Starlog Magazine ran a preview article with this color photo of Melt (as I like to call him) attacking the fallen nurse. Based on that, my assumption has always been it was filmed then cut:
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Deo Vindice,
Prof. Christopher McGlothlin, M.Ed.

-Mad Social Scientist & Freelance Writer

"Look upon me! I'll show you the life of the mind!"--Charlie Meadows, in Barton Fink
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