| The Wolf Man | |
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| Directed by | Edmund Mortimer |
| Starring | John Gilbert Norma Shearer |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) | 1924 |
| Running time | 60 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
The Wolf Man is a 1924 silent film starring John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, and Eugene Pallette. The movie was written by Fanny Hatton, Frederic Hatton, and Reed Heustis, and directed by Edmund Mortimer.
Contrary to the film's title, The Wolf Man is a melodrama and not a horror film.[1]
This Fox film paired John Gilbert and Norma Shearer before their signing contracts with the newly formed MGM. It is a lost film today.
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Plot [link]
Gerald Stanley (John Gilbert) is an English gentleman who is engaged to Beatrice Joyce (Alma Frances). But Stanley's personality changes whenever he drinks, and his brother (who also loves Beatrice) uses this to his advantage. After Stanley's latest blackout, his brother informs him that he (Stanley) killed Beatrice's brother. The horrified Stanley flees from England and goes to live in Quebec. The now sober Stanley stays away from liquor, until he receives word that Beatrice has married his brother. The news sends him on a drinking spree and once again he turns beastly.
In a saloon he gets in a fight and kidnaps Elizabeth Gordon (Norma Shearer), a respectable young girl who has wandered off from her father during a trip through the woods. Stanley takes Elizabeth to his shack, where he tries to force himself on her. But his pursuers are closing in so he leaps in a canoe for a wild ride down the rapids. This sobers him up and, mortified by his actions, he apologizes profusely to Elizabeth. When she sees the real Stanley, she falls in love with him, and later on he receives word that Beatrice's brother was never killed.
Cast [link]
- John Gilbert as Gerald Stanley
- Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Gordon
- Alma Francis as Beatrice Joyce
- George Barraud as Lord Rothstein
- Eugene Pallette as Pierre
- Edgar Norton as Sir Reginald Stackpoole
- Thomas R. Mills as Caulkins
- Max Montisole as Phil Joyce
- Charles Wellesley as Sam Gordon
- Richard Blaydon as Lt. Esmond
- D.R.O. Hatswell as Lord St. Cleve
- Mary Warren as English barmaid
- Ebba Mona as Ballet girl
Notes [link]
- ^ Garza, Janiss. "Wolf Man > Overview". Allmovie. https://allmovie.com/work/wolf-man-117361. Retrieved 11 August, 2009.
External links [link]
https://wn.com/The_Wolf_Man_(1924_film)
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See also
The Wolfman (2010 film)
The Wolfman is a 2010 American horror film directed by Joe Johnston. It is a remake of the 1941 film of the same name, and tells the story of Lawrence Talbot who returns to his eerie English hometown of Blackmoor following the death of his brother by a werewolf which later attacks him. The film includes an ensemble cast featuring Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, and Geraldine Chaplin. The screenplay was written by Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self with creature make-up effects by Rick Baker.
Acclaimed director Mark Romanek was originally attached to direct the film with the idea to "...infuse a balance of cinema in a popcorn movie scenario." However, creative disagreements between the studio forced him to depart from the project. Despite the project being left with no director, the planned filming schedule did not halt. Four weeks prior to filming, Universal hired Joe Johnston to direct the film. Although Johnston convinced the studio he could shoot the film in under 80 days, the film suffered a troubled production with rewrites, reshoots, reedits, the switch of music composers, all factors that forced the studio to push back the film's release date multiple times from its original November 2008.
The Wolf Man (1941 film)
The Wolf Man is a 1941 American drama horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner. The film stars Lon Chaney, Jr. as a werewolf named "The Wolf Man" and features Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Béla Lugosi, and Maria Ouspenskaya in supporting roles. The title character has had a great deal of influence on Hollywood's depictions of the legend of the werewolf. The film is the second Universal Pictures werewolf film, preceded six years earlier by the less commercially successful Werewolf of London (1935).
Lon Chaney, Jr. would reprise his classic role as "The Wolf Man" in four sequels, beginning with Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man in 1943.
Plot
Sometime in the early twentieth century, after learning of the death of his brother, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.) returns to his ancestral home in Llanwelly, Wales to reconcile with his estranged father, Sir John Talbot (Claude Rains). While there, Larry becomes romantically interested in a local girl named Gwen Conliffe (Evelyn Ankers), who runs an antique shop. As a pretext to converse with her, he purchases a silver-headed walking stick decorated with a wolf. Gwen tells him that it represents a werewolf (which she defines as a man who changes into a wolf "at certain times of the year.")
