STANDARD 8 FILM - THE WOLFMAN - CASTLE 200' SOUND DIGEST - LON CHANEY JR. - OB

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STANDARD 8 FILM -
THE WOLFMAN
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CASTLE 200' SOUND DIGEST
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LON CHANEY JR.
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ORIGINAL BOX
Very Good condition print(see screen shots).  No VS.  Sound.  Complete.  10 minutes on a 200' reel.  Original box in very good condition.   I watched all of this one!
SYNOPSIS for the feature from which this Digest was taken below.
AMG rates this feature at
Four Stars ****
(their highest rating is Five Stars)!
Stars:  Claude Rains, Creighton Chaney, Lon Chaney Jr., Ralph Bellamy, Warren William, Maria Ouspenskaya, Bela Lugosi, Patric Knowles, Fay Helm, Leyland Hodgson, Forrester Harvey, J.M. Kerrigan, Kurt Katch, Doris Lloyd, Olaf Hytten, Harry Stubbs, Tom Stevenson, Eric Wilton, Harry Cording, Ernie Stanton, Ottola Nesmith, Connie Leon, La Riana, Caroline Cooke, Margaret Fealy, Jessie Arnold, Eddie Polo, Gibson Gowland, Martha Vickers, Lon Chaney
"Even a man who is pure at heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/And the moon is full and bright." Upon first hearing these words, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney) dismisses them as childish folderol. After all, this is the 20th Century; how can a human being turn into a werewolf? Talbot soon learns how when he attempts to rescue Jenny Williams (Fay Helm) from a nocturnal attack by a wolf. Collapsing, Talbot discovers upon reviving that Jenny is dead-and, lying by her side, is not the body of a beast, but of a gypsy named Bela (Bela Lugosi). The son of fortune teller Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya), Bela was a lycanthrope, or "wolf man." And now that he has been bitten by Bela, Talbot is cursed to suffer the torments of the damned whenever the moon is full. Arguably the best of the "original" Universal horrors (original in the sense that it was not based on an existing literary property, a la
Frankenstein
,
Dracula
and
The Invisible Man
),
The Wolf Man
boasts one of the most stellar casts ever to grace a "B" picture: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Warren William, Patric Knowles, Maria Ouspenskaya and Bela Lugosi. The man-to-wolf transformation sequences -- one of which took a full 24 hours to film -- are thoroughly convincing, thanks to the cosmetic genius of Jack P. Pierce (Chaney had wanted to emulate his father by developing his own werewolf makeup, but existing union rules would not permit this). Alas, after this powerhouse opening volley, the Wolf Man character was relegated to a series of cheap sequels, teaming him with other Universal shock stars:
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman
(1943),
House of Frankenstein
(1944) and
House of Dracula
(1945). The final ignominy was
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
(1945), in which Lawrence Talbot (Chaney again), having been cured of lycanthropy in
House of Dracula
, reverts to his werewolf status -- and has to endure the one-liners of Lou Costello to boot!
PLEASE SEE FILM GRADING SCALE BELOW:
Mint or New
:  Means just that.  It may have been run, but still physically looks mint, untouched by a projector.
Near Mint
:  Only the slightest signs of having been run.  Appears Mint when projected on the screen.
Like New
:  Can be older print that was well taken care of.  May have only the slightest signs of use, occasional minor light line or splice or minor cue mark, if any.  Starting at this level, older prints may have a little curl to the film, which is common.
Excellent+
:  Very minimal wear or light lines at times with an occasional, although seldom, splice.  No major repairs or missing scenes transitions from TV use.
Excellent
:  Will have some minimal wear or light lines and may have an occasional temporary light emulsion line, a few splices or minor repair.  Possibly some short lap dissolves or minor cue marks around transitional scenes if it was used by a TV station, but highly acceptable condition.
Very Good
:  Will have some wear and lines, cue marks, minor repairs and usually more splices than desirable.  An occasional emulsion scratch.
Good
:  The same as Very Good but with more scratches, wear and some spots that may be splicy from having been damaged.  Still watchable.
Fair or Poor
:  Will need to be checked for extensive repairs before running.  I usually will never even list anything in this condition, only if a desirable title.
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