Cry Of The Werewolf (1944) - (Movie Clip) It Is Your Destiny

Cry Of The Werewolf (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Customs Of My People

The undertaker (Milton Parsons) was about to introduce gypsy elder Bianca (Blanche Yurka) and princess Celeste (Nina Foch) to Bob (Stephen Crane), secretly investigating the murder-by-werewolf of his father, spooky stalking in Columbia's Cry Of The Werewolf, 1944.

Cry Of The Werewolf (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Perhaps The Most Horrible

At the Latour Museum in New Orleans, guide Peter (John Abbott) walks customers through vampires, voodoo and what he calls "werewolf-ism," winding up with a portrait of the as-yet unseen star, Nina Foch, early in Cry Of The Werewolf, 1944.

Cry Of The Werewolf (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Fresh Fire On The Grate

Due to voodoo messages suggesting he might be on the verge of a discovery, Dr. Morris (Fritz Leiber) has entered a secret chamber at his New Orleans occult museum, leaving tour guide Peter (John Abbott) with the cat, while his assistant (Osa Massen) collects his son (Stephen Crane), whom he summoned home from a research trip, from the airport, in director Henry Levin's Cry Of The Werewolf, 1944.

Cry Of The Werewolf (1944) -- (Movie Clip) It Is Your Destiny

We haven't seen top-billed Nina Foch for 20-plus minutes in this 63-minute feature but now she's back, as New Orleans metro-area Gypsy princess and pretty-sure werewolf Celeste, visited by janitor Jan (Ivan Triesault) whom the cops have all-but nailed for her last murder, leaving her little choice, with counsel from Blanche Yurka, in Columbia's Cry Of The Werewolf, 1944.

Cry Of The Werewolf (1944) -- (Movie Clip) She Struck Her Husband Down

Joining the terrific commentary (voicing over historical footage) by tour guide John Abbott at a New Orleans occult museum, we get a look at top-billed Nina Foch in a painting, then we meet the janitor and the proprietor (Ivan Triesault, Fritz Leiber), then visit the real Nina, a gypsy princess, attended by Blanche Yurka, early in Cry Of The Werewolf, 1944.