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Scream of the Wolf

  • TV Movie
  • 19741974
  • 1h 14m
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
765
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Scream of the Wolf (1974)
HorrorThriller
A big-game hunter comes out of retirement to help track down a killer wolf, and begins to suspect that it isn't a wolf but an animal that can take human form.A big-game hunter comes out of retirement to help track down a killer wolf, and begins to suspect that it isn't a wolf but an animal that can take human form.A big-game hunter comes out of retirement to help track down a killer wolf, and begins to suspect that it isn't a wolf but an animal that can take human form.
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
765
YOUR RATING
    • Dan Curtis
    • Richard Matheson(teleplay)
    • David Case(story "The Hunter")
  • Stars
    • Peter Graves
    • Clint Walker
    • Jo Ann Pflug
    • Dan Curtis
    • Richard Matheson(teleplay)
    • David Case(story "The Hunter")
  • Stars
    • Peter Graves
    • Clint Walker
    • Jo Ann Pflug
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    • 35User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
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    Peter Graves
    Peter Graves
    • John Wetherby
    Clint Walker
    Clint Walker
    • Byron Douglas
    Jo Ann Pflug
    Jo Ann Pflug
    • Sandy Miller
    Philip Carey
    Philip Carey
    • Sheriff Vernon Bell
    Don Megowan
    Don Megowan
    • Grant
    Brian Richards
    • Deputy Crane
    Lee Paul
    Lee Paul
    • Student
    Jim Storm
    Jim Storm
    • Boy
    • (as James Storm)
    Dean Smith
    Dean Smith
    • Lake
    Randy Kirby
    • Brian Hammond
    Vernon Weddle
    Vernon Weddle
    • Newsman
    Bill Baldwin
    Bill Baldwin
    • Reporter
    • (as William Baldwin)
    Orville Sherman
    Orville Sherman
    • Coroner
    Bonnie Van Dyke
    • Girl
    Grant Owens
    • Deputy Bill
    Douglas Bungert
    • First Deputy
    Tom Dever
    Tom Dever
    • First Victim
    Chuck Hayward
    Chuck Hayward
    • Second Victim
      • Dan Curtis
      • Richard Matheson(teleplay)
      • David Case(story "The Hunter")
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    • Trivia
      A "made-for-TV" movie.
    • Goofs
      At about 13 minutes into the movie, Byron says the Sheriff's name wrong. He calls him Bellus. The Sheriff's name is Bell.
    • Quotes

      Byron Douglas: Some people are saying it's a werewolf!

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    5/10
    When one's strange fantasies takes over one's life
    ++Major Spoilers++ Former big game hunter and now deranged lunatic Byron Douglas, Clint Walker, comes up with some far-out ideas about life death and the human condition as well as how to bring a little life and excitement into the lives of the people in town by savagely murdering them and at the same time making it look like some kind of werewolf did it.

    Even though the movie tries to be suspenseful and keeps you guessing to who the killer is as soon as you see Douglas and how crazed and unstable Douglas is. Just by listening to his off the wall philosophy by talking about how one is most alive just when he's at he moment of death. This makes you almost look over his shoulder to see if you can catch a glimpse of the men in white with stun guns and butterfly nets ready to grab and restrain Douglas in a padded room at the local loony bin.

    You watch the movie hoping that whats on the screen is not really happening. In that that those making the film are just trying to keep you off the track by making you think that Douglas is the killer when the real killer is really someone else in the cast that you don't suspect. Still you just can't convince yourself that there's anyone more certain to be the killer then Douglas is and you end up being right.

    Were told that Douglas was attacked by some super wolf some time back in Canada which almost killed him and left him in the condition that he's in now. Trying to explain his mental and emotional state and at the same time throws off suspicion about him being the killer but even that falls apart at the end of the movie.

    The only way I could follow the story is by realizing that Douglas is crazy, which wasn't hard to do, so whatever he said and did in the movie made sense only to himself not to anyone else. The end of the film ripped off the movie "The Most Dangerous Game" by Douglas pitting friend and former hunting buddy now writer Peter Graves, John Wetherby, against himself in a life and death struggle to see who's fit and strong enough to survive. Even then Douglas cheated by having a vicious wolf as a partner and leaving Wetherby with a rifle with no bullets in it.

    Wetherby had to run for some distance to find a box in the woods with only two slugs that Douglas left for him. When it came to the hand to hand combat that Douglas craved for Wetherby pulled out a gun that he secretly had on him a blew Douglas away. Since Douglas murdered six people there was no point for all that ridicules game playing with him.

    A major flaw in the movie was why the police never thought of arresting Douglas even though he was the most evident and conspicuous suspect in town. It was nothing but a waste of time trying to figure out Douglas' weird philosophy and sermonizing during the movie because it was just that, weird.
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    • Release date
      • January 16, 1974 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Metromedia Productions
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    • 1 hour 14 minutes
      • Color
      • Mono

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