I am positive I saw this Universal film years ago as I vividly remembered the doctor's premature TV screen.
- It is way too much a genuine English film at times with British actors and Britishness though it was all shot in and around Hollywood.
- Point how did Asiatic doctor get by sneaking into the doctor's lab--not explained.
- Valerie Hobson is beautiful and appealing in this film. Was she horribly and criminally wasted in 'Bride of Frankenstein' as title character! Hobson is very close to being the only good thing about this film.
- Henry Hull was a miscast and uneven lead. He frequently did not seem at all even like a scientist.His love for Hobson not developed correctly or coming across correctly on screen either. He was bad as the werewolf too.Colin Clive (Dr. Henry Frankenstein from 'Bride of Frankenstein')may indeed have been far superior in this role. But not Clive as the werewolf monster just solely as the regular doctor. Someone else to be the werewolf under makeup.
- Film here is far, far too chatty. Like BOF.
- Film is too anciently 19th century-esq at times though it is clearly at least the 1930's. Uneven that way too.
- Police not that well drawn-up as characters in this movie despite a few scenes. Better the cops were in 'Dracula's daughter" the following year. Somehow, I think the police in that Universal film were how the police were supposed to come off in this one but didn't.