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Writers:
Marilyn Durham (novel)
Eleanor Perry (screenplay)
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Release Date:
31 October 1973 (Sweden) more
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Cast

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Burt Reynolds ... Jay
Sarah Miles ... Catherine Crocker

Lee J. Cobb ... Lapchance

Jack Warden ... Dawes

George Hamilton ... Crocker
Bo Hopkins ... Billy
Robert Donner ... Dub
Sandy Kevin ... Ben
Larry Littlebird ... Iron Knife
Nancy Malone ... Sudie
Jay Silverheels ... The Chief
Jay Varela ... Charlie
Owen Bush ... Conductor
Larry Finley ... Bartender
Sutero García Jr. ... Dream Speaker
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Additional Details

Runtime:
114 min | USA:123 min (Turner library print)
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Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 | Netherlands:12 | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1973) (theater release) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1989) (VHS) | West Germany:18 (cut) | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | Australia:G

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Trivia:
Michel Legrand was originally hired to compose the musical score for the film. He composed his score in Paris in May 1973 and recorded a little over twenty minutes of it in Hollywood the following month, whereupon director Richard C. Sarafian and studio executives James Aubrey and Daniel Melnick informed Legrand that his score was not what they felt the film needed and that he was being dismissed. more
Quotes:
Billy: Well, now! If she don't look as fresh as a daisy beside an outhouse! more

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Great Western, 3 July 2008
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Author: regular8 from San Francisco

John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Humphry Bogart, James Coburn, Lee Marvin, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford -- well maybe not Harrison Ford -- created unique male personas on film and Burt Reynolds joins them. Cat Dancing is a 70's road film on horseback and Reynolds' performance shines with personal subtlety among other luminaries including Jack Warden, George Hamilton, Lee J. Cobb, and Jay Silverheels (AKA Tonto). The story line is not predictable and angst threads through the script. True love, what is it? The answer rolls down from the screen in Cat Dancing while Burt bites the dust and recovers. The Western by the 1970's was fading, but Cat Dancing proves the genre can be fresh in any decade.

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