Cry of the Werewolf, also known as Daughter of the Werewolf, is a 1944

1944 in film

The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura.-Events:*July 20 - Since You Went Away is released....

 film starring Nina Foch

Nina Foch

Nina Foch was a Dutch-born American actress and leading lady in many 1940s and 1950s films.- Personal life :...

, based on a story by Griffin Jay and directed by Henry Levin

Henry Levin

Henry Levin began as a stage actor and director but was most notable as an American film director of over fifty feature films. He broke into film in 1943 as a dialogue director for the films Dangerous Blondes and Appointment in Berlin for Columbia Pictures...

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Plot summary

A Romany princess descended from Marie LaTour has the ability to change into a wolf

Gray Wolf

The gray wolf , also known as the wolf, is the largest extant wild member of the Canidae family...

 at will, just like her late mother. When she learns that Marie LaTour's tomb has been discovered, she decides to use her talent to kill everyone who knows the location, because it is a sacred

Sacred

Holiness, or sanctity, is in general the state of being holy or sacred...

 secret that only her people are allowed to know.

Cast

• Nina Foch
  Nina Foch
  Nina Foch was a Dutch-born American actress and leading lady in many 1940s and 1950s films.- Personal life :...
  
  
• Stephen Crane
• Osa Massen
  Osa Massen
  -Background and early career:Born Aase Madsen, she began her career as a newspaper photographer before becoming an actress. Massen notably appeared as Melvyn Douglas' unfaithful wife dealing with blackmailer Joan Crawford in A Woman's Face ....
  
  
• Blanche Yurka
  Blanche Yurka
  Blanche Yurka was an American theatre and film actress.Born in St Paul, Minnesota, Yurka was an opera star before she became an actress. She made her Broadway debut in 1910 and established herself as a character actor, also appearing in several films...
  
  
• Barton MacLane
  Barton MacLane
  Barton MacLane was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. Although he has appeared in many classic films from the 1930s through the 1960s, he was known for his role as Gen...
  
  
• Ivan Triesault
• John Abbott
  John Abbott
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• Fred Graff
• John Tyrrell
  John Tyrrell
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• Robert Williams
• Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
  
  
• Milton Parsons

Trivia

This is often cited as the first film to have a female werewolf

Werewolf

A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope , is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse...

 in it, but an early short silent called The Werewolf

The Werewolf (1913 film)

The Werewolf is a silent film short that is the first werewolf film, and was directed by Henry MacRae. It was produced by Bison Film Company, released by Universal Studios, and is now considered a lost film, all prints supposedly having been destroyed in a 1924 fire...

(which is indeed the first werewolf film ever made) used that plot device first. Unfortunately this film is now lost

Lost film

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