Months after adding it to my Blockbuster queue, I finally
got around to watching that unevenly farcical post-Watergate
howler (literal and figurative), "The Werewolf of
Washington," starring Dean Stockwell as the titular hirsute
bureaucrat.
In addition to boasting Michael "Dr. Miguelito Lovelace"
Dunn and Beeson "Maj. Donald Penobscott" Carroll, it
features a brief appearance by Thayer David as a nameless
Hungarian soldier.
The cane has more scenes, starting with an opening taken
almost straight from Siodmak's "The Wolf Man": guy
wanders...wait, that makes it sound like Guy Stockwell
instead of Dean -- okay, Dean wanders across E. Euro
countryside under full moon, uses cane to kill wolf that
attacks and then turns into dead gypsy, biting Dean in
process, Gypsy mom turns up to provide warning and necklace,
etc.
Uneven, but shots of the werewolf -- which always manages to
avoid losing its suit and tie, if not its shoes -- clinging
to the roof of a car, chewing on a rug, sniffing like a
bloodhound, and licking a dwarf's face might strike some
folks as funny. The repeated conflation of pentagram and
Pentagon gets a giggle only the first couple times it's
used. The speech over the end credits is pretty good though.
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