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.

No comments:

Post a Comment