The Wolf Man (1941 film)

The Wolf Man is a 1941 American drama horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner. The film stars Lon Chaney, Jr. as a werewolf named The Wolf Man and features Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bla Lugosi, and Maria Ouspenskaya in supporting roles. The title character has had a great deal of influence on Hollywoods 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.

Sometime in the early twentieth century, after learning of the death of his brother, Larry Talbot Lon Chaney, Jr. returns to his ancestral home in Llanwelly, Wales to reconcile with his estranged father, Sir John Talbot Claude Rains. While there, Larry becomes romantically interested in a local girl named Gwen Conliffe Evelyn Ankers, who runs an antique shop. As a pretext to converse with her, he purchases a silverheaded walking stick decorated with a wolf. Gwen tells him that it represents a werewolf which she defines as a man who changes into a wolf at certain times of the year.That night, Larry attempts to rescue Gwens friend Jenny from what he believes to be a sudden wolf attack. He kills the beast with his new walking stick, but is bitten on the chest in the process. A gypsy fortuneteller named Maleva Maria Ouspenskaya reveals to Larry that the animal which bit him was actually her son Bela Bela Lugosi in the form of a wolf. She also reveals that Larry will transform into a wolf as well since he who is bitten by a werewolf and lives will turn into one himself. ........

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