Cat Girl

Cat Girl
Directed by Alfred Shaughnessy
Produced by Herbert Smith
Lou Rusoff
Written by Lou Rusoff
Starring Barbara Shelley
Robert Ayres
Kay Callard
Cinematography Peter Hennessy
Edited by Jocelyn Jackson
Production
company
Ingsignia Films
Distributed by American International Pictures (US)
Anglo-Amalgamated (UK)
Release date
  • 1957 (1957)
Running time
 76 minutes
Country United States
United Kingdom
Language English

Cat Girl is a 1957 black-and-white British-American fantasy film, produced by Herbert Smith and Lou Rusoff, directed by Alfred Shaughnessy, that stars Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, and Kay Callard. It was an unofficial remake of Val Lewton's Cat People (1942). American International Pictures released the film in the US on a double bill with The Amazing Colossal Man.

It was the first of two cat-related films starring Shelley, the other being The Shadow of the Cat (1961).[1]

Plot

Leonora Johnson (Barbara Shelley) 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 (Robert Ayres).

Cast

Production

The film was the first Anglo-US co-production from American International Pictures. They put up $25,000 of the budget and a script by their regular writer Lou Rusoff in exchange for Western hemisphere rights.[2]

The script was originally entitled Wolf Girl.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Interview with Barbara Shelley accessed 26 March 2014
  2. ↑ Mark McGee, Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures, McFarland, 1996 p109
  3. ↑ Gary A. Smith, The American International Pictures Video Guide, McFarland 2009 p 37
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