For the PARDON US in French re-filming, one of the convicts cast was born English, as William Henry Pratt. Using the screen name of Boris Karloff, this busy actor worked in an incredible 15 films during 1931. One of them earned him screen immortality -- portraying the monster in FRANKENSTEIN. Karloff had previously appeared (along with Oliver Hardy) in a Mabel Normand short for Roach called THE NICKEL-HOPPER (1926) and was starring in a TV series at the studio called THE VEIL when the former Lot of Fun declared bankruptcy in 1959. Based upon the extant final cut of DE BOTE EN BOTE, it is likely that the corresponding scene in SOUS LES VERROUS was also cut. Therefore, sadly, only this still photo survives to document Laurel & Hardy's lone encounter with the great Karloff.