Not since Lugosi's 1931 Dracula mentioned his "Children of the Night" had movie-going audiences heard a peep from Universal about wolves until 1935. U was going all in on a feature film starring Henry Hull as the WEREWOLF OF LONDON.
The supporting cast included 19 year-old Valerie Hobson (fresh out of the Gothic castle in BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN) and Warner Oland, who was in between productions of the popular Charlie Chan series. The Swedish-American actor had played Dr. Fu Manchu in several film adaptations of Sax Rohmer's "yellow peril" bad guy. He also played Dr. Boris Karlov (!) in the jungle thriller, DRUMS OF JEOPARDY (1931) before the real Karloff's name became a household word.
Today is the first part of Universal's in-house promo publication from April 20 1935 (Vol. 36 No. 19) that was devoted to their first werewolf movie.
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