"Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright."
With the death of his brother, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) returns from America to the old country and the family ancestral seat. Whilst settling in he visits a gypsy camp where Larry is attacked by and kills a werewolf, but is bitten in the fight. Thus he is cursed to continue the cycle, becoming a wolfman by moonlight...
Chaney makes for a great desperate and depressed victim of the curse, and it is when he is bitten that the film really comes to life and establishes some of the staples of the Werewolf genre.
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