Werewolf of London
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| Directed by | Stuart Walker |
| Produced by | Stanley Bergerman |
| Written by | Robert Harris (story) John Colton Harvey Gates Edmund Pearson James Mulhauser Aben Kandel |
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Henry Hull Warner Oland Valerie Hobson Lester Matthews Spring Byington Clark Williams Lawrence Grant |
| Music by | Karl Hajos |
| Cinematography | Charles J. Stumar |
| Edited by | Russell F. Schoengarth Milton Carruth |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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75 minutes |
| Language | English, Tibetan, Latin |
| Budget | $195,000 |
Werewolf of London is a 1935 Horror film directed by Stuart Walker, starring Henry Hull as the titular werewolf, and produced by Universal Pictures. Jack Pierce's eerie werewolf make-up was simpler than his version six years later for Lon Chaney, Jr. in The Wolf Man.
Werewolf of London was the first Hollywood mainstream werewolf movie. The film's supporting cast features Warner Oland and Valerie Hobson.
Wilfred Glendon (Henry Hull) is a wealthy and world-renowned English botanist who journeys to Tibet in search of the elusive mariphasa plant. While there, he is attacked and bitten by a creature later revealed to be a werewolf, although he succeeds in acquiring a specimen of the mariphasa. Once back home in London he is approached by a fellow botanist, Dr. Yogami (Warner Oland), who claims to have met him in Tibet while also seeking the mariphasa. Yogami warns Glendon that the bite of a werewolf would cause him to become a werewolf as well, adding that the mariphasa is a temporary antidote for the disease.
Glendon does not believe the mysterious Yogami. That is, not until he begins to experience the first pangs of lycanthropy, first when his hand grows fur beneath the rays of his moon lamp (which he is using in an effort to entice the mariphasa to bloom), and later that night during the first full moon. The first time, Glendon is able to use a blossom from the mariphasa to stop his transformation. His wife Lisa (Valerie Hobson) is away at her aunt Ettie's party with her friend, former childhood sweetheart Paul Ames (Lester Matthews), allowing the swiftly transforming Glendon to make his way unhindered to his at-home laboratory, in the hopes of acquiring the mariphasa's flowers to quell his lycanthropy a second time. Unfortunately Dr. Yogami, who is also a werewolf, sneaks into the lab ahead of his rival and steals the only two blossoms. As the third has not bloomed, Glendon is out of luck.
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