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Bookmark this pageThe Werewolf of Washington (1973)
Director: Milton Moses Ginsberg
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A hit-or-miss comedy which blends political satire and lycanthropic laughs, but lacks bite. Stockwell plays a White House aide who is bitten by a werewolf while in Hungary, then returns to Washington to wreak havoc in the corridors of power. The President (McGuire) and his pragmatic psychiatrist effect a cover-up (cf. Watergate), fearing the press will use Stockwell's senatorial snacks to discredit the presidency. A poorly integrated subplot involving a mad-dwarf scientist (Dunn) is good for a few laughs, but like the half-hearted pastiche of Universal's The Wolf Man, it goes nowhere.Author: NF
Cast & crew
Director: Milton Moses Ginsberg
Producer: Nina Schulman
Cast: Dean Stockwell, Biff McGuire, Clifton James, Beeson Carroll, Jane House, Michael Dunn full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 90 mins
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