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The Wolf Man (1941 film) film. The film was not a huge box office success, probably because audiences of the day thought it too similar in many ways to "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", for which Fredric March had won an Oscar three years before. Some latter-day critics prefer Henry Hull's earlier werewolf to Chaney's, which was described in Carlos Clarens's book "An Illustrated History of the Horror FIlm" as "... looking like a hirsute Cossack." The Wolf Man is one of three top-tier Universal Studios monsters without a direct literary source. The others are The Mummy and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. In