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| 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 |
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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).
- ^ "TCM's Article on the Werewolf". Archived from the original on July 15, 2015.
- ^ Hardy, Phil, ed. (1995). The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction. Woodstock NY: The Overlook Press. p. 164. ISBN 0879516267.
- ^ Senn, Bryan (2017). The Werewolf Filmography: 300+ Movies. Jefferson NC: McFarland & Co. Inc. pp. 223–225. ISBN 9780786479108.