wedding party "to put wrong to right". She calls out the nobleman and the rest of the nobles for their bigoted actions, and further denounces them by declaring "the wolves in the forest are more decent". She then reveals that she is an enchantress and magically transforms the groom, the bride, and all the other nobles into wolves. They flee into the forest as the enchantress laughs; but afterward, the enchantress commands that the wolves "serenade" her and her child each night. Rosaleen's story to the huntsman/wolf—A she-wolf from the world beneath arrives at a village. Despite meaning no harm, she is shot and injured by a villager. She reveals herself in her human form (Danielle Dax) to an old priest (Graham Crowden) who takes her in and bandages her wound, seeing her innocence. Although touched by the priest's compassion and actions, she feels that she is not fit to stay. Ultimately, after some time, she returns to her world through the village well. Cast Sarah Patterson as Rosaleen Angela Lansbury as Granny David Warner as Father Tusse Silberg as Mother Micha Bergese as Huntsman (his first role in a feature film) Brian Glover as Amorous Boy's father Graham Crowden as Old Priest Kathryn Pogson as Young Bride Stephen Rea as Young Groom Georgia Slowe as Alice, Girl Killed by Wolves Susan Porrett as Amorous Boy's mother Shane Johnstone as Amorous Boy Dawn Archibald as Witch Woman Richard Morant as Wealthy Groom Danielle Dax as Wolfgirl (a non-speaking role) Jim Carter as Second Husband (uncredited) Terence Stamp as The Devil (uncredited) Production Writing Angela Carter, author of the original short story "The Company of Wolves", worked with director Neil Jordan on the script for the film. This was Carter's first experience of writing for film. However, it was also only Jordan's second feature film as director. Carter and Jordan met in Dublin in 1982 to discuss extending Carter's radio drama adaptation of her own story, which Jordan called "too short for a feature film". In an L.A. Weekly interview published to correspond with the film's US debut, Jordan said: "In a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end. In this film, the different movements of the plot are actually separate stories. You start with an introduction and then move into different stories that relate