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Cat Girl

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Cat Girl

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A woman visits her eccentric uncle, who reveals she will inherit a family curse that gives her an uncontrollable urge to kill and the ability to command a supernatural leopard. When he is later mauled to death, she realises his story is true and tries to contain her darker impulses - especially once she discovers her husband's infidelity. Horror, with Barbara Shelley and Robert Ayres

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

David Parkinson

Echoes of Val Lewton's Cat People (1942) reverberate around this creepily effective chiller, directed by Upstairs, Downstairs writer Alfred Shaughnessy. Barbara Shelley takes her new husband (Jack May) and a couple of pals along to her old, dark ancestral home where uncle Ernest Milton informs her that she's about to inherit the 700-year-old family curse. When she catches her gold-digging spouse smooching with his mistress, Shelley discovers her shape-shifting connection to the leopard that resides in her uncle's lair. But American psychiatrist Robert Ayres is determined to cure his old flame, even though she's ferally jealous of his own bride, Kay Callard. Returning to her native Britain after making her name in Italy, Shelley slips so cannily from victim to vamp that she was soon snapped up by Hammer. She receives scant help from the supporting cast, although Shaughnessy adeptly adjusts his film's tone as the action switches from the bestrewn Beaconsfield studio sets to the darkened streets of London's East End.

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Cast

rolenameLeonora JohnsonBarbara ShelleyDr Brian MarloweRobert AyresDorothy MarloweKay CallardEdmund BrandtErnest MiltonAnnaLily KannRichard JohnsonJack May

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rolenameDirectorAlfred Shaughnessy

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Languages

English

Guidance

Violence

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Black and white

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