The Wolf Man (1941)

This geocache is NOT at the above coordinates; that is a point where The Wolf Man might want to get a sip of water.

You must obtain the coordinates to the location of the container by watching the film in the title and finding the answers to the eight questions below. This is one of eight Classic Monsters geocaches, each of which can be solved and found independent of each other. There is also a final multi-cache that can be found by writing down the puzzle clue that is in each of the eight movie geocaches.

This series is meant to ease the burden of the stay-at-home orders in place to some extent; watch a movie you may not have seen ever before or recently, and work on finding a new geocache as well.

This cache was placed while following all Colorado guidelines and rules during the Coronavirus outbreak. As these conditions change frequently, please ensure that you follow all current guidelines while searching for this series of geocaches.

These are Classic Monster movies, not classic horror movies; when they were made, they may have shocked the audiences but by today's standards, they are not very scary at all.

This Classic Monsters series is named after 8 films, all produced by the same Hollywood film company, from 1931-1945. Seven of the eight are in black and white, also known as "monochrome", with Phantom of the Opera being produced in Technicolor. As such, a few of the Phantom questions are about colors seen in the film. There will also be a final cache, which you can get the coordinates for by keeping track of the puzzle clues that will be in each of the eight movie caches. These movies are not lengthy -- 7 of the 8 range from 70 to 79 minutes long, and Phantom of the Opera is 92 minutes. You DO NOT have to purchase anything to solve the puzzles to learn where the geocaches are -- they are available on several streaming and download services, as well as at many libraries.

So -- let's get started !

BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN THE LETTER CODE IN THE FRONT OF THE LOGBOOK WHICH IS USED IN THE “CLASSIC MONSTERS" FINAL CACHE which is still being worked on for now. Also, there is a Wolf Man (1941) trackable printed out and in the front of the logbook as well for discovery.

Welcome to the sixth Classic Monsters cache by the 3 Williams Kidz geo-team. The idea is that you will have to watch the movie to get the answers to the questions below; there are one, maybe two exceptions, for trivia’s sake. Since the entire script is available – and easily “searchable” -- online, I have tried to come up with questions that you cannot answer by searching the Internet.

Here are all the geocaches in the Classic Monsters series:

1. Dracula (1931)

2. Frankenstein (1931)

3. The Mummy (1932)

4. The Invisible Man (1933)

5. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

6. The Wolf Man (1941)

7. Phantom of the Opera (1943)

8. Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)

9. Classic Monsters FINAL cache

If you are willing to watch one of Hollywood’s finest classic movies, get your movie source ready, fire up the TV, maybe pop some popcorn, and have a pen and paper ready to answer the below questions, which YES -- ARE IN THE ORDER they are presented in the film. The questions should be EASY to answer as in these difficult times, the idea here is to just ENJOY the movie and then have the opportunity to get out and find a cache while meeting the state guidelines during the Coronavirus outbreak.

The cache is located at North 38 5A.BCD West 105 2E.FGH

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A: Movie credits are typically text only and list the names of the character, and the actor or actress that plays that part. Picture credits show the actor or actress while also showing text for their name and the name of the character they play. How many people get picture credits in The Wolf Man?
If there are 4, A=4; if there are 8, A=5; if there are 6, A=6

B: Two men bring in a large wooden shipping crate from London; what does it say on the side?
If it says “DO NOT DROP” B=7; if it says “THIS SIDE UP” B=0; if it says “GLASS” B=3

C: If you wanted to buy or sell antiques such as earrings or a cane, where should you go?
If you should go to The Charles Conliffe Shop, C=4; if you should go to the ABC Pawn Shop, C=8; if you should go to the Derbyshire Variety Shop, C=1

D: Jenny Williams wishes to get her fortune told, but it doesn't happen and she fears something evil; she runs out across the moor and is met by a werewolf. Larry tries to help her and after being bitten strikes the werewolf with his cane how many times?
If 2 times, D=0; if 6 times, D=3; if 4 times, D=5

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E: After being pulled by a horse drawn carriage, the coffin of Bela is carried into the cemetery by 2 men. Before they reach the mausoleum, there is a grave marker shown in the foreground with what name on it?
If it is Brewster, E=2; if it is Collins, E=1; if it is Davis, E=3

