A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958)

Directed by: Henry Levin

Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: Three pals, Max (Tom Ewell), Gus (Mickey Rooney) and Rocky (Mickey Shaughnessy) are so determined to set themselves up with a race horse they resort to felonious means.

Kitty Cameo: Max runs a tire repair garage in which he also cares for numerous dogs and one ginger tabby cat.

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed - Max Tom Ewell with ginger tabby cat nearby

The cat is usually hanging around somewhere in the garage with the dogs nearby.

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed - Gus Mickey Rooney looking outside to see ginger tabby cat with dogs and men

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed - Max Tom Ewell with ginger tabby cat on car engine

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed - Max Tom Ewell with ginger tabby cat climbing off car engine

As Max and Gus listen to the news about their bank robbery on the radio, a long-haired ginger tabby is sitting next to the radio. In the establishing shot the tabby was a shorthair, but the longhair was used in the close up, indicating it is supposed to be the same cat.

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed - Max Tom Ewell with ginger tabby cat near radio

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed - longhair ginger tabby cat next to radio

When Max and Gus go to the racetrack stables to care for their new horse, they leave a man named Pop (Charles Arnt) behind to care for the animals. Rocky finds the old man with the tabby cat on his lap.