UNBELIEVEABLE Facts about "The Wolf Man" (1941) That You Probably Didn't Know About! 

That’s incredible!

So jealous of you, sir. Chaney has been my idol since childhood and we even share the same birthday (I was born on his 55th birthday)! Good health to you, sir!

Very cool.

Very cool story.

That is so cool.Thank You for sharing that.

👍 😎

This was a GOOD horror movie. Sometimes a really bad one is just as much fun, albeit in a different way.

Good luck with that no commercials part! Commercials ruin a good movie. And if its not HBO or one of those paid TV networks, they are going to cut parts out. And that's no good. Its usually the good parts! 😟

Words of genius. What a great way to describe one aspect of life in America. Reminds me of a Rockwell seasonal painting. Couldn’t agree more.

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The transformation in Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman is terrific because Jack Pierce put Chaney's head in a cast.With his head always in the same place he added a little bit of yak hair (stop motion) the result is like morphing 50 years later

My favorite Wolfman (NOT, werewolf) film, also👍!!!

Thanks so much Jared! More coming down the pike

Yes, The Wolfman was always my favorite "Universal Monster" I wonder why "Jack Pierce" changed his look for "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein"⁉ and there might have been another movie? Maybe Jack didn't do The Wolfman makeup on A&C MF movie? 🤔

Jack Price was the make up man who did the transformation scenes. He was later fired by Universal for wasting film and time for his make up procedure. Afterwords Wolfman transformations were where the actor would pass out behind a couch, and emerge as the Wolfman . A real time saver.

@@johnbockelie3899 that is true… And unfortunately we see that happening in the industry even to this day. Any person who doesn’t change with the times is seen as the first to be cut. But I digress… Anyway, something that you mentioned about the make up, did you know that the backstory is when they made werewolf of London the main actor didn’t want his facial features to be covered up with make up, so when Pierce was able to work on Wolfman in 41, he was able to create the full make up that he originally wanted to use.

@@johnbockelie3899 Bob Westmore Jr took over as makeup man .

Ah-Ooooooooooooooo!

You better stay away from him, he'll rip your lungs out Skip.

Noticed Ralph Bellamy in the credits. Crazy to think he was in a 1941 movie & was still alive to star in Trading Places with Eddie Murphy!

Just checked it on Wikipedia, Bellamy was 37 when he made this film, so not that incredible that he was still around to make "Trading Places". He always looked a bit older than he actually was.

Excellent comments. Claude Rains also played the Invisible Man, in the early 1930's movie. So he has two classic movies to take credit for.

Yea, he was the Invisible Man, Larry’s Father and 40s version of the Phantom

@@davids9520 I didn't see the invisible man🤣🤣

Not much violence, on TV??? What do you call Vietnam??

Thanks so much for the Axel!

@@ricknineg The Wolfman with Lon Chaney Jr. was my favorite of all werewolf movies.. the make up for it is my favorite. I love all the Universial Monster movies. they were well done and proved you could make a good horror movie with no Blood and Gore, Sex and nudity. that you see in today's horror movies.

Will do!

Back when I was a kid these transformations were cool .

It was ? Where did it show up?

Thank you kindly!

Super fast!

I agree. I was about 3 years old when my sister took me to a movie house to see "Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein." The scenes with the Wolfman terrified me.

@@johnbowen2956 Yep. And when you’re grown the films are harmless. As a little kid you can be scared out of your mind. I remember the movie all right, I even have them on Blue-ray. What I remember more is my child’s fear.

Rascal01...I was also a young boy in the 50's...born 1952...and watching these Classic horror movies back then really grabbed my imagination and scared me more times than I can count..!! As far as I knew, these things might really exist. I remember one night; probably not real late but still dark, I had just watched one of these horror movies at the local indoor movie theatre and was riding my bicycle home. I had one of those lights that ran off a little generator that spun against the back tire. It put out a lot of light when I pedaled real fast. Well, I was so scared riding home that evening, that I got in the middle of the neighborhood street and pedaled as fast as I could and swiveling the light right & left, hoping that my light would scare off which ever monster I had just watched from jumping out of the hedges and grab me !!! And yes, watching Lon Chaney's legs & feet transform into the Wolfman was the only way to do it; it really got my imagination fired up.

@@marbleman52 Great story of a childhood memory.

