Universal's horror cycle continued into the 1940s, these included The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), not the first werewolf film, but certainly the most influential, as well as a number of films uniting several of their monsters.

The script was written by his younger brother Curt Siodmak, later the screenwriter of The Wolf Man ( 1941 ).

" Alabama Song " was written and composed by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in 1927, for their opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny ( Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ); " Back Door Man " was written by Willie Dixon and originally recorded by Howlin ' Wolf.

In his Man into Wolf ( 1948 ), anthropologist Robert Eisler drew attention to the fact that many Indo-European tribal names and some modern European surnames mean " wolf " or " wolf-men ".

A more tragic character is Lawrence Talbot, played by Lon Chaney, Jr. in 1941's The Wolf Man.

The form a werewolf assumes was generally anthropomorphic in early films such as The Wolf Man and Werewolf of London, but larger and powerful wolf in many later films.

Werewolves are often depicted as immune to damage caused by ordinary weapons, being vulnerable only to silver objects, such as a silver-tipped cane, bullet or blade ; this attribute was first adopted cinematically in The Wolf Man.

Wolf Messing is a major character in Steve Englehart's series of Max August novels, beginning with The Point Man in 1980, and continuing through The Long Man and The Plain Man.

Jon Bon Jovi is a credited actor in the movies Moonlight and Valentino, The Leading Man, Destination Anywhere, Homegrown, Little City, No Looking Back, Row Your Boat, Vampires Los Muertos, U-571, Cry Wolf, National Lampoon's Pucked, and New Year's Eve.

These were " Cheryl's Canon ", " Metal Man Has Won His Wings " and a Howlin ' Wolf styled rendition of Little Richard's " Slippin ' and Slidin '".

He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

* The Wolf Man ( 1977 ) ( novelisation of the 1941 film, written as Carl Dreadstone )

In this film, they encounter Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man, while subsequent films pair the duo with the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the Invisible Man.

The film is considered the swan song for the " Big Three " Universal horror monsters – Count Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's monster – although it does not appear to fit within the loose continuity of the earlier films.

However, before he is able, a full moon rises and Talbot becomes The Wolf Man and the call disconnects.

As they search for Joan, Talbot transforms into the Wolf Man and stalks Wilbur.

Wilbur escapes, but the Wolf Man finds and injures McDougal.

The next morning, Chick and Talbot meet and Talbot tells Chick that he is the Wolf Man.

Just as Talbot is about to untie Wilbur, he once again transforms into the Wolf Man.

Dracula returns to the lab to find the Wolf Man there and flees, with the Wolf Man giving chase.

The Wolf made a couple of brief cameo appearances in Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( in one instance, he was wearing a sheep costume and mask which he instantly stripped off to reveal his true wolfish features ).

The popular computer-animated Shrek film series reversed many conventional roles found in fairy tales, including depicting the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood as a friendly misunderstood crossdresser ( apparently still wearing her grandmother's clothes ) and on good terms with the three little pigs.

Journalist Wolf Blitzer said of Reagan during the week, " She's a very, very strong woman, even though she looks frail.

Ned Sublette states: " The electric blues cats were very well aware of Latin music, and there was definitely such a thing as rhumba blues ; you can hear Muddy Waters and Howlin ' Wolf playing it.

Notably, Li ' l Bad Wolf and April, May and June Duck, who had appeared very often in Disney comic books but never before in an animated cartoon, finally made their animated debuts on House of Mouse.

Of these, Howlin ' Wolf in particular became very popular, and Chess Records had to vie for him with other companies which had also been supplied with Wolf recordings by Phillips.

Wolf 359 has a very low luminosity, emitting about 0. 1 % of the Sun's energy.

Wolf – Rayet stars ( often referred to as WR stars ) are evolved, massive stars ( over 20 solar masses initially ), which are losing mass rapidly by means of a very strong stellar wind, with speeds up to 2000 km / s.

Wolf – Rayet stars are a normal stage in the evolution of very massive stars, in which strong, broad emission lines of helium and nitrogen (" WN " sequence ) or helium, carbon, and oxygen (" WC " sequence ) are visible.

Little Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs, The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids, the Russian tale Peter and the Wolf, reflect the theme of the ravening wolf and of the creature released unharmed from its belly, but the general theme of restoration is very old.

Despite disappointing his father, Zeke Wolf was shown to be very fond of his son, and Li ' l Wolf of his father.

Wolf can also play the guitar very well and ride the powerful rocker motorbike, making his character more sophisticated than a normal hooligan.

* The Big Good Wolf from Timothy Groen's cult short animated film series ( 16mm, very rare ) The Little Pigs and the Big Good Wolf is another example.

Jody Scheckter won this race in his Wolf, but with safety not being good enough for Formula One at the rough and very fast Mosport circuit, a new circuit was constructed in Montreal, called the Circuit Ile Notre Dame ; where it was first held in 1978 and where it has been held ever since.

: From this story one learns that children, especially young lasses, pretty, courteous and well-bred, do very wrong to listen to strangers, And it is not an unheard thing if the Wolf is thereby provided with his dinner.

White Wolf, Inc. also claimed the script was very similar to a story entitled The Love of Monsters ( 1994 ) which they published and was written by Nancy A. Collins.

uses a very loose and flexible variant of the White Wolf proprietary Storyteller System.

For example, playing against one Wolf character would be very different from playing another, because the actual player that character's AI was programmed to mimic had a unique play style.

Movies about problems of daily life like Die Legende von Paul und Paula ( directed by Heiner Carow ) or Solo Sunny ( directed by Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase ) were also very popular.

Wolf and tiger interactions are well documented in Sikhote-Alin, where until the beginning of the 20th century, very few wolves were sighted.

British series such as Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf and The Way of the Tiger were translated into several languages and became very popular worldwide.