April 12-Hello Again Everybody, Hairy Scary Here…
No, no, we’re not gonna revive the bad memories of a phone company commercial that insulted certain baseball fans-
We’re going to bring you our final showing of one of the classics-one of the big four of Universal monsters! It’s the hairy, scary one- “the Wolf Man!” Tonight at 9, we’ve got the original story of Larry Talbot- played exclusively (at least until the new remake with Benicio Del Toro comes out) through countless Universal films by Lon Chaney Jr.
Talbot returns to his ancestral home in England after the death of his brother-and there’s a hint about strained family relations as he makes up with his father- played by the great Claude Rains. Larry gets a sneak peek at a lovely young woman who works in a village shop (Evelyn Ankers- who, in real life did not get along with Chaney Jr!)-and decides that she’s the gal for him! He accompanies her (and a gal pal she arranges to join them- d’oh! Poor Larry) to a local gypsy fair- where a strange fortune teller (none other than Bela Lugosi!)
spots the pentagram in the gal pal’s palm…and tells her to leave!
Before long, as Larry and his pretty friend hear a shriek- and Larry bounds to the rescue- finding the poor gal pal attacked by…a wolf? A dog? Bitten in the battle, Larry thinks nothing of it- until he starts to have some weird things happen to him when the moon is full- because (say it with me) “even a man who is pure of heart, and says his prayers by night- may become a wolf- when the wolf bane blooms- and the autumn moon is bright!”
“The Wolf Man” is a real classic- it brought us the gypsy character Maleva, that rhyme you just read above, and the werewolf make-up by the great Jack Pierce –which is probably engrained in all our minds as the way a wolfish man should look! I have read that Rick Baker’s make-up for the re-make was based on the original design, which Baker holds in reverence. We’ll tell you about various trivia tid-bits regarding the film- and –yes, see the original place where our “Lobo’s Circus” bit ran.
Here’s some trivia we didn’t fit into the show- watch for the
Village church that Larry and his dad visit later in the film-
This is the second time a member of the Chaney acting family visited it- because it was originally built about twenty years previously for Lon’s father’s silent fright film- “Hunchback of Notre Dame!”
However, tonight, his son takes the spotlight- or is it moonlight? Find out at 9 on WCIU- and 1 am on Me-TV !
We’re going to bring you our final showing of one of the classics-one of the big four of Universal monsters! It’s the hairy, scary one- “the Wolf Man!” Tonight at 9, we’ve got the original story of Larry Talbot- played exclusively (at least until the new remake with Benicio Del Toro comes out) through countless Universal films by Lon Chaney Jr.
Talbot returns to his ancestral home in England after the death of his brother-and there’s a hint about strained family relations as he makes up with his father- played by the great Claude Rains. Larry gets a sneak peek at a lovely young woman who works in a village shop (Evelyn Ankers- who, in real life did not get along with Chaney Jr!)-and decides that she’s the gal for him! He accompanies her (and a gal pal she arranges to join them- d’oh! Poor Larry) to a local gypsy fair- where a strange fortune teller (none other than Bela Lugosi!)
spots the pentagram in the gal pal’s palm…and tells her to leave!
Before long, as Larry and his pretty friend hear a shriek- and Larry bounds to the rescue- finding the poor gal pal attacked by…a wolf? A dog? Bitten in the battle, Larry thinks nothing of it- until he starts to have some weird things happen to him when the moon is full- because (say it with me) “even a man who is pure of heart, and says his prayers by night- may become a wolf- when the wolf bane blooms- and the autumn moon is bright!”
“The Wolf Man” is a real classic- it brought us the gypsy character Maleva, that rhyme you just read above, and the werewolf make-up by the great Jack Pierce –which is probably engrained in all our minds as the way a wolfish man should look! I have read that Rick Baker’s make-up for the re-make was based on the original design, which Baker holds in reverence. We’ll tell you about various trivia tid-bits regarding the film- and –yes, see the original place where our “Lobo’s Circus” bit ran.
Here’s some trivia we didn’t fit into the show- watch for the
Village church that Larry and his dad visit later in the film-
This is the second time a member of the Chaney acting family visited it- because it was originally built about twenty years previously for Lon’s father’s silent fright film- “Hunchback of Notre Dame!”
However, tonight, his son takes the spotlight- or is it moonlight? Find out at 9 on WCIU- and 1 am on Me-TV !
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Thanks for bringing us the classics. It is about the only thing not PBS that I can let my 9 year old watch so they feel like big kids.