>Even if Browning was very involved in the editing and turned in what he considered the final cut, there was nothing to prevent Carl Laemmlle from having it re-edited if he didn't like the results.<

(Preface: again, I don't worship at the altar of Rhodes, Skal, or anyone else!)

Kerry, what you posit is of course possible. But there is no evidence for it beyond the hazy fragment cited by Clark above - and Rhodes marshals fragments more numerous, and a little more solid, that imply that was not the case, at least to any great extent.

Monsterkid since the Kennedy Era