A minor classic.
WEREWOLF OF LONDON (1935) does not satisfy as a whole, but it does have some memorable spots.The basic plot tells of a introverted botanist (Henry Hull) who is stricken with the ability to become a werewolf.The film's great moments are peppered through out.There's thebeautifully photographed scene in Tibet, where moonlight is almost sun-beach bright. There's the bit in the zoo with a cockney hag fooling around with the zookeeper.Hull's perfomance is superb.We feel his anger over his failed marriage to much younger Valarie Hobson, his fear over his new affiction. It's a shame the screenwriters didn't dwell on his marriage more. The film has a humdinger of an ending, especially with the werewolf's last line.score /10
boris-26 3 December 2001
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