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

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' (1999)

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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  • Release Date: 1999-01-01
  • Runtime: 0h 33min
  • Director: David J. Skal

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Cast

  • Rick Baker

    Self

  • John Landis

    Host / Self

  • Curt Siodmak

    Self

  • Lon Chaney Jr.

    Self (archive footage)

  • Claude Rains

    Self (archive footage)

  • Evelyn Ankers

    Self (archive footage)

  • Bela Lugosi

    Self (archive footage)

  • Edward Van Sloan

    Self (archive footage)

  • Charles Laughton

    Self (archive footage)

  • Henry Hull

    Self (archive footage)

  • Warner Oland

    Self (archive footage)

  • Tom Stevenson

    Self (archive footage)

  • Glenn Strange

    Self (archive footage)

  • Lou Costello

    Self (archive footage)

  • Fay Helm

    Self (archive footage)

  • Jan-Christopher Horak

    Self

  • Maria Ouspenskaya

    Self (archive footage)

  • William T. Stromberg

    Self

  • John W. Morgan

    Self

  • Patric Knowles

    Self (archive footage)

  • Boris Karloff

    Self (archive footage)

  • Elena Verdugo

    Self (archive footage)

  • Michael Mark

    Self (archive footage)

  • Onslow Stevens

    Self (archive footage)

  • John Carradine

    Self (archive footage)

  • Bud Abbott

    Self (archive footage)

  • Martha O'Driscoll

    Self (archive footage)

  • Jane Adams

    Self (archive footage)

  • Oliver Reed

    Self (archive footage)