything for money.
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Having appeared in every crowd scene in
the film for seven and a half dollars a day,
:56:43
it seemed the only way to get rid of David
Lewis' sister, Leah Bishan, was to kill her.
:56:48
But it was worth it for Leah - records
show that the Goldstadt street victim
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was a 50-dollar turn. Hardly 1,000 crowns,
but not to be sneezed at in 1935.
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One myth that has been
repeated over the years