This page from the house publication, UNIVERSAL WEEKLY (April 20, 1935) shows the cast of WEREWOLF OF LONDON just before its release the following month.
This film is where many elements of the werewolf myth began (such as if one is bitten by a werewolf they would become a werewolf themselves) that would evolve over the years. Some present-day film historians and critics give WOL low marks as being one of the weaker 30's Universal horror films, but I find the story concept compelling. The added talents of the sinister Warner Oland as Dr. Yogami and the fetching 18-year-old Valerie Hobson (that we would see again shortly soon after in BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN) helps it along. The opening sequence in Tibet I still find pretty creepy.
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