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The Creeper (film)

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The Creeper
Directed byJean Yarbrough
Written byMaurice Tombragel[1]
Based onAn original story idea
by Don Martin[1]
Produced byBernard Small[1]
Starring
CinematographyGeorge Robinson[1]
Edited bySaul A. Goodkind[1]
Production
companies
Reliance Pictures, Inc.[1]
Distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Release date
  • September 1948 (1948-09)
CountryUnited States[1]

The Creeper is a 1948 American horror film directed by Jean Yarbrough. The film stars Onslow Stevens who plays a mad doctor whose serum turns a man into a catlike killer.

Cast

Production

The film was developed under the working title The Cat Man and was in production from the beginning of March 1948 to the middle of the month.[1]

Release

The Creeper was distributed theatrically by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. in September 1948.[1] According to a March 1949 Hollywood Reporter article, radio writer Joseph Ruscoll sued Edward Small for using the title of Ruscoll's radio show, The Creeper for the film.[1] The suit was settled for an undisclosed sum.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "The Creeper". American Film Institute. Retrieved July 5, 2020.