Monday 19 December 2016

91 Cry of the Werewolf ( 1944 )

This  promised  a  lot  with  an  attractive  actress  playing  a  female  werewolf  but  unfortunately  it's  a  dreary  plod,  neither  erotic  nor  ordinarily  exciting

A  Professor  Morris  ( Fritz  Leber  ) is  killed  in  a  museum  dedicated  to  infamous  werewolf  Marie  La  Tour  just  as  he's  about  to  announce  a  major  discovery. We  know  straight  away  that  the  culprit  is  Celeste,  a  gypsy  princess  who  is  really  Marie's  daughter, we  then  just  have  to  wait  for  the  police , Morris's  son  ( Stephen  Crane ) and  his  Transylvanian   girlfriend  Elsa  to  catch  up  and  it's  pretty  boring. Crane's  wooden  acting  doesn't  help.

Nina  Foch  ( as  Celeste )

Sex : No

Death : Gunned  down  by  the  police  as  a  wolf


Nina  doesn't  quite  cut  the  mustard  as  the  femme  fatale  here.

Osa  Massen  ( as   Elsa )

Sex : No

Death : Survives


Osa  was  born  Aase  Iverson  in  Copenhagen  and  was  a  press  photographer  before  coming  to  Hollywood  in  1937.  She  had  a  good  decade  in  films,  despite  a  strong  accent,  before  switching  to  TV  in  the  fifties. She  gave  up  acting  in  the  early  sixties  but  served  on  the  foreign  film  selection  committee  for  the  Oscars. She  died  in  2006  aged  91.


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