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Title: THE SHADOW OF THE CAT Year: 1961 Rating: ** |
Hammer Films pitted vulnerable humans against a vampire, a werewolf, a mummy, a mad scientist's monster... yet one of the most formidable is a house cat... who had witnessed the murder of its wealthy caretaker living in a giant mansion, and enough money to be richly inherited... a setting usually befitting theatrical mysteries, only we see the particular killers: also witnessed by the feline, making THE SHADOW OF THE CAT a revenge-driven horror/thriller...
And no one... not even the glib and sneaky, twice-removed William Lucas setting various traps... can stop this furry devil, which already caused elderly patriarch André Morell to practically die of a heart attack... yet the titular tabby's just as passively protects the only kindhearted relative in Hammer stock ingenue Barbara Shelley, usually a scream queen only here everyone else is screaming... while the otherwise standard direction and horror cliches (like perfectly-timed lighting and wide-lens perspectives) provides SHADOW a relatively weak bite... compared to if the titular CAT witnessed these horrible people killing each other off instead: after all, they're the true villains, so their inevitable deaths hardly matter anyway.
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William Lucas in THE SHADOW OF THE CAT
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William Lucas in THE SHADOW OF THE CAT with André Morell and Catherine Lacey
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Barbara Shelley and Conrad Phillips in THE SHADOW OF THE CAT |
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Barbara Shelley in THE SHADOW OF THE CAT |
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Credits for THE SHADOW OF THE CAT |
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Credits for THE SHADOW OF THE CAT |
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William Lucas in THE SHADOW OF THE CAT with Richard Warner and Catherine Lacey |
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William Lucas in THE SHADOW OF THE CAT with Barbara Shelley & Vanda Godsell
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William Lucas in THE SHADOW OF THE CAT |
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Barbara Shelley in THE SHADOW OF THE CAT |
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William Lucas in THE SHADOW OF THE CAT with André Morell and Catherine Lacey |
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Bunkie as Tabitha in THE SHADOW OF THE CAT
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Andrew Crawford in THE SHADOW OF THE CAT |
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