Present-day reviewers have reviled the film for its stereotypical and demeaning portrayal of the plantation""s cook Hoy (Willie Fung), o provide unnecessary ""comic relief.Wise-cracking Eve (Eve Arden) has a somnolent white cat named Henry/Henrietta (credited as Whitey the Cat) draped across her shoulders and neck.Perhaps I could help you with that hump." Igor responded: "What hump?" Igor grabbed the doctor""s light-weight attache case, leaving Frankenstein o carry his own heavy luggage bag.This first-rate melodramatic film is an adaptation of Theodore Dreiser""s lengthy, best-selling 1925 novel,An American Tragedy, and it was also based on the Patrick Kearney play.