Title: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Director: Roy William Neill
Years: 1943
Genre: Fantasy
The phrase from the Film: "But his is the q secret of life! This is not what I tried, I do not care about life! I am not an artificial creature I am a human being, I have human blood in my veins and I qualify that my life is mortal! "
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man was the fifth film in Universal to continue the saga of Frankenstein and the second film (and then direct the sequel) of The Wolf Man (1941). For the first three films in the series about the mad Baron (or Frankenstein, 1931; Bride of Frankenstein, 1935; The Son of Frankenstein, 1939 ) had been recognized as a significant creative factor, and the fourth installation, The Terror of Frankenstein (1942), had revealed all the limits history and the fact that maybe now the original was lost. One of the biggest problems was that the films contemporary to the Second World War many were deprived of funds and personnel, however, having to produce something, it is preferred to create clones or low-budget sequels that take advantage of previous successes. One idea was to merge the different series with each other. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man was the first of these products and this new "double size" brought a number of original productions at Universal, even if substantially the structure of the film was always the same: the monster returned to live, someone came back to take the place of Baron Frankenstein, the people rebelled and broke everything. Curt Siodmak, valid and well-known writer, but here it fails in an original way to merge the two worlds of monsters and this film ends up being more of a film "werewolf" and "from Frankentein. A closer look at the monster with the valve neck has substantial importance in the plot is really forced plus the fact that Talbot, the paranormal to solve a problem, has to resort to the knowledge of a scientist. Everything happens for logic matters little and rather melodramatic: the sudden change of mind of Dr. Mannering, has no reason to be, pass unnecessarily from wanting to eliminate the monster, wanting to expand. The cast is not bad and it is interesting to point out the various roles in which they found the same actors: Lugosi, who had refused to act in the film of 1931, states in the role of Ygor in The Son of Frankenstein is that The Ghost of Frankenstein. Lionel Atwill, memorable inspector from the wooden arm in The Son of Frankenstein made the mad doctor's assistant in The Terror of Frankenstein in this film while the role of mayor. Lon Chaney Jr. The Wolf Man was in the movie of 1941 and the Creature he The Terror of Frankenstein, but here again as a werewolf. Very confusing but especially poor creature played by Lugosi, probably the worst Frankenstein monster of all time. Also directed by Roy William Neill, known for directing most of the film Sherlock Holmes for Universal, that does not have the polish or the Whale by Rowland Lee. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is not exactly a horror of "fear" but at least stop some stale rules of the kind that lets you explore new narrative, which, in truth, was not the way you would have hoped. The atmosphere of the old horror in melodramatic black and white, however, we are all. Film enthusiasts, in all cases recommended the purchase.
Barone on Universal's films and his Creature are: Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Frankenstein the Wolf Man (1943), Beyond the Mystery (1944), House of Dracula (1945), and the comic The brain of Frankenstein (1948).
MAYBE NOT ALL KNOW THAT ...
The first release of the film included Lugosi in the role of the monster, he said a few words. Sceening test, however, the public found that the emphasis of Lugosi (Hungarian) it was ridiculous coming from the mouth of the monster, so the lines of the plaintiff were canceled. It 's funny that Lugosi refused the part of the Frankenstein monster in 1931, precisely because the creature proferisse word (oltrettutto did not like that his face was covered with a heavy makeup). However, deleting dialogues, were eliminated riefrimenti the blindness of a monster, a side effect of the system in the brain of Ygor monster that you see at the end of The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942). Because of this fact is not even explained the stiff gait with his arms hanging out of the creature, walking will become a "trademark" of the film icon. There are several photos testify to the existence of the deleted scenes: for example, there are shots that show the creature and Talbot, which, next to a fire in the ice cave, they talk, it is then that Talbot and the public would know veut the creature is still blind. In the mid- 80s was performed a search in the warehouse of Universal to try to find prints or negatives of the original version but was never found anything.
Initially, Lon Chaney had to be part of the werewolf that one of Frankenstein's monster, but as a matter of time realized it was decided otherwise. Yet, in an interview later, Cheney argued that in some scenes had both monsters.
The first time you see the monster on the screen is not Bela Lugosi, but the stuntman Eddie Parker, who replaced Lugosi also in the fight scenes with the Werewolf.
The film was shot during World War II. The screenwriter and scriptwriter Curt Siodmak was a German jew escaped from Germany after the proclamation of the racial laws. Siodmak deliberately changed the place of the action from Germany to a place of fantasy called "Vasari," a name that could be loosely translated as "place of water", which refers to the presence of the dam.
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