@@marbleman52 My one eared Tabby cat asleep in my lap just let me know how annoyed he is by my laughter at your comment. I’m in my Lazy Boy recliner and was about to surf Roku looking for a vintage horror flick. I cracked up at your description of a post-horror film bike ride as you turned your headlamp into a floodlight. I was born in ‘47. Your remarks have “illuminated” me and I have learned something of interest. Those of us scared half to death by vintage horror movies on television or at a theater may be relatively few in number. Technology progressed and vintage horror lost some of its punch when compared to newer films. Science fiction became a new realm and began to gain favor. We may be part of a vanishing generation. My mother took me to see a mummy movie when I was around 5 years old. I was terrified beyond words and convinced it lived behind our coal furnace. At Christmas I got a Hop-along Cassidy twin 6 gun set and a case of Kilgore roll caps. A box of caps held 5 rolls of 50 shots each. I don’t recall what was in a case but it was plenty. I sat at the top of our basement staircase and fired every cap I had down the stairs into the basement. I was afraid and ready to run if needed if that bastard showed his face. When I was done the air was blue with gun-smoke and I was sure he was dead. Some of the family wanted me to stop shooting but the Old Man said ‘Let the kid go. It’s Christmas.” I still wasn’t comfortable in the basement until I was around 12 even though I was sure I had killed him. I had named him the “Deece” and he was a dreadful dude. Now I have the movie that scared me on Blu-ray. It’s a B movie and 70 years later, archaic and a bit comical. I still remember how afraid I was. I remember that fear. And that was no laughing matter. That mummy movie had done its job.

Thank you so much. I enjoyed making the video so much and bringing it to all of you

Though the monsters dying and coming back to life was becoming redundant-which as a child I didn't mind much- my favorite was House of Dracula. I think Onslow Stevens' mad doctor stole the show.

You’re most welcome!

Neat! Private schol? One of my boyfriends had a sister who was Gene Kelly's granddaughter's roommate,lol

Yes, she was great in that role with Bela at the Gypsy camp.

Actresses had to put up with some sh*t!! Many TV shows have leads who despise each other, like Castle

In those days only the very top actors got the roles they wanted. And even some of the top actors had to play stuff they didn't want to play. Especially female actors had to take what they were given.

It never bothered people in Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde though

I read that the Wolfman transformation effects were so time consuming that the special effects man was later fired for using up too much film. Later movies had the actor fall behind a counter, or hiding spot, then emerge as the Wolfman.😅

@@johnbockelie3899 I don't doubt it! Back in those days, movies were shot on extremely small budgets, and they did not have any time nor resources to waste. In fact, very few people know this, but the beginning of movie making centered around the production of film that was patented by Thomas Edison, and it was extremely expensive. The only way Charlie Chaplin was able to be successful in distributing his movies was to get around Edison's extremely high royalties and literally smuggle reels of film to theaters. Even as recently as 40 years ago, movie production was highly influenced by the very high price of VHS tapes and equipment at the time. Modern TV and movie effects could not exist without the CGI methods developed by George Lucas - and even those effects cost a fortune.

Yes, if the Transformation was mental, then the entire transformation would only be in his head. He would just be a guy running around at night biting people on the neck! The movie would've sucked, big time if that was the case! 🤪 🐺

@@lazyhomebody1356 You must be referring to the Spencer Tracey version. But even then he had some make-up on. In the (much better) Frederick March version, Mr. Hyde has some of the most horrific make-up in all of movie history. It kept getting more gruesome every time he changed, and the final scene twisted March's face around so much he had to be hospitalized. It quite nearly destroyed the man's face. He did finally recover from it.

Holy shit

He was a definite jester haha

Def mysterious things and circumstances with many of these productions

That publicity photo is of evelyn with a pair of tin snips trimming the wolf mans chin whiskers -not a microphone !

@@markkersey2778 So sorry for the error!!!

Thank you kindly!

Mr. Lugosi was such a great talent, and awesome presence, yet studios and producers so often wasted it on such absolute junk. Bela was never the star he so deserved to be.

@@jaelge it is a totally shame too.

Was it the same man or just shared his name?

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks Brian! You are as a great supporter of the channel as Bud Jamison was for the Stooges.

"To be a werewolf is to suffer" That's a poignant theme in ALL werewolf tales. Have you seen An American Werewolf in London?

Yes your right total suffering and agony and misery definitely I just felt so sorry for Talbot fell his pain and misery love a lot of the werewolf films a lot of them yep I've seen the American werewolf in London that's a classic werewolf movie

Much appreciated

Thank you! It was very fun to make

@@ricknineg You're welcome! Good.

Haha this is amazing!

Oh yea, it was def reserved for the wealthy. Super opulent which is why they probably stopped making cars. Too much cost to profit ratio. Not much to make off it

The studio told them to do it. They were contract players.

@@kevinwachs5905 Of course. Completely forgot about the studio system when I posted. Thanks!

They had to borrow Rains. He was at Warner Bros.

I guess they didn't really care, figuring people wouldn't notice. Certainly, I think the dark shirt looked better on the Wolf Man. As a kid, I had an 8 mm film with no soundtrack with highlights of House of Dracula. I swear, in the scene where the coach crashes with Dracula craving it, you could see the tuxedoed, top-hat wearing stunt man run out from the wreckage. The film cuts to a close-up of the wreckage and we see John Carradine as Dracula crawling from the coach! It occurs to me that the Wolf Man and Werewolf of London could sort of be considered feature length bloopers, since both have humanoid werewolves, whereas my understanding is that werewolf legends involved a person literally turning into a wolf, such as The Howling or Bela in The Wolf Man. But Larry's transformation in the W M is much cooler, IMO, and more terrifying.

I meant Drac was driving the coach, we all know what he was craving.