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7.0After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.
Cast
- Lon Chaney Jr. as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man
- Claude Rains as Sir John Talbot
- Ralph Bellamy as Colonel Montford
- Warren William as Dr. Lloyd
- Patric Knowles as Frank Andrews
- Bela Lugosi as Bela
Themes
- wales
- fortune teller
- gypsy
- wolf
- legend
- shotgun
- transformation
- pentagram
- full moon
- amulet
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Ratings
IMDb
7.2/10
34,215 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
72/100
- Year
- 1941
- Runtime
- 70 min
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery, Romance
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- 2 wins & 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- George Waggner
- Written by
- Curt Siodmak
- Produced by
- George Waggner
- Starring
- Lon Chaney Jr. Claude Rains Ralph Bellamy Patric Knowles Bela Lugosi Maria Ouspenskaya Evelyn Ankers Warren William
- Cinematography
- Joseph Valentine
- Edited by
- Ted J. Kent
- Music by
- Hans J. Salter Frank Skinner Charles Previn
- Production company
- Universal Pictures
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release dates
- December 9, 1941 ( 1941-12-09 ) (United States) December 12, 1941 ( 1941-12-12 ) (United Kingdom)
- Running time
- 70 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $180,000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Wolf Man is a 1941 American Gothic horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner. The film stars Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man. Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, and Maria Ouspenskaya star in supporting roles. The title character has had a great deal of influence on Hollywood's depictions of the legend of the werewolf.
The film is the second Universal Pictures werewolf film, preceded six years earlier by the less commercially successful Werewolf of London (1935). It is one of the Universal Monsters movies, and garnered acclaim for its production. After the film's success, Lon Chaney Jr. reprised his role as "The Wolf Man" in four sequels, beginning with Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man in 1943.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Wolf Man” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.