The Company of Wolves
| The Company of Wolves | |
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Neil Jordan |
| Produced by |
Chris Brown Stephen Woolley |
| Written by |
Angela Carter Neil Jordan |
| Starring |
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| Music by | George Fenton |
| Cinematography | Bryan Loftus |
| Edited by | Rodney Holland |
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Production
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Palace Productions
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| Distributed by |
ITC Cannon (US) |
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Release date
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15 September 1984 (Toronto Festival of Festivals) 21 September 1984 (UK) 19 April 1985 (US) |
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Running time
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95 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £410,000 or £2.3 million |
| Box office | $4,389,334 (USA) |
The Company of Wolves is a 1984 British Gothic fantasy-horror film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea and David Warner. It was written by Angela Carter and Jordan.
The film is based on the werewolf story of the same name in Angela Carter's 1979 short story collection The Bloody Chamber. Carter herself co-wrote the screenplay with Jordan, based on her own short story and her earlier adaptation of The Company of Wolves for radio.
Carter's first draft of the screenplay, which contains some differences from the finished film, has been published in her anthology The Curious Room (1996).
In the present day, a young girl named Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) dreams that she lives in a fairytale forest with her parents (Tusse Silberg and David Warner) and sister (Georgia Slowe), but one day her sister is killed by wolves. While her parents are mourning, Rosaleen goes to stay the night with her grandmother (Angela Lansbury), who knits a bright red shawl for her granddaughter to wear. The superstitious old woman gives Rosaleen an ominous warning, to beware men whose eyebrows meet. Rosaleen returns to her village, but finds that she must deal with the advances of an amorous boy (Shane Johnstone). Rosaleen and the boy take a walk through the forest, but the boy discovers that the village's cattle have come under attack from a wolf. The villagers set out to hunt the wolf, but once caught and killed, the wolf's corpse transforms into that of a human being.
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