Moon of the Wolf is an American made-for-television Gothic horror film first broadcast on September 26, 1972 on ABC Movie of the Week. It starred David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Geoffrey Lewis and Bradford Dillman, with a script written by Alvin Sapinsley . The film was directed by Daniel Petrie and filmed on location in Burnside, Louisiana. The film begins following a moonlit night in the Louisiana Bayou town of Marsh Island as two farmers discover the mauled, dead body of a local resident, an attractive young girl. Sheriff Aaron Whitaker is called in. The victim's temperamental brother... Lawrence Burrifors arrives at the crime scene and jumps to the conclusion that the girl's lover committed the murder, a man whose very name her brother does not know. The town's Dr. Drutan examines the body and pronounces the girl died of a severe blow to the head caused by a human hand. He tells Sheriff Whitaker, "It looks like you have a murder on your hands." The sheriff replies, "Just what I needed.
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| Release date: | September 26, 1972 |
| Directed by: | Daniel Petrie |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 75 Minutes |
| Producer: | Peter Thomas, Everett Chambers |
| Editor: | Richard Halsey |
| Screenplay by: | Alvin Sapinsley |
| Adapted from: | Moon of the Wolf |
| Genre: | Thriller |