Alfred Hitchcock Presents – “Toby”

Original Air Date: November 4, 1956 Starring: Alfred Hitchcock, Jessica Tandy, Robert H. Harris Directed by: Robert Stevens Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains a MAJOR spoiler for this episode! Synopsis: The scene is New York in 1910 and Albert Birch (Robert H. Harris) welcomes his former love Edwina (Jessica Tandy) back into his life after […]

Banjo the Woodpile Cat (1979)

Don Bluth Productions Starring: Scatman Crothers, Beah Richards, Sparky Marcus Directed by: Don Bluth Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A mischievous farm kitten named Banjo (voiced by Sparky Marcus) continually gets into trouble at home.  He decides to hitch a ride on a feed truck to the big […]

Safety With Animals (1961)

Grover-Jennings Production Synopsis: An educational film intending to teach young children how to act and how not to act around a variety of animals, both wild and domesticated. Kitty Cameo: In one segment a little boy is seen interacting with a beautiful Maine Coon cat.  The cat allows the boy to approach. The cat also seems okay […]

Un gatto nel cervello (1990)

English Title: Nightmare Concert (A Cat in the Brain) Executive Cine TV Starring: Lucio Fulci, David L. Thompson, Malisa Longo Directed by: Lucio Fulci Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A famous Italian horror film director (Lucio Fulci essentially playing himself) finds the lines between fantasy and reality blurring when […]

Our Miss Brooks (1956)

Lute Productions Starring: Eve Arden, Jane Morgan, Robert Rockwell Directed by: Al Lewis Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Based on the long-running comedy radio and television series.  Connie Brooks (Eve Arden) is an English teacher at Madison High School who has a crush on the Biology teacher Phillip […]

Orphée (1950)

English Title: Orpheus Andre Paulve Film Starring: Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares Directed by: Jean Cocteau Synopsis: A modern and surreal retelling of the Greek myth.  Orphée (Jean Marais) is a poet struggling for new ideas and gets inspiration from a Princess (María Casares) dressed in black.  The “Princess” turns out to have more than a passing interest […]

A Letter for Evie (1946)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Starring: Marsha Hunt, Hume Cronyn, John Carroll, Pamela Britton Directed by: Jules Dassin Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Evie O’Connor (Marsha Hunt) works at a shirt factory supplying uniforms for American World War II soldiers.  Following the example of her fellow workers, she places a letter […]

Hawaii Five-0 – “Kuka’awale”

Original Air Date: February 27, 2015 Starring: Alex O’Loughlin, Scott Caan Also Starring: Lili, Ghost Directed by: Daniel Dae Kim Synopsis: McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) and Danno (Scott Caan) work on their antagonistic relationship while working a diamond thief stakeout in a woman’s apartment and interacting with her interesting neighbors as well as her prized cat, Mr. Pickles. Featured Feline: Mr. Pickles […]

Babes in the Woods (1932)

Walt Disney Productions Starring: Pinto Colvig, Lucille La Verne Directed by: Burt Gillett Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: One of Disney’s Silly Symphonies, this is an unnerving retelling of Hansel and Gretel in which a boy and girl are lost in the woods, found by elves, seduced by […]

Buried Treasure (1926)

Hal Roach Studios Starring: Allen ‘Farina’ Hoskins, Joe Cobb, Mickey Daniels Directed by: Robert F. McGowan Synopsis: The gang decide to go looking for buried treasure after reading the book Treasure Island.  Little do they realize that their paddlewheel boat has delivered them to Catalina where a film crew is making a movie. Kitty Cameos: Specks (Jay R. Smith) […]