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Part of the original Shock Theater package of 52 Universal titles released to television in 1957, followed a year later with Son of Shock, which added 20 more features.
The novel, the last by Charles Dickens, was unfinished at the time of his death in 1870.
Shooting began Nov. 18, 1934, completed in January, 1935, released Feb. 4.
Lavishly produced by Universal at a time, in retrospect, could least afford it. The studio was not yet aware of the failure of their most recent Dickens' adaption, Great Expectations (1934) and due to Carl Laemmle's financial excesses and asleep-at-the-wheel managerial style, Universal was rapidly sinking into a financial debacle. This film, like so many of Universal's of this period, flopped.
Boris Karloff was the first actor considered for the role of the opium-addicted John Jasper.
"Rosa Bud: Oh, Helena, I'm frightened! Helena Landless: Mr. Jasper? Rosa Bud: He haunts my thoughts like a dreadful ghost!"
"Rosa Bud: [about Jasper] When I'm dressed, I feel as if he were looking through the wall at me!"
