Strange events have been going on in the small Louisiana town of Marsh Island. Local residents are shocked when the body of a young woman is discovered mutilated in a nearby swamp. Sheriff Aaron Whitaker is convinced he is dealing with a murderer like any other, however some of the more superstitious locals think there may be a supernatural explanation. As more bodies begin turning up, it becomes evident that the Sheriff may in fact be hunting a mythological creature known as a lycanthrope, or in other words, a werewolf! With the help of a prominent socialite named Lousie, Sheriff Whitaker must uncover the identity of whomever or whatever is responsible for the killings before the next full moon claims another victim.

A brooding, made for television werewolf chiller from director Daniel Petrie (Fort Apache the Bronx), MOON OF THE WOLF stars David Janssen (TV’s The Fugitive), Barbara Rush (It Came From Outer Space), Bradford Dillman (Escape From the Planet of the Apes), John Beradino (TV’s General Hospital), and Geoffrey Lewis (The Devil’s Rejects). Shot entirely on location in rural Louisiana, which adds an air of bayou authenticity, Vinegar Syndrome Archive presents this standout piece of movie-of-the-week horror on Blu-ray for the first time, newly restored from its 35mm interpositive and featuring a freshly recorded interview with its editor, Richard Halsey.

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A Swiss bank learns that the confidentiality of several anonymous numbered accounts has been compromised and blackmail threats have been made to five holders of the accounts. They include a crooked arms dealer, who received a demand for five million Swiss francs. He refuses to pay and is shot dead. The bank is also told to pay ten million francs to keep the accounts secret.
The bank hires David Christopher (Janssen), a former U.S. Treasury official who now resides in Geneva. In the course of his investigation, Christopher talks to the four living blackmailees – beautiful Zürich resident Denise Abbott (Berger), Texas businessman Dwight McGowan (John Ireland), Chicago crook Robert Hayes (John Saxon) and Dutchman Andre Kosta (Arthur Brauss).He identifies a number of suspects. One is Rita Jensen (Sommer), the mistress of the bank’s vice-president, Franz Benninger (Anton Diffring). There is also Benninger himself as well as Korsak (Curt Lowens) and Sando (David Hess), who are out to kill Hayes and Christopher.
Bank president Johann Hurtil (Ray Milland) cannot believe that Benninger is corrupt. However, it emerges that the latter transferred control of a bank account to his mistress, who was legally entitled to it but didn’t have the correct documents.
Captain Hans Frey (Inigo Gallo) of the Swiss Federal Police is suspicious of Christopher’s activities and follows him.
The bank decides to pay the blackmailer, using uncut diamonds. Christopher insists on accompanying the diamonds to the collection point high in the snow-covered Alps. The blackmailees turn out to be blackmailing each other and the collector of the diamonds is shot, falling off a high alpine rock face. Christopher recovers the stones.

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In San Francisco, a police detective, aided by a Catholic nun, investigates the case of a priest who falls to his death from the Golden Gate bridge.

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Blinding snow threatens to send a jetliner hurtling toward doom. But Captain Pete Douglass (David Janssen, TV’s The Fugitive) has more than a snowstorm to battle when an armed madman turns the fuselage into a shooting gallery and his fellow passengers into clay pigeons. Made in the era of Airport, The Towering Inferno and more epics of disaster, Mayday at 40,000 Feet! is piloted by three-time Emmy-winning director Robert Butler. Butler isn’t the only award recipient aboard the project: Best Actor Oscar winners** Ray Milland and Broderick Crawford are among those flying straight into peril. From Warner Brothers!

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Harry Orwell has been retired from the force ever since he caught a bullet that lodged inoperably in his back. But that doesn’t mean the man called Harry O is out of the action. Moonlighting as a private sleuth, fighting off daily back pain and typically traveling by public bus instead of his own car (“It gives a man a chance to think”), he’s on the trail of the lowlife who murdered his pal’s son-in-law. It won’t be the only time the killer strikes before Harry closes in. David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series. Among the highlights: young Jodie Foster as Liberty, the wise-beyond-her-years homeless waif Harry befriends.

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During a stakeout, an L.A. cop kills a doctor who presumably pulled a gun but the coroner’s inquest finds no gun, forcing the cop to look for it to clear his name.

