This film is much, much better than I, and my friends with whom I watched it, expected. After reading reviews here and elsewhere, we're still not sure what folks find so problematic about it particularly as it's miles ahead of 1941's THE WOLFMAN which we thought was just dreadful considering all its hype.
Maybe it's the drawing room "comedy of manners" portions of the film that puts some off. We actually found that these sequences worked for us; and, unlike the comedy relief of so many other films of this period, caught ourselves sincerely laughing when we were supposed to. Overall, we consider this a terrific film for a dark and stormy night, and urge others to forget about Lyle Talbot.
Musidora
Maybe it's the drawing room "comedy of manners" portions of the film that puts some off. We actually found that these sequences worked for us; and, unlike the comedy relief of so many other films of this period, caught ourselves sincerely laughing when we were supposed to. Overall, we consider this a terrific film for a dark and stormy night, and urge others to forget about Lyle Talbot.
Musidora