I've seen PARDON US many times -- but never spotted Karloff. He was in the French version, which is lost, alas.

The German DVD of PARDON US restores about 10 minutes of footage to the film (a big deal in a movie that's barely an hour long) and includes bonus footage of other scenes filmed for the foreign versions, and is my single favorite DVD of the 4,000 plus in my collection -- but no Karloff, darn it.

The death of Harmon had nothing to do with TCM's marathon, nor are there DVD releases on the horizon. Darn it and alas again.

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