Also, the film""s wonderful musical score by Alfred Newman is unforgettable.Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks, and English actor Robert Newton were all considered for the role eventually played by British stage actor Laurence Olivier.Alice tried to convince her classmates and teacher of Freddy""s presence: "Didn""t you see it? He was here," although everyone looked at her strangely.Harry was to find out what the true memory actually was - and immediately confronted his Professor with a direct question about the key memory.The screenplay for director Ridley Scott""s film (only his second feature film followingThe Duellists (1977), although Walter Hill was originally to be the director) was written by Dan O""Bannon, who based the script upon a story (originally titledStar Beast) that he had written with partner Ronald Shusett.And then the murder! The little child drowned.Henry Frankenstein himself thrown from the top of the burning mill by the very Monster he had created.