Directed by: Ewan Paulay Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A black cat follows an illuminated butterfly at night. Cartoon Cat: At the beginning of the animated short a butterfly circles a lamp before flying down to brush the ear of a sleeping black cat. The […]
Directed by: Ralph Staub Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: The Keystone Hotel is hosting a beauty contest and several past Sennett stars appear in this short talkie. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): In one scene the house detective (Hank Mann) is listening to the conversation inside […]
Directed by: Clive Donner This review contains a severe Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Sir Robert Hunter (Peter O’Toole) makes an assassination attempt on Hitler and fails but manages to escape the Gestapo and return to England. But with the enemy still […]
Directed by: John Farrow Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A group of travelers are stranded in a Central American jungle after their plane crashes. Kitty Cameo: Before the fated flight, a tough guy named Pete (Allen Jenkins) is sitting with a boy named Tommy Mulvaney […]
Directed by: William Hamilton, Edward Killy Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Writer William Magee (Gene Raymond) goes to a remote and supposedly empty inn to finish some work only to find the place busier than Grand Central Station. Cat Burglars (Scene Stealers): When Magee first […]
Directed by: Josephine Decker Synopsis: A young couple move in with noted writer Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) and her professor husband Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg), leading to some interesting relations between them. Kitty Cameo: A black cat is seen several times throughout the film. First the cat is running down the stairs. Later the cat […]
Directed by: Edwin L. Marin Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Inventor Tom Wakefield (Robert Young) gets paid a huge sum by a razor company not to release his hair-removal shaving cream and shares his newfound wealth which leads to trouble. Kitty Cameo: Tom wants to […]
Directed by: William A. Wellman Synopsis: Gangster Tom Powers (James Cagney) rises in power until his ruthless ways make him Public Enemy No. 1. Purr Blur: In one scene a man nicknamed Putty Nose (Murray Kinnell) exits a garage and walks down the sidewalk. A black cat crosses his path and the man pauses just […]
Directed by: Ridley Scott Synopsis: A group of U.S. Army Rangers are dropped into the middle of Mogadishu to capture targets but end up stranded with few options for escape. Purr Blur: As one group makes its way through the city to a hopeful extraction spot a black cat is seen crossing the road. Final […]
Directed by: David Howard Synopsis: Scott Baylor (George O’Brien) tries to protect some timber region used for grazing cattle from being developed for a railway scam. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): In one scene the bad guys have Scott and his pal Whopper Hatch (Chill Wills) surrounded in a building. Scott sends Whopper out to get […]