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David Rintoul as Etoile
Legend Of The Werewolf (1975)
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This was a low budget attempt by economical film company Tyburn to redo – with the same writer – Hammer’s Curse Of The Werewolf from 1961, the film that propelled Oliver Reed to fame. Here David Rintoul (no, we don’t know who he was either) is Etoile, a baby left for dead and raised among wild animals in a forest. A few years later he is picked up by a travelling carnival and performs as “wolfboy” (ooh, they wouldn’t allow that now). A few more years later he’s a zookeeper in Paris, but – uh-oh – murders are happening in the city. And they look like the work of an animal! What’s equally pleasing and annoying is the utter unoriginality of the plot and of the werewolf’s behaviour. He also transforms in a rather prosaic fashion thanks to stop-motion filming. But the end result isn’t bad – quite a ferocious, twitchy beastie with an excess of facial hair. A bit like that Big Issue seller we always see in central Bath, then.
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