(The Wolf Man  - USA,1941)

Cast

Lon Chaney Jr.

Claude Rains

Warren Williams

Ralph Bellamy

Maria Ouspenskaya

Bela Lugosi

Patric Knowles

Evelin Ankers

J.M. Kerrigan

Fay Helm

Forrester Harvey

Jessie Arnold

Leyland Hodgson

Doris Lloyd

Ottola Nesmith

Tom Stevenson

Harry Stabbs

Subject and

Screenplay

Make up

Special Effects

Editing

Photography

Music

Charles Previn

Hans J. Salter

Frank Skinner

Produced by

 

Jack J. Gross and George Waggner

(Universal Pictures)

Lenght

The college student Larry Talbot, returning from his family castle in Wales, visit a gipsy camp. Hearing some screams coming from the forest, Larry ran to aid a girl assaulted by a wolf. He kills the beast with his silverheaded-stick but receiving a bite from the animal. The wolf is in reality a lycantrope and Talbot, affected by the bite, transforms himself into a wolf, killing an undertaker and assaulting the girl. Unaware of all, his father will kill him.

Curt Siodmak was the author of celebre poem that appears several times in the film:

"Even to man who is of heart and says his prayers by night may become to wolf when the also wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright".

The Universal re-used the film soundtrack in many other movies.

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