George Zucco is able to transform hits dim-witted but tender assistant
Glenn Strange into a bloodthirsty wolf. He then uses this dangerous
beast as a weapon to have his revenge on the fellow scientist who threw
him out of the university. It all ends (as films like this often do) in
a fire burning both creator & creation. Anne Nagel plays Zucco's
daughter.
With a story like this, Zucco playing a villain & Strange in
cheap wolf-make-up (it actually more resembles the chimps from the
original Planet of the Apes) you just know this has to be a
winner ... & so it is. Great if somewhat mindless fun from PRC with
an especially hilarious scene when Zucco talks to his absent colleagues
who do appear semi-transparent at his table & start
talking back. |