Cry of the Werewolf (1944)

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Directed by Henry Levin.

Starring Stephen Crane, Nina Foch, Barton MacLane, Osa Massen, Blanche Yurka.

Nina Foch plays the title role in this rather dull horror melodrama from Columbia Pictures. Investigating his father's murder Bob Morris (Stephen Crane) and his Transylvanian girlfriend Elsa (Osa Massen) come to suspect the mysterious Celeste Latour (Foch), who calls herself a Gypsy princess. And, sure enough, when Elsa gets to close to the truth, Celeste casts a spell on her that turns the girl into a cat. But only briefly and Celeste is eventually cornered in the Latour family crypt. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

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lost interest.

If nothing else, The Cry of the Werewolf proves that Columbia was nowhere close to Universal when it came to World War II-era shockers and this treatise on lycanthropic folklore is certainly a far cry (no pun intended!) from the rival studio's classic The Wolf Man (1941). The only departure from established werewolf practices is that the monster this time is a woman, the stylish Nina Foch to be exact. But screenwriters Griffin Jay and Charles O'Neal did Miss Foch no favors by awarding her as dull a leading man as Stephen Crane. The latter, in his screen debut, is best remembered as number two (or was it three?) in Lana Turner's seemingly endless series of husbands and the father of her only child, Cheryl Crane. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

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