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Director: |
George Waggner, Roy William Neill, Jean Yarbrough, Stuart Walker
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Starring: |
Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, Evelyn Ankers, Ilona Massey, Lionel Atwill, June Lockhart, Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson
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Genres: |
Horror, Action-Adventure, Cult Classics-Exploitation, Drama Classics, Mystery-Suspense, Thriller, US Classics
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Origin: |
USA
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Certificate: |
PG
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Languages: |
English
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Running Time: |
281 min
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Included in the collection is the original classic, starring the renowned Lon Chaney Jr., and three timeless sequels, featuring legendary actor Bela Lugosi and others. These are the landmark films that inspired an entire genre of movies and continue to be major influences on motion pictures to this day.
The Wolf Man(1941)and Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man(1942):
This was the role Chaney was born to play, and he delivered one amazing performance after another in his five werewolf films. The Wolf Man Legacy Collection contains only two of them, the original The Wolf Man from 1941 and the sequel/monster crossover film Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1942). Chaney's Wolf Man also appears in House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula, each of which can be found on the Frankenstein and Dracula Legacy Collections, respectively.
Werewolf of London (1935) and She-Wolf of London (1946) could not be more different, and both are unmistakably distinct from the Universal werewolf films starring Lon Chaney, Jr., yet I think they both work marvelously. Many fans don't care for them, especially She-Wolf in London, but I find both films quite compelling. They differ significantly from the storyline running through Chaney's Wolf Man films, but these two films have a great deal of their own to offer fans. Often overlooked and unduly dismissed by some reviewers and horror fans, these are two classic werewolf films.
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