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The Wolf Man

Lon Chaney, Jr. (Actor), Bela Lugosi (Actor), George Waggner (Director, Producer) Rated:
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Genre Horror, Mystery & Suspense
Format NTSC, Multiple Formats, Dolby, Special Edition, Black & White, Closed-captioned
Contributor Maria Ouspenskaya, George Waggner, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains, Warren William, Patric Knowles, Lon Chaney, Jr., Curt Siodmak, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 10 minutes
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The original horror classic that introduced one of the screen's most infamous monsters! Lon Chaney, Jr. portrays Larry Talbot, who returns to his father's (Claude Rains) castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman (Evelyn Ankers). One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where Jenny's fate is revealed by a mysterious gypsy fortune teller. The dreamlike atmospheres and elaborate settings combined with a chilling musical score make The Wolf Man a masterpiece not only of the genre, but for all time!

Bonus Content:

  • Monster by Moonlight
  • Feature Commentary with Tom Weaver
  • The Wolf Man Archives
  • Production Notes
  • Cast and Filmmakers
  • Theatrical Trailer
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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 1020331
  • Director ‏ : ‎ George Waggner
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Multiple Formats, Dolby, Special Edition, Black & White, Closed-captioned
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 10 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ August 30, 2009
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Lon Chaney, Jr., Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ George Waggner
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Unqualified
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00001TZ6Q
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Curt Siodmak
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 2,060 ratings

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Beth B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Scary black-and-white Halloween movie!
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2024
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This is one of my favorite Halloween movies. The atmosphere, especially in the cemetery, is spooky and entirely suitable for a tale based upon the ancient fear of werewolves. The acting is superb and the story encompasses the history of the legend of The Wolf Man. Very entertaining and highly recommended!
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Tim F. Martin
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute classic, well worth watching
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2020
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First time seeing this film, one of the great classic horror films, a film that had an enormous influence on Hollywood depictions of werewolves and was the film that truly popularized the Wolf Man as one of the great Universal Pictures monsters (it isn’t the first werewolf film they did – that would be “Werewolf of London” in 1935, but it is the more famous and influential film).

The main character is Larry Talbot (played by Lon Chaney Jr.), who we meet returning to his family home, their ancestral castle in Wales on the death of Larry’s brother and reuniting with his estranged father Sir John Talbot (played by Claude Rains). While in town, getting to know the place and getting reacquainted with his father, Larry falls in love with a woman who with her father runs the local antique shop (who Larry peeps on from a telescope in the family castle, though his credit Larry later owns up to this). This woman, named Gwen Conliffe (Evelyn Ankers), is hit on quite a bit by Larry, Gwen eventually agreeing to go out with him (though she is engaged!).

I don’t want to say much more about the story if in you haven’t seen it, but it does involved gypsies (including one played by horror great Bela Lugosi in basically a blink and you miss it cameo) and Larry getting bitten by a werewolf (something everyone except for the locals think is either an old legend or a psychological disorder).

Having read that this movie is influential for later incarnations of werewolves in the movies, I saw several things that certainly movies the last three decades or so don’t include, with a lot more emphasis on a werewolf being a magical creature with supernatural qualities rather than purely a disease that people can become inflicted with. That surprised me, though seems much more in line with the older legends of werewolves from European folklore.

I liked the village and castle setting, the creepy foggy woods, I liked the characters Gwen and Sir John, the make up looked good when we finally see the Wolf Man, pacing was excellent, and it had a sad ending I didn’t quite expect. We barely see much of the Wolf Man though, mostly towards the end, and I was unclear on one aspect of lycanthropy in the film (it seems one can turn into a wolf…or a Wolf Man…but I was unclear if there was a choice, or certain people became wolves and certain people didn’t).

