Cat Girl
| Cat Girl | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Alfred Shaughnessy |
| Written by | Lou Rusoff |
| Produced by | Herbert Smith |
| Starring | Barbara Shelley Robert Ayres Kay Callard |
Production company | Ingsignia Films |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures (US) Anglo-Amalgamated (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
| Countries | United States United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Cat Girl is a 1957 British-American film. It was an unofficial remake of Cat People (1942). American International Pictures released the film in the US as a double feature with The Amazing Colossal Man.
It was the first of two cat-related films starring Barbara Shelley, the other one being The Shadow of the Cat.[1]
Plot
A woman returns to her ancestral home and is told she will inherit money but also that there is a family curse: being possessed by the spirit of a leopard.
Cast
- Barbara Shelley as Leonora Johnson
- Robert Ayres as Dr. Brian Marlowe
- Kay Callard as Dorothy Marlowe
- Ernest Milton as Edmund Brandt
- Lilly Kann as Anna
- Jack May as Richard Johnson
- Patricia Webster as Cathy
- John Lee as Allan
- Edward Harvey
- Martin Boddey as Cafferty
- John Watson as Roberts
- Selma Vaz Dias as Nurse
Production
The film was the first Anglo-US co-production from American International Pictures. They put up $25,000 of the budget and a script by their regular writer Lou Rusoff in exchange for Western hemisphere rights.[2]
The script was originally entitled Wolf Girl.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Interview with Barbara Shelley accessed 26 March 2014
- ^ Mark McGee, Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures, McFarland, 1996 p109
- ^ Gary A. Smith, The American International Pictures Video Guide, McFarland 2009 p 37
External links
- Cat Girl at IMDB
- Cat Girl at Turner Classic Movies
- Complete movie at AMCTV (certain territories only)
- Review of film at Cinemafantastiqueonline.com