Seemingly played more for laughs than horror, as the poor monster is attacked by a mob, bound, imprisoned, burned, shot at and shot, only to survive all that only to be rejected by his 'bride'.
'Karloff' is shot on Charles Hall's Universal sets by John Mescall, to Franz Waxman's music. With Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger (delicious), Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson and Una O'Connor as the shrill voice of reason! And E.E. Clive as the pompous bergomaster, O.P. Heggie as hermit.
Karloff - in James Pierce's make-up - is marvellously expressive.
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