pixrox1 Review of The Counterfeit Cat

The Counterfeit Cat (1949)

This picture deserves a substantial rating for so well . . .

[8/10 · 7 August 2022]

. . . illustrating the fact that Tinsel Town's infamous "Poverty Row" film studios were as likely to wind up in the abhorrent backwaters for their impoverished ideas as for their usually concurrent money woes. THE COUNTERFEIT CAT is brazenly titled thus to taunt Warner Brothers for this attempted theft of their beloved Sylvester Cat. Though Leo's fraudulent feline is anonymous here, the bird he keeps ingesting is blatantly referred to as "T-w-e-e-t-y." IF this was an original idea, surely it would be labeled as The Counterfeit DOG. However, some third-rate dude named Avery was subsidized by Leo--after being fired by Warner for moral turpitude--and given the promise that judges would be bribed to heap coveted gelded statuettes upon Avery's noggin as a "thank you" for ripping off as much of Warner's intellectual property as he could.