I didn't think that I would like 'The Wolf Man' as much as I ultimately did. Lon Chaney Jr. is great in the role, I feel some sympathy for him as an actor, his father's legacy being what it was it would have been hard for the son to escape the gravity well of type casting, this may in fact be his performance, and it's certainly his most remembered. Interestingly the wolfman mythology was largely made up for this movie, it wasn't based on a pre existing story like the other well remembered Universal Monsters of the pre war era. A fairly simple narrative, effectively told. ***
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