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| James Franciscus | ... | Carlo Giordani | |
| Karl Malden | ... | Franco Arno | |
| Catherine Spaak | ... | Anna Terzi | |
| Pier Paolo Capponi | ... | Police Supt. Spini | |
| Horst Frank | ... | Dr. Braun | |
| Rada Rassimov | ... | Bianca Merusi | |
| Aldo Reggiani | ... | Dr. Casoni | |
| Carlo Alighiero | ... | Dr. Calabresi | |
| Vittorio Congia | ... | Righetto (cameraman) | |
| Ugo Fangareggi | ... | Gigi the Loser | |
| Tom Felleghy | ... | Dr. Esson | |
| Emilio Marchesini | ... | Dr. Mombelli | |
| Fulvio Mingozzi | ... | Spimi's man | |
| Corrado Olmi | ... | Morsella | |
| Pino Patti | ... | Barber | |
| Umberto Raho | ... | Manuel's ex-lover | |
| Jacques Stany | ... | Prof. Manera | |
| Stefano Oppedisano | ... | Taxi driver | |
| Ada Pometti | ... | Telephone operator | |
| Walter Pinelli | |||
| Sascha Helwin | (as Sacha Helwin) | ||
| Marie Louise Sinclair | ... | Film starlet (as Marie Luise Zetha) | |
| Martial Boschero | |||
| Cinzia De Carolis | ... | Lori | |
| Werner Pochath | ... | Manuel | |
| Tino Carraro | ... | Prof. Fulvio Terzi | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Aristide Caporale | ... | Smoker in the billiard hall (uncredited) | |
| Giovanni Di Benedetto | ... | Chief of Police Salmi (uncredited) | |
| Margherita Horowitz | ... | Lori's babysitter (uncredited) | |
| Giuseppe Marrocco | ... | Man at table in the Saint Peter's Club (uncredited) | |
| Gennarino Pappagalli | ... | Man in the Terzi's institute (uncredited) | |
| Aldo Parenti | ... | (uncredited) | |
| Franco Ukmar | ... | Policeman - speaks with Morsella about food (uncredited) | |
Directed by | |||
| Dario Argento | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Dario Argento | screenplay | |
| Dario Argento | story | |
| Luigi Collo | story | |
| Dardano Sacchetti | story | |
| Bryan Edgar Wallace | uncredited | |
Produced by | |||
| Salvatore Argento | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Ennio Morricone | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Erico Menczer | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Franco Fraticelli | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Carlo Leva | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Carlo Leva | |||
| Luca Sabatelli | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Giuseppe Ferranti | .... | makeup artist | |
| Vincenzo Marchetti | .... | assistant makeup artist | |
| Piero Mecacci | .... | makeup artist | |
| Maura Turchi | .... | hair stylist | |
Production Management | |||
| Angelo Iacono | .... | production manager | |
| Giuseppe Mangogna | .... | production manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Roberto Pariante | .... | assistant director | |
Art Department | |||
| Romeo Costantini | .... | assistant set decorator | |
| Franco Pedacchia | .... | assistant production designer | |
| Lamberto Verdenelli | .... | property master | |
Sound Department | |||
| Luciano Anzellotti | .... | sound effects | |
| Eugenio Fiori | .... | boom operator | |
| Romano Pampaloni | .... | sound recordist | |
| Mario Ronchetti | .... | sound | |
Visual Effects by | |||
| Luciano Vittori | .... | titles & optical effects | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Cesarina Casini | .... | first assistant editor | |
| Sergio Fraticelli | .... | second assistant editor | |
Music Department | |||
| Bruno Nicolai | .... | conductor | |
Other crew | |||
| Carlo Du Bois | .... | administrator | |
| Roberta Leoni | .... | production secretary | |
| Bruno Ukmar | .... | gunsmith | |
| Luciano Vittori | .... | title designer | |
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The former journalist Franco Arno (Karl Malden) is a retired blind man the writes crosswords and lives with his orphan niece Lori (Cinzia De Carolis) nearby the Terzi Institute. While walking with Lori on the street, he overhears a strange conversation of two men in a car parked in front of the institute and he asks Lori to watch their faces. In the same night, there is a break in the institute with an attempt of heist. On the next morning, the researcher Dr. Calabresi (Carlo Alighiero) dies in the train station and the police believe that it was an accident. However, Lori recognizes the picture of the scientist in the newspaper as one of the men in the car. Franco contacts the snoopy reporter Carlo Giordano (James Franciscus) and asks him to blow up the picture and examine the details. The photographer discovers that Dr. Calabresi was pushed from the platform but he is also killed and the photograph vanishes. After their preliminary investigation, they find that the scientist are researching a revolutionary drug and a genetic experiment of XYY chromosomes associated to delinquency for the government and they conclude that there are nine leads to be followed: each of the five assistants of the institute (Dr. Calabresi; Dr. Esson; Dr. Mobelli; Dr. Casoni; and the gay Dr. Braun); the stepdaughter of Prof. Fulvio Terzi, Anna Terzi; the fiancée of Dr. Calabresi, Bianca Merusi; the missing photograph; and the robbery of the institute.
The suspenseful "Il Gatto a Nove Code" is the second film in the career of the director Dario Argento and despite the flaws, it is an entertaining conventional thriller. The association of Giordano with Arno is implausible; the unethical way that Giordano works, breaking in the residences is unacceptable for an experienced reporter; the one night stand of Giordano and Anna has no chemistry or eroticism; the car race of Anna is pointless; the edition of the accident of Dr. Calabresi is poor. But there are good moments, like the angles of camera in the stairways, or when Giordano brings two glasses of milk toward Anna. The deduction of Arno that Bianca has hidden the note in the watch in the necklace is unconvincing. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil) "O Gato de Nove Caudas" ("The Cat of Nine Tails")