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Cat Girl

  • 1957
  • Unrated
  • 1h 16m
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
598
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Cat Girl (1957)
Leonora Johnson is a woman who 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 in spite of her disbelieving psychiatrist Dr. Brian Marlowe.
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Leonora Johnson is a woman who 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 in spite of... Read allLeonora Johnson is a woman who 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 in spite of her disbelieving psychiatrist Dr. Brian Marlowe.Leonora Johnson is a woman who 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 in spite of her disbelieving psychiatrist Dr. Brian Marlowe.

  • Director
    • Alfred Shaughnessy
  • Writer
    • Lou Rusoff
  • Stars
    • Barbara Shelley
    • Robert Ayres
    • Kay Callard
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.4/10
    598
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Alfred Shaughnessy
    • Writer
      • Lou Rusoff
    • Stars
      • Barbara Shelley
      • Robert Ayres
      • Kay Callard
    • 31User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
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    Lily Kann, Ernest Milton, and Barbara Shelley in Cat Girl (1957)
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    Barbara Shelley
    Barbara Shelley
    • Leonora Johnson - née Brandt
    Robert Ayres
    Robert Ayres
    • Dr. Brian Marlowe
    Kay Callard
    • Dorothy Marlowe
    Ernest Milton
    Ernest Milton
    • Edmund Brandt
    Lily Kann
    • Anna (Brandts' Housekeeper)
    • (as Lilly Kann)
    Jack May
    Jack May
    • Richard Johnson
    Paddy Webster
    • Cathy
    • (as Patricia Webster)
    John Lee
    John Lee
    • Allan
    Edward Harvey
    • Doorman
    Martin Boddey
    Martin Boddey
    • Cafferty
    John H. Watson
    • Roberts
    • (as John Watson)
    Frank Atkinson
    • Guard
    • (uncredited)
    John Baker
    • Male Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    Selma Vaz Dias
    • Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    Charles Saynor
    Charles Saynor
    • Man Wheeling Bicycle
    • (uncredited)
    Geoffrey Tyrrell
    • Caretaker
    • (uncredited)
    Jim Tyson
    • Barman
    • (uncredited)
    Joe Wadham
    • Policeman
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Alfred Shaughnessy
    • Writer
      • Lou Rusoff
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    • Trivia
      American International Pictures released this in a double feature with The Amazing Colossal Man (1957).
    • Goofs
      When the leopard stalks the rabbit, it is constantly growling. Big cats, like leopards, are silent when they are closely stalking their prey.

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    6/10
    She's a very disturbed girl, on the verge of a pretty severe psychosis.
    Out of Insignia Films, Cat Girl is a cheap British variant on Jacques Tourneur's Cat People from 15 years earlier. Plot basically finds Barbara Shelley as Leonora Brandt, a woman seemingly the victim of a family curse that turns her into a killer Leopard when disturbed emotionally. Naturally her psychiatrist Dr. Brian Marlowe (Robert Ayres) is positive that she's suffering mental illness, this in spite of the evidence suggesting otherwise. As the bodies begin to pile up and Dr. Marlowe takes Leonora under his wing, something is going to give come the finale.

    Directed by Alfred Shaughnessy and photographed by Peter Hennessy, it's a picture that doesn't lack for moody atmosphere. The Brandt family home is a creepy looking place, a sort of rectory type establishment, this forms the backdrop for the first half of the piece as it dallies in old dark house conventions. With barmy uncle and pessimistic housekeeper thrown in for good measure. Then it's a switch to a sanitarium in preparation for the tense finale that takes place out on the dank and dimly lighted streets.

    Some decision making by the doctor is hard to swallow, as is his approach to mental illness come to think of it, while there's some poor acting away from future Hammer Horror darling Shelley, but it does well with its minimal budget funding. Yes it makes you appreciate even more the brilliance of Tourneur and Musuraca back in 1942, yet there's a fun time to be had with this one if accepting it on its own modest eerie terms. 6/10
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    • Release date
      • September 1957 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Cat Girl
    • Production company
      • Insignia Films
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 16 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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