British Pathé Synopsis: Newsreel footage shows a girl named Boko, who was separated from her Siamese twin the year before, back home in Nigeria. Reality Cat: Boko is seen sitting outside with her mother, Mrs. Veronica Davies, and a longhaired bi-colored cat. Final Mewsings: Home is where your cat is. To discuss this newsreel and […]
Category Archives: Bicolor
The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
Directed by: George Marshall Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: An all-star cast fills out the story of a movie producer named Oliver Merlin (Adolph Menjou) who hires a young country woman (Andrea Leeds) to act as the moral compass for his films. Cat Cattle Call: In one scene […]
Cass Timberlane (1947)
Directed by: George Sidney This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film. Synopsis: Based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis. Judge Cass Timberlane (Spencer Tracy) marries Virginia Marshland (Lana Turner), a woman his society friends deem is from the “wrong side of […]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Directed by: Sergio Leone Synopsis: The ultimate spaghetti western, this sprawling, epic shoot-em-up film is a classic. Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) have a pretty good bounty scam going on, but the friends become enemies when Blondie two-times Tuco. Ultimately they learn about a stash of gold which brings them into the sights […]
You Can’t Take it With You (1938)
Directed by: Frank Capra Synopsis: Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur) comes from a family of good-natured and eccentric screwballs, headed by a charmingly free-thinking grandfather (Lionel Barrymore.) But when she falls in love with the son of a rich, conservative family named Tony Kirby (Jimmy Stewart) she worries about what kind of impression her family will […]
The Long Night (1947)
Directed by: Anatole Litvak Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Joe Adams (Henry Fonda) is barricaded in his apartment after shooting a magician named Maximilian the Great (Vincent Price) who performs a magic act with his trained dogs. During the siege Adams recalls, via flashback, what […]
Bewitched – “Mrs. Stephens, Where Are You?”
Original Air Date: February 13, 1969 Directed by: Richard Michaels Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Samantha Stephens’ (Elizabeth Montgomery) neighbor, Miss Parsons (Ruth McDevitt), is an elderly cat lover whose kitty gets stuck in a tree in the Stephen’s yard and Samantha uses magic to help […]
Love Letters (1945)
Directed by: William Dieterle Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Allen Quinton (Joseph Cotten) is a British soldier stationed in Italy in World War II where he pens poetic love letters for a fellow soldier to mail to the guy’s girlfriend, Victoria, back home. But Allen […]
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A no-holds barred visual feast from Stanley Kubrick in this classic film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ novel. Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is a young man in a not-so-futuristic England who loves ultra-violence, milk-plus and Beethoven. The violent […]
Failing Better Now (2010)
A ginger and white tabby cat named Bernard (played by cat actor Eizer) goes missing, setting off a series of kooky encounters for his cat sitter in this independent film.