Casey62 wrote:
I'm not discounting that Browning may have been dissatisfied with the release version. But what was it he allegedly didn't like? Did he regret the choices made during production and wish he would have stuck more to the script? In other words, just because Browning may have been dissatisfied doesn't necessarily mean a modern re-edit as we see it would meet with his approval either.

Well, according to Hart, he didn't like the editing. Gary discounts Hart's anecdote, and speculates that what Browning really was unhappy about was a local TV horror host messing with his film, but that is just speculation. Also, Gary doesn't mention it, but Skal has cited a 1932 gossip article appearing in Hollywood magazine in which Carl Laemmle, Sr apparently didn't like the preview cut of the film and ordered that the film be re-edited just prior to release. 

And interestingly enough, Paul Haight has recently posted a clip from the May 1931 issue of Photoplay magazine in post #429 of the Dracula 1931 (Something I must say) thread, reporting that Tod Browning wasn't invited (or didn't show up?) to a party at Universal celebrating the success of DRACULA upon release. So why wasn't Browning at the party? Did Universal so undervalue his contribution to the film? Was Browning unhappy with the release version of the film? There's plenty of room for speculation.