Warwilf?

You know, I should have tacked The Undying Monster (1942) onto the last post, or combine it with The Lodger. They both have the same director, John Brahm, who later did a ton of TV. Also, I don't really have much to say about it, even less than about The Lodger.

It breaks down like this: The Hammond family has been cursed for centuries, and now someone or something is killing members of the family and threatening folk round the mansion. James Ellison from Scotland Yard, along with Heather Thatcher, his lab assistant and comic relief, are called in to get to the bottom of it. We get the usual old dark house adjacent stuff, like dungeons, clanking chains and hidden compartments, as well as a werewolf rhyme that isn't about what happens when the wolfbane blooms.

This entry in the werewolf chronicles (SPOILER?) is good, but sort of unnecessary. It looks very atmospheric, and the cast gives it their all. It doesn't seem to add to the canon, or bring anything new, except maybe a non-mad scientist and his comedienne sidekick. However, at one-hour three-minutes long, it does it all pretty quickly.