Werewolf of Washington (1973)

Cast:

Dean "Sam, you gotty listen to Ziggy..." Stockwell is Jack Whittier
Katalin Kallay is Giselle
Henry Ferrentino is Beal
Despo Diamantidou is Gypsy Woman
Thayer David is Inspector
Nancy Andrews is Mrs. Margie Captree
Clifton "What we have here is a failure to communicate..." James is Attorney General

What the IMDB says about the plot:

Vote for the Wolf Man for the Lycanthropic Party...

A reporter who has had an affair with the daughter of the U.S. President is sent to Hungary. There he is bitten by a werewolf...

Plot:

Jack Wittier went to Budapest. He was hired by the President for a press secretary post.

Sam,Oh boy...

Well, Werewolves of London is still a better song idea... However with car problems, he tries walking out but walking on the full moon night in Eastern Europe, bad idea. Jack gets attacked by an animal but is able to club it away. He's positive that it was actually a man. A Gypsy mother knows he was bitten and gives him a charm that is supposed to help.

A few days later, Jack in all his first world citizenry flushes the charm away. At a party, he meets the President. Jack spots a petagram on some lady's hand (Pre-wolfman spots his victims with a pentagram). Later, the lady gets wolfed in a non-Jack-Nicholson-way...

Jack is starting to get awfully woried about everything to the point of trying to avoid Marian(his girlfriend).

Gas station, wolf-man Jack attacks again.

Some supernatural creatures won't chip for gas money... Jack questions the witnesses the next day...

Politician-wise, the President wants Jack to stay around and write for the Vice-President.

Jack tries talking to a shrink who obviously doesn't believe him. Later, wolfman-Jack hunts down the witness from the gas station.

The Pres is continually being questioned about his Vice at a press conferrence. Later, he talks with Jack while bowling and tries to convince him to stay. During the match, Jack realizes he's starting to wolf-up and runs out...

Later, Wolfed-Jack runs around the city and is found by a midget scientist, Dr. Kiss.

Midget scientist with a werewolf, no lame jokes can beat that...

The next morning, Jack calls around to buy some silver bullets. Jack wants to be locked up for the night and then he'll search for the mother of the Gypsy who bit him for a month.

Dr. Kiss wants the werewolf caught for his research to create super soldiers.

Marian checks on Jack and finds him chained down. The President calls and needs Jack for an emergency speech and offers to pick him up by copter along with the Chinese prime minister. Unfortunately, Jack wolfs out while they're in midair.

I'm sorry werewolves aren't allowed on Presidential helicopters. As the copter lands, all run away from Wolf-Man-Jack who charges the president.

Marian is waiting for Jack unware of his furry side. She's chased by the wolf-man and grabs the gun and silver bullets. Jack reverts human as he's shot. The military decide to bury Jack as hero who saved the President and his daughter to prevent the negative-publicity. They're told the President was only bittten in the attack...

Later, at the White House, the President is thanking everyone for their thoughts after the attack...Here wolf howl that night...

What I say:

This week's suggested song soundtrack is Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London.

Let the lycanthropicness run rampant. We've seen werewolves versus British soldiers in Dog Soldiers and number of werewolves in highschool including Ginger Snaps. Paul Naschy has made quite a number of wolf movies including Fury of the Wolfman and Werewolf Vs the Vampire Women.

Bubba Ho-Tep asked the immortal question of how an elderly Elvis would battle a soul-sucking mummy. Combining horror and other subgenres did give us some strange combinations: 1980s Teen Wolf, 1960s Werewolf on Wheels for the werewolves and biker movies.

However, 1973 gave us: Werewolf in Washington. Horror and politics aren't exactly a big combination needing plenty of new movies. Who else has added werewolves and Watergate? At that time, I'm sure more Nixon and Watergate references would have been caught by the audience: Reporters watching as the President heads to the helicopter, scene implying the Kent State shooting, Watergate Hotel, their Vice-President was meant for Spiro Agnew, opening to China. Did Nixon love to bowl? Those were the top few that stuck out enough without major historic research...

While Bela Lugosi may be Count Dracula for quite a number of fans, Lon Chaney Jr. probably gave us the most tormented man doomed by the curse of the wolfman. Dean Stockwell is one of those character-actors you normally see in the background. Al as Sam's partner in Quantum Leap or unfurtunately Doctor Yueh in the 1980s Dune. Typically, the main character needs more than just a background-appearance.

Unfortunately, most of the wolf attacks would have looked behind on the 1940s Wolf Man. The movies looked more like the werewolf parts were almost just put into the movie rather than all the 1970s political satire.

Midget scientists want to use werewolves as super-soldiers... Finally, we've been needing some demented scientists with true Frankenstein-out-there concepts. It's a shame that Herbert West didn't come up with something like that but re-animated. One of the Uwe Bolle's BloodRayne's movie had either Axis scientsits creating vampire or werewolf soldiers.

Point to Poinder
For a werewolf, the full moon seems to be out for most nights time during the month.

Quotable Dialogue
"The Pentragram is behind all of this!"
"The President wants to see you. He's in my bedroom."
"It was a werewolf! You racist, pig!"
"Will you please start barking at me."
"I don't want to sound like the little boy who cried wolf."
"Sit, boy!!! Heel, Jack!!!"
"Mr. President, I think I'm a werewolf."
Morals of the Story
Werewolves drag human bodies around in shopping carts.
White House Press Scretaries often talk about national murders.
Pentragrams are commonly inscribed on uman chestss.
Werewolves hang out in the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C.
Midgets love to pet werewolves.