 In the original script, Count Mora was supposed to be involved in an  incestuous relationship with his daughter Luna, and to have  committed suicide. After the filming began, however, all references  to the crime were cut out of the script by MGM, and and so the  character played by Bela Lugosi (qv) is seen with a noticeable,  unexplained bullet hole on the side of his forehead. Because  director Tod Browning (qv)s previous film, _Freaks (1932)_ (qv),  had been a box office disaster, Browning was unable to object to any  changes made by the studio.