The Wolf Man 4K 1941 Ultra HD 2160p

Storyline
Upon the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. He visits a gypsy camp with village girl Jenny Williams, who is attacked by Bela, a gypsy who has turned into a werewolf. Larry kills the werewolf but is bitten during the fight. Bela's mother tells him that this will cause him to become a werewolf at each full moon. Larry confesses his plight to his unbelieving father, Sir John, who then joins the villagers in a hunt for the wolf. Transformed by the full moon, Larry heads for the forest and a fateful meeting with both Sir John and Gwen Conliffe.

User Review
Universal Studios which was THE studio for developing Gothic horror films, after a run of Dracula and Frankenstein films and Mummy, developed a third franchise with the creation of the wolfman.

Lon Chaney, Jr. finally stepping into the horror film tradition of his father is the protagonist here. Lawrence Talbot, second son of a titled English family, comes home to his father who is grieving over the death of his first son. After settling in, Chaney becomes involved with some gypsies and has occasion to kill a wolf who had killed a village girl.

But that wolf was a werewolf and in his human form was Bela Lugosi. In the struggle Chaney is bitten and becomes a werewolf himself.

Universal really assembled a top flight cast of players for this debut film of the wolf man series. Besides Chaney and Lugosi, Claude Rains, Warren William, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy and Evelyn Ankers are in it. Of course the best of the lot is Maria Ouspenskaya as the old gypsy woman who is Lugosi's mother. Interesting that in a film with a United Kingdom setting only Knowles and Rains are British by background.

Still its grand Gothic horror as we don't see today and as Universal was the master.