Cry of the Werewolf

Mild even by 1940s horror standards and utterly conventional in every respect, director Henry Levin's debut feature stars Nina Foch as Celeste LaTour, queen of the Troiga gypsies. She murders a New Orleans museum curator to cover up the fact that she has inherited the curse of lycanthropy from her dead mother. Feeling far longer than its 63-minute running time, this banal potboiler lacks rudimentary suspense and even Foch's transformation takes place off-screen.