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Rewrites & drafts
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He allegedly did some uncredited rewrite work on The Raven, which was one of the great Bela Lugosi vehicles. And it may well be that the fact that The Werewolf of Paris was a hit novel.
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Now, let's talk about also the uncredited contributing writers, because obviously there's one very interesting credit in there, which is John L. Balderston. Yeah, allegedly a rewrite man on this. He was Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Bride of Frankenstein, Mad Love. It may well have been that it didn't count as a horror script in 1935 unless John L. Balderston had shoved it through his typewriter. But we know that he was a dialogue man very much, and so maybe he came in to fix some of this dialogue. That's possible. Because obviously the script already existed as London After Midnight, anyway.
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