Universal International Pictures
Starring: Rex Reason, Faith Domergue, Jeff Morrow, Russell Johnson
Also Starring: Orangey
Directed by: Joseph M. Newman
Synopsis: Pilot and scientist Dr. Cal Meacham (Rex Reason) is chosen to join a group of fellow researchers in a top-secret location where advances in nuclear energy are being developed under the watchful eye of a strange man named Exeter (Jeff Morrow). But Dr. Meacham suspects that he and his fellow scientists, Dr. Ruth Adams (Faith Domergue) and Steve Carlson (Russell Johnson) among others, are being manipulated by beings not of this Earth for a more sinister purpose.
Featured Feline: When Dr. Meacham is first shown his lab by Drs. Adams and Carlson, they find an orange tabby inside whom they explained is named Neutron (because he is so positive.)
The cat senses the rays from the machine Exeter and Brack are using to spy on the group and screeches, inadvertently alerting the scientists that they are being observed.
Later when the scientists again meet in secret they are feeding Neutron some milk on top of the lead barrier where he had sensed the machines before in order to be alerted if they should be heard again (fortunately the cat doesn’t have to screech again.)
Trained by Frank Inn, this is just one of Orangey’s many on-screen credits, some of which we have already reviewed on this blog.
Final Mewsings: Cats can sense alien rays . . . or know clever ways in which to get milk.
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