Movie Description In this horror classic, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.) returns to his father's castle in Wales to join a beautiful woman (Evelyn Ankers). Talbot escorts her to a local carnival, where a gypsy fortune teller, Bela (Bela Lugosi), predicts the horrors that await and brings to light the curse of the wolf. Later, Bela, who already has transformed into part man/part wolf, attacks Larry to transform him as well.
| Credits | | Producer: | George Waggner | | Cast: | Evelyn Ankers, Fay Helm, Forrester Harvey |
Notes The creator of the Wolf Man franchise, writer Curt Siodmak, died on September 2, 2000, at the age of 98--at the time he was the oldest working member of the Writers Guild of America West and had just completed his memoirs.
Editorial Reviews "...Innocent, and thus more tragic....Chaney's famous make-up job makes him suitably beastly..." -- Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly - pp.68-9 - Michael Sauter (01/13/1995)
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