She-Wolf of London [The Curse of the Allenbys] * (1946, Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden) – Classic Movie Review 3748

Director Jean Yarbrough’s stale 1946 horror thriller stars June Lockhart as young heiress Phyllis Allenby, whose aunt Martha Winthrop (Sara Haden) convinces her that she has come under the influence of a family curse and is a werewolf by night who commits horrible murders in a park near by.

However, true love conquers all when Phyllis’s nice fiancé Barry Lanfield (Don Porter), who does not believe that she is a lunatic or a werewolf, solves the murder mystery behind the story by Dwight D Babcock.

Alas this turn-of-the-last-century set chiller is cheap and creaky, and just packed full with a cargo of clichés in George Bricker’s screenplay, the acting and Yarbrough’s direction.

Also in the cast are Lloyd Corrigan as Detective Latham, Dennis Hoey as Inspector Pierce, Martin Kosleck, Jan Wiley, Eily Maylon, Frederick Warlock, Martin Kosleck and Clara Blandick.

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