Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
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| Directed by | Roy William Neill |
| Produced by | George Waggner |
| Written by | Curt Siodmak |
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Lon Chaney, Jr. Ilona Massey Patric Knowles Lionel Atwill Bela Lugosi Maria Ouspenskaya |
| Music by | Hans Salter |
| Cinematography | George Robinson |
| Edited by | Edward Curtiss |
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Universal Pictures
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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74 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is a 1943 American monster horror film produced by Universal Studios starring Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Wolf Man and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster. This was the first of a series of "ensemble" monster films combining characters from several film series. This film, therefore, is both the fifth in the series of films based upon Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, directly after The Ghost of Frankenstein, and a sequel to The Wolf Man.
After the events of The Wolf Man and Ghost of Frankenstein, two graverobbers break into the Talbot family crypt to rob the grave of Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.), of valuables buried with him, on the night of a full moon. During the grave robbery, the graverobbers remove the wolfsbane buried with him and he is awakened from death by the full moon shining down on his uncovered body, and kills one of them.
Talbot is found by police in Cardiff and taken to hospital where he is treated by Dr. Mannering (Patric Knowles). During the full moon, Talbot transforms and kills a police constable. Dr. Mannering and Inspector Owen (Dennis Hoey), not believing his story of being a werewolf, travel to the village of Llanwelly to investigate Talbot. While they're away, Talbot escapes from the hospital. Seeking a cure for the curse that causes him to transform into a werewolf with every full moon, Talbot leaves Britain and seeks the gypsy woman Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya). Together, they travel to the remains of Frankenstein's castle in the village of Vasaria, where Talbot hopes to find the notes of Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein so he might learn how to permanently end his own life through scientific means.
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