Werewolf of London (1935) on Netflix
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Botanist Wilfred Glendon travels to Tibet for the rare Mariphasa flower and returns to London bitten by a strange creature. Under a lamp that mimics moonlight, fur spreads over his hand.
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Plot summary
Wilfred Glendon, a wealthy English botanist, travels to Tibet for the Mariphasa lumina lupina, a rare plant said to draw nourishment from the moon, and a feral humanoid creature bites him while he collects it. Home in London, he builds a lamp that mimics moonlight in his laboratory and waits for the plant to flower. At a party he meets Dr. Yogami, a botanist who says he was in Tibet for the same plant, describes it as a temporary remedy for lycanthropy, and says that two men in London are werewolves. When a blossom opens under the lamp and fur spreads over Wilfred's hand, he slices the bloom and applies its sap, and the fur retreats. Yogami asks him for two blossoms ahead of four nights around the full moon, and Wilfred refuses.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Werewolf of London (1935)
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- Originally the film was to star Boris Karloff as Dr. Glendon and Bela Lugosi as Dr. Yogami, but because it was shot at the same time as Bride of Frankenstein, in which Karloff again played Frankenstein's monster, Universal recast both parts.
- Werewolf of London was the first feature-length werewolf film, a first for the genre that the article credits to Universal Pictures.
- Jack Pierce's original, more extensive werewolf makeup design was rejected in favour of a simpler one; actor Henry Hull argued the design hid his face so much that it contradicted the script, and studio head Carl Laemmle sided with Hull over Pierce.
- The werewolf's howl was made by blending actor Henry Hull's voice with a recording of a real timber wolf, an approach no later werewolf film has used.
