Moon Of The Wolf (1972)

Starring David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Bradford Dillman, John Beradino, Geoffrey Lewis
Directed by Daniel Petrie
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)

A Louisiana sheriff investigates the death of a young woman thought to be mauled by wild dogs, but discovers not only was she murdered, but her assailant may have been a werewolf.

This movie was made for television and features an interesting cast, including The Fugitive's Janssen as the sheriff and prolific actors Dillman and Rush as the wealthy brother and sister who clash with the town's more backwater residents.  Janssen and Rush engage in some cute flirting which I found refreshing as opposed to the more usual young couple romance in these types of pictures.  As a werewolf film, the film doesn't compare favorably with classics of the genre, with little attention paid to creating atmosphere, and a rather limited makeup for the beast which is kept shrouded in shadows most of the time.  However, it is a progressive film for the time, allowing Rush's heroine to exercise some common sense and save herself from jeopardy instead of waiting for Janssen to show up.  The story and screenplay also kept me engaged, presenting a worthy mystery with a number of suspects, allowing the audience some time to guess the culprit while following Janssen through his investigation.

Marooned (1969)

Starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman

Directed by John Sturges
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)

When a team of astronauts start wearing down after five months in space, they're ordered to return to Earth, but the engines on their ship fail, prompting desperate preparations for a rescue mission.

This film has a lot going for it, featuring an all-star cast, impressive special effects, and direction by the well-regarded Sturges.  It's an entertaining enough thriller but one deeply concerned with creating a fictional but authentic-seeming version of the actual U.S. space program, and the nonstop NASA jargon gets to be a bit tiresome.  For me, it's another example of the heightened realism sci-fi films were moving towards at the end of the 1960s, which I feel is somewhat unfortunate.  But for better or worse, the real-life journeys into space during that period ended up curtailing the imagination that went into these films, and the end result was the loss of the sense of fun prevalent in the productions of the preceding decades.