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It is said that Henry Hull didn't want to do this role, and therefore didn't give his all. You could fool me. As far as I'm concerned his portrayal of the doom Dr. Glendon was excellent. He was supposed to be dull, absorbed in his work, rather cold and indifferent to his wife. Hull did just that. Watch the show and think about his character, and you've got a tremendous portrait of a doom person. Hobson was absolutely a gorgeous woman and played the ignored wife, Lisa, perfectly.
I was kind of surprised that the censors let the obvious renewed attraction between Lisa and her old friend Paul, Lester Matthews, fly in our face. Okay, it didn't show them doing anything but sharing a friendship and giving Lisa a reprieve from her dull marriage, but you knew that there was romance in the air between them. It's not like she was trying to be unfaithful, Hull was pushing her away. If remade today, there would probably be a hot and sweaty scene between the Lisa/Paul characters to show the attraction.
You have to give high marks for Hull's first transformation. Every werewolf transformation that I had seen to that point (the fifties), the actor had stayed stationary for the change. This has Hull walking from his house across the courtyard to his lab. It's not perfect, my god it was 1935, but it was the effort to do what no one else (that I know of) had done before.
score 10/10
TEXICAN-2 31 October 1999
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