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15 May 1942 (USA) moreTagline:
The blood of a wolf he placed in the veins of a man... and created a monster such as the world has never known!Plot:
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
I will Hug him and squeeze him and call him George moreCast
(Credited cast)| Johnny Downs | ... | Tom Gregory | |
| George Zucco | ... | Dr. Lorenzo Cameron | |
| Anne Nagel | ... | Lenora Cameron | |
| Glenn Strange | ... | Petro | |
| Sarah Padden | ... | Grandmother | |
| Gordon De Main | ... | Prof. Fitzgerald | |
| Mae Busch | ... | Susan | |
| Reginald Barlow | ... | Prof. Warwick | |
| Robert Strange | ... | Prof. Blaine | |
| Henry Hall | ... | Country Doctor | |
| Ed Cassidy | ... | Father | |
| Eddie Holden | ... | Jed Harper | |
| John Elliott | ... | Prof. Hatfield | |
| Slim Whitaker | ... | Officer Dugan | |
| Gil Patric | ... | Detective Lieutenant |
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1.37 : 1 moreCertification:
USA:Approved (PCA #8264)Fun Stuff
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The film was refused a UK cinema certificate in 1942, but passed uncut 10 years later. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Dr. Lorenzo Cameron: Yes, I know. You'd like to join your brothers outside and howl at the moon. But you're serving a much better purpose. Yes, you're serving science through me.
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I grew up with this amusing piece of silliness back in the early sixties when it used to show up as regular as the full moon on the local horror host show JEEPERS CREEPERS so I'm inclined to give it a bit of slack. The first half of it moves briskly and is helped considerably by George Zucco's mad Dr. "I'm as nutty as squirrel droppings" act. Glen Strange does a carbon copy performance of Lon Chaney Jr.'s of Mice and Men character Lenny but it's more fun to see him as the abominable snowman parody from the Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck cartoon " What's the matter George?, You don't look so good." Once we've establish the hare brained plot and the first murder is discharged then Mad Monster becomes typical make-out fodder from the forties meaning that you look up only when you suspect a good part is coming. In my case I was sadly alone when I rewatched this film so I came out of the kitchen instead to see a couple of rantings from zucco then back to my lasagna. For horror completists it's not the worst of the lot,certainly better then most of Monogram's rock bottom efforts,but if you don't expect too much you might find it acceptable.