Okay, Ted, I'll raise you one: image

Curt Siodmak was, unconsciously, self-loathing, due to his Jewishness, his having been driven out of his native land. Without realizing it, he wrote The Wolf Man as an isolationist cautionary tale of the sort Charles Lindbergh would have approved. Anglo-Saxons, like their German cousins, are a superior race (they reach to the heavens, like Sir John), and naive American Larry Talbot, in his ignorance, spends time with the "wrong kind of people", Gypsies, social outcasts, and like the Jews, a despised and cursed inferior race. He allows them to read his fortune, and as a result is dragged down to their level, that of a man-beast, an inferior being, a curse from which he cannot escape. This isolates him from his own people, thus he must be tracked down and killed, as is he is no longer fit to live in civilized society. Message: stick to to your own kind; avoid foreign entanglements at all costs. If you're the son of a baronet, fuh cryin' out loud act like one, and if you don't know how, learn; and above all, beware of strangers! image