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Writers:
James B. Gordon (story)
Robert E. Kent (writer)
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Release Date:
July 1956 (USA) more
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Plot:
Two scientists come across an auto accident, and find an unconscious man in the wreck. They take him... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Steven Ritch ... Duncan Marsh
Don Megowan ... Sheriff Jack Haines
Joyce Holden ... Amy Standish
Eleanore Tanin ... Mrs. Helen Marsh
Kim Charney ... Chris Marsh
Harry Lauter ... Deputy Ben Clovey
Larry J. Blake ... Hank Durgis
Ken Christy ... Dr. Jonas Gilchrist
James Gavin ... Mack Fanning
S. John Launer ... Dr. Emery Forrest
George Lynn ... Dr. Morgan Chambers
George Cisar ... Hoxie, the bartender
Marjorie Stapp ... Min, the tall blond
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Fred F. Sears ... Narrator
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Runtime:
79 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Probably to save time and/or money, shots of the werewolf fleeing the posse near the climax, were shot "day-for-night" while the posse shots were filmed during real nighttime. more
Quotes:
Dr. Emery Forrest: But to take a stranger, a man injured in an accident, and give him a full inoculation of that serum.
Dr. Morgan Chambers: Yes, I'd almost forgotten about him. So much could fail if he should remember and tell someone what he knows about us. There's nothing else left but to-...
Dr. Emery Forrest: You're not going to kill him!
Dr. Morgan Chambers: You think he still wants to live after what he's become? It would be an act of charity.
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Hairy Sleeper finally Gets Released!, 24 November 2007
Author: michaeldukey2000 from United States

Lensed by the same director of the bigger budgeted Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers and meant to be a companion for the lower half of the bill The Werewolf surprised everybody by being a taut face value chiller with more character emphasis than usual for this type of subject.

As other reviewers have stated the performances,locale,direction and lighting are much better should be for a story about kooky scientists turning a luckless schmoe into a hirsute mutant but it also has a film noir element that mixes in quite nicely amidst the western pines of Big Bear lake.

Unlike some other viewers I didn't have a problem with the make up. It was meant to scare kids and it did. A year later you can see similarities in the design for Michael Landon's beastly side in I Was A Teenage Werewolf.

After the late sixties this exhausted it's run on local Chiller theaters and became very hard to find until now.

For a reasonable price you can get a gorgeous widescreen DVD transfer of The Werewolf along with other B movie faves The Giant Claw,Zombies Of Mora Tau and Creature With The Atom Brain.

The name of the set is Icons Of Horror Sam Katzman. It comes with some great extras but one of them produced by the same Three Stooges dept. at Columbia has enough vile Asian stereotypes to make A Fu-Man-Chu movie look P.C.

Take a trip back to matinée-ville with this and enjoy.

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