A series of publicity photos of a menacing Boris Karloff holding Katherine DeMille in bondage (sometimes with a rope around her neck, or around her body, or with shackles on her wrists), and others representing utter submission (the actress is fainted in his arms or passed out at his feet, on the floor) have absolutely nothing to do with this film! There are no such scenes in the entire movie. To this day, no reel has been found. Why they were shot, and used as publicity to represent this film, is anybody's guess. It has been proposed that Karloff had a clause in his studio contract (verbal or written) that required such subjugation scenes to accept a role, and that they compromised and offered him such publicity shots since they couldn't work them into the movie itself. This would appear very plausible as, upon close examination of Karloff's career, indeed such scenes can be found in his every film post (and including) Frankenstein.

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