Friday, 2 June 2017
199 Curse of the Werewolf ( 1961)
This is Hammer's first excursion into werewolf territory and is chiefly remembered for launching Oliver Reed onto an unsuspecting world, Ollie's very good as Leon the werewolf but he does take a while to appear and the preceding twenty minutes are very pedestrian.
Yvonne Romain ( as Jailer's Daughter )
Sex : The girl is raped by the prisoner she has been tending.
Death : Dies after giving birth to Leon
Yvonne has no lines in this film as she is mute. You'd think they could have thought up a name for the character though.
Catherine Feller ( as Kristina )
Sex : Kristina has trysts with Leon but we don't see them getting it on.
Death : Survives
To say Catherine had a thirty-year career , more in TV than film, biographical detail is hard to come by. She was born in 1939 and was very active up until the late sixties when her appearances became sporadic. She was last seen as a chambermaid in Fresh Fields.
Josephine Llewellyn ( as The Marquesa )
Sex : Impressive cleavage
Death : The narrator mentions that she died a few years into her marriage to the Marquis
Josephine is even more obscure although she had a regular role in a TV series A Matter of Degree the year before this. She disappears from view after this film.
Hira Talfrey ( as Teresa )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Tira was from New Zealand but mainly worked in British TV up to 1978. She died in 2011 aged 85.
Sheila Brennan ( as Vera )
Sex : Vera takes Leon to her room for sex....
Death : .. but ends up having her throat ripped out
Sheila made few films but did a lot of TV between 1955 and 1982. She had a run in Crossroads in 1978.
Joy Webster ( as Isabel )
Sex : Isabel is a prostitute
Death : Survives
Joy plays a whore once more.
Renny Lister ( as Yvonne )
Sex : Yvonne is a prostitute
Death : Survives
This is one of few films made by Renny who had a long career on TV although her appearances since 1988 have been rare. She has been Mrs Kenneth Cope since 1961.
Loraine Carvana ( as the young jailer's daughter )
Sex : n/a
Death : Survives
This was young Loraine's only film. She is a good match for her adult counterpart.
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