The Wolf Man
film by Waggner [1941]
The Wolf Man, American horror film, released in 1941, that made Lon Chaney, Jr., son of legendary silent film star Lon Chaney, a Hollywood celebrity in his own right. The film, one of the many popular monster movies of the 1930s and ’40s produced by Universal Pictures, greatly influenced popular conceptions of werewolves and lycanthropy. After learning of his brother’s death, Larry Talbot (played by Chaney) returns to his ancestral home to make peace with his father, Sir John (Claude Rains). Talbot buys a silver cane decorated with a wolf in a local antique shop, and he later uses that ...(100 of 261 words)