Biographers have remarked that Bela Lugosi was right to turn down this movie, as the original script he was given portrayed The Monster as a grunting, killing machine and not the part eventually played by the British actor Boris Karloff. Neither original director Robert Florey nor Lugosi ever turned down this film as the end product, because they never once read the James Whale script. Indeed, it was this director (and Whale also scoffed at the original script and refused to do it) whose sensitivity overhauled the entire screenplay, as he rewrote it completely, turning the monster into a caring, sensitive and "lost soul". What was assigned to Florey and Lugosi was a monster with neither pathos nor heart, but a violent killing machine, a bit like what Karloff eventually portrayed (and would himself regret doing so) in Il figlio di Frankenstein (1939).

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