Moon of the Wolf by Leslie H. Whitten Jr.

Rodanthe inhales the potion and goes into what appears to be an epileptic seizure.

Andrew and the sheriff return to Hugh Burrifor's house and discover the old man has created a voodoo potion that gives off a vapor meant to repel the Loug Garog. With the town's residents fearful and the sheriff without assistance, Andrew Rodanthe volunteers to become deputy. While there, the full moon rises again, and Lawrence and the sheriff's deputy are killed in a vicious attack after the steel bars of the cell are torn from the wall. The sheriff, suspicious of the temperamental brother Lawrence after he assaults the town doctor, who turns out to be the mysterious lover, puts him in jail. Andrew, who the sheriff suspects had an affair with the victim, claims to have been suffering an attack of malaria the night the girl was killed.

They are the last of a local family dynasty. The sheriff's investigation soon takes him to the plantation home of the wealthy Andrew Rodanthe ( Bradford Dillman) and his sister Louise ( Barbara Rush). The sheriff does not understand the French term. The girl's sick and dying father Hugh Burrifors, interviewed by the sheriff, warns him of the Loug Garog. Burrifors continues to insist the killer to be his sister's mysterious lover while the sheriff, in turn, is suspicious of him. A posse forms to track down the wild dogs with little success. The sheriff investigates the crime and local residents have a variety of theories, including the belief she was killed by wild dogs. Drutan ( John Beradino) examines the body and concludes that the girl died from a blow to the head. The victim's temperamental brother Lawrence Burrifors ( Geoffrey Lewis) arrives at the crime scene and jumps to the conclusion that the girl's lover committed the murder, a man whose name her brother does not know. Sheriff Aaron Whitaker ( David Janssen) is called. In the Louisiana Bayou town of Marsh Island, two farmers ( Royal Dano, John Davis Chandler) discover the mauled, dead body of a local young woman. All of the downtown footage was from Clinton, Louisiana. The film was directed by Daniel Petrie and filmed on location in Burnside, Louisiana. It stars David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Geoffrey Lewis and Bradford Dillman, with a script by Alvin Sapinsley (based on Leslie H. Moon of the Wolf is an American TV movie broadcast on Septemon ABC Movie of the Week.

Moon of the Wolf by Leslie H. Whitten Jr.