# Der Wolfsmensch (1941)

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**Original title**: *The Wolf Man*
**Runtime**: 70 min
**Genres**: Horror, Drama
**Directed by**: George Waggner
**Written by**: Curt Siodmak
**Starring**: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Warren William, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi

> *His hideous howl a dirge of death!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Wales. Autumn night. Howling.
Talbot returns to the ancestral manor, but a roadside tragedy curses him. A rabid dog’s fangs, a gypsy crone’s warning.
Universal's monster-movie cycle reaches Freudian allegory.

**Mood tags**: dread

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