Saturday, June 4, 2011

1972 - MOON OF THE WOLF, A werewolf is loose in Louisiana, David Janssen is on the case.

One of those "Tuesday Movie of the Week" B-movies that ABC used to grind out during the 1970's.  Moon of the Wolf is fairly cheesy but worth a couple of chuckles. 


The film has an outstanding cast of TV actors,  Barbara Rush, Royal Dano, John Beradino, Geoffrey Lewis, Bradford Dillman and David "the Man " Janssen.  Bradford Dillman was married to one of the top fashion models of the 1950's the gorgeous Suzy Parker.

What can be said about a TV legend like David Janssen, the man with the gravely voice.  A guy with enough screen presence to keep this junk extremely watchable.  The film is set in a Louisiana Bayou town and most of the cast actually attempts southern accents.  Not Janssen, he's supposed to be a southern sheriff who grew up in the Bayou, but he spits his lines out in his Midwestern accent with an "I don't give a damn about this stupid movie" manner.  Janssen is clearly in it for a quick paycheck.


Moon of the Wolf is a very dumb film.  Some old coot realizes that a werewolf is running around killing people, he keeps saying "Loup-Garou".  Nobody seems to know what that means, but anyone who has seen the classic Jonny Quest episode Werewolf of the Timberland, knows that this is a french word for werewolf.


 The film is short and knows what it is, just another B movie made for television.

75 minuteS, written by Les Whitten and Alvin Sapinsley.

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