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    Beast Must Die, The (1974)

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    Wealthy playboy, philanthropist and big game hunter Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) and his wife Caroline (Marlene Clark) invite an eclectic group of people to their country mansion because Tom is convinced one of them is a werewolf.

    The sprawling mansion is fitted with a CCTV surveillance system with numerous security cameras and listening devices controlled by Newcliffe’s trusted assistant and employee Pavel (Anton Diffring).

    Once the werewolf is secretly spied, Newcliffe plans to shoot the biggest game of all with his hunting rifle and add it to his prized trophy collection.

    The select group of suspects is made up of archaeology and werewolf expert Dr Lundgren (Peter Cushing), former medical student and suspected cannibal Paul Foote (Rick Wakeman-lookalike Tom Chadbon), disgraced British diplomat with constantly disappearing staff Arthur Bennington (Charles Gray), society beauty Davinia Gilmore (Ciaran Madden), and shifty-looking concert pianist Jan Jarmokowski (Michael Gambon), a man who (suspiciously) never seems too geographically far away from the scene of some grisly murder.

    Newcliffe is completely obsessed with bagging a werewolf and dismisses the servants and cuts off the telephones, insisting that his guests stay throughout the cycle of the full moon until the beast reveals itself.

    As our suspects play chess, banter, dine and discuss werewolf lore at Newcliffe’s grand country house, numerous red herrings and clues are thrown in and the film invites us to guess who we think the werewolf might be, supplying us with an enjoyably gimmicky William Castle-style thirty second ‘Werewolf Break’ (narrated by Valentine Dyall) with ticking clock before the great revelation.

    When the werewolf finally makes an appearance, it is quite obviously a large Alsatian dog with a coat over it!

    But the central idea of the Amicus film – that one of the guests is really a werewolf but must hide that fact – is far more interesting and creepy than the actual werewolf scenes.

    Tom Newcliffe
    Calvin Lockhart
    Dr Christopher Lundgren
    Peter Cushing
    Caroline Newcliffe
    Marlene Clark
    Arthur Bennington
    Charles Gray
    Pavel
    Anton Diffring
    Davinia Gilmore
    Ciaran Madden
    Paul Foote
    Tom Chadbon
    Jan Jarmokowski 
    Michael Gambon
    Butler
    Sam Mansary
    Pilot
    Andrew Lodge
    1st Hunter
    Carl Bohen
    2nd Hunter
    Eric Carte
    Narrator of the ‘Werewolf Break’
    Valentine Dyall

    Director
    Paul Annett

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