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★★★ Added by mattstechel 03 Jul 2021

Pretty good 60s era mystery that noir maestro Eddie Muller specifically picked for his later Hollywood noir series that’s airing on Friday nights on TCM this month. Normally his Saturday latenight noir series only focuses on 40s and 50s noirs and neglected B pictures from that time so this was a chance for him to showcase some of the noirs that he’s a fan of that were made later on. In the intro co-host Ben Menkiewicz even admitted that he had never heard of it before Muller had picked it to show for the night, (Muller btw seemed very psyched that TCM managed to get the rights to show it, tho its a Paramount distributed film so I’m not sure why the rights to show it would be that hard to come by) They both agreed that even tho its a very tightly made film, that it also plays more like an episode of a tv series from the time since its more concerned with churning thru plot than it is atmosphere or character (But it definitely felt like this movie had both in spades) This is most likely because it was originally meant to be a TV Movie that got bumped up to theatrical release when the tv censors at the time deemed it a bit too violent for broadcast at the time. (Tho i mean i’d assume it turned up on network tv eventually–i mean the movie is stacked with familiar tv faces–not just star David Janssen but Caroll O’Connor turns up as a judge!)

Anyways the plot is nice and straightforward— a cop on stakeout to try and catch a killer ends up getting into a scuffle with a guy fleeing the scene and the cop ends up shooting him dead claiming the guy had pulled a gun on him. When no gun turns up at the scene, the cop is charged with murder as apparently the guy who got shot had a clean record. It looks kinda bad for the cop as public sentiment is soon whipped up against him by the local media. (There’s a local talk show host played by the inventor of the pog himself Steve Allen–who seems to have it out for our cop) and indeed there’s soon protests outside the station against excessive force and police brutality. (ha!) The local DA himself the son of a man beaten to death by policemen wants to make an example out of our cop and so the cop has no choice but to try and investigate why the guy he shot would’ve had a gun or why that guy would’ve even been at the very place the cop was staking out. The idea that our hero has to clear his own name is one that’s been done many a time, but the wrinkle that in order to clear his own name our hero has to dig up dirt on the guy he’s being charged with murdering is I thought a pretty nifty one.

Along the way he gets beaten up by the murdered man’s teenage son, and clashes with the ex wife, and he meets a couple of characters–a movie like this, you know there’s gonna be several red herrings dangling out there. Its not a great movie for the ages to be fair, but its a pretty effectively suspenseful one and David Janssen gives a solid tight lipped stiff jawed, intense leading man performance. (One that if looked at from the right perspective could be the type of performance that Leslie Nielsen was parodying in The Naked Gun movies but also definitely one that was in classic noir tradition as well–if this weren’t intended to be a TV Movie, it wouldn’t be too hard to see like Glenn Ford or Dana Andrews or even the ultimate clench jawed actor–the man who will forever reminds me of Calculon–Jeff Chandler— in this role.) Overall it was pretty rock solid. (Now the question is will i remember it in the future???)

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★★★½ Watched by JP Evans 03 Feb 2018

David Janssen’s cop shoots dead a suspected killer on a foggy late night stakeout when he has a gun pulled on him. Only it’s not the suspected killer at all, rather a seemingly saintly doctor doing a late night house call. And there’s no gun to be found at the scene…

As he faces a murder charge Janssen has 10 days to clear his name or it’s prison for sure. Warning Shot touches on contemporary concerns about dirty cops as everyone abandons Janssen believing him a liar or just crazy. We know he’s neither because it’s David doing his best sincere stand-up guy routine.

What makes this good is that he’s surrounded by plenty of subtly out-there support, from the likes of Lillian Gish’s dotty lady via George Grizzard’s smooth playboy pilot and a wonderful Eleanor Parker as the dead doc’s soused and horny widow.

Janssen anchors the film, but under its apparently straightforward surface is a movie that’s pretty batshit and all the better for it. Add to this a superb jazzy score by Jerry Goldsmith and it’s definitely worth seeking out.

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The plot of this near-noir is very convoluted, but the director keeps a steady pace and there is enough incidental interest to avoid confusion or boredom. When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, Tom Alder (Janssen), a “finder of missing persons”, is hired to investigate the murder, but quickly sees a link between the secretary and a the long-missing daughter of a wealthy family. Complications involve some colorful characters: Leroy Dane (Brad Dexter), a big movie star, Mrs Delaney (Agnes Moorehead) the missing girl’s mother, Jacques Pleschette (Jacques Aubuchon) a shady figure who tries to hire Tom to find his missing brother. All these actors give top drawer performances, with Moorehead a standout for the way she takes complete control of her single scene with Janssen. Excellent too is Dina Merrill as Nikki (her Tokyo-set flashback with Janssen is quite impressive). Also fine in the cast are Jeanne Crain, Robert Strauss, and William Demarest, doing a convincing turn as a down-and-out drunken newspaper man.

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