I Was a Teenage Werewolf

I Was a Teenage Werewolf is a 1957 film about a troubled teenager who seeks help through hypnotherapy, but his evil doctor uses him for regression experiments that transform him into a rampaging werewolf.

Directed by Gene Fowler Jr.. Written by Aben Kandel.

Explosive! Amazing! Terrifying! You won't believe your eyes!  (taglines)

Dr. Alfred Brandon

• I'm going to TRANSFORM him, and unleash the savage instincts that lie hidden within... and then I'll be judged the benefactor. Mankind is on the verge of destroying itself. The only hope for the human race is to hurl it back into its primitive norm, to start all over again. What's one life compared to such a triumph?

Other

• Det. Sgt. Donovan: It's not for man to interfere in the ways of God.

Dialogue

Dr Hugo Wagner: But you're sacrificing a human life!

Dr Alfred Brandon: Do you cry over a guinea pig? This boy is a free police case. We're probably saving him from the gas chamber.

Dr Hugo Wagner: But the boy is so young, the transformation horrible -

Dr Alfred Brandon: And you call yourself a scientist! That's why you've never been more than an assistant.

Taglines

• Explosive! Amazing! Terrifying! You won't believe your eyes!
• The most amazing motion picture of our time!

Cast

• Michael Landon — Tony Rivers
• Yvonne Lime — Arlene Logan
• Whit Bissell — Dr. Alfred Brandon
• Malcolm Atterbury — Charles Rivers
• Barney Phillips — Detective Sgt. Donovan
• Robert Griffin — Police Chief Baker
• Joseph Mell — Dr. Hugo Wagner
• Louise Lewis — Principal Ferguson
• Guy Williams — Officer Chris Stanley

• Tony Marshall — Jimmy
• Vladimir Sokoloff — Pepe, the janitor
• Kenny Miller — Vic
• Cindy Robbins — Pearl
• Michael Rougas — Frank
• Dawn Richard — Theresa
• S. John Launer — Mr. Bill Logan
• Dorothy Crehan — Mrs. Mary Logan

External links

• I Was a Teenage Werewolf quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• I Was a Teenage Werewolf at Allmovie