Wolf Blood
About Wolf Blood
Dick Bannister is the new field boss at Edith Ford's logging camp in Canada, which is in a private war with Jules Deveroux's Consolidated Lumber. Edith arrives with her fiancé, Dr. Horton. Rivals leave Dick for dead. No one will give blood, so Horton transfuses him from a wolf. Dick dreams he runs with phantom wolves. Wolves kill rival loggers, and the camp decides he is a werewolf. After Deveroux dies, Dick thinks he caused it and tries to jump from a cliff. Edith pulls him back and tells him Deveroux died in a fair fight. They embrace.
Cast & crew
More about Wolf Blood
George Chesebro and Bruce Mitchell directed. Chesebro plays Dick. Lesley Selander was the cameraman. Wikipedia gives 16 December 1925 and 67 minutes. Alternate titles are The Wolf Man and Wolfblood: A Tale of the Forest. Marguerite Clayton plays Edith Ford. Ray Hanford plays Dr. Horton. Roy Watson plays Deveroux.
Themes
Making
Chesebro directed himself as the man who receives the wolf's blood and then has to be talked off a cliff by the woman who owns the camp.
Look
Lesley Selander shot the logging camp, the transfusion, and the cliff.
Preservation
Copies are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia notes a DVD that pairs the film with F. W. Murnau's The Haunted Castle.
Notes
- Milburn Morante plays Jacques Lebeq, a bootlegger. Frank Clark plays Old Pop Hadley. Jack Cosgrave plays Edith's uncle.
- Books have called it the first werewolf film. The Werewolf (1913) is earlier and is lost, so this is the earliest surviving one.
- Wikipedia says it did not shape Werewolf of London (1935) or The Wolf Man (1941). Dick does not change under a full moon or die by a silver bullet.
- A commercial DVD has carried it as an extra with F. W. Murnau's The Haunted Castle.
- Copies are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.
Scenes
- Horton uses a wolf when no man will give blood.
- Dick dreams of running with the pack while the camp calls him a werewolf.
- Edith stops him at the cliff and says Deveroux died in a fair fight.
Also available
- Internet Archive (WolfBlood1925)
- Wikimedia Commons (Wolf Blood (1925).webm)
- DVD extra issued with F. W. Murnau's The Haunted Castle
