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Moon of the Wolf is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Daniel Petrie released in USA on 26 september 1972 with David Janssen
Moon of the Wolf (1972)
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Add to a movie listMoon of the Wolf is an American made-for-television Gothic horror film first broadcast on September 26, 1972, on ABC Movie of the Week. It starred David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Geoffrey Lewis and Bradford Dillman, with a script by Alvin Sapinsley (based on Leslie H. Whitten's novel of the same name). The film was directed by Daniel Petrie and filmed on location in Burnside, Louisiana. All of the downtown footage was from Clinton, Louisiana.
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In the Louisiana Bayou town of Marsh Island, two farmers discover the mauled, dead body of a local young woman. Sheriff Aaron Whitaker (David Janssen) is called. The victim's temperamental brother Lawrence Burrifors (Geoffrey Lewis) arrives at the crime scene and jumps to the conclusion that the girl's lover committed the murder, a man whose name her brother does not know. The town's Dr. Drutan (John Beradino) examines the body and pronounces the girl died of a blow to the head.Actors
David Janssen
(Sheriff Aaron Whitaker)
Barbara Rush
(Louise Rodanthe)
Bradford Dillman
(Andrew Rodanthe)
John Beradino
(Dr. Druten)
Geoffrey Lewis
(Lawrence)
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