Directed by: Lew Landers
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: Harold Dunlap (Charles Russell) commits a murder then hides out in a boarding house.
Kitty Cameo: One of the residents of a boarding house is a boy named Mike (Dale Belding) who is constantly trying to sneak out at night to go to the train station, which is how he happens to meet Dunlap and see evidence of the murder, although the boy doesn’t realize what he’s seen. Mike sneaks out of the house again and is wandering in the woods at night when he hears a blood curdling cat screech. When he looks he sees a little white and tabby marked cat scurrying away. The cat doesn’t seem particularly disturbed, not enough to have let out that sound.
Mike follows after the cat calling “Here kitty!” He then runs into Dunlap unexpectedly. “You scared me!” Mike says, “I thought you were the cat.”
Dunlap tries to lure Mike away but Mike’s mother (Lee Patrick) suddenly appears, claiming, “There you are! That awful cat scared the life out of me!”
Final Mewsings: Boys who can’t tell cats from men shouldn’t be out at night.
Many thanks to Ted Davis for letting us know about the cat in this film!
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