by Linda Kay
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: Three normally honest citizens, Mike (Stanley Baker) an injured boxer who can’t find employment, Joe (Richard Basehart), a recently fired white collar worker with a pregnant wife (Joan Collins) and unstable mother-in-law (Freda Jackson), and Eddie (John Ireland), a recent Air Force deserter checking up on his unfaithful actress wife (Gloria Grahame), are recruited by the thoroughly loathsome gigolo Rave (Laurence Harvey) to pull off a post office heist.
Purr Blurs: After the heist the men have to escape on foot to a nearby graveyard. As Joe and Eddie run ahead they reach a crypt where two black cats are resting. The cats beat a hasty retreat.
Moments later Rave joins them and they start to hide the stolen money in a cracked crypt. As they work a tuxedo cat is “catapulted” into the scene from above, landing on top of the crypt. This cat also beat a hasty retreat.
The tuxedo cat can be seen once more sitting on a wall as the men exit the cemetery.
Final Mewsings: Cats want nothing to do with criminals in graveyards.
Many thanks to Jon R. Kennedy and Aaron Shuster for letting us know about the cats in this film.
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