Missing footage, or just sexy publicity shots never in the movie
At the time of this movie's release, there were lots of magazine articles publicising it, with many dramatic photos of Peter Cushing and Susan Denberg in various mad scientist themed shots. All showed her as a scantily clad blonde beauty, wearing what appears to be a Nineteenth Century version of a bikini, as Cushing has her lying on a lab table, and seems to be making various adjustments to her form, involving cables and clamps and electrical equipment.
I have never seen any of this in the completed film, nor so much as one classic, dramatic moment of Frankenstein throwing a life-giving switch and triumphantly bringing the lovely female " monster" to life.
In the Fifties and Sixties, American film distriibutors often cut nudity and sexual scenes from foreign movies before releasing them in the States. Is it possible that some of these scenes appeared in the original British version, but were cut before American release, or were they simply a provocative ad campaign to lure more male moviegoers to buy tickets?
Someone must know. There must be plenty of male viewers out there who well remember the effect those publicity shots had on a 13 year old horror movie fan's libido.
And when he crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him