It’s the Old Army Game (1926)

It’s the Old Army Game (1926)

Directed by: A. Edward Sutherland Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains a spoiler for this film! Synopsis: Elmer Prettywillie (W.C. Fields) runs the local drugstore where he deals with kooky customers and gets caught up in a real estate scam. Kitty Cameo: One sight gag has Elmer dusting bric-a-brac in the store. […]

Come Next Spring (1956)

Come Next Spring (1956)

Directed by: R.G. Springsteen This review contains a slight Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Matt Ballot (Steve Cochran) returns home to his farm after previously abandoning his wife Bess (Ann Sheridan) and children, hoping to make amends. Cat Burglars (Scene Stealers): When […]

The Current War: Director’s Cut (2017)

The Current War: Director’s Cut (2017)

Directed by: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon This review contains an inferred Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A look at the race to commercialize the use of electricity throughout America by Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch), George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) and Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult). Purr […]

What You Eat, You Are (1970)

What You Eat, You Are (1970)

Directed by: Tom Shirk Synopsis: An educational short film about food, nutrition and health safety. Kitty Cameo: Most of the film covers what constitutes healthy food and the proper way to prepare it. The last part of the film moves into health issues, mostly regarding cleanliness. A sleeping tabby cat is shown on a floor […]

The Undefeated (1969)

The Undefeated (1969)

Starring: High Bred Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen This review contains a severe Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: At the end of the Civil War, Union Colonel John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and Confederate Colonel James Langdon (Rock Hudson) head to Mexico […]

The Doctor and the Girl (1949)

The Doctor and the Girl (1949)

Directed by: Curtis Bernhardt Synopsis: Dr. Michael Corday (Glenn Ford) learns compassion when he falls in love with one of his patients named Evelyn (Janet Leigh). Purr Blur: In one scene Dr. Corday is walking to a tenement building in Spanish Harlem to see a young boy who’s throat is closed up. As the doctor […]

The Story of Us (2019)

The Story of Us (2019)

Directed by: Scott Smith Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Jamie (Maggie Lawson) owns the True Love Bookstore and CafĂ© which is in danger of being taken over by a development whose architect happens to be her first love Sawyer (Sam Page). Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): […]

The Savages (2007)

The Savages (2007)

Directed by: Tamara Jenkins Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Wendy (Laura Linney) and John Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman) find themselves having to come together as siblings despite a troubled past to care for their ailing father Lenny (Philip Bosco). Featured Feline: Wendy owns a female […]

Call a Cop! (1931)

Call a Cop! (1931)

Directed by: George Stevens Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Boy Friends Mickey (Mickey Daniels), Dave (David Sharpe) and Alabam (Grady Sutton) come running when their girlfriends Mary (Mary Kornman) and Gertie (Gertrude Messinger) think there is a burglar in their house. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): […]

Bodyguard (1948)

Bodyguard (1948)

Directed by: Richard Fleischer Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Tough police detective Mike Carter (Lawrence Tierney) quits his job to avoid being fired for insubordination and gets hired as a bodyguard to the owner of a meat packing plant whose life has been threatened. Kitty […]