Evolution of the Movie Werewolf | Werewolf of London (1935)

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1935 | WEREWOLF OF LONDON

Beware the Stalking Being! Half-Human! Half-Beast!

Genre: Drama/Suspense
Director: Stuart Walker (The False Madonna, Great Expectations, Manhattan Moon).
Starring: Henry Hull as Dr Wilfred Glendon aka The Werewolf and Warner Oland as Dr. Yogami.

The synopsis goes something like this ...
The inspiration for more recent cult favorite An American Werewolf in London (1982), the story has Hull's Dr Glendon being attacked in the dark by a strange animal while on a botanical expedition in Tibet. Returning to his home in London, he finds himself turning nightly into a werewolf and terrorizing the city, with the only hope for curing his affliction ... a rare Asian flower.

Something to sink your teeth into ...
Apparently make-up artist Jack Pierce's original werewolf design for Hull was identical to the one used later in The Wolf Man (1941), but it was rejected in favor of a "minimalist approach" that was less obscuring to facial expressions. Hull was unwilling to spend hours having make-up applied. Also, the werewolf's howl was an audio blend of Hull and a recording of an actual timber wolf, an approach which was never duplicated in any subsequent werewolf film.

IMDb Rating: 6.4

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