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starring: Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, Lawrence Grantdirected by: Stuart Walker
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302526158
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6302526159
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: September 16, 1997
Running Time: 75 minutes
Sales Rank: 1201
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: May 13, 1935
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Universal's first werewolf film falls in the shadow of the 1941 hit The Wolf Man. You might say it's a different animal, as this version carries none of the now-familiar trappings of the wolf-man legend: no wolfsbane, no silver bullets, no gypsy curse. Dr. Wilfrid Glendon (Henry Hull) is a London botanist whose search for a rare flower takes him to a 'cursed' valley in Tibet where he's mauled in the moonlight by a wolflike creature. Back in London he meets the mysterious Dr. Yogami (a marvelously melancholy performance by Warner Oland), who explains they met once before 'in Tibet... in the dark' before asking for a flower from his botanical find, the only antidote for his curse. Glendon scoffs at his stories of werewolves--until he transforms into a hirsute killer under the effect of the full moon. Although leaner and edgier than the famous 1941 Lon Chaney classic, The Werewolf of London stumbles with the corny Scotland Yard investigation of the murder spree and gets sidetracked in the bizarre bickering of two old drunken cronies. But it takes flight in wonderfully imaginative and eerie scenes and striking action sequences, while a Jekyll-and-Hyde dynamic turns a jealous squabble between Glendon and his young wife Lisa (Valerie Hobson) into the tragic twist of the curse: 'The werewolf instinctively kills the thing it loves best.' --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - WEREWOLF OF LONDON OR.....DR. JEKYLL AND MR. WOLFMAN!
This is an interesting werewolf story which plays more like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Henry Hull's werewolf is no match for Lon Chaney Jr.'s but, it's not his fault. At the time they made this film, Universal was apprehensive about showing a wolfman that was "too Hairy" and the actual wolfman transformation. I have read that Jack Pierce had designed a more elaborate make-up but the studio opted against it. The folklore is not the same as the 1941 classic either and this film takes a more scientific ... Read More
Rating: - The Wolfman by way of Mr. Hyde...
1935's "Werewolf of London" was Universal Pictures' first (pre-Lon Chaney) effort to bring the werewolf monster to the big screen. This movie lacks some of the trappings of the traditional werewolf mythology but is a worthwhile and chillingly well-done horror movie on its own.
A London botanist, Dr. Wilfred Glendon (played with single-minded scientific certitude by Henry Hull) neglects his young wife in order to travel to Tibet in search of a rare flower that legendarily blooms only in ... Read More
Rating:  - Variations on a Romantic Triangle
An exploration visits mysterious Tibet. The Englishmen are searching for a rare flower that only grows in Tibet. The natives are afraid to visit a valley from which no man has ever returned, it is said to be inhabited by demons. A missionary warns them against this, but they press on for their quest. A strange animal attacks one, but is driven off. The plant is harvested and returned to London (it only blooms under moonlight). Wilfred is obsessed since his return. They have strange plants in that museum, ... Read More
Rating:  - Better than Lon Chaney
This is more realistic than "The Wolf Man" I Hate the kind where they got exccesive Hair on them like chaney did Now I am not saying that it is a Bad Movie but i think this was better
"Dr.Glendon "Henry Hull" Travels to Tibet where he is searching for a rare flower called The Mariphasa Lupina that only grows in moonlight when he finds it he is attacked and bitten by a wolf. Back in London he becomes a Werewolf "a demonic looking Creature with a widows peak" and prowls London
This was to me ALOT ... Read More
Rating: - Atmospheric First Werewolf Movie That Is Often Overlooked
Hollywood and England's Hammer studios have produced some very famous werewolf horror movies over the years and when this subgenre is mentioned most peoples thoughts automatically recall 1941's classic horror masterpiece "The Wolf Man". Starring a tragic Lon Chaney that film is a horror classic and is always credited with putting werewolf's on the horror map so to speak. However as great a masterpiece as that effort is it was not the first film on this theme that Universal Studios had produced. That honour goes ... Read More
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