Robinson.Short-statured (5""6") Jewish actor Dustin Hoffman had already been cast as Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind inThe Producers (1968)when he bowed out and took the role of bumbling graduate Benjamin Braddock.In contrast, "reflex" movements were made "independently of the will." Frankenstein suddenly turned on the vulnerable patient and threatened to jab him in the groin with his knee, as he shouted: "You filthy, rotten, yellow son of a bitch.Tatum started o contemptuously and savagely rant about how much he missed big-city life.With his feet up on his desk and then as he strolled in the cramped news office with co-workers, he had become utterly frustrated by being imprisoned and stuck there after a year.He revealed his stolen coins (he performed a handstand and the coins fell to the floor) and the magic rope:Rouse yourself, bird of evil.