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For me, WEREWOLF OF LONDON is mostly an interesting oddity -- something you watch, thinking "Cool, they made a werewolf movie before THE WOLF-MAN."
It has some nice ideas, but there seems to be a general agreement that Henry Hull evokes little sympathy as the werewolf. It's also a bit disappointing that there are two active werewolves in the movie, but we only get to see one transformed. There's even a fight between the two characters at the end, but one has just taken an antidote to stop the transformation (a rather foolish move, strategically, since it results in his death at the claws of the one who does transform).
The script was developed for Karloff and Lugosi. One assumes Karloff would have played the Hull part, with Lugosi instead of Oland. That might have been more fun to watch.
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