Movie

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

1999★ 7.3 · 1033mDocumentary

Overview

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).

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Cast

Jane Adams
as Self (archive footage)

Oliver Reed
as Self (archive footage)

John Landis
as Host / Self

Charles Laughton
as Self (archive footage)

John Carradine
as Self (archive footage)

Lon Chaney Jr.
as Self (archive footage)

Boris Karloff
as Self (archive footage)

Lugosi Béla
as Self (archive footage)

Claude Rains
as Self (archive footage)

Glenn Strange
as Self (archive footage)

Lou Costello
as Self (archive footage)

Edward Van Sloan
as Self (archive footage)