The Wolf Man (1941, George Waggner)

Watched in solidarity with WOLFtober. To their writeup I’ll add that I enjoyed the fact that werewolves can be killed with a silver bullet… or by hitting them with a stick. It’s also good when Lon Jr. comes home to dad Claude Rains’s castle at the beginning, dad’s got a new lens for his telescope and Lon’s like “I happen to dabble in telescope repair.”

Waggner had acted in The Iron Horse. Writer Curt Siodmak is best known as being Robert’s idiot brother, and due to remakes he’s got credits on a Benicio Del Toro movie and on next year’s version made by the Invisible Man Remake guy. Love interest Evelyn Ankers showed up in Frankenstein & Dracula & Invisible Man movies over the next three years, and police chief Ralph Bellamy went on to be the antichrist’s doctor.