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A former writer called this a B-movie, well it's actually not, it's the kind of movie that we made tons of in the 1930's, light entertainment with crooks slightly overdone, and therefor easy to point out. This movie would have been totally forgotten if it wasn't for the debut of Ingrid Bergman, and she is young and charming in this one. This kind of folksy commedies was very popular with the audiences at the time, but set wrath on critics who labeled this kind of movies Pilsner-movies (Pilsner was a non sparkling beer back then in the 1930s).

The alcoholic jokes in this movie dates back , like in USA they wanted the citizens to be sober once , and in Sweden we had something called the Mot-Book, that restricted any citizen to take out more than his or her ransion of alcohol per month.

Well everyone starts young!, for anyone now when Stellan is emerging as an international character actor, the "Bombi Bitt och jag" could be called in modern words a TV min-series. It was made in black-and-white, Swedish Television didn't went colour until around 1969-1970, and based on the popular stories (or Tall Tales) of Piraten-Nilsson. The character of Bombi Bitt (Stellan) is a kind of free spirit, that more or less follows his own rules, and also know the rules of the game when it matters, he can cheat in card-games, he knows all the odd characters, and turns it to his fortune. The "Jag" or "I" is an observer who is amazed and big-eyed about everything Bombi-Bitt do. Bombi-Bitt is a dream that the "Jag" character only in his dream wishes he was himself. The trouble is that the Bombi Bitt person excists and the "Jag" character is actually joining along in the adventures.

I have a hard time thinking this could actually interest All new Stellan fans.

Since this movie turned up on the Universal Monster Legacy Boxes, a movie that probably would have been forgotten forever suddenly turns up, It has a Wolf in the title and there is an old curse. Offcourse it's always fun to see a movie That I've never seen before (at least I think so), and after all it's just around an hour so, so it's not that bad.

I have a feeling that if this story was made in the 50's it would be on one of those early TV Theatric shows, that was popular in the 50s, it could even have worked in a 30 minutes Alfred Hitchcock serial,, or why not go a few steps longer and say it would have been an acceptable episode in Angela Lansbury's Murder She Wrote episodes.

Anyway She-Wolf is according to the old edition of The Universal Story "A Thriller that wanted to be a Chiller that turned out to be a Filler".

The movie is OK as a Filler! but offcouse has no place in a Monster Legacy Collection.

A few funny Notes: - Sara Haden who at the time was popular in the Andy Hardy serials at MGM,plays a very different persona.

• Joan Caulfield, still around apparing as late in 2006 in "Gray's Anatomy " - If the London fog was ever this thick and a madman was on the loose, the uniformed guys have to go 2 by 2, or in pairs, yet the highest police officer can say a line like "I stroll around the park too for awhile!" so Uniformed policemen has to go around in pairs, but a civilied clothed superior can walk around alone "just to take a stroll". HELLO HELLO! a mad person who even kills children, will only be antagonizing policemen if they walk in pairs, and never superior officers who walks alone, in the foggiest London parks???.

If you take a movie like this, not expecting much, and 60minutes flows buy fast.