The maid Mrs.Pearce (Mona Washbourne) admits her into the study, thinking she is one of Higgins"" subjects of "business" study: "Well, she""s quite a common girl, sir.Although the bleak film was considered a box-office and critical failure (it lacked even a single Academy Award nomination), it has gained considerable critical prominence ever since." The Joker knew that it wasn""t Batman who had committed the gangster murders ("I""ve seen the guy.He looks more like the Ghost of Christmas Future") and suspected Arthur - and shortly later, the councilman was hospitalized as insanely mad." The student pressed Frankenstein about the basis of his grandfather""s work - the reanimation of dead tissue (as evidenced by more modern medical advancements with heart and kidney transplants), but the doctor denied being even curious or intrigued about his grandfather""s experiments in "bringing back to life what was once dead":My grandfather was a very sick man.