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Nancy Andrews, Jacqueline Brookes, Beeson Carroll, Stephen Cheng, Thayer David ... see more see more... , Michael Dunn (I) , Jane House , Clifton James , Glenn Kezer , Biff McGuire , Dennis McMullen , Thurman Scott , Barbara Siegel , Dean Stockwell , Randy Phillips , Ben Yaffee , Tom Scott , Jack Waltzer

After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier (Dean Stockwell) begins to turn into a deadly beast by night, terror... read more read more...izing Washington D.C. and presenting a very deadly threat to the President. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Milton Moses Ginsberg

Release Date: October 1, 1973

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DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005

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  • 366weirdmovies
    February 11, 2011
    366weirdmovies
    Dean Stockwell is bitten by a werewolf in Hungary, then returns to the US to serve as assistant press secretary to the President; he conveniently turns into a werewolf only when characters important to his employer's political fortunes are around. The movie is a huge mess in ter... read morems of style and tone: it's like they started with a script for a political thriller, altered it to be a crappy werewolf movie, and then decided about halfway through that it worked best as a comedy. Biff McGuire, who's like a poor man's Hal Holbrook, does an occasionally amusing caricature of Richard Nixon, and there's a secret laboratory in the basement of the White House where a mad scientist conducts secret government experiments.
  • hypathio7
    August 19, 2010
    hypathio7
    Available through Elvira's Movie Macabre on Hulu. Dean Stockwell is the werewolf. His attempts to crawl around on all fours like an animal and even rub and lick one character who he takes a liking to like a dog are silly. He is a press release writer who goes to work for the ... read morePresident of the United States. Hippies are accused of having something to do with the recent string of murders by all the stereotypically square politicians and investigators. An area 51 type hidden facility is even stumbled upon by the werewolf. And no one should be surprised that in a low budget horror flick like this a dwarf (Michael Dunn) is working there on some secret projects. I thought the movie might get more interesting at this point, but then we never see Michael Dunn's character again. I didn't care enough to pay attention to what the rest of the plot was about.
  • dukeakasmudge
    December 27, 2010
    dukeakasmudge
    Can't beIieve this movie got so many bad reviews.I dont know if this was suppose to be a horror or comedy flick but it made me laugh.Why isn't it a cult classic?
  • Darcy9Saleen
    October 22, 2009
    Darcy9Saleen
    I didn't really like it. I thought it was just not a good werewolf movie. Yes I do like Dean Stockwell and I thought he did pretty good in it. The movie was just not cutting it for me on the scary point. The part I hated most about it was that he was a fricken werewolf and tryed ... read morenot to kill people. Then the president gets in the way and he ends up attacking him. You think that if he was really not wanting to kill or harm people he would have just told the president to leave him alone.
  • kingmob6
    September 15, 2007
    kingmob6
    Bad film all the way around, Dean Stockwell does nothing except look twitchy and nervous waiting for the next transformation. The transformations leave him looking more like Don King than a werewolf, and the whole experience is only made slightly bearable by Elvira's cleavage an... read mored bad puns.

    Worth a rental for the masochistic.

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David Cornelius
September 6, 2006
David Cornelius, DVDTalk.com

There's nothing fun or kitschy or silly about The Werewolf of Washington. There is only badness. And not the good kind. Full Review

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  • After having an affair with the President's daughter, a reporter is banished to Hungary. While there, he is bitten by a werewolf. Somehow, he gets transferred back to Washington to become the new press secretary for the President. Then bodies start turning up all over Washington D.C.  Answer »
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