History FilM / TheWolfMan1941

* TheDanza: Bela Lugosi as Bela the gypsy.

Lon Chaney, Jr.'s Wolf Man was featured in four further films in the {{Universal}} monster cycle:

* TropeCodifier / TropeMaker: For the werewolf movie. Also for werewolves in general, as there's no lycanthrope's equivalent of ''{{Dracula}}''.

LawrenceTalbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.) is about to have a really bad night. He's just returned to his family's home in Llanwelly, Wales, to reconcile with his father. While there, he meets and starts pursuing Gwen Conliffe (Evelyn Ankers), a shopkeeper who sold him a walking stick adorned with a silver wolf's head (which she says represents a werewolf). In the course of rescuing Gwen's friend Jenny from an apparent wolf attack, Larry is bitten. He soon learns from a gypsy fortuneteller that the wolf in question was actually a werewolf, specifically her son Bela roaming the countryside in the form of a wolf. Bela had been a werewolf for years, and has now passed on the curse to Larry.

'''''The Wolf Man''''' is a 1941 monster {{horror}} {{film}} written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Creator/ClaudeRains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Creator/BelaLugosi, and Maria Ouspenskaya. The title character has had a great deal of influence on Hollywood's depictions of the legend of the werewolf. The film is the second Universal Pictures werewolf movie, preceded six years earlier by the less commercially successful ''Film/WerewolfOfLondon''.

* ThisWasHisTrueForm

* TheDanza: Creator/BelaLugosi plays Bela the Gypsy.

* {{Roma}}: Maria Ouspenskaya's old gypsy fortune teller, Maleva.

Can Larry overcome this curse? Are his friends and family safe from the roaming beast? Will anyone take a werewolf named Larry seriously?

* IronWoobie: Talbot, and even more so in the sequels.

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* FootFocus: On the night of his first transformation, Larry removes his shoes and discovers strands of fur on his shins. The camera continues this focus as Larry transforms and is seen walking through the woods.

'''''The Wolf Man''''' is a 1941 monster {{horror}} {{film}} written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., ClaudeRains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Creator/BelaLugosi, and Maria Ouspenskaya. The title character has had a great deal of influence on Hollywood's depictions of the legend of the werewolf. The film is the second Universal Pictures werewolf movie, preceded six years earlier by the less commercially successful ''Film/WerewolfOfLondon''.

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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In addition to introducing the WolfMan variant to popular culture, this movie also introduced the silver vulnerability to the mythos, and being marked with a pentagram. Contrary to popular belief, it ''didn't'' introduce [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting forced shape-shifting under the full moon]], which instead first showed up in the sequel, ''Film/FrankensteinMeetsTheWolfman''.

* HorrorStruck: Larry is initially skeptical to being a werewolf and towards werewolves in general, until, you know, he actually '''become''' one.

* {{Roma}}: Maria Ouspenskaya's old gypsy fortuneteller, Maleva.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In addition to introducing the WolfMan variant to popular culture, this movie also introduced the silver vulnerability to the mythos, and being marked with a pentagram. Contrary to popular belief, it ''didn't'' introduce [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting forced shape-shifting under the full moon]], which instead first showed up in the sequel, ''FrankensteinMeetsTheWolfman''.

'''''The Wolf Man''''' is a 1941 monster {{horror}} {{film}} written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., ClaudeRains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, BelaLugosi, and Maria Ouspenskaya. The title character has had a great deal of influence on Hollywood's depictions of the legend of the werewolf. The film is the second Universal Pictures werewolf movie, preceded six years earlier by the less commercially successful ''Film/WerewolfOfLondon''.

* TheDanza: BelaLugosi plays Bela the Gypsy.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In addition to introducing the WolfMan variant to popular culture, this movie also introduced the silver vulnerability to the mythos, as well as the [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting forced shape-shifting under the full moon]], and being marked with a pentagram.

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'''''The Wolf Man''''' is a 1941 monster {{horror}} {{film}} written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., ClaudeRains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, BelaLugosi, and Maria Ouspenskaya. The title character has had a great deal of influence on Hollywood's depictions of the legend of the werewolf. The film is the second Universal Pictures werewolf movie, preceded six years earlier by the less commercially successful ''WerewolfOfLondon''.