With this "talkie" horror film, Hungarian stage actor Bela Lugosi (originally named Bela Blasko), who had starred in the smash-hit Broadway stage play, took over the part for the film when Lon Chaney, Sr.Back inside the tenement building, Ratso has his own dreams for the future - he fantasizes about idyllic Florida, while cooking dinner in a frying pan over a canned heat stove:The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.]The main criticisms of the albeit intriguing and highly entertaining film were mostly about the many substantial liberties aken regarding the historical Mozart with highly-fictionalized distortions of historical fact to create better drama, including - (1) the fabrication of an intense rivalry between Salieri and Mozart and the many attempts at sabotage to destroy his career that ultimately led to Mozart""s premature demise, (2) the horrible American accents by many of the cast members, representing the vernacular German, (3) Salieri""s portrayal as a mediocre composer (which he wasn""t), and as a chaste bachelor although he was married and had eight children, and reportedly had soprano-pupil Caterina Cavalieri as a mistress, (4) the fact that Mozart had two surviving children instead of only one, and (5) theRequiem Masswas commissioned not by a disguised Salieri but anonymously by a vain, plagiarist - German aristocrat Count Walsegg-Stuppach (known at the time as the mysterious ""Grey Messenger""), and the completion of the unfinishedMasswas by Mozart""s assistant, composer/conductor Franz Xaver Süssmayr - it wasn""t dictated to Salieri.The dark-horse film won three awards (presented in early March of 1944): Best Picture (producer Hal B.