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Post by someoldguy on Dec 5, 2013 12:33:24 GMT -5
In Latest News on werewolf-movies.com, the comments about La Casa del Terror state that this was"the very last time that Lon Chaney Jr ever portrayed a werewolf in a film". Technically true but not the last time Chaney portrayed a werewolf on a screen. It was the small screen and Chaney was 'playing' a werewolf. He and Karloff and Peter Lorre appeared in a Route 66 episode where each actor appeared as himself ... but in monster getup. Chaney was of course the Wolf Man. (I saw this episode when I was in high school and a devotee of Route 66. Loved that Corvette!) www.imdb.com/title/tt0690468/ |
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Post by Noel on Dec 6, 2013 10:48:11 GMT -5
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 6, 2013 16:57:53 GMT -5
In that review, it is wondered what Peter Lorre is supposed to be. As I recall, Lorre somewhat resembled the Hunchback of Notre Dame as portrayed by Lon Chaney Sr. But it is more likely that he was intended to be a generic portrayal of the mad scientist's assistant. In particular, J. Carroll Naish filled this role as a hunchback in House of Dracula, which featured a variety of horror movie standards including Chaney's Wolfman. Marty Feldman was of course the last word on the subject of lab assistants. But that movie featured no werewolves except in the service of a joke. ;D |
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 6, 2013 17:40:32 GMT -5
No, I got some of that wrong. It was Chaney himself who was channeling his father. Later on he put on the fur. Lorre portrayed a vampire in the Lugosi tradition, although he never played a horror movie character until the following year in The Raven (1963). (Although he was monstrous in M and as a Nazi in several wartime movies.) What is wrong with my memory? It has been a mere half century since I saw that episode.  |
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 11, 2013 19:44:12 GMT -5
No, I got some of that wrong. It was Chaney himself who was channeling his father. Later on he put on the fur. Lorre portrayed a vampire in the Lugosi tradition, although he never played a horror movie character until the following year in The Raven (1963). (Although he was monstrous in M and as a Nazi in several wartime movies.) What is wrong with my memory? It has been a mere half century since I saw that episode. Man, my memory is definitely going south. Peter Lorre starred in Mad Love (1935) and The Beast With Five Fingers (1946) both of which involved hands with minds of their own. |
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