Directed by: Bert Felstead Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Ginger Nutt the squirrel hosts a Christmas Circus featuring many animal performers. Cartoon Cat: Among the performers is Chester the Cat, who does a tightrope walking act. Chester spins up the pole and poses at the […]
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Coronation Street – “Episode #1.9960”
Original Air Date: December 24, 2019 Directed by: Peter Rose Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Rita Sullivan (Barbara Knox) takes a bad fall while trimming her tree. Featured Feline: Rita is cat-sitting Mrs. MacElroy’s ginger tabby Arthur over the holidays, keeping the cat at her place […]
To All a Goodnight (1980)
Directed by: David Hess Synopsis: A crazed killer bumps off the teenagers at a finishing school Christmas party. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): At the beginning of the film a girl named Nancy (Jennifer Runyon) is dropped off at the school by her family. They apparently brought along Nancy’s pet black kitten, as Nancy is kissing […]
Enigma (1982)
Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Russian defector Alex Holbeck (Martin Sheen) is recruited by the CIA to infiltrate East Berlin. His mission: disrupt the Soviet’s Enigma code computer to prevent assassinations scheduled to take place on Christmas morning. Cat Burglar (Scene […]
The Crowded Day (1954)
Also Known As: Shop Spoiled Directed by: John Guillermin Synopsis: A day in the life of various women who work in a busy department store just before Christmas. Purr Blurs: Near the beginning of the film a tuxedo cat is seen in front of the staff hostel for the department store where many of the […]
Flora (1948)
Directed by: Alex Lovy, Robert Clampett Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A dog named Ronny (voiced by Gerald Mohr) explains how he was driven to suicide by his infatuation with a Siamese cat named Flora. Cartoon Cat: This is a rather bizarre cartoon which finds […]
A Ghost Story for Christmas – “The Stalls of Barchester”
Original Air Date: December 24, 1971 Directed by: Lawrence Gordon Clark Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Library researchers discovery that an Archdeacon named Haynes (Robert Hardy) may have obtained his title through dastardly methods and eventually suffered a mysterious fate himself. Kitty Cameo: After becoming Archdeacon, […]
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Directed by: Brian Henson Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: The Muppets version of Charles Dickens’ classic tale finds Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine) visited by spirits who try to steer him from his greedy, selfish ways. Muppet Cats: During the song Scrooge, two cats appear in […]
La Cigarette (1919)
Directed by: Germaine Dulac Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Museum director Pierre Guérande (Gabriel Signoret) suspects his young wife Denise (Andrée Brabant) of being unfaithful and plans drastic measures for himself. Purr Blur: Pierre follows Denise to an apartment where he sees Maurice Herbert (Jules […]
The Undertaker and His Pals (1966)
Directed by: T.L.P. Swicegood Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A very tongue-in-cheek, low budget horror film in which an undertaker works out a deal with his restaurant friends to murder women for meat, drumming up business for his mortuary. Kitty Cameo: A secretary named Ann […]