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TITLE Cat People (1942)

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DISABILITY Mental psychiatry

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 73

GENRE Fantasy

DIRECTOR Jacques Tourneur

CAST Simone Simon

Kent Smith

Tom Conway

Jane Randolph

Jack Holt

NOTES B/W

A beautiful, mysterious and shy woman from a suitably

faraway place (Serbia) marries a New Yorker. But the

mysterious part of her is that she believes she is the victim of

an ancient curse. The curse strikes if she becomes

emotional, angry, passionate, whatever, hence her shyness.

The result is that she turns into a panther.

When she tells her husband he makes her go to a

psychiatrist. Appropriately when the psychiatrist scoffs at the

idea he is introduced to the panther.

A minor classic.

 


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