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 dates
  • 1957 (1957)
Running time
 76 minutes
Country United States
United Kingdom
Language English

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.

It was the first of two cat-related films starring Barbara Shelley, the other one 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]

See also

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

External links

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