Talk:The Wolf Man (1941 film)

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Legacy Conflict

According to this article, this movie invented the concept of "the werewolf's forced shapeshifting under a full moon", but Werewolf of London's plot description contains a forced transformation under false and real moonlight, and that movie predates this one by six years. So maybe it should be getting the props for that invention? --Cap97 19:03, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

The Universal Legacy Collection

I edited the totally messed-up Universal Legacy Collection section of the article. I included the films featured in this collection and the bonus features.

Merge tag

For some reason, the merge discussion has been happening at Talk:The Wolf Man (remake) instead of here, where the merge tag points you for discussion. For the record, I'll repeat my vote here, which is No Merge. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 15:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Separate Page

I think that a separate page should be made for the men who have become the Wolf Man & for what abilities a person gains as the Wolf Man all in the same page. Son of Kong —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.69.137.15 (talk) 05:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC).

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Fair use rationale for Image:Wolf Man.jpg

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Silver Bullets

Contrary to what this article says and what many people confidently believe, the idea that silver bullets are the way to despatch a werewolf was not originated in this film. An earlier example occurs in Alfred H. Bill's werewolf novel The Wolf in the Garden published in 1931, and there may be yet earlier ones. Colin4C (talk) 14:53, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Template

Someone with an account needs to make a template of The Wolf Man film series with the information provided. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.174.101.142 (talk) 01:12, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

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Expansion

This article is poorly developed and is way too short considering the significance oft he film, and the amount of info available on it. It really needs a lot of work done to it and should be rewritten entirely. Many of the info in the article is unsourced and either needs to be given proper citations from reliable sources or removed if none can be found. Every section can be expanded significantly due to the vast amount of info that is out there on the film.--Paleface Jack (talk) 18:20, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Planned Edits

Hello! I'll be focusing on this article intently for the next two weeks in order to bring forth the cinematic importance of the film instead of focusing on the details of lycanthropy. I am open to discussing ideas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Merewhtie (talk • contribs) 04:07, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Cast

The cast for the movie, some explanations for them from IMDB are also here:

Promotional image featuring Evelyn Ankers and Lon Chaney Jr.

• Lon Chaney Jr. as Lawrence "Larry" Talbot / The Wolf Man, Dick Foran was originally cast in the role of Larry Talbot. He was replaced just one week before filming began. In Curt Siodmak's original script for the film, whether or not Lawrence Talbot really underwent a physical transformation to a werewolf or if the transformation simply occurred in his mind was left ambiguous. The Wolf Man was never to appear onscreen. Ultimately, the studio determined that Talbot's literal transformation into a werewolf would be more appealing to the audience and thus more profitable. The script was revised accordingly.
• Claude Rains as Sir John Talbot
• Warren William as Dr. Lloyd
• Ralph Bellamy as Colonel Paul Montford
• Patric Knowles as Frank Andrews
• Bela Lugosi as Bela, the Romani fortune teller and werewolf, Lugosi actively campaigned for the lead role but ended up playing a minor supporting role instead.
• Maria Ouspenskaya as Maleva, the gypsy sorceress, Maria Ouspenskaya, who played the old Gypsy woman, was only six years older than Bela Lugosi, who played her son.
• Evelyn Ankers as Gwen Conliffe, Actress Evelyn Ankers later recalled that during the filming of the final confrontation, she was required to faint, and then to stay on the floor until the fight scene between Lon Chaney Jr. and Claude Rains was finished. Ankers recalled that during one take, she stayed on the floor so long that the low-hanging chemical fog being used in the scene caused her to pass out. When the take was over, the film crew began rearranging the cameras and lights for the next take, not noticing that Ankers had not emerged from the floor. Finally someone on the crew realized that Ankers was missing, and she was pulled up from the fog and revived. Ankers had difficulty working with Lon Chaney Jr. Already angry at Ankers because she was given his dressing room (the studio was punishing him for vandalizing studio property while drunk), the actor would constantly irritate her, nicknaming her "Shankers" while playing juvenile, practical jokes. He liked to sneak up on her in full makeup and scare her. The actress also suffered a bad scare when a 600-pound bear (his sequence in the film was later cut) escaped its trainer and chased her up a ladder where she was pulled to safety by an electrician.
• J. M. Kerrigan as Charles Conliffe
• Fay Helm as Jenny Williams
• Forrester Harvey as Twiddle

2.50.190.75 (talk) 08:01, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

"Even a man who is pure in heart, and says his prayers by night; May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright." listed at Redirects for discussion

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