What Happened to Maleva??
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fritzfassbender — 19 years ago(December 10, 2006 08:11 PM)
I like to think that she survived. She did know that Larry was supposed to die, and without him, why would she stick around? Particulary if she heard all the commotion in the castle.
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sssaint_2002 — 18 years ago(April 10, 2007 12:01 PM)
Perhaps the answer to this quandary about Maleva's fate was left for dead on the cutting room floor along with Bela's dialouge? I have seen one or two outtake photos to suggest there was a scene where Larry and Maleva are in the castle conversing about something and the Monster is there with them.
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wallerworld — 18 years ago(April 20, 2007 04:45 AM)
First off, Maleva had a few final lines in Siodmak's script that didn't make it into the film. MALEVA: Insane? He is not insane. He simply wants to die[edit] that is all he asks of the doctor. ELSA: Are you asking Doctor [Mannering] to kill a man? MALEVA: It would not be murder. It would be an act of grace to deliver this unfortunate soul from the curse of such suffering. My powers have failed - but my prayers will be answered! [Maleva exits.] In the script's climax, Maleva hitches her horse to the wagon. When Vazec's dynamite blows up the dam, Maleva walks back toward the castle without fear. A storm arises, simultaneous to the rampaging flood. Escaping the ruins, the doctor carries Elsa to the wagon and helps her aboard, then quiets the panicked horse. Maleva and the doctor climb onto the wagon and drive away. The three arrive in town as the stunned villagers observe the destruction. Elsa and the doctor disembark, joining the onlookers. Maleva drives off in the wagon, unnoticed by the crowd, as the storm subsides. The last shot was supposed to show a page from Frankenstein's diary floating away in the dark waters. Obviously, the film doesn't end quite like that. (For one thing, no storm.) Roy William Neill must have chosen to film it differently and the editing may have changed it further.
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messick_us — 18 years ago(May 21, 2007 12:08 PM)
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! Yes, I also remember reading the exact ending you are talking about. There was supposed to be a completely different type music score at the end as the page from the dairy was floating down the currents from the blown up dam. There was a line of soft cover books that were released with the original working scripts and behind the scenes photos in them. I saw " Ghost Of Frankenstein " and " Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman " at our library about thirteen years ago. Checked them out and enjoyed them greatly. Does anyone alse remember these large soft cover books? If I am not mistaken, I think that book also had Bela's cut out lines from " Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman?. I could be wrong, though.I'll have to try and check those books out again. Like I said, it has been a few years.
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wallerworld — 14 years ago(July 02, 2011 06:24 PM)
There was a line of soft cover books that were released with the original working scripts
You must be thinking of the MagicImage Filmbooks, edited by Philip J. Riley. They are the source for the lines of dialogue I quoted in my earlier post. Most of the books are out-of-print, but sometimes you can find them on eBay or Amazon. Riley has a website that's worth checking out:
http://www.magicimage.com/
For a current list of their remaining Universal monster scripts for sale, click on
http://mca3.com/magic/index.cgi?code=3&cat=2 -
tbrittreid — 14 years ago(October 17, 2011 02:17 PM)
An article about Maria Ouspenskaya in
Cult Movies
magazine about ten years ago stated that her role as Maleva in this film was truncated because there was an accident involving the horse-drawn wagon. She was injured and hospitalized, making her unavailable for further filming here. Consequently, remaining-to-be-shot scenes intended to feature Maleva were rewritten to eliminate her.
The GREEN HORNET Strikes Again! -
MisterDenton — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 10:09 PM)
Are we to assume she died in the flood, or did she leave before that? She was definitely there while they were prepping for the final experiment. But I don't think whether she lived or was killed was ever even suggested one way or the other.
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Skye_Reynolds — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 07:39 PM)
She had left by that point. At the end, it was only Dr. Mannering, Baroness Frankenstein, and the two patients who were in the castle. It is kind of odd for her to disappear off-camera after delivering the line that Larry Talbot is not insane, but I can only imagine she chose to head back to her troupe rather than stay and watch Larry die.
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Skye_Reynolds — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 08:00 PM)
I rewatched the ending last night. It is odd how she just disappears from the film after that line. But it's daylight when she says it and night time when they revive the monster. That's several hours in which she could have left.
I guess maybe she felt he was in good hands since Mannering was a doctor and there to help. (Unfortunately, he decided to help the monster instead.)