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The Werewolf (1913) Online

The Werewolf (1913) Online
1913 Clarence Burton Marie Walcamp Phyllis Gordon Henry MacRae
Original Title :
The Werewolf
Genre :
Movie / Short / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Horror
Year :
1913
Directror :
Henry MacRae
Cast :
Clarence Burton,Marie Walcamp,Phyllis Gordon
Writer :
Ruth Ann Baldwin
Type :
Movie
Time :
18min
Rating :
6.1/10

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The Werewolf (1913) Online

Ostensibly the first werewolf movie ever filmed. A Navajo woman believes she has been abandoned by her husband, who has actually been killed, and becomes a witch. As her daughter grows up she is taught by her mother to hate all white men and ends up seeking revenge by turning into a werewolf.
Cast overview:
Clarence Burton Clarence Burton - Ezra Vance, Prospector and Trail Blazer
Marie Walcamp Marie Walcamp - Kee-On-Ee, as a Young Woman
Phyllis Gordon Phyllis Gordon - Watuma, daughter of Kee-On-Ee
Lule Warrenton Lule Warrenton - Kee-On-Ee, Years Later
Sherman Bainbridge Sherman Bainbridge - Stone Eye
William Clifford William Clifford - Jack Ford

It is now considered a lost film, all prints supposedly having been destroyed in a 1924 fire at Universal Studios.

The first known werewolf film.

According to Monsters of the Movies, the story is about a girl named Watuma who comes back to life 100 years after her death to look for the ghost of the man who killer her lover. She comes back as a wolf to do this.


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Beardana

Beardana

The first werewolf movie ever filmed is a long-lost silent film from 1913, 18 minutes in length, unfortunately destroyed by a fire in 1924. It was the only film which examines the old Indian legends of people turned into wolves through magic power for purposes of vengeance, who can assume human form at will.

A Navajo woman named Kee-On-Ee believes she has been abandoned by her husband, who has actually been killed, and so she becomes a witch. Her daughter, Watuma, is taught to hate all white men and seeks vengeance by attacking the invading whites in wolf form, until she encounters a friar and his cross. She returns from death 100 years later to kill the sweetheart of the reincarnation of the man who shot her lover. A real wolf was used in the transformation sequence, involving simple camera dissolves.

Directed by Henry MacRae, who directed over a hundred films prior to 1930, mostly exotic adventure shorts, and produced early classics such as the Flash Gordon series.
Kerry

Kerry

According to Stephen Jones in his anthology *The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men* (page xii), this "Canadian two-reeler" film was loosely based on Henry Beaugrand's story "The Werewolves" (1898). Incidentally, Jones goes on to say that the silent French film Le Loup-Garou (1923) was also based on this same Beaugrand short story. The story then clearly captured the imaginations of people of this era.

Here is a link, if you're interested, to the short story: http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/werwolvs.htm

I was surprised by just how short this short story actually is. Also, other than the fact that both the plot of this lost film and the plot of the short story both involves Indians, there does not appear to be that much of a direct resemblance between the two stories.
huckman

huckman

Director McRae produces this story of Indians and white men of a hundred years ago. For those who care for much shooting and massacre the picture will have appeal. Good photography and interesting backgrounds go far to hold the attention. The spectacle of a large body of Indians standing in a compact mass and shooting at a party of white men is hardly in accord with Indian tradition. - The Moving Picture World, December 6, 1913