Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

David J. Skal
1999-01-01


6.9
33 min

Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).

Cast

Name Character Team
Rick Baker Self Unowned
John Landis Host / Self Unowned
Curt Siodmak Self Unowned
Lon Chaney Jr. Self (archive footage) Unowned
Claude Rains Self (archive footage) Unowned
Evelyn Ankers Self (archive footage) Unowned
Bela Lugosi Self (archive footage) Unowned
Edward Van Sloan Self (archive footage) Unowned
Charles Laughton Self (archive footage) Unowned
Henry Hull Self (archive footage) Unowned
Warner Oland Self (archive footage) Unowned
Tom Stevenson Self (archive footage) Unowned
Glenn Strange Self (archive footage) Unowned
Lou Costello Self (archive footage) Unowned
Fay Helm Self (archive footage) Unowned
Jan-Christopher Horak Self Unowned
Maria Ouspenskaya Self (archive footage) Unowned
William T. Stromberg Self Unowned
John W. Morgan Self Unowned
Patric Knowles Self (archive footage) Unowned
Boris Karloff Self (archive footage) Unowned
Elena Verdugo Self (archive footage) Unowned
Michael Mark Self (archive footage) Unowned
Onslow Stevens Self (archive footage) Unowned
John Carradine Self (archive footage) Unowned
Bud Abbott Self (archive footage) Unowned
Martha O'Driscoll Self (archive footage) Unowned
Jane Adams Self (archive footage) Unowned
Oliver Reed Self (archive footage) Unowned