Werewolf of London

Werewolf Of London is a 1935 film about a man who becomes a werewolf.
 * ''Directed by Stuart Walker. Written by John Colton.

Beware the Stalking Being - Half-Human - Half-Beast! (taglines)

Dr. Wilfred Glendon

 * Thanks... Thanks for the bullet. It was the only way... In a few moments now... I shall know why all this had to be. Lisa... good bye. Good bye Lisa. I'm sorry I... I couldn't have made you happier.

Dr. Yogami

 * The werewolf is neither man nor wolf, but a Satanic creature with the worst qualities of both.

Other

 * Priest: You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.

Dialogue

 * Mrs. Moncaster: Are you a single gentleman, sir?
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Singularly single, madame. More single than I ever realized that it was possible for a human being to be.


 * Dr. Yogami: Your department is trying to solve two murders. There will be other murders tonight, and tomorrow night. Also next month, when the moon is full again - unless you realize, sir, there is a werewolf abroad in London.
 * Sir Thomas Forsythe: Yes, my nephew has similar ideas. What do you want us to do about it?
 * Dr. Yogami: You must seize the only specimen of the "Mariphasa" plant in England.
 * Sir Thomas Forsythe: And where shall I get this posy?
 * Dr. Yogami: In the private laboratory of Dr. Wilfred Glendon. That flower is the only known antidote for werewolfery.
 * Sir Thomas Forsythe: Yes, a.. a very interesting folktale, but of no value to the police.
 * Dr. Yogami: I warn you, sir, unless you secure this plant and discover the secret of nurturing it in this country, there'll be an epidemic that will turn London into a shambles.


 * Dr. Yogami: May I congratulate you sir, on the amazing collection of plants you've assembled here.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Thank you.
 * Dr. Yogami: Evolution was in a strange mood, when that creation came along.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Yes.
 * Dr. Yogami: It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Have I met you before, sir?
 * Dr. Yogami: In Tibet, once. But only for a moment... In the dark.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: In the dark?
 * Dr. Yogami: Let me introduce myself again. I am Dr. Yogami.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: How do you do, sir?
 * Dr. Yogami: Like yourself, a student, a nurturist of plants.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Dr. Yogami.
 * Dr. Yogami: Pardon?
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Do I understand you to say, that we met in Tibet?
 * Dr. Yogami: Yes. And unless I'm mistaken, we were both on a similar mission.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Yes.
 * Dr. Yogami: Would it be intrusive if I should ask you... If you were successful?
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: In what?
 * Dr. Yogami: In obtaining a specimen of the Mariphasa lumina lupina: The phosphorescent wolf flower. Well, you know it only blooms under the rays of the moon. My specimens died on the journey back.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: As a scientist, sir, as a botanist you actually believe that this flower takes its life from moonlight?
 * Dr. Yogami: I do.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: So far I've been unsuccessful in persuading mine to bloom by moonlight or any other kind of light.


 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: [skeptical] This flower is an antidote for..for what?
 * Dr. Yogami: Werewolfery. Lycanthrophobia is the medical term for the affliction I speak of.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: And do you expect me to believe that a man so affected actually becomes a wolf under the influence of the full moon?
 * Dr. Yogami: No. The werewolf is neither man nor wolf but a satanic creature, with the worst qualities of both.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: I'm afraid, sir, but I gave up my belief in goblins, witches, personal devils, and werewolves at the age of six.
 * Dr. Yogami: But that does not alter the fact that in workaday, modern, London today at this very moment there are two cases of werewolfery known to me.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: And how did these unfortunate gentleman contract this medieval unpleasantness?
 * Dr. Yogami: [reaches for Glendon's arm] From the bite of another werewolf. These men are doomed but for this flower the Mariphasa.


 * Botanical party attendee: [having seen a frog being fed to a carnivorous plant] Heretic! Bringing a beastly thing like that into Christian England.
 * Dr. Yogami: Nature is very tolerant, sir. She has no creeds.


 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Dr Yogami, didn't they tell you that I wasn't seeing anyone today?
 * Dr. Yogami: I thought, perhaps, you might see me.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Come another day, please.
 * Dr. Yogami: Another day would be too late. What will happen before morning, I cannot say. Tonight is the first night of the full moon.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Still harping on that old wives tale of yours?
 * Dr. Yogami: Would it were in old wives tale.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Exactly what do you want of me?
 * Dr. Yogami: Two blossoms of the Mariphasa flower in there would save two souls tonight.
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Tonight. But I thought you said the Mariphasa was a cure.
 * Dr. Yogami: No. An antidote. Effective only for a few hours. Won't you let me see the results of your experiment?
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Sorry. When my experiments are completed I will show the results to the entire world. Not before. Now, sir, I must wish you good day.
 * Dr. Yogami: Then there is nothing more to be said?
 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: Nothing
 * Dr. Yogami: Good day. But remember this, Dr. Glendon. The werewolf instinctively seeks to kill the thing it loves best.


 * Dr. Wilfred Glendon: My dear wife has just been scolding me.
 * Miss Ettie Coombes: Yes, how you manage to keep your dear wife is a mystery to me. Skirmishing off the way you do. Leaving her alone, months on end.
 * Lisa Glendon: Anyhow, I knew the risk I took when I married one of the black Glendons of Malvern.
 * Miss Ettie Coombes: Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.

Taglines

 * Beware! Terror strikes in the night!


 * Hideous Half Man, Half Beast Who Terrorized Millions!

About

 * Designed solely to amaze and horrify, the film goes about its task with commendable thoroughness, sparing no grisly detail and springing from scene to scene with even greater ease than that oft attributed to the daring young aerialist. Granting that the central idea has been used before, the picture still rates the attention of action-and-horror enthusiasts. It is a fitting valedictory for the old Rialto, which has become melodrama's citadel among Times Square's picture houses.
 * Frank Nugent

Cast

 * Henry Hull — Dr. Glendon
 * Warner Oland — Dr. Yogami
 * Valerie Hobson — Lisa Glendon
 * Lester Matthews — Paul Ames
 * Lawrence Grant — Sir Thomas Forsythe
 * Spring Byington — Miss Ettie Coombes
 * Clark Williams — Hugh Renwick
 * J. M. Kerrigan — Hawkins
 * Charlotte Granville — Lady Alice Forsythe
 * Ethel Griffies — Mrs. Whack
 * Zeffie Tilbury — Mrs. Moncaster
 * Jeanne Bartlett — Daisy