Editing Bride of Frankenstein (section)

==Censorship==
[[File:Karloff-whale-mescall-bride opt2.jpg|thumb|left|230px|[[Boris Karloff]], director [[James Whale]], and [[cinematographer]] [[John J. Mescall]] on the set of ''Bride of Frankenstein'' (1935).]]
''Bride of Frankenstein'' was subjected to [[Film censorship in the United States|censorship]], both during production by the [[Motion Picture Production Code|Hays office]] and following its release by local and national censorship boards. [[Joseph Breen]], lead censor for the Hays office, objected to lines of dialogue in the originally submitted script in which Henry Frankenstein and his work were compared to that of God. He continued to object to such dialogue in revised scripts,<ref name = skal18791>Skal, pp. 187–91</ref> and to a planned shot of the Monster rushing through a graveyard to a figure of a crucified Jesus and attempting to rescue the figure from the cross.<ref>Curtis, p. 247</ref> Breen also objected to the number of murders, both seen and implied by the script and strongly advised Whale to reduce the number.<ref name = dvd /> The censors' office, upon reviewing the film in March 1935, required a number of cuts. Whale agreed to delete a sequence in which Dwight Frye's "Nephew Glutz"<ref name = dvd /> kills his uncle and blames the Monster,<ref name = curtis250>Curtis, p. 250</ref> and shots of Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley in which Breen felt too much of her breasts were visible. Despite his earlier objection, Breen offered no objection to the [[cruciform]] imagery throughout the film – including a scene with the Monster lashed Christ-like to a pole – nor to the presentation of Pretorius as a coded homosexual.<ref name = skal18791 /> ''Bride of Frankenstein'' was approved by the Production Code office on April 15.<ref name = curtis250 />

Following its release with the Code seal of approval, the film was challenged by the censorship board in the state of [[Ohio]].<ref name = skal18791 /> Censors in England and China objected to the scene in which the Monster gazes longingly upon the body intended for reanimation as the Bride, citing concerns that it looked like [[necrophilia]].<ref>Johnson, p. 166</ref> Universal voluntarily withdrew the film from [[Sweden]] because of the extensive cuts demanded, and ''Bride'' was rejected outright by [[Trinidad]], [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]], and [[Hungary]]. Additionally, Japanese censors objected to the scene in which Pretorius chases his miniature [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] with tweezers, asserting that it constituted "making a fool out of a king".<ref name = skal18791 />