I generally liked the character of Larry Talbot though I thought he came on much too strong to Gwen in trying to win a date with her. Nothing rapey or abusive or sexist, but he was very persistent. I think that is something modern audiences might differ on from how older films portrayed such things, that modern audiences might see him not taking no as an answer, while back then unless it was the “right no” it was permission to try a few more times (that and perhaps as a form of flirting).

I understand Lon Chaney Jr reprised the Wolf Man in four sequels. It would be interesting to see one or more of these movies.
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Jeffrey T. Munson
5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Horror Film
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2007
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Made during the horror movie heyday of the late 1930s and early 1940s, this classic suspenseful thriller introduced audiences to one of the most well-known movie monsters; Lon Chaney Jr.'s "Wolf Man".

Chaney plays Larry Talbot, who is returning to his home in Wales after spending eighteen years in the United States. Larry's brother was recently killed in a hunting accident. Claude Rains stars as Larry's father, Sir John Talbot. Upon returning home, Larry helps his father install a new lens in his telescope. While peering through the lens, Larry discovers a beautiful girl in the window across the street. Her name is Gwen Conliffe (Evelyn Ankers). Larry goes over and introduces himself, and the two agree to go for a walk together that evening.

Gwen invites her friend Jenny Williams to come along. The three decide to go to have their fortunes told by a group of gypsies who have set up camp in town. Jenny goes first. Gypsy Bela (Bela Lugosi) reads Jenny's fortune. He is immediately disturbed when he sees the shape of a pentagram appear in Jenny's palm. He immediately tells Jenny to leave. Meanwhile, Gwen and Larry have walked off on their own. Minutes later, they hear a blood-curdling scream. Larry runs to investigate and finds a large wolf attacking Jenny. Larry manages to kill the wolf with his silver-handled cane, but he is bitten in the process.

Gypsy Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya) tells Larry about the legend of the werewolf, and if a person is bitten by a werewolf and survives, they too will become a werewolf. Maleva gives Larry a charm to wear around his neck to protect himself, but he gives the charm to Gwen. On the night of the full moon, Maleva's predictions come true, as Larry Talbot is transformed into a werewolf. Will the charm protect Gwen, or will she suffer the same fate as her friend Jenny?

This movie has remained a classic for over sixty years, and it takes the viewer back to a time before the blood-and-guts horror films were popular, and movie producers relied on psychological terror to scare audiences. There is no blood in this movie, but the viewer is still scared by the unique movie sets, the fog rolling through the trees, and the haunting musical score. Lon Chaney Jr. made his role as the wolf man famous, and he's the only actor to have ever played the wolf man. Although the character was originally designed for Boris Karloff, Chaney made this his signature role. He will always be remembered as the wolf man. The other actors, especially Maria Ouspenskaya and Claude Rains, give good performances as well.

I give this movie my highest recommendation. This film takes me back to when I was a young child, and I used to stay up late on weekends watching the scary movies on television. Remember, "Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolf bane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright".
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Karla Amaya
5.0 out of 5 stars Beware of The Full Moon in This 1941 Classic
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2022
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"Even a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright." So says Curt Sidomak, creator of 1941's The Wolf Man. And so was the fate of Larry Talbot and the mythology of how werewolves are made. And we have not only Curt Sidomak to thank but also Lon Chaney Jr. for his portrayal as the doomed Larry Talbot. And the remaining cast is extraordinary with Claude Rains as Sir John Talbot, Evelyn Ankers as Gwen, Patric Knowles as Gwen's fiancée Frank, Bela Lugosi as Bela the original werewolf, and Maria Ouspenskaya as Maleva, the wise Romani. And despite the film being only 70 minutes long, we get to know the whole cast and the plot in that short time which is something most films cannot do and why it stands out among the Universal Classic Monsters Films.
The bonus material includes how the Wolf Man was made, the life of Lon Chaney Jr., and the real life scoop on werewolf folklore including a small tribute to the man who created the Universal Classic Monsters; Jack Pierce. This film is recommended for all horror fans but be wary of the howl you hear at night when the movie ends; could it be a dog? A coyote? A wolf? Or could it be the howl that means death or a fate worse than death?
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Andy Currie
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Tragedy
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2023
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The Wolf Man 1941 my absolute favorite of the Universal Monster series, Lon Chaney Jr is charismatic and portrays the tragic character with nowhere to turn perfectly Claude Rains is as great as ever w/ the lovely Evelyn Ankers. Final score always hits me hard
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Mané
5.0 out of 5 stars Wolfsmensch
Reviewed in Germany on February 6, 2018
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Der gute alte Schwarz-Weiß-Horror!!
Absolut sehenswert!

Den Film selbst rezensiere ich hier aber nicht - das hat Amazon (oder einschlägige Film-Seiten im Netz) bzw. haben diverse weitere Käufer schon getan :-)
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Jeffrey Heness
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Australia on May 1, 2018
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Arrived in excellent condition and in time and works perfectly, Great Movie!
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Señor Spook
5.0 out of 5 stars Howl like Ginsberg, Baby!
Reviewed in Canada on February 28, 2010
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Sooner or later, every horror film fan returns to the sources of the genre. The Universal Monster movies produced between 1923 and 1936 are among the very best of these. During this period, the Laemmle family still ran Universal Pictures. Under their stewardship, horror films received a certain cachet -- along with big budgets, great directors, great actors and lavish production values -- on par with other A-list pictures of the time. Only a handful of Universal's horror pictures made after this "Golden Age" match the high quality of their famous predecessors. "The Wolf Man" (1941) is one of the very few to succeed.

Prior to watching this film for the first time, I'd only ever seen Lon Chaney Jr. shamble through the low-rent "Mummy" sequels and the rather poor "Son of Dracula." However, his performance in "The Wolf Man" is an utter revelation! Here, his acting isn't subtle and nuanced (although Claude Rains's is), but it is heartfelt (and heart-rending). It's difficult not to like him in this and I found myself genuinely feeling for his plight; hoping-against-hope that he'd find a way to beat the werewolf curse that had been thrust upon him unawares. Alas, by the end of the movie... well, it's a really good ending. So good, in fact, that Universal kept the Wolf Man around for four more movies. Personally, I don't need to see 'em. I'm perfectly happy with this movie right here!

That's a good thing too, since "The Wolf Man" is the only movie you're gonna get if you buy the two-disc Universal Legacy Series edition. Disc one contains the film (in an astonishingly clear transfer) along with an amusing commentary by film historian, Tom Weaver, a poster/still slideshow and a short documentary hosted by  An American Werewolf in London (Widescreen)  director, John Landis. Disc two contains a short werewolf documentary, a documentary about Universal makeup legend, Jack Pierce, and the surprisingly non-fluffy (and occasionally disturbing) feature-length "Universal Horror" documentary. Owners of the Universal Legacy Series editions of  Dracula (75th Anniversary Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)  and  The Mummy  may be tempted to stomp all over this disc since they'll already own one -- or both -- of these last two documentaries, but then they'd be crushing a rather welcome biography of Lon Chaney Jr. exclusive to this release (so far). Otherwise, this is a pretty amazing little set for an essential film in the Universal horror canon.

As far as my Amazon ordering experience went, I am grateful every day that we live in an age where items like this can be easily obtained online. In the wake of the recent remake, I had hoped to snag a copy of this DVD from local retail shops, only to be told that it wasn't in stock; quite a quandary considering Universal are *not* a notoriously small studio and "The Wolf Man" is a fairly major horror classic. Despite promises they could "order it in" for me within four-to-six weeks (at an average cost of $30 Cdn), I opted to order it from Amazon instead. The DVD arrived in my mailbox three days later (and for $10 less than the local retail price).
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Andy Mckenna
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2023
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Good and sin loved it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ware ist einwandfrei
Reviewed in Germany on July 30, 2020
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