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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