Victor Pemberton = Night Of The Wolf

(4.5 stars; 12 reviews)

Saturday-Night Theatre: Night of the Wolf Saturday 9th August 1975, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM A Horror Legend of Man and Beast specially written for radio by Victor Pemberton. [Starring] Vincent Price and Coral Browne. Time: around the end of the last century. Place: Cambridge and the Fen Country. 'It came at me from nowhere... eyes glarin' out of the dark like emeralds. Teeth like rocks, tarnished with the blood of human flesh. And hair streamin' out of its neck and hands and feet... This isn't one of God's creatures, sir. It's the work of the Devil himself!' Technical Assistant:....Jock Parrell Technical Assistant:....Marsail MacCuish Technical Assistant:....David Bitchinson Technical Assistant:....Alister Wilson Producer:....John Tydeman Judge Mathew Deacon:....Vincent Price Robert Deacon, his son:....Peter Whitman Mrs Northcott:....Coral Browne Sybil, her daughter:....Sheila Grant Dorothy, Sybil's daughter:....Elizabeth Proud Nicholas, Sybil's son:....John Rye Griffin, an undergraduate:....Michael Cochrane Professor Forrester:....Hugh Manning Sir Richard Burnett:....Haydn Jones Morris:...Paul Guwon Jessie:....Norma Ronald == Master of horror Vincent Price stars in this gripping drama set in the Fenlands of East Anglia. Set in 1883, this is an original 90-minute gothic horror play about a prowling werewolf. Vincent Price plays Judge Matthew Deacon, who travels to Cambridge from Pennsylvania to search for evidence of his son Robert's fate. The Provost of King's College informs him that his son has committed suicide, but Robert's close friend reassures the judge by telling him that he would never take his own life. The judge sets off to the Fenlands where he comes across the sinister Northcott family, who hold the key to Robert’s whereabouts. Night Of The Wolf was written specifically for Radio 4’s Saturday Night Theatre by writer/television producer Victor Pemberton, whose credits range from Doctor Who to Fraggle Rock. This drama also stars Vincent Price’s wife, the colourful Coral Browne, whom he met when they co-starred in Theatre of Blood. == This 90-minute gothic horror play was originally commissioned as a starring vehicle for James Stewart, but ended up starring Vincent Price and his third wife Coral Browne, who recorded the play in early July 1975 following closing of their stage production of the French bedroom farce, Ardele, which played in Oxford, Brighton and London in June. Price plays a respected Pennsylvanian judge, Mathew Deacon, who crosses the Atlantic and heads to Cambridge to find why his son, Robert, went missing and is presumed dead. Learning from Robert’s friend, Griffin, that the university student was passionately in love with a mysterious red-haired beauty called Dorothy Northcott, Mathew heads to Northcott Manor deep in the marshlands of the Fens, for some answers. But in the darkness, Mathew encounters what could only be described as a werewolf… Could Robert have fallen victim to this supernatural creature? And what dark secrets are the family hiding? Directed by John Tydeman, featuring special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Night of the Wolf was originally broadcast on BBC Radio’s Saturday Night Theatre on 9 August 1975. It was later issued on two 33rpm discs in the last week of December 1976, followed by audio cassette (produced by Sylvia Gartner) in 1984. [thesoundofvincentprice]

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.