F: Larry Talbot, Gwen and her fiance Frank Andrews are at the evening gypsy festival. Frank and Henry are going to fire at targets at the shooting arcade. Larry hits how many targets before missing a shot at a wolf?
If he hits just 1 target, F=5; if he hits 2 targets, F=4; if he hits 3 targets, F=6

G: Our first look at the Wolf Man! He enters the cemetery where the grave digger does what just as we hear the howl?
If he lights his pipe, G=7; if he sits for a rest, G=2; if he moves his lantern, G=4

H: In our second look at the Wolf Man, he is out on a foggy night and is caught in what kind of trap?
If a net, H=0; if a mechanical leg trap, H=8; if a pit covered with leaves, H=6

FTF congratulations go to hartsdale !!!!! (five exclamation points for his fifth FTF in this series)

Some trivia, from www.imdb.com:

The "wolf" that Larry Talbot fights with was Lon Chaney Jr.'s own German Shepherd.

Universal originally planned the project for it's horror superstar, Boris Karloff.

The film opened just two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Larry Talbot and his father Sir John attend church on Sunday in the village, but the doorway and steps of the village church looks more like that of a cathedral. In fact, it was a cathedral - part of the original set built for the legendary silent version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), which had starred Lon Chaney Jr.'s famous father, Lon Chaney and which stood on the Universal back lot for over 20 years.

Larry's silver wolf-headed cane, the only known surviving prop from the movie, currently resides in the personal collection of genre film archivist Bob Burns. Burns, who was a schoolboy at the time, was given the cane head by the man who made it for the film, prop-maker Ellis Burman. It has since been sold to a Maryland collector.

Maria Ouspenskaya, who played the old Gypsy woman, was only six years older than Bela Lugosi, who played her son.

In this movie, we're told that a werewolf is "a human being who becomes a wolf at certain times of the year ... 'when the wolf-bane blooms and the autumn moon is bright,'" and the moon is never depicted in the film. This is the only one of the Universal series of Wolf Man films in which the full moon is never shown. In the sequel, the folklore is changed to "when the moon is full and bright."

For one scene, Evelyn Ankers had to faint and fall to the misty ground but the fog fumes were so strong she passed out. Unnoticed by the director and crew who were concentrating on another aspect of the scene, she remained there unnoticed until a studio technician began breaking down the set.

Lon Chaney Jr.'s make-up took six hours to apply, and three hours to get off.

Jack P. Pierce achieved the Wolf Man's iconic makeup primarily with a rubber nose and yak hair which was singed with a curling iron and attached to Lon Chaney Jr.'s face, arm, and legs with spirit gum.

The first transformation takes place with Talbot in an undershirt (although he is fully dressed in a dark shirt once on the prowl). Only the feet transform on screen in six lapse dissolves. In the second transformation there are eleven shots - again of feet only. The third transformation features 17 face shots in a continuous dissolve.

The poem about the werewolf is recited three times and the statement about walking a thorny path is recited three times.

The silver top of Larry's wolf-head cane was made of vulcanized rubber so none of the actors or stunt doubles would get injured if they were accidentally hit by it.

The setting for "The Wolf Man" was deliberately left as being ambiguous.

Bela's werewolf form appears as a quadrupedal, bestial-appearing wolf, but Larry's appears as a bipedal Wolf Man. A possible reason for this is that the film was originally meant to be a psychological thriller, where you're never quite sure if Larry is really becoming a werewolf or whether it's all in his head. Naturally, this means he would have to be attacked by a creature resembling a true wolf, for if he was attacked by a Wolf Man type monster, there would be no doubt that the werewolves are indeed real.

In this film, Claude Rains portrays the father of Lon Chaney, Jr., who was the son of Lon Chaney, Sr. Thus, Lon Junior's on-screen father and real-life father have both portrayed The Phantom of the Opera in feature films - Lon Senior in the 1925 original and Claude in the 1943 remake.

The sign on the wall next to the antiques shop reads, "Saneman Products, Ltd."

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