by Linda Kay
Directed by: Sandy Howard
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: A swinging bachelor named Skip O’Hara (William Traylor) finally picks the girl he wants to settle down with and marry. But when she discovers and reads his diary those plans might change!
Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): In the diary Skip recounts a particularly bad week in which he was rejected or had no luck with girls for seven days straight. The last day of the story revolves around a free spirited Greenwich Village artist named Lois (Arlene Golonka) who invites Skip up to her studio apartment after spending the day with him. As soon as they enter we can see she has a tabby cat sitting on the toilet in the corner.
She explains she keeps the “monster” to keep the place clean, but incredibly she has the poor cat tied with a short leash to the back of the toilet!
She cuddles with the cat momentarily while explaining how he is afraid of mice.
Moments later a neighbor pokes his head in through the window to warn Lois that her boyfriend caught wind of her being with another man and is on his way up.
Skip has to beat a hasty retreat out the window. This must be a fairly common occurrence for Lois because the cat seems completely uninterested in Skip’s struggle through the window.
However, when Skip is making his getaway down the fire escape the cat cranes his neck watching him, almost as if to say, “Hey wait! Take me with you!!”
Final Mewsings: The one way to make sure your apartment isn’t clean is to tether your cat with no litter box nearby.
Many thanks to Ann for letting us know about the cat in this film.
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