Moon of the Wolf

Moon of the Wolf is an American madefortelevision 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. Whittens 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.

The sheriff investigates the crime and local residents have a variety of theories, including the belief she was killed by wild dogs. A posse forms to track down the wild dogs with little success. Burrifors continues to insist the killer to be his sisters mysterious lover while the sheriff, in turn, is suspicious of him. The girls sick and dying father Hugh Burrifors Paul R. DeVille, interviewed by the sheriff, warns him of the Loug Garog. The sheriff does not understand the French term.The sheriffs investigation soon takes him to the plantation home of the wealthy Andrew Rodanthe Bradford Dillman and his sister Louise Barbara Rush. They are the last of a local family dynasty. Andrew, who the sheriff suspects had an affair with the victim, claims to have been suffering an attack of malaria the night the girl was killed. ........

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