Cry of the Werewolf

This was the first film for which Nina Foch received top billing. She would go on to a decades-long career, often playing character parts. She had featured roles in "An American in Paris" and "The Ten Commandments", among many other famous films, got a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for 1954's "Executive Suite" and, in her later years, conducted acting classes for aspiring young thespians in West Hollywood.

This was the first solo directorial assigment for Henry Levin, who went on to enjoy a long and surprisingly varied career as a director, encompassing such diverse titles as Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) the original 1960 version of Where the Boys Are, two Pat Boone musicals (Bernadette and April Love) and two of Dean Martin's 1960s Matt Helm spy spoofs (Murderer's Row and The Ambushers).

Detective Barton Maclane claims he discovered female fingerprints, suggesting the murderer was a woman. Many in the audience thought such a possibility absurd, but such a determination is possible through analysis of size and the Amino acids left in the sweat of the fingertip ridges revealed in the print though this research only appeared in 2015.

During the opening credits (and scenes early in the film), in order to get the wolf to repeatedly open and close its mouth as if it were barking or chewing, they put a rubber band around its muzzle.

Right after the opening credits, it reads: "The ancient belief is still held by many that anything that happens in the world is never lost. No sparrow falls unnoted--no tree crashes in the forest unheard. The sorrow, the joys, the loves and the hates of past generations live on in peoples memories, in their legends and their stories. Perhaps our story is something that has lived on in a person's memory or perhaps it is just a legend--"