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Cat People
Directed by
Jacques Tourneur
Not Rated
1942
73m
Horror
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Drama
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7.2
92%
73%
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An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
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Cast of Cat People
Simone Simon
Irena Dubrovna Reed
Kent Smith
Oliver Reed
Tom Conway
Dr. Louis Judd
Jane Randolph
Alice Moore
Jack Holt
The Commodore
Henrietta Burnside
Sue Ellen (uncredited)
Alec Craig
Zookeeper (uncredited)
Eddie Dew
Street Policeman (uncredited)
Elizabeth Dunne
Mrs. Plunkett (uncredited)
Dot Farley
Mrs. Agnew (uncredited)
Mary Halsey
Blondie (uncredited)
Theresa Harris
Minnie (uncredited)
Charles Jordan
Bus Driver (uncredited)
Donald Kerr
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Connie Leon
Neighbor Calling the Police (uncredited)
James McQuarrie
Sheep Caretaker (uncredited)
Alan Napier
Doc Carver (uncredited)
John Piffle
Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)
Betty Roadman
Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
Elizabeth Russell
The Cat Woman (uncredited)
Stephen Soldi
Organ Grinder (uncredited)
Cat People Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Cat People wasn't frightening like a slasher movie, using shocks and gore, but frightening in an eerie, mysterious way that was hard to define; the screen harbored unseen threats.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
Cat People benefits rather substantially from its justifiably iconic visuals and a smattering of admittedly captivating sequences...
New York Daily News
Wanda Hale
This RKO production is a great example of Hollywood's waste of precious lime and valuable material.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
A weird little chiller called Cat People... is calculated to frighten you out of your wits and make you think twice before trusting anyone who arouses a feline's instinctive dislike.
Detroit Free Press
Len G. Shaw
Simone makes her way through his combination of phantasy and reality, and comes off creditably in a part that calls for emotional repression.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
Photography and settings are effective, and the naturalness of the dialog issuing from such a murk of the fantastic is very impressive.
Los Angeles Times
Edwin Schallert
Cat People, per all advance heraldings, is supposed to be some punkins as a thriller. But for my money, whatever that may amount to, it isn't a breeze let alone a shiver.
Variety
Variety Staff
This is a weird drama of thrill-chill caliber.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
More a film about unreasoning fear than the supernatural, this work demonstrates what a filmmaker can accomplish when he substitutes taste and intelligence for special effects.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
Ladies who have such temptations -- in straight horror pictures, at least -- should exercise their digits a bit more freely than does Simone Simon in this film.
Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald)
E. A. Cunningham
The film, which has been admirably mounted and tightly directed and acted, should find an appreciative audience among those who prefer melodrama with originality, but can scarcely be termed pleasant entertainment.
Baltimore Sun
Donald Kirkley
The legend has been staged effectively for the most part, by virtue of Nicholas Musuraca's photography, exercised amid first-rate settings, and Jacques Tourneur's direction. When the film is dealing with the supernatural, it is quite spooky and absorbing.
Kansas City Star
KC Star Staff
Cat People is a story that will hold you through to the picture's end. A flapping blind may be your undoing for several days to come, however.
Harrison's Reports
P.S. Harrison
Although slow-moving and depressing, Cat People is an interesting program horror melodrama.
Washington Star
J.W. Stepp
A degree of suspense has been attained, which certainly is better than par for this type of production.
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Shadow Stage
It will give you icy jitters, but it's kinda fun at that.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Cat People is rife with subversive subtexts, alarming suggestions, and potent performances. Cinema rarely manages something so creepy and bizarre as Tourneur and Lewton's strangely poignant and unforgettable film.
The Film Daily
Film Daily Staff
Odd is the word for this film.
Substream Magazine
Leigh Monson
Cat People demonstrates that a monster in the shadows is frightening, but the reasons that monster is there in the first place are even more so.
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