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As with other William Castle films, the movie's main marketing gimmick was the audience's chance to decide the title character's fate by "penalty poll", the outcome of which supposedly affected the film's ending. The ending in which Sardonicus dies was purportedly the only one filmed (William Castle believed - apparently correctly - that no audience would ever vote for the merciful ending), although Castle claims both were shot and the 'good' ending was just never chosen; given Castle's tenuous relationship with the truth, who knows.
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As with other William Castle films, the movie's main marketing gimmick was the audience's chance to decide the title character's fate by "penalty poll", the outcome of which supposedly affected the film's ending. The ending in which Sardonicus dies was purportedly the only one filmed (William Castle believed - apparently correctly - --apparently correctly-- that no audience would ever vote for the merciful ending), although Castle claims both were shot and the 'good' ending was just never chosen; given Castle's tenuous relationship with the truth, who knows.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Strongly implied with Baron Sardonicus and Maud. At best, he treats her distantly and at worst, he outright threatens to torture her if she can't convince Sir Robert to cure his disfigurement.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Strongly implied with Baron Sardonicus and Maud. At best, he treats her distantly distantly, and at worst, he outright threatens to torture her if she can't convince Sir Robert to cure his disfigurement.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Baron Sardonicus thinks Maud is disgusted with him because of his appearance. In turn, Maud calls him out on this, saying the ''real'' reason has to do with his arrogance and cruelty.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Baron Sardonicus thinks Maud Maude is disgusted with him because of his appearance. In turn, Maud calls him out on this, saying the ''real'' reason has to do with his arrogance and cruelty.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Sir Robert using his patented massage treatment to heal a little girl's leg halfway through establishes the good doctor's benevolence, as well as his tried and true method of encouraging his patients to heal themselves.
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** Sir Robert using his patented massage treatment to heal a little girl's leg halfway through establishes the good doctor's benevolence, as well as his tried and true method of encouraging his patients to healthemselves.themselves.
** In the flashback to when she was alive, Elenka's first moments of screentime have her impatiently standing in the doorway for Marek. Despite that her husband and father-in-law were attending a memorial, she makes it a point to coldly declare she's already eaten some of the dinner she cooked, and Marek can heat up what's left, as though to spite him for taking too long. This certainly drives home the hen-pecked nature of his first wife, and why Baron Sardonicus has such a cynical view of women.
** Sir Robert using his patented massage treatment to heal a little girl's leg halfway through establishes the good doctor's benevolence, as well as his tried and true method of encouraging his patients to heal
** In the flashback to when she was alive, Elenka's first moments of screentime have her impatiently standing in the doorway for Marek. Despite that her husband and father-in-law were attending a memorial, she makes it a point to coldly declare she's already eaten some of the dinner she cooked, and Marek can heat up what's left, as though to spite him for taking too long. This certainly drives home the hen-pecked nature of his first wife, and why Baron Sardonicus has such a cynical view of women.
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* AdultFear: The train conductor implies this to Sir Robert. It's one thing for Baron Sardonicus to lure unsuspecting women to his castle. It's another thing when one bears in mind some of those women happen to be ''someone's baby girl''.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Maude chose to marry Baron Sardonicus in order to save her father, and although she was spared the brunt of his cruelty, she still had to live year after year witnessing how monstrous her new husband was. From torturing servants to abducting young women, Maude regretted her choice. After the events of the movie, not only does the Baron anull their marriage, but she finds happiness in her rather well-off and much kinder old flame Sir Robert.
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Set in the year 1880, the film follows Sir Robert Cargrave, a renowned surgeon who specializes in paralysis, who receives a letter from his past love Maude and is invited to the mansion of her husband, Baron Sardonicus, in the [[{{Ruritania}} fictional country of Gorslava]].
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Set in the year 1880, the film follows Sir Robert Cargrave, Cargrave (Ronald Lewis), a renowned surgeon who specializes specializing in paralysis, who receives a letter from his past love Maude (Audrey Dalton) and is invited to the mansion of her husband, Baron Sardonicus, Sardonicus (Rolfe), in the [[{{Ruritania}} fictional country of Gorslava]].
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* IgnoredEpiphany: At one point, Sardonicus directly accuses Maude of being disgusted by his face. From what we can gather from Maude's dialogue, she's told him before she's rather repulsed by his arrogance and cruelty. Sardonicus's prejudice against women blinds him from accepting this truth, leading him to believe that (like his first wife) Maude is only saying this to cover up how "shallow" she is.
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* FreudianExcuse: One could say Sardonicus's resentful view of women and their "charms" stems from how his first wife would constantly [[HenPeckedHusband browbeat]] him into doing what she wanted, to the point that it lead to him becoming a "ghoul".
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* FreudianExcuse: One could say Sardonicus's resentful view of women and their "charms" stems from how his first wife would constantly [[HenPeckedHusband browbeat]] him into doing what she wanted, to the point that it lead to him becoming a "ghoul". It's led him to believe that all women (even [[NiceGirl Maude]] herself) are just like his wife, selfish and unloving creatures who easily shun him for his appearance.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Maude is painfully aware that Baron Sardonicus likes to entertain other girls.
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Baron Sardonicus has one when not only does Krull tell him he lost Sir Robert, but he mocks his inability to open his mouth by eating in front of him.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Baron Sardonicus [[spoiler:Baron Sardonicus]] has one when not only does Krull [[spoiler:Krull]] tell him he lost Sir Robert, [[spoiler:Sir Robert]], but he mocks his inability to open his mouth by eating in front of him.]]
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* PetTheDog: When Maude and Sir Robert are about to leave, we also see Sardonicus's maid in tow, strongly implying she will now work for much kinder employers.
