Cat Girl
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Duration Language English | 5.2/10 IMDb Genre Horror Country United StatesUnited Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 1957 (1957) Writer Lou Rusoff (original screenplay) Cast (Leonora Johnson), (Dorothy Marlowe), (Dr Brian Marlowe), Lily Kann (Anna), (Richard Johnson)Similar movies Barbara Shelley appears in Cat Girl and The Shadow of the Cat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cat Girl is a 1957 British-American film. It was an unofficial remake of Cat People (1942). American International Pictures released the film in the US as a double feature with The Amazing Colossal Man.
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It was the first of two cat-related films starring Barbara Shelley, the other one being The Shadow of the Cat (1961).
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.
The script was originally entitled Wolf Girl.
References
Cat Girl WikipediaCat Girl IMDbCat Girl themoviedb.org