Monday, October 24, 2022
Watched Universal Picture's Werewolf of London tonight. It's from 1935 so it predates Lon Cheney's The Wolf Man by 6 years.
I'd never seen the film before and quite liked it.
The werewolf's make-up in the film is rather minimalist. Originally there was to be a more extensive costume. Henry Hull plays the titular character and, according to rumor, he wasn't thrilled about the hours it would take to accomplish a furrier look. Another rumor is that Hull didn't want his face obscured due to vanity. A more probable reason is found on Wikipedia which says, "According to his great-nephew Cortlandt Hull, [Henry] Hull, an accomplished makeup artist in his own right, argued that [the] original design obscured Hull's face so much that it would contradict the script, which specified that other characters were able to recognize the werewolf as [Wilfred] Glendon [the werewolf's human counterpart]."
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