Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: The Boyle family come into a large inheritance which makes them lose sight of what’s really important.

Purr Blur: The setting for the film is 1922 Ireland at the time of the Irish Civil War. At the beginning of the film a crowd of people are listening to an orator who is then shot. The crowd runs away in a panic and a gray cat is seen somehow sliding up a lamp post to escape the stampede.

The film of the cat is actually reversed and the cat was somehow hanging on to the top of the post and then jumped down or was quickly lowered down.

Final Mewsings: Cats are amazing but even they can’t slide up poles.

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