The Werewolf | |
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Directed by | Fred F. Sears |
Screenplay by | Robert E. Kent James B. Gordon |
Story by | Robert E. Kent James B. Gordon |
Produced by | Sam Katzman |
Starring | Don Megowan Joyce Holden |
Cinematography | Edward Linden |
Edited by | Harold White |
Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Sam Katzman Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Werewolf is a 1956 American horror science fiction film directed by Fred F. Sears and starring Don Megowan and Joyce Holden.[1]
Set in contemporary times (i.e. the 1950s), the storyline follows an amnesiac man who, after being injected with "irradiated wolf serum" by unscrupulous doctors, transforms into a werewolf when under emotional stress. The film "marks precisely the point in which horror, which had been a dormant genre in the early '50s, began to take over from science fiction",[2] and is the first of only three werewolf films made in the US during that decade, preceding Daughter of Dr. Jekyll and I Was a Teenage Werewolf (both 1957).[3] The Werewolf was released theatrically in the US as the bottom half of a double feature with